Author: Ed
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4 Popular WordPress Responsive Theme Frameworks
Following up on yesterday’s look at 5 Stunning Responsive WordPress themes, today we take a look at 4 of the most popular responsive WordPress theme frameworks. Why only 4? Well I could write up a list of 10 and then you could go spend another checking out those 10 options. Stuck on time? Thought so!…
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5 Stunning Responsive WordPress themes
While responsive web design is a relatively new phenomenon, the WordPress theme development ecosystem has exploded with a plethora of stunning responsive WordPress themes over the past few months. It’s one of the things that I really love about the WordPress community – the speed at which theme developers themselves are so responsive 🙂 I’ve…
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Highly Infrequent links of the day
Who am I kidding, I don’t have the posting consistency to do a daily dose of links of interest 🙂 Today seems to be a rich vein of quality blog posts for the WordPress ecosystem so here’s some for you to enjoy! New Book Launch – Client Orientated WordPress Development New features that WordPress really…
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Great new solution for responsive Images and WordPress
So I’m in the middle of building a new responsive WordPress theme and am currently knee deep in studying the various different techniques available for handling responsive images within the overall context of responsive web design. One thing is very evident at the moment – this little chestnut has not been cracked yet. This is…
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Interview with WP Engine Founder Jason Cohen
For fans of our High Performance WordPress series, you might be interested to see that Mixergy just posted a compelling interview with the founder of the fastest WordPress web host in the west, WP Engine Founder Jason Cohen. In the interview Jason talks with Mixergy about the early days of WP Engine and how the…
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New theme shop ThemeZilla launch imminent from Orman Clark
So it looks like the WordPress Commercial Theme landscape is about to get a BIG shakeup. Orman Clark is one of the most popular and successful WordPress theme developers of all time. He’s generally regarded as one of the nicest gents you could possibly meet in the WordPress community. It’s no accident that Ormans combination…
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Sneak peek at the new Theme Previewer Feature in the upcoming WordPress 3.4 Release
So it’s been a while since I checked out the bleeding edge dev trunk for WordPress. I spotted todays Dev Chat blog post from Jane Wells and I managed to find a few spare minutes this evening and pulled down the latest nightly build (3.4-alpha-20291 as of writing). One feature immediately jumped out of me…
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Empowering journalists with WordPress
Great write up from Ryan on how journalists can leverage WordPress. One of my pet peeves — major, major pet peeves — is when sites break up articles into multiple pages. You’ve probably seen it before: two or three thousand words, spread out so that around 800 words or so occupy each page. I’m sorry if you…
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In like a lion
There’s an old weather expression about March In like a lion….out like a lamb Well whatever about the weather, from a workload perspective March definitely came in like a lion and it’s pretty much going out like a lion too! The good news is that the cloning project is going well and I should have…
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High Performance WordPress – Part 5 – Varnish Cache
Boom! At long last the eagerly awaited Part 5 of our High Performance WordPress series sees the light of day! For those who have not been following along, a quick primer on the other parts in the series: Part 1 – VPS Setup Part 2 – nginx/mysql setup Part 3 – WordPress setup & tuning…