Category: WordPress

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

Update 11.17.2010 The category image was removed and all thumbnails are now created using the Featured Image default functionality. If no Featured Image is added a default image appears in place. Simply put I have been lazy lately. I know this isn't the best way to sell my self but a little bit of honesty […]

With the launch of Thematic 0.9 we now have out of the box drop-down menus to work with. This is one of the many features added to 0.9 that was requested by the community. However sometimes one might want to replace the default Thematic menu with a menu composed with the categories and sub-categories of […]