My future in the WordPress community
I was recently asked to participate along with quite a few other designers in answering a not-so-simple question — Where will WordPress themes go in the future?
Ian Stewart put together a panel of leaders in the WordPress theming community to answer this question, and I was happy to participate. We all added our opinions [...]
Is Options another “cookie-cutter” magazine theme?
One of the things I’ve wanted to address is whether the Options theme is just another magazine theme. This theme isn’t meant to be only a magazine theme but a theme for anyone.
Did I promote it as a magazine theme? Certainly, at least on the demo page. Magazine-styled themes are “hot” [...]
Options WordPress Theme
Description: Too many options to count.
Requires: WordPress 2.3+
Version: Now updated to Version 1.1.2!
Support: Options theme forum
How to use: Online documentation
Download Theme (13435 downloads)
Version 1.1.2 notes: This version update is just to fix some minor bugs, which mostly deal with the translation process. If you want to use one of the translations [...]
New “super theme” on the way
If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to lately — like not keeping on a regular blogging schedule — then you should know that I’ve been hard at work on a new WordPress theme.
I present to you the Options Theme. Here’s a live demo.
What you see there is only a small [...]
Project Community Theme: Design
It’s time for round 2 of the Project Community Theme — the theme where you create the design and I code it. And this time, we’ll discuss design.
Put your designer-thinking caps on and get ready to discuss how you want this thing to look.
Thus far, I’ve gotten a lot of interesting ideas about [...]
New forums for my site
I finally decided to create a message board for this site, which I’ll mostly use for WordPress theme support. Right now, it’s entirely experimental, and I want to know what you think. Check out the forums.
After a lot of nagging from users of the Structure theme and finally getting some [...]
Even Simpler WordPress Contact Form
Are you tired of all the “bells and whistles” of most WordPress contact forms? Are you exhausted from modifying CSS for hours just to get a contact plugin to display with your theme?
Try out the Simpler Contact Form for WordPress. This solution was based off my original Simple WordPress Contact Form. [...]
Custom Fields For Feeds: WordPress Plugin
Description: This puts images or videos into your feeds through the use of custom fields. You can alter the custom field Keys and what is displayed.
Version 1.0.1 Beta
License: GPL
Download Plugin (1298)
About this plugin
One of the things I wanted to accomplish in the custom fields tutorial series is adding the custom fields to the [...]
How to add videos to your WordPress sidebar
YouTube has become a bit of a phenomenon on the Internet, and everyone’s rushing to embed videos into their blogs. This is actually a fairly neat thing, especially if you blog a lot about videos or have videos that will emphasize the importance of your posts.
In my last two themes, Structure and [...]
Project Community Theme
Have you ever wanted to design a WordPress theme but lack the CSS skills to make the template pretty? Do you have some great ideas for functionality but don’t know a lick of PHP? Perhaps, you’re just too lazy to sit down and do it yourself. You’re not alone. Welcome to [...]