Category: <span>Featured</span>

In this Theme View update we feature three free WordPress from the official WordPress Repository. Parament, a dark theme with attention getting orange call outs, zeeBizzCard, a clean multi-use theme with several user customization options and Jeans, a fun denim inspired casual theme. One the greatest strengths of WordPress is the ability to apply a […]

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”340″]http://vimeo.com/31100268[/vimeo] “… new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill would criminalize posting all sorts of standard web content — music playing in the background of videos, footage of people dancing, kids playing video games, and posting video of people playing cover songs. This legislation will stifle free […]

More and more themes are taking advantage of Theme Options in WordPress, particularly when site administrators are not designers or developers but still want some ability to make widespread changes to the site without breaking functionality or aesthetics. Today I’m looking at a fairly clean and straightforward theme that breaks from the pack by doing […]

Proving once again that WordPress is not just the domain of hobby blogs and small online entities, we are spotlighting international news giant, CNN as a WordPress user. CNN actually has a constellation of WordPress blogs covering a wide variety of topics from the news giant’s coverage, ranging from personal pieces to global events, with […]

In the first part of this series, we explained the importance and advantages of using Tags in WordPress posts.  We then followed up with how to track down and correct tagless posts on your blog.  In this last installment, we’ll take a look at a plugin designed to help high volume publishers or those having limited time […]

Brand New Day caught my eye not because of any “gee wow” features or gimmicks but because of its light, whimsical and fun approach to theming WordPress.  Pages are open and airy helping visitors with readability and orientation.  Brand New Day is not without its (pleasant) surprises under the hood, however. Featuring Theme Options functionality […]

In the first part of this series, I explained the importance and advantages of using Tags in WordPress posts.  In this next part, I’m going to give you a tool to help track down and correct tagless posts on your blog.  Untagged posts are not an uncommon situation and you’re probably not alone among WordPress […]

Before I start singing the praises of Tags, perhaps first an introduction to exactly what Tags are and why you should be using them is in order. Unlike the architectural way many web sites organize content (such as categories, groups, and folders), tags represent the methodology of extracting and emphasizing those terms and short phrases […]

The comic strip format has suffered a lot of indignities over the years, not the least of which is the ever popular “print is dead” mantra that is so casually tossed about. Anyone that spends any time at all online, though, can see that the comic strip is one traditional format that has found wildly […]

There are a plenty of great reasons to support and encourage visitors to register and become members of your WordPress powered site, but let’s face it, you don’t always want them to land on the “Dashboard” page in WordPress’ backend once they login. This is particularly true if you are concerned about creating a seamless […]