Create a Custom Archives Page Like WP Beginner

WP Beginner recently published a tutorial showing how to create a custom archives page. I really support the idea of breaking the mold from traditional WordPress archive page layouts.

Use WordPress.com to Build Sites for Cities

If you can market yourself to start offering small cities and towns their own websites using WordPress.com's new offerings that would be baller. I would sure like to! Check out the new WordPress.com/cities page for more info.

Using Strong Pedagogy to Build a Teacher WordPress Site

Very cool insights here from educator and WordPresser John Caserta.

One of My Favorite Couples Blog Themes for WordPress

I kept a couples (and family) blog for a while and always enjoyed checking out themes for this type of blog. I recently saw the Adam and Eve theme. Me likes 🙂 Thanks ColorLabs for your great work and happy blogging to all the couples out there!

Learning the Niche of WordPres Theme Setup & Customization – Presentation from Orlando WordPress Meetup

Today I gave a really cool talk on what skills one needs to install and customize WordPress themes. I argue that this is a niche in the WordPress ecology and of itself and it's possible at different levels from site owners, to account managers, to developers. //speakerdeck.com/assets/embed.js We cover some examples of how to customize … Continue reading Learning the Niche of WordPres Theme Setup & Customization – Presentation from Orlando WordPress Meetup →

Great Video on How Automattic Approaches Theme Development

Check out this great video from Philip Arthur Moore http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.03 In the video he talks about a few major approaches to creating WordPress themes: Parent and child themes Theme frameworks Starter themes From scratch You can also find a nice write up he did of the content over on the Codepoet blog. He also has … Continue reading Great Video on How Automattic Approaches Theme Development →

A function to use remove_action conditionally in your WordPress templates

Thanks to Jonathan Perez for this little function to use remove_action conditionally. Helped when I was working on a WooCommerce project.

Smashing Article on How to Convert Static Sites to WordPress

This article from Smashing on how to move from a static site to a dynamic WordPress one is worth a read. It's pretty in depth, but that's necessary to give a practical example of the actual migration process.

Create a Function to Create WordPress Widgets

I've taken to the practice of doing something like this whenever I need to create multiple widgets in a theme that all have the same basic parameters. function create_widget($name, $id, $description) { register_sidebar(array( 'name' => __( $name ), 'id' => $id, 'description' => __( $description ), 'before_widget' => ' ', 'after_widget' => ' ', 'before_title' … Continue reading Create a Function to Create WordPress Widgets →

10 Simple Steps to Migrate WordPress from Local to Live Server

When you start to develop a lot of WordPress themes, you will find your natural rhythm moving sites from local development to live testing or production environments. Here is a simple 10 step process for doing just that. The process works even if the sites have different URLs. Backup your WordPress site using WordPressBackUp or … Continue reading 10 Simple Steps to Migrate WordPress from Local to Live Server →