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,

As I was following the tutorial on How To Create a Theme Options Page for Your WordPress Theme, from ForTheLose.org, I stumbled upon an irritating issue. I wanted to create an option where you can paste your Google Ad Sense code from the theme admin panel. The problem is, as soon as I drop stuff

There’s no real correct way on how a sidebar should look. But since the dawn of HTML, we’ve seen sidebars that span vertically in the left, right – twin column, triple column – heck – I’ve even seen them in the middle! (I guess that wouldn’t be a sidebar then would it?). Nonetheless, the sidebar

Finally done with a simple theme called Blue Rooster. The theme is a two column layout with a extra templates that can convert your blog into a CMS. The sidebar and footer are both widgetized, author and category templates included, as well as social buttons already intact. The theme style is a mix of rounded

Just got done experimenting with a theme. This time – no photoshop mockups are done; went ahead and dove right in coding. I ended up with a simple, non-graphic intensive theme. Named it after one of my all time favorite fonts – the Garamond. Update – there has been a security vulnerability in an image

We all have seen WordPress sites with repeating backgrounds that span beautifully across the entire page. This property is usually applied in the body tag of your template. What about those portfolio websites that use a different background image in the front page? Or those magazine styled websites that apply different backgrounds for their category