“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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

The Structure theme has a new home! The Structure theme is now hosted on ThemeHybrid.com. 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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Using custom fields to customize your book, movie, music or other types of reviews.

Tabbed sidebar elements are in. Why bother making users scroll down the page, when they can simply click a tab to quickly access various parts of your site? Another popular thing is jQuery, “The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.” I’ve gotten a lot of emails asking how I created … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

This theme has been discontinued. Check out ThemeHybrid.com for the new themes. Features Customized front page to look like a news or magazine site. Sidebar tabbed navigation through the use of a custom jQuery script (jQuery is packaged with the theme). Embed YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe videos easily with … Continue reading →

This is an updated version of this article. If you're looking for the older version, see page 2. 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 … Continue reading →

I’ve been scouring the WordPress plugin pages, other blogs, and the Web in general looking for a decent contact form that works with WordPress. Nope, not a one to be found. Well, I’m sure there is one, but I haven’t found it yet. Every plugin I found was easy to … Continue reading →