The other day a friend of mine asked me how I develop WordPress themes on my computer because he wants to switch his blog over to WP from Blogger. After going through some of the basics in 140-character chunks, I thought it might be easier just to explain my WP development setup here on the [...]
Back in part 1 I listed five of the plugins I install every time I setup a WordPress blog for a friend or client. Here are five more plugins for WordPress that are sure help you get the most out of your blogging experience. Cimy Swift SMTP. I often use a Gmail account as the [...]
I really like WordPress. If you are looking for a blog/news-based website then there is probably no better option than to use WordPress. One of the things that puts WordPress at the top of my list is the thriving community of developers that use it. If you need your new website to do something then [...]
It is so easy to give your blog a professional look these days by grabbing a well-made, free WordPress theme and tweaking it to your specific tastes. The biggest hurdle is filtering out all of the poorly-made themes that are floating around the interwebs to find the right one to start with. There are tons [...]
I see a lot of websites/blogs and a lot of them are running WordPress. Sometimes I see a blog with a theme that looks familiar… as if someone took a standard theme freely available online and just tweaked it a bit. Inevitably one of those “tweaks” is to take the credit of the original theme [...]