I would like to share a very detailed tutorial on how to install your own WordPress blog. This includes everything from buying a domain name to transferring your files to your server and many more. Now there’s no more excuse not to use WordPress as your main blogging platform. You can check out the full [...]
Today I’m going to show you how to make a WordPress theme using Starkers, my favorite naked theme. There are 2 ways on how to make a WordPress theme, one is to build everything from scratch and the other is to edit an existing theme. Obviously we’re going to take on the latter approach. Don’t [...]
I’m releasing Archetype WordPress Theme beta version. Feel free to use Archetype in your blog and please report anything that needs to be improved. There are still a lot of stuff that needs to be cleaned out including stylesheets, widgets, hooks and among many others. What is Archetype? Archetype is another one of those theme [...]
I’m really getting hooked (no pun intended) with theme development in WordPress. Last week I wrote about using action hooks and today we are going to take a look at how filter hooks can help us in building a more flexible WordPress theme. This tutorial was inspired by Ian Stewart’s Thematic. When I started to [...]
Ever wondered what’s the real use of wp_head and wp_footer in your template files? Ever tried deleting them but feared that the sky might fall on you? Everytime I develop a theme, wp_head and wp_footer always remained a mystery for me. It was only until last month when I started developing a WordPress theme framework [...]
How long does it take you to build or modify a wordpress theme? Do you sometimes get frustrated by the time it takes for you to finish a theme even if you’ve already created a handful of them? Did you ever wish there was an easier way? Actually there is, and the answer is by [...]
Last year my friend asked me to work on his photo blog and one of the features that he wanted was a slideshow for his upcoming photos. I did a basic Google search using the keywords ‘wordpress slideshows’ or something like that and eventually I ended up using AutoViewer. I’m going to share on how [...]
Wow! Its been a month since I’ve posted my last article and there’s a good reason for my blogging inactivity. I’ve been working on improving my skills these past few weeks and I am really grateful to have been involved with a recent project that I just finished a week ago. DominicBarrios.com is the photo [...]
Its finally here! After almost a month of hardwork (because of procrastinating), I am launching my very own first wordpress theme! I know many of you have been anticipating this monumental release and your wait is finally over!
I like to describe this theme as the bastard son of ReadWriteWeb and Chris Coyier’s site. If you have noticed the genes for the header, sidebar and footer part came from Chris’ site while the genes for the content part came from ReadWriteWeb. Did you see the resemblance?
WP-EMail is one of the many WordPress email plugins that I decided to use in my recent project. Installation instructions were pretty straightforward but after filling out the fields and hitting the submit button I received a “Language failed to load: instantiate” error. I then decided to look for support in their forum and I [...]
