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WordPress Photo Slideshow with NextGen Gallery

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: May 10th, 2013

After looking into tons of solutions for a WordPress photo slideshow, most of them being flash applets, I'm confident that I've found the very best one. And it's not even Flash, it's just JavaScript. Are you familiar with the NextGEN Gallery plugin? Well, you must be, since it's probably the most downloaded photo gallery plugin. […]

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Smarter WordPress Theme

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: December 6th, 2022

Smarter is a powerful CMS and business WordPress theme. It gives your blog a personal look, with easy customization, without getting lost into too much options. Its friendly interface and design work together giving your readers a pleasant experience every time they visit your site. Besides, you can get the most out of it's SEO […]

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Smarter Theme Teaser

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 7th, 2021

It's called Smarter and simply put it's a CMS and business Wordpress theme. The idea behind Smarter Theme is to quickly build a presentation website for small and medium size companies without the need to touch a single line of code. We've put together a screencast with a quick walk-through of the theme and its […]

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Multilingual WordPress – WPML Plugin Review

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 1st, 2020

Since writing this article we developed TranslatePress, a frictionless WordPress multilingual plugin that lets you translate all your site content directly from the front-end, using a super intuitive UI. Download it for free and go multilingual, the easy way. Photo by derSven One of the hardest things to do with Wordpress is creating a multilingual […]

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Members: WordPress Plugin by Justin Tadlock

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 8th, 2015

Justin Tadlock has done it again. This time he released to the Wordpress community a user, role, and content management plugin called Members. Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site. So what does this plugin do: Edit Roles: Edit your user […]

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Early Morning Child Theme

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

This elegant Wordpress theme was inspired by the colors of the early morning as I see them from my window. It's light, elegant and pleasantly surprising. This theme doesn't scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets the user read. Please don't spoil it by putting ads on it!

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How To Create a WordPress Theme – a tutorial series by Ian Stewart

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 7th, 2009

Have you ever wanted to create your own Wordpress theme? If yes then you must know of all the tutorials out there. The problem is that most of them are incomplete. But not any more! Ian Stewart from ThemeShaper released, what I consider, the best step-by-step tutorial series for those who want to learn how […]

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WordPress as a social platform

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 26th, 2023

WordPress started in 2003. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. But you already knew that! By itself this blogging tool used to be just that: a way to put […]

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Street WordPress Theme

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn't thought out nor planed. It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I've spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect […]

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Future Child Themes for Thematic in the works

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 7th, 2021

Spring is at it's end and makes room for a promising Summer. Finishing the new design was a fulfilling moment for me. When you put so much effort into something, your personal expectations are always high. Building something for myself and things are prone to be problematic. In the initial stages nothing really feels right […]

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