Freelancing with WordPress: Setting Up Your Portfolio Using WordPress
When I started freelancing almost two years ago I knew absolutely nothing about WordPress. When the time came to put my design work online, I had no clue where it should go. For a while I organized files in an Elance portfolio, but that was a complicated and ugly mess, especially back then. After that I moved on to CarbonMade.com
A Guide to the Actions API
WordPress theme frameworks have been all the rave nowadays, and rightly so. Everybody’s either using one or rolling their own flavor . Theme frameworks introduce several new concepts to theme authoring that till now, only plugin developers have been taking advantage of.
10 Things You can Do with WordPress Besides Blogging
Today you’re going to learn 10 things you can do with WordPress besides blogging, and whether you’re a WordPress newbie or longtime veteran – I guarantee that you will learn something after reading this post! While WordPress is the world’s most popular self-hosted blogging solution, it’s also an open source CMS (Content Management Solution). WordPress is known for it’s blogging capabilities, but being a CMS as well it can do nearly anything that can be done within a web site.
WordPress 2.8 Beta RC1
Well, it looks like WordPress 2.8 is (or at least close to being) on track for it’s release date Wednesday, June 10th. Feel free to download Release Candidate 1 here , and let us know what you think! Also, check out some other resources on WordPress 2.8 – Seven Reasons Why Wordpress 2.8 Is Better Than Ever WordPress 2.8 Beta Hands On Review Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 Authentication in WordPress 2.8
Monday Morning Roundup – April 27, 2009
News Automattic now owns WP.com – it doesn’t really have any great significance yet, but Automattic announced this week that they now have the ownership of WP.com and are brainstorming ideas of what they could do with it. News release Smashing Magazine Community WordPress Theme Voting – Smashing Magazine is holding an awesome contest with PSD2WordPress to create a WordPress theme, in which the community gets to decide what kind of theme the team at SM will create.
A Guide to CSS and WordPress: Part 1
In this tutorial we’ll review the basics of CSS and WordPress, such as image alignment and useful classes, and then next week in part two, I’ll show you some examples of seemingly complex things you can accomplish with just a bit of CSS. To allow for flexibility, WordPress adds a number of CSS classes on elements across the site to make it easier to customize
Monday Morning Roundup – April 20, 2009
Happy Birthday! WPZOOM is celebrating their first birthday! To celebrate the occasion, they’re giving away a copy of their own Yamidoo Magazine theme and are discounting the theme by 50% for the next week. Congratulations to Pavel Ciorici, WPZOOM owner, for putting together a great weblog.
One More Way To Get WordPress Help
Alex King, who is most well known for his popular WordPress plugins and more recently, his Carrington theme framework , made a big announcement the other day regarding a project that his company Crowd Favorite has partnered with called the WordPress HelpCenter . Intro The HelpCenter is not aimed at replacing forums, email, comment forms, or other means of support.
Monday Morning Roundup – April 13, 2009
Happy Monday! Hopefully everyone had a good Easter. Our dinners were stuffing and I personally received enough jelly beans to last me for a year. Anyway, it’s been another interesting week in the WordPressosphere (coined!) with some news about WordPress 2.8, a gripe about the theme directory, and even a WordPress Rap
How to make the most out of your sidebar
By Pontus Etéus When designing a WordPress site, many people overlook the power of the sidebar. It’s an excellent way to display information, and an even better way to display page-relevant information that doesn’t really fit into the “content” area of that page. Better yet, using dynamic content for the sidebar will make sure the user pays attention to it, since it (generally) displays less cluttered information and is obviously relevant to the page the user is currently browsing
