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It's been a while since I've reviewed books on this blog and I think it's about time to start doing that again. And I couldn't have chosen a better book to start with then "Professional WordPress Plugin Development" written by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard and Justin Tadlock. This is the book I’ve been waiting for […]

This elegant Wordpress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It's a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.

With Thematic 0.9.7.7 there are a couple of changes made to the way it works. One of those changes was the inclusion of a few constants, that based on their value lets you chose whether you want the default WordPress functionality or the more powerful (and complex) Thematic functionality. I'm talking here about whether you […]

While a bit late, we finally managed to get all Child Themes that are free for download updated to work with the latest Thematic (# Version: 0.9.7.7). Early Morning, Street and Byty now make use of the WordPress 3.0 menu system, while Commune now makes use of the Featured thumbnail image that comes with WordPress […]

I found two pieces of code for WordPress that might come in handy from time to time. Custom Post Types pagination for the homepage It appears there's a bug in WP 3.0 with the pagination on the homepage for custom post types. When we create an archive page for a custom post type we make […]

Since Wordpress 3.0 we have access to the really useful wp_nav_menu shortcode functionality. We can now create our own menus without resorting to several plugins or tricks. Another cool thing we can do with this new menu is build the sitemap. I was in need, the other day, of a plugin that would generate a […]

As you all know, Wordpress has made the 3.0 transition, which brings the long-awaited merge of MU and Wordpress and a lot of new features to the table. Trying to keep up with the goodies we developed a new version of Smarter, which runs smooth on 3.0 and takes advantage of the new feature list. […]

Charisma is a free Genesis child theme that will work perfectly for your Wordpress personal blog. When I started designing Charisma I had in mind an elegant, simple, well structured theme which highlights the content and gives the user a pleasurable reading experience.

Tabbed widgets for Wordpress themes have been around since Wordpress it self. They are a perfect way to save on vertical space and add a bit of interaction with the users. There are two classic ways of implementing the tabbed widgets. Creating a hard coded widget and using the jQuery Cycle plugin. This means you […]

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