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Project Community Theme: Where the users design the theme

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 [...]

A new theme for a new year

Here it is. My completely (I mean somewhere near complete) new theme.
I’m still not sure what I think about it or how comfortable I am with it. Change is hard sometimes. I’ve struggled with what elements I wanted to include for hours tonight, trying to get something to work right, hoping for [...]

Some observations on theme design

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” - Douglas Adams
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes a good blog design and when to release that design to the world. I’ve ultimatley concluded that I have no good answer [...]

Theme options and widgets for Structure, a news/magazine-style theme for WordPress

Theme options and widgets for the Structure theme

If any of you’ve wondered where I’ve been the last couple of days, then I must tell you that I’ve been hard at work creating more options for the Structure WordPress theme. I didn’t plan on releasing an update this soon, but things were running too smoothly for me not to give something [...]

Structure: A quality WordPress theme for news and magazine sites

Structure: WordPress Theme

Theme Information:

Description: A theme for news/magazine sites with a blog-friendly option too. It includes built-in video and image features that easily allow you to customize your site. There are content blocks that you can place virtually anywhere on the page.
Requirement(s): WordPress 2.3 (v. 1.1.5) or WordPress 2.5+ (v. 1.2)
Now updated to Version 1.2!
Support: Support [...]

WordPress Custom Fields: Book Reviews Pt. 2

This part of the tutorial will cover making things look a little prettier. It is a more advanced PHP tutorial than any of the previous tutorials in the overall custom fields series. Basically, we will do a lot of work, but it won’t look like we’ve accomplished much. We still have [...]

WordPress Custom Fields: Book Reviews Pt. 1

Finally, another part in the WordPress custom fields tutorial series. This time, we’re stepping it up a notch though. We’re going to take custom fields to another level. I hope you’re prepared. We’ve covered some basic things thus far, and that’s all you need to know to be prepared.
Have you ever wanted to write [...]

jQuery Blue WordPress theme teaser

jQuery Blue Theme Teaser

I’ve enjoyed playing around with jQuery so much lately that I’ve decided to take on another project with this useful library — a new WordPress theme, of course.
I typically try to stick to XHTML, CSS, and PHP, but I need to branch out a little. Sure, I used jQuery on the Visionary [...]

Visionary: A premium news or magazine WordPress theme

Visionary: WordPress Theme

Theme Information:

Description: A theme for news/magazine sites. It includes built-in video features that easily allow you to add videos to your site.
Version: 1.1
Requirement(s): Wordpress 2.1+
Support: Support forums

Demo is currently down.

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You can now discuss how to customize and ask theme-support questions in the forums.
Visionary in other languages
Currently, I’m [...]

WordPress Custom Fields: Listing A Series Of Posts

Do you write long series of posts? Do you have a bunch of articles that definitely need to be linked together? This WordPress custom fields technique will allow you to do that without a lot of hassle. Basically, this is a simple, customized related posts script. It checks to see whether [...]