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Though a bit late then expected milestone, but first Beta of WordPress 3.6 released yesterday. Now its available for everybody, though its advised to use it only for test, not in production site.
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Development Frameworks of WordPress Theme
January 28th, 2013 |
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If you build and develop WordPress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a WordPress development framework. A framework is designed to speed [...]
10 Useful Loop Hacks of WordPress
January 26th, 2013 |
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The loop is a very important aspect of WordPress blogs. In fact, the loop is what allows you to get posts from your WordPress database and print them on the screen. A set of useful and user-friendly functions, the loop is incredibly powerful. With it, you can get a single post, a list of posts [...]
Some Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
January 23rd, 2013 |
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With its latest releases, WordPress has extended its potential well beyond blogging, moving toward an advanced, robust and very powerful content management solution. By default, WordPress delivers a very lightweight, minimal system that offers only basic functionalities. But where the WordPress core falls short, there are a wealth of plug-ins that extend its limitations. Plug-ins [...]
Use WordPress Widgets By 5 Useful And Creative Ways
January 20th, 2013 |
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If you’ve been reading some of the previous WordPress-related articles here on Smashing Magazine, you’ll know that WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. It can be used as a CMS, too. And WordPress widgets are a powerful tool in your WordPress development arsenal. When you think of WordPress widgets, you may think they’re [...]
WordPress Theme ‘Frank’ For Speed Released. Get Free
January 19th, 2013 |
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Today we are pleased to release Frank, an open-source WordPress theme designed and built to provide a light, responsive and unobtrusive reading experience. The theme’s default home page makes 9 database queries and consists of 2 requests weighing at roughly 30KB (9.5KB gzipped). Frank keeps it basic: no Javascript dependence, no unnecessary images, just a [...]
Hook Hacks 10 Useful WordPress
January 14th, 2013 |
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Hooks are very useful in WordPress. They allow you to “hook” a custom function to an existing function, which allows you to modify WordPress’ functionality without editing core files. In this article, we have compiled 10 extremely useful ready-to-use WordPress hooks, along with examples and coding explanations. (Smashing’s note: If you enjoy reading our articles, [...]
Tips For Advanced Power WordPress Template Developers
January 10th, 2013 |
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Back in July, “Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers” presented 8 basic techniques for adding popular features to the front end of a WordPress-powered website. The premise was that WordPress has become an elegant, lightweight content management solution that offers the fundamentals out of the box, atop a modular core that offers incredible potential in [...]
Reloaded: WordPress Template Developers Advanced Power Tips
January 9th, 2013 |
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Two weeks ago we published the first part of this article, covering multiple column content techniques and associating pages with post content; we discussed how to use the “More”-tag, hide standalone categories from the category list and retain the page layout for post views within a category page. This article presents the second part of [...]
Extend Custom Fields in WordPress
January 8th, 2013 |
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WordPress’ popularity has grown exponentially as of late. This rise in popularity is due in part to WordPress’ custom fields. Custom fields allow you to add little bits of data to posts. They have changed the way people look at WordPress. A couple of years ago, WordPress was a blogging platform — a good one, [...]
A Matter Of Mental Models – Joomla And WordPress
January 7th, 2013 |
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Open-source content management systems (CMS) are a large family of Web applications, but if we’re looking for stability, performance and average technical requirements, we’ll come up with a handful of options. In the past, choosing the “right” CMS was a matter of the project’s requirements, but now this is not completely valid because the paradigm [...]
WordPress Security Tweaks For 10 Thinks Useful
January 6th, 2013 |
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Security has always been a hot topic. Offline, people buy wired homes, car alarms and gadgets to bring their security to the max. Online, security is important, too, especially for people who make a living from websites and blogs. In this article, we’ll show you some useful tweaks to protect your WordPress-powered blog. (Smashing’s note: [...]
To Transform Using HTML5 WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme
January 1st, 2013 |
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Last year, WordPress launched arguably its biggest update ever: WordPress 3.0. Accompanying this release was the brand new default theme, TwentyTen, and the promise of a new default theme every year. Somewhat surprisingly, TwentyTen declares the HTML5 doctype but doesn’t take advantage of many of the new elements and attributes that HTML5 brings. Now, HTML5 [...]
Every Developer Should Know Ten Things of Every WordPress Plugin
December 31st, 2012 |
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Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives. Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly not all) of the ins-and-outs [...]
Premium WordPress Theme Clubs Detailed Comparison
December 30th, 2012 |
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WordPress professionals are faced with many options when deciding which membership-based theme providers are worth their investment. It is important to know how frequent future releases are, what your actual cost will be over time and what kind of support you can expect. It is also important to know what types of themes you will [...]
Tips For Template Developers And Consultants in New WordPress Power
December 29th, 2012 |
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It has been a big year for WordPress. If there were still some lingering doubts about its potency as a full-fledged content management system, then the full support for custom taxonomies and custom post types in WordPress 3.0 core should have put them to rest. WordPress 3.1 took those leaps one step further, polishing custom [...]
Best Image Management In WordPress
December 27th, 2012 |
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With the advent of sophisticated and user-friendly content management systems like WordPress, textual content has become increasingly easier to manage. The architecture of these systems aims to deliver a well-formed code foundation; this means tha real viagra price t if you are a good writer, then your content will be just as awesome as the [...]
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December 22nd, 2012 |
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The WordPress eco-system has changed so much in the past few years that keeping up with all of it has become a challenge! It’s been so encouraging not only to see WordPress themes and plug-ins Iron Dolls – Female Bodybuilding Secrets increase in quality and use, but to see the overall appeal and acceptance in [...]
Edition 2011 – Free WordPress Themes
December 20th, 2012 |
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It’s interesting to look back at our previous Wor buy viagra dPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web design trends [...]
Locally WordPress Developing With MAMP
December 19th, 2012 |
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Local development refers to the process of building a website or Web application from the comfort of a virtual server, and not needing to be connected to the Internet in order to run PHP and MySQL or even to test a contact form. One of the most annoying parts of development, at least for me, [...]
The Right Way Create Native WordPress Admin Tables
December 18th, 2012 |
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List tables are a common element in WordPress’ administration interface. They are used on nearly all default admin pages with lists, and developers often integrate them into their plugins. But creating one of these tables is not really intuitive if y buy generic viagra ou haven’t done it before, and I’ve seen people try to [...]
Widgets And Shortcodes Inserting
December 17th, 2012 |
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The shortcode ability of WordPress is extremely underrated. It enables the end user to create intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing tasks. In a new theme we’re developing, I decided to look into adding widgets anywhere with shortcodes, and it turns out that it isn’t that difficult. Some of the widgets [...]
Do You Want To Know About WordPress 3.5
December 16th, 2012 |
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Version 3.5 is the second major release of WordPress in 2012. It’s focused on improvements of existing features, such as the media library, plugin installations and the theme previewer. Let’s look at some things you’ll need to know about this new version of WordPress. WordPress Moleskine notebook (Image: Nikolay Bachiyski) (Smashing’s note: Subscribe to the [...]
You Can Sell To Building WordPress Themes
December 13th, 2012 |
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When I took my first steps into the WordPress theme arena, I didn’t know much about it. I wandered blindly into the business, not knowing whether I was doing things correctly. Over time, through trial and error and making rookie mistakes, I learned some valuable lessons and gained important insights. To save you from going [...]
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Comments sections are neglected on many blogs. That is definitely a bad thing, because comments represent interaction between you and your readers. In this article, we’ll have a look at 10 great tips and hacks to enhance your blog’s comments section and give it the quality it deserves. You may be interested in the following [...]