Author: Ed

  • Should Custom Post Types live outside of themes?

    Should Custom Post Types live outside of themes?

    Wow it’s nearly a month since my last post! My head is still buried in pixel pushing for some new WordPress themes I’m working on – one of which I hope to publicly release in September – more on that in the coming weeks. One thing that has struck me in a big way over…

  • How do you build WordPress themes?

    How do you build WordPress themes?

    I’m knee deep building some new WordPress themes at the moment but am coming up for some air to throw out a question to all you WordPress theme building pros – How do YOU approach building WordPress themes? When I first started building websites Geocities was the platform of choice for anyone who wanted a…

  • Why Shortcodes in WordPress themes suck

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    I’ve just spent the last couple of hours troubleshooting a WordPress problem for a client who uses a commercial WordPress theme. They are a recent new client who worked with a previous designer who selected the theme for them. I’m in the process of building their new site and said I’d help them out with…

  • WordPress Performance and Permalinks – quick tip

    Whoa it’s been nearly two weeks since I’ve posted on the blog. I’m up the walls busy at the moment working on developing some new WordPress themes for clients and our first public theme which should see the light of day before the middle of August. More on that a bit later in the month.…

  • WordPress Deployment Options

    Ok I’ve had enough – I NEED better options for deploying WordPress websites. Right now I manage a LOT of WordPress websites – probably close to 40 sites – maybe more. In fact I’ve lost count! Right now my development process goes something like this. Download latest and great WordPress stable version Build website locally…

  • Theme News Roundup – June 19

    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…

  • High Performance WordPress – Part 1

    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…

  • Classy new free HTML5 WordPress theme from Smashing Magazine

    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…

  • New free WordPress eCommerce plugin JigoShop released – jaw drops

    New free WordPress eCommerce plugin JigoShop released – jaw drops

    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…

  • Roots HTML 5 WordPress Theme – First Look

    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…