Over the last few years we have seen many theme designers create simplified designs that place everything on one page. These designs are perfect for certain types of websites such as resumes, portfolios and information pages for businesses. Most of these designs achieve this by letting the user scroll from one section to another. It … Read more
From the first day they were anoounced, I was excited about the introduction of post formats to WordPress. It seemed like the next evolution of blogging to me, allowing users to go beyond regular posts and share videos, quotes, statuses, images and more. It never seemed to catch on with everyone. Very few WordPress designs … Read more
The success of Pinterest has encouraged many websites to place more emphasis on images within their designs. Even super blogs such as Mashable have adopted Pinterest style designs for their home page. WordPress is the perfect platform for imitating Pinterest due to features such as custom post types and featured images. Therefore, if you are … Read more
Due to my cravings for cool gadgets, I check the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter frequently. Some amazing projects have been funded there recently such as the OUYA video games console, Pebble watch and Zach Braff’s sequel to Garden State. One project that caught my eye recently was Ghost, a new open source blogging platform from developer … Read more
The official WordPress theme directory continues to be one the most popular places for WordPress users to find good designs for their website. There are currently around 1,750 designs in the directory, yet the total number of theme downloads is close to seven million. At the current download rate, this works out to be an … Read more
Ryan Green recently discussed the pros and cons of using child theme frameworks. He looks at a lot of popular WordPress theme frameworks such as Genesis, Thematic and Thesis. It’s a great talk that I recommend viewing. The talk is 43.31 minutes long however the slides that he used in his talk are available for … Read more
GeneratePress is an efficient WordPress theme that loads quickly on desktops and mobile devices. This blog has been using the premium version of GeneratePress since early 2020 and it’s by far the fastest WordPress theme I have used. Despite the speed of GeneratePress, for a couple of weeks in July 2021, I opted to use … Read more
For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the easiest WordPress themes to optimise … Read more
WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with WordPress. I was initially hesitant … Read more
Syntax highlighting is a common feature of Text Editors which uses multiple colours and fonts to help you read and analyse code more easily. They can help you view the structure of code, make comments stand out and quickly point out any errors you have made. It’s a feature that many of us take for … Read more