Ever wonder how to convert your WordPress blog into a more automated posting process? One that can accept guest posts, job listings or even a forum-type of blog? Where users can submit a post, save it into your drafts section and all you have to do is approve or deny? The beauty of the open [...]

After many attempts at trying to get a fully functional magazine theme, I give you: Aparatus – my most complicated theme yet. Aparatus is as a premium WordPress theme that comes with a Mootools slideshow in the home page. You may also notice that I misspelled Aparatus (which I can lie and say was purely [...]

With the increasing popularity of WordPress comes the business of developing “bi-products” that support this amazing blogging platform. This includes the countless plugins, web hosting, developer support and of course – the most marketable of them all: premium themes. A number of leading designers have already dominated this WordPress premium themes market; quite notably: Woothemes, [...]

Whenever I download a WordPress theme there’s hardly ever a time that I leave it as is. Almost for sure – I will have to change some things to customize according to the site’s identity. For instance, maybe I’d want to match the heading styles to a company logo, or change the background colors to [...]

Grid based web design is becoming an art that each web developer must master. News portals, magazine layouts as well as showcase websites all adhere to the intricacies of the grid – which when mastered, is definitely a good addition to your web skill arsenal. We all know that a typical grid design uses some [...]

It seems that every website you see has some form of a slide show in the home page. So it plagued me for a while whether or not I should put one…like my three year old son would say: “what the heck” – so I did anyway. This is my newest WordPress theme Monte Cristo. [...]