Author: Ed

  • New Responsive WooCommerce theme Sooperstore released

    New Responsive WooCommerce theme Sooperstore released

    Ok it’s pretty embarrassing how long it’s been since I posted a blog update here. My last update was early July saying that a new theme was on the way “within a week” if I recall correctly. Well fast forward a week or 8 and I’m happy to announce that Sooperstore has finally been released! We actually…

  • New WooCommerce theme on the way!

    So it’s a month since my last post. While the blog has been quiet, things have been moving a thousand miles an hour behind the scenes. A lot of work has gone into a new commercial WooCommerce theme which I’m pretty excited about. It’s taking a bit longer than I hoped to get it shipped…

  • WooCommerce Payment Gateway for Realex Payments released

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    So the last couple of weeks of May and the start of June have been really hectic and my posting schedule here has suffered big time as a result. Today I’m delighted to announce the release of my first payment gateway for WooCommerce. Realex Payments is a leading European online payment gateway. It’s really well…

  • WP App Store and Baby Stuff

    2 pretty cool new things popped up on the wires today that I just had to share with you guys. The first is an uber cool post from WordPress lead dev Mark Jaquith about his clever little new site – havebabyneedstuff.com Mark is no stranger to publishing some fantastic tutorials on bleeding edge WordPress development…

  • The future of theme development

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    WordPress theme development has come a long way in the past few years. We are in the middle of an explosion in the number of different methods a theme developer can choose when it comes to building WordPress themes. This explosion is partly a result of a seismic shift in the broader web design and…

  • Top Themeforest authors estimated to gross over $700,000 per month

    So it would seem the Themeforest juggernaut continues to grow from strength to strength. First off a disclaimer – I’m not a financial analyst, nor do I work for themeforest or envato. These calculations are my own estimates based on the information made freely available on themeforest. I’m merely a very interested and curious WordPress…

  • themezilla goes live

    themezilla goes live

    This is a big one. After teasing us for a couple of weeks, themezilla has finally gone live. For those of you not familiar with themezilla, there is a good chance that if you’ve purchased a commercial WordPress theme from themeforest in the past couple of years – you actually are. themezilla is the brainchild…

  • Highly infrequent links of the day – May 2

    The WordPress newswires are buzzing with lots of interesting things today. New Theme shop Themefurnace Launches  Oli from WPLift has taken the wrappers off Themefurnace. Between the ‘Furnace and ‘Forge, I think Oli and I have all the fire driven analogies covered in the WordPress community 🙂 Oli has written a great post about the…

  • WooThemes Suffers Severe Hack

    Last night I noticed that WooThemes had gone offline. At the time I didn’t think much of it as every site ends up going down once in a blue moon. But then this morning I noticed it was still down and showing a cpanel holding page I knew something strange was up. Turns out, WooThemes…

  • 4 Excellent WordPress Books

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    One of the great things about working with WordPress is the huge wealth of freely available content online covering just about anything you might want to do with WordPress. Got some weird php error after upgrading one of your sites? Chances are you won’t be alone and a simple Google search will solve your problem…