Month: February 2011

  • Theme News Roundup 27 February

    WordPress 3.1 hits the streets It was a big week this week in WordPress land with the launch of WordPress 3.1 – read our coverage. Let the exodus from Tumblr to WordPress begin Ok this might be a bit premature. Tumblr ain’t going anywhere in the near future. But given it’s recent constant problems with…

  • New theme shop BioThemes opens

    Hot on the heels of the WordPress 3.1 release today comes a new theme shop from none other than John O’Nolan (member of the core WordPress UI team) and all round WordPress genius (have you seen the WordPress 3.1 admin area – it’s all nice and shiney and much cleaner under the hood thanks to…

  • WordPress 3.1 Released

    So today is the day that WordPress 3.1 is finally officially released. Originally codenamed “Django” earlier today, Matt quickly changed the name to Reinhardt to prevent mass confusion with the Django project (nice catch Matt). This one has been a while coming and what was initially intended to be a minor release has actually turned…

  • Theme Newsround

    Kicking off a new weekly feature on themesforge is our weekly Newsround of what’s happening in the WordPress theme community. Oh and we’ll also throw in some links to stuff we’ve come across during the week that might have happened weeks and months ago but that we think you will be interested in! So without…

  • Gawker redesign inspired Qawker Free WordPress theme released

    This one just popped up on my radar just now. Sahas Katta of Skatter Tech had some free time last weekend and put together a pretty cool Gawker redesign inspired wordpress theme called Qawker. Sahas claims to not be a professional web designer or developer but from looking at Qawker and the previous work done…

  • New free WordPress theme Nublu released

    Blogohblog.com (love that domain name!) have just released a new free WordPress theme Nublu. As the name might suggest – this new theme is blue! From the blogogblog guys: This is a sleek blue colored theme that comes with a configurable slider, drop-down menus and Cufon-enabled headlines. The theme also sports a twitter bird that…

  • WooThemes map the WordPress theme ecosystem

    We missed this last week but thought it was really worth a shout today. WooThemes created a wonderful illustration of their take on the WordPress theme ecosystem. The illustration is called “WooVille” and features a run down of who’s who in the WordPress theme world. It’s clear a lot of time and effort went into…

  • Getting Started with the Genesis Framework Part 2 – Creating a custom homepage template

    Getting Started with the Genesis Framework Part 2 – Creating a custom homepage template

      So when we left off with Part 1 of a Getting Started with the Genesis Theme Framework we had taken a look at some of the really basic building blocks of a Genesis child theme and had got you setup with a basic custom child theme. Now it’s time to take us a step…

  • WordPress.com starts offering Commercial WordPress Themes

    Well this is certainly big big news for the WordPress theme community! Automattic announced earlier today that it is to start offering commercial WordPress themes to wordpress.com users. The story has been picked up amongst all the big tech blogs. Matt has also posted the back story to the new commercial Marketplace over on themeshaper.…

  • What will WordPress look like in 5 years?

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    Here’s a scary thought. It’s just over 5 years since the release of WordPress 2.0.1 – holy moly 5 years! For anyone interested or who’s long enough in the tooth to have been using WordPress back then, here’s a quick reminder of what WordPress 2.0.1 actually looked like. Quaint eh? Sometimes it’s easy to forget…