Have you ever wanted to change some text that reads “Continue reading” or “Post written by” in your WordPress theme to something a little different? That’s pretty easy to do if you just open up the appropriate PHP file and edit it. But what happens when the theme is updated with some cool, new feature or for the next version of WordPress? Well, you have to change that text all over again.

Sometimes it sucks to be me. But in a really good way. Every day, I look at quite a few sites using the Options theme, and almost every day I’m surprised by what people are doing with it.

We’ve learned how to add an author bio to single posts and revamp our comments with gravatars. Now, it’s time to take this one step farther. We’re going to create a template page for all of our authors. This can be useful if you have multiple authors on your site … Continue reading →

I’ve done a lot of talking about this mysterious project for quite some time. I know a few of you are ready to hear what it’s all about. In a very small nutshell—it’s a WordPress theme club.

One of the problems with magazine-type WordPress themes has always been that they require more work than an average theme because of the extra image uploading.

What’s new in this version? I think the real question is, “What isn’t?” I’ve completely revamped the theme from the ground up while keeping most CSS classes and IDs intact.

Here it is. The Structure theme update many of you have been waiting for is finally here. After 21,627 downloads, I figured it was about time.

I’ve been hard at work these past couple of weeks putting together several new WordPress goodies for everyone. I’m pretty excited about some of the results I’m getting with the work I’ve been doing. Here are some things to look forward to this month…

We’ve learned how to spruce up our comments sections a bit with the first part of this series. Now, we’ll cover an about the author section for single posts. I think this will mostly be useful for blogs and sites with multiple authors because you might want to tell more about who is writing the post.

I’ve been playing around quite a bit with the gravatar feature for WordPress since it now comes built in. I’ve learned a few things, so I figured I’d share them with you. From this point forward, I will assume you know what a gravatar is.