This is the first in a long series of articles in which you’ll learn how to create a complete WordPress 3+ theme in HTML5 from scratch. In this first article I want to explain how a theme is structured and how the WordPress template system works.
We found 150 WordPress tips, tricks and hacks that you can definitely find useful and we hope to hear back from you, telling us about the improvements you made or any other suggestions.
If you want to integrate the Google +1 social button on your WordPress site, this tutorial makes adding and creating the +1 code as easy as possible.
With the advent of sophisticated and user-friendly content management systems like WordPress, textual content has become increasingly easier to manage. The architecture of these systems aims to deliver a well-formed code foundation; this means that if you are a good writer, then your content will be just as awesome as the structure and quality of the code that runs it.
Whether you’re using WordPress as a CMS, a blog or somewhere between the two, as a portfolio site, making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely paramount in this day and age. This article and screencast combo takes you through how to use a variety of tips, tricks and techniques in order to make your WordPress powered site load faster.
HTML5 offers many improvements and cool features that can be useful while using WordPress. In this tutorial you will learn how to convert a WordPress theme to HTML5.
Before I started working with WordPress for nearly every website I build, building contact forms was something I despised. Now I don’t really worry anymore, there are tons of useful plugins that make this quite easy.
A common, yet unfortunate practice in the WordPress community involves filling theme functions.php files with tweaks and functionality that is key to a site. The reason this is a bad idea, in short, is that it will tie your critical site functionality to a theme that will eventually change. Good news, though: there is a much better, smarter alternative. It’s called a functionality plugin.
We all know WordPress, the famous CMS utilized by hundreds of persons around the world that choose it due its many advantages in front of other similar content management systems. Its usage is really simple and anyone can master its basic tools in a short time period.
Because it’s so easy to use, web developers create custom themes for WP all the time, some of them more focused in functionality and others in design, but despite their approach, the truth is that every day new great themes are released, making the competition something really great between designers. On this countdown we have gathered a huge list featuring the best WordPress galleries where you can either send your designs or simply grasp some inspiration by looking at other people’s work.
It has been a big year for WordPress. If there were still some lingering doubts about its potency as a full-fledged content management system, then the full support for custom taxonomies and custom post types in WordPress 3.0 core should have put them to rest. WordPress 3.1 took those leaps one step further, polishing custom taxonomies with multi-taxonomy query support, polishing custom post types with native template support for archives and feeds, and introducing features (like the “admin bar”) that make it easier to quickly edit and add content from the front end.