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  • 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?

    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…

  • Getting Started with the Genesis Theme Framework – Part 1

    Getting Started with the Genesis Theme Framework – Part 1

    So we’ve been doing a lot of development work with the Genesis Framework from StudioPress over the past few months and I thought I’d share with you some of our experiences in the form of a Getting Started with Genesis tutorial series. Over the series, we’ll bring you through the basics of creating your first…

  • Quality Control WordPress Theme

    Quality Control WordPress Theme

    Siobhan over at WPMU posted the other day about some of her favour plugins and themes of 2010 and included the fantastic Quality Control WordPress theme on her best of post series. Sadly, according to Siobhan the developer is in the process of passing the theme over to a commercial theme company. The developer, Spencer…

  • The anatomy of a WordPress theme

    The anatomy of a WordPress theme

    Congratulations to Yoast for putting together a fantastic post detailing the anatomy of a WordPress theme. In one nice infographic Yoast basically lays out the building blocks of every parent WordPress theme. It explains the role of each file simply and clearly and while it seems like something that should have been around a long…

  • The case for a better WordPress theme uploader

    Today saw a fantastic post from Siobhan over at WPMU about why you should never rely on google search results when it comes to downloading WordPress themes. Seriously guys, this post is a first class education for anyone who downloads and plays around with WordPress themes – free or premium – and the things you…

  • Celebs using WordPress

    WPLift have put together a nice list of Celebrities currently using WordPress to power their websites. This list features some sites we included in our list of Massive sites powered by WordPress from November. I particularly like Rocky’s website (I mean Sly Stallone of course).

  • Theme Tip 24 – Our WordPress Theme 2010 Review

    Well looky here we’ve hit our 24th Theme Tip of December just in time for Christmas! (UPDATE: Ok yes, it’s now the 6th of January 2011 and for some bloody reason this post never made it live on Christmas but we’re gonna still pretend it’s Christmas ok!) It’s been a bit of a roller coaster…

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