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Rooling: a new Commercial WordPress theme for law firms

Ed — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:58:04 +0000

Posted in commercial themes featured theme news

So this one has been a while coming. Today I shipped Rooling – a new commercial WordPress theme designed specifically for lawyers, law firms, attorneys, Lionel Hutz wannabes – you get the idea. I’ve spent the past few months building a pretty decent framework for my own custom WordPress themes. Nothing groundbreaking really, just pulling together lots of little code snippets from around the WordPress ecosystem. I’ve got it to a point that I’m very happy with the mechanics of how I put together themes and ensuring the code quality is on a par with the most well known theme shops out there. I intend following up with some further posts in the coming days ... Related posts:

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WooCommerce launched by WooThemes

Ed — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:12:34 +0000

Posted in plugins theme news

Wow a whole month with no posts! Sorry about that folks – you might think this means I’ve been hiding under a rock and not keeping up with whats going on with WordPress these days. Far from it – I’m still knee deep trying to ship a new WordPress theme which is taking forever with other customer commitments so blogging time has been the poor cousin of the family for a few weeks – all that should change real soon. In the meantime WooThemes dropped a major announcement today which is worthy of a quick post. WooCommerce has just been released. Make no mistake – this is a big big day for WooThemes. The full release details can ... Related posts:

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Hello WooCommerce, Bye bye Jigoshop?

Ed — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:16:48 +0000

Posted in opinion plugins theme news

Hmm…this is an interesting one. WooThemes have pulled off a pretty spectacular move today and forked Jigoshop (our favourite new WordPress eCommerce plugin) into WooCommerce, which will replace it’s heretofore unsuccessful attempts at creating a WooCommerce platform off their own bat. The possibly bigger news is not only have they forked Jigoshop but they’ve brought in the 2 main guys responsible for making it in the first place – Jay Koster & Mike Jolley from Jigowatt. This move by WooThemes raises all sorts of emotions. Has this move effectively killed Jigoshop? I’m sure Jigowatt will not be too pleased. In one swoop, WooThemes have forked their project and nabbed the 2 guys responsible for most of the work that ... Related posts:

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Theme News Roundup – June 19

Ed — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:30:29 +0000

Posted in theme news

It’s been a while since I did a theme news roundup. Without further ado, here goes: Responsive WordPress Continuing our obsession with all things Responsive – WPMU has a nice showcase of Responsive WordPress sites and also has a list of free Responsive WordPress themes. Siobhan from WPMU also appears to share my obsession for Responsive web design as I just noticed another post from this week over on WPMU on how to optimise your WordPress site for the iPad. Go check ‘em out people – this is the future. New WordPress Podcast Studionashvegas has started an interesting new WordPress Podcast/Drivecast which features Mitch delivering the podcast on his daily commute – nice idea Mitch and I’m listening to the ... Related posts:

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High Performance WordPress – Part 1

Ed — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:00:52 +0000

Posted in performance theme news

Picture the scene. You’ve spent weeks and months working on your WordPress blog, carefully crafting some great blog posts about a subject that’s close to your heart. You’ve found or built a great WordPress theme that does a great job showcasing your content to the world. You’ve checked out countless Top 10 lists telling you about all the best plugins to use to make your blog the best blog it can be. You’re ready to take on the world. You slowly build a bit of a following to your site – building traffic day by day. A small trickle at first, maybe just a handful of visitors and not a single comment. But all the ... Related posts:

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Classy new free HTML5 WordPress theme from Smashing Magazine

Ed — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:35:44 +0000

Posted in theme news

Every now and again Smashing Magazine release a free WordPress theme. Normally with free WordPress themes, I approach them with limited expectations. After all the theme is free – there’s got to be limitations right? Surely it can’t be on a par with the level of quality we expect from commercial theme shops? Well, not so with Smashing Mag themes. Time and time again they hire some of the best theme developers to produce fantastic quality WordPress themes that meet and often surpass the quality of that which are sold commercially. Today’s new release is no exception. In fact it’s got me quite excited. Yoko is a free WordPress theme produced by Elma and Manuel from ... Related posts:

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New free WordPress eCommerce plugin JigoShop released – jaw drops

Ed — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:01:40 +0000

Posted in featured theme news

Jigoshop from Jay Koster and the rest of the Jigowatt team shipped it’s first public beta today. Jigoshop is a free eCommerce plugin for WordPress. As someone who has played with just about every eCommerce plugin for WordPress, and who does a lot of work with other eCommerce platforms like Magento, OpenCart and Prestashop, I couldn’t wait to take Jigoshop for a spin. WordPress eCommerce plugins to date have always come up short in key areas like UI design, core Admin UI integration and at best were just ok – and a worst a maddening heap of crap. I’ve just spent the last hour playing with Jigoshop. Well let me tell you boys and girls – eCommerce ... Related posts:

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Roots HTML 5 WordPress Theme – First Look

Ed — Mon, 30 May 2011 19:56:54 +0000

Posted in theme news

So I’ve been dabbling in a bit of HTML5 of late and have been reviewing how things have progressed in the WordPress development community with HTML5 themes in the past few months. Previously we looked at the Toolbox theme and the reasons why you should start using HTML5 in your theme development. There’s a few very interesting HTML5 themes starting to pop up for WordPress and we particularly like themes based on the HTML5 Boilerplate project, including: BoilerPlate by Aaron T. Grogg NakedCompass by Andre Deutmeyer (based on Starkers and the Compass CSS frameworks and also has a slightly modified version of the very nifty Boilerplate build script) WP-theme-html5-boilerplate by Jeffrey Sambells (see related blog post here) But the one ... Related posts:

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Say hello to theme.it

Ed — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:46 +0000

Posted in theme news

I was delighted to hear today that Jason Schuller (of Press75, themegarden) is in the process of launching theme.it – a new site for all things WordPress theme related including tutorials, articles & videos. Jason has gathered a crack team of contributors for theme.it including Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Mike McAlister, Orman Clark to name but a few. This is a really strong team of people coming together to share what will no doubt be incredibly interesting insights into their experiences in building cool stuff for WordPress. In fact, they’re straight of the gates with a great post from Sawyer Hollenshead about lessons learned in getting involved in the commercial theme building business. Some great advice in ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Great new Bug tracking theme from WooThemes – FaultPress

Ed — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:44:14 +0000

Posted in theme news

WooThemes have launched a cracking new WordPress theme this week called FaultPress. FaultPress is a highly advanced WordPress theme that transforms WordPress from a publishing platform into a full featured trouble ticketing system. This certainly isn’t a new concept. We’ve seen the Quality Control theme late last year, but what is interesting about FaultPress is the skill and attention to detail in it’s execution. Some key highlights: HTML5/CSS3 – A lot of work has gone into creating a wonderful looking UI for FaultPress Responsive Web Design – This is a biggy. I’ve played around with FaultPress on both the iPad and iPhone and the responsive design execution is wonderful. We’ve not seen a lot of WordPress themes yet ... Related posts:

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