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Ok, After doing custom WordPress themes for a while, and about two months of working on this project, today I launched ThemesPress.com, An automated WordPress theme generator. All you need is a HTML/CSS design, and a few minutes, and you’ve got a fully functional WordPress theme, priced at only $10, which is pretty reasonably priced, [...]

Do you do WordPress themes? if so, this might be useful. The WordPress Helper Sheet is a text file with the most common template tags for WordPress themes, designed to make the job of porting designs to WordPress much easier. Great idea, though it’s missing allot of the more basic stuff for the header and [...]

Most of the basic shared hosting plans will only allow you to use 1 domain name and a limited number of databases. So what do you do if you want to set up more then one WordPress powered site on your hosting plan? Here’s a solution. Most hosts will allow you to ‘park’ or ‘forward’ [...]

I just finished updating all my public WordPress themes I Fixed all the errors, browser bugs and display issues, plus, I widgetized them all, so they now work with the widgets plugin. Sadly enough, I had to remove the amazing Nautica 2.2 theme, because of copyright issues with the original html theme, hopefully it wil [...]

This is weird, but here it goes: I’ve noticed that every time a blogger doesn’t have anything to post, or is too busy to post, they leave this everything-but-nothing/to-busy-to-post message. A wordpress plugin that would kick in and do the job if the blog was not updated in a a few days, with one of [...]

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, I know there’s a plugin that does this, but this is the most simple way, by far. Duplicate the page.php file of your theme and name it home.php Right before the line that starts with “< ?php if (have_posts())...", add this line: "< ?php query_posts('pagename=home'); ?>“ [...]

The number of users of 800×600 monitors is decreasing, So how important is it to stick to the 800Px limit? Here are some things to consider.

Some time ago, I signed up to Google Analytics, the other night I checked my site’s statistics, and here is what I found: General Statistics Browsers Thats always the most interesting thing, which browsers do your visitors use? here are the stats for this site: So, the majority of this site’s visitors (50.33%) have chosen [...]

As a web developer, I keep on getting get frustrated with Internet Explorer’s lack of standards compliance, so I created this page, explaining why using IE is a bad Idea. So if you are one of those 30.7% of this sites visitors who use IE, click the link and find out why you should drop [...]

Here is my To-Do list for WPPA. I don’t know whn I’ll get a chance to do it, but hopefully soon enough. Make it a full WP plugin. Add previus and next page links on the single pages Create default CSS styles Use ImageMagick fo on-the-fly photo resizing Add default settins, so you don’t need [...]

I’ve been getting some feedback lately on my WordPress Photo Album template. It seems that different WordPress themes use different code, and it’s not as simple as adding get_header(), get_footer() and an optional get_sidebar(). So although a template is a more simple solution, and if you’re familiar enough with HTML and a bit of PHP [...]

A digg earlier today pointed out the 10 most popular opensource website templates, and some people claimed that the templates really sucked. This got me curious, and I asked the question: “Are there any GOOD open source templates at all?”. The answer is yes, and they can be found right here. As a continuation of [...]

The open source design community is alive and well. take a look at some of the best designs at openwebdesign.org. The link goes to the most popular designs. There are some stunning designs and they can be downloaded and used for free as well! and don’t forget to look at my 2 designs I submitted, [...]

I’ve been working on this for quite a while, and now it’s done. a simple template for displaying photo albums within WordPress. the output code is clean XHTML with CSS classes for easy styling. just add the template file to your active WordPress theme folder, upload the folder with the images and thumbnails to somewhere [...]

My dad just got me this book: The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web, and it’s amazing. it takes you step by step through designing standard compliant sites using XHTML and CSS. it covers the topics of structure, design, layout, imagery, typography and more. all done by going through select designs [...]