Month: January 2011

  • Getting Started with the Genesis Theme Framework – Part 1

    Getting Started with the Genesis Theme Framework – Part 1

    So we’ve been doing a lot of development work with the Genesis Framework from StudioPress over the past few months and I thought I’d share with you some of our experiences in the form of a Getting Started with Genesis tutorial series. Over the series, we’ll bring you through the basics of creating your first…

  • Quality Control WordPress Theme

    Quality Control WordPress Theme

    Siobhan over at WPMU posted the other day about some of her favour plugins and themes of 2010 and included the fantastic Quality Control WordPress theme on her best of post series. Sadly, according to Siobhan the developer is in the process of passing the theme over to a commercial theme company. The developer, Spencer…

  • The anatomy of a WordPress theme

    The anatomy of a WordPress theme

    Congratulations to Yoast for putting together a fantastic post detailing the anatomy of a WordPress theme. In one nice infographic Yoast basically lays out the building blocks of every parent WordPress theme. It explains the role of each file simply and clearly and while it seems like something that should have been around a long…

  • The case for a better WordPress theme uploader

    Today saw a fantastic post from Siobhan over at WPMU about why you should never rely on google search results when it comes to downloading WordPress themes. Seriously guys, this post is a first class education for anyone who downloads and plays around with WordPress themes – free or premium – and the things you…

  • Celebs using WordPress

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    WPLift have put together a nice list of Celebrities currently using WordPress to power their websites. This list features some sites we included in our list of Massive sites powered by WordPress from November. I particularly like Rocky’s website (I mean Sly Stallone of course).

  • Theme Tip 24 – Our WordPress Theme 2010 Review

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    Well looky here we’ve hit our 24th Theme Tip of December just in time for Christmas! (UPDATE: Ok yes, it’s now the 6th of January 2011 and for some bloody reason this post never made it live on Christmas but we’re gonna still pretend it’s Christmas ok!) It’s been a bit of a roller coaster…

  • Quick tip – WordPress plugin for theme developers – Theme Check

    Honestly, if you make themes – you need this. Go get Theme Check.

  • Site of the week – ThemeGrade

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    Ok kicking off a new post series for 2011 is our first Site of the Week – ThemeGrade.com We’re a little bit jealous about this site actually. It’s been on my todo list for quite some time now to build something like what Brian has built over on themegrade.com In a nutshell, for those who…

  • Happy New Year and a missing final Theme Tip!

    A very Happy New Year to you all! I’m just back from vacation and just noticed that the final post in the 24 Theme Tips series failed to post correctly on December 24th! Blame some early pre-Christmas celebrations 🙂 Anyway I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas vacation. We’re looking forward to lots of…