I’m currently testing out the My Life theme here on my blog. If you’re a member of Theme Hybrid, you can grab a beta copy of it from the Theme Hybrid forums to play around with it before release. ∞

Custom user taxonomies in WordPress

Published by Justin Tadlock on October 20, 2011 | 65 Responses

How to create, manage, and use a custom taxonomy for users (not posts) in WordPress.

My first post on Smashing WordPress is up: How to create custom post meta boxes. ∞

Creating basic theme templates

Published by Justin Tadlock on September 28, 2011 | 42 Responses

Part #3 in the “I wanna be a theme designer” series, which teaches you how to create basic WordPress theme templates.

I wanna be a theme designer: Theme setup

Published by Justin Tadlock on September 20, 2011 | 10 Responses

Part two in the theme creation tutorial series, a how-to on setting up and creating your first WordPress theme.

I wanna be a theme designer: Intro

Published by Justin Tadlock on September 15, 2011 | 35 Responses

An introduction to a tutorial series on creating WordPress themes from start to finish.

Tung, aka Small Potato, our awesome designer over at DevPress, is taking on a 32-day design challenge as he steps into full time work for our team. That’ll be 32 WordPress theme designs in 32 days. ∞

A better way for plugins to hook into theme templates

Published by Justin Tadlock on September 1, 2011 | 7 Responses

A potential solution for plugins including content within theme templates.

Adding a login form to a page

Published by Justin Tadlock on August 30, 2011 | 23 Responses

How to create a login form on a WordPress page using a custom shortcode.

Conditional checks for custom post types

Published by Justin Tadlock on July 20, 2011 | 14 Responses

How to use WordPress’ built-in functions to run conditional checks for custom post types.