WP Remix: Making Wordpress a CMS, One Step at a Time

// February 3rd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

WP Remix pushes Wordpress to the max with a little bit of everything!

You may have never heard of the theme, but WP Remix just might be the most innovative and unique toolkit for Wordpress you’ve ever seen. Unlike your other premium “buy and install” themes, WP Remix comes in a single package filled with 50 amazing and unique layouts for Wordpress — some of which you never thought possible…truly making it the closest thing to a CMS (content management system) Wordpress has ever seen.

Features Unique Only to WP Remix

Theme specific features that you won’t see elsewhere!
There’s no doubt that a lot of loving care was put into the creation of WP Remix. It actually has its own visual editor: once you install WP Remix, you’ll be able to visit a special control panel within your Wordpress administration area, in which you can fine tune individual pages of your WP Remix driven website. Here’s a feature list for WP Remix:

• WYSIWYG editor: WP Remix has an expanded code editor. Drop in code that would otherwise have to be manually typed out!
• Smart drop-down menus: Wordpress dropdowns usually suck - it’s true. To remedy this, WP Remix’s design team created dynamic drop-down menus that go multiple levels deep. The menus will remember what page you came from, and what page you’re currently on!

How to Video: Creating and Editing Pages with the WP Remix Theme

If your not sure this is the theme for you watch the video below to get a better understanding of how the themes admin interface works.

Check out WP Remix if you need a kick-ass and comprehensive theme for your blog or company website! You won’t regret it. Click here to visit WordPress Remix.

WPWebHost.com Review – Best Hosting for Wordpress!

// October 5th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Featured, For Geeks, Hosting, I recommend, News, Useful, Wordpress, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Good web hosting is one of the most important things that is overlooked by newbie bloggers. I know this because I made this mistake myself. Well, actually, by a stroke of luck, I turned out alright. Before I bought a yearly plan from my current web host, I hadn’t done any research into other providers at all. Six months later I now see that I could have saved money here and there for the same amount of services from other hosting companies, one of them being WPWebhost.com.

Now moving my website from one host to another isn’t easy. I just wish I would of thought of these things when I started my website. That’s why I’m here to point you in the right direction.

Does your web hosting company have a “face”? Do you know who the owners are? How good is your customer service at your current provider? WPWebhost.com is unique in that it’s unlike all the normal hosts out there. Instead of just being a static website with the only purpose being to sell you their services, WPWebhost.com a reliable hosting provider and a regularly-updated blog slapped into one.

Specifications and Pricing

WPWebHost.com is one of the best web hosting providers that I’ve ever seen in terms of price. One of their simplest plans are as follows:

• 50GB of web space
• 500GB of monthly bandwidth
• Host up to 50 domain names
• WordPress-compatible server
• WordPress-savvy support team
• Only $5 a month ($60 a year!)

And here’s a list of their monthly, yearly, and bi-yearly plans:

• Monthly Fee: $8/month
• Annual Fee: $6.67/month ($80/year)
• Bi-annual Fee: $5/month ($120/2 years) Best Value

One of the greatest things about WPWebhost.com is that they offer you a 100-day money-back guarantee! If you decide you don’t like their service for whatever reason after 3 months, you can get your money back and move on no strings attached! And in case you didn’t know, WPWebHost.com is built specifically to host Wordpress blogs and run them at their highest potential in terms of speed. Also, another unique feature that I’ve seen only with these guys is that when you sign up for any plan under them, you automatically receive a free copy of their premium Wordpress theme “Western”.

Tutorial: How to add an image gallery to your Wordpress post

// October 4th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Tutorial, Useful, Video Tutorials, Videos, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, blog, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

A gallery will display a set of thumbnail images attached to that post or page. If you upload images using the Add an Image icon, they will get attached automatically. If you upload images using the media library, you will need to attach it to a post or page before it will appear in a gallery.

Here is a video tutorial on how to add an image gallery to your blog post:

30 Wordpress Video Tutorials

How to turn off post revision in wordpress and decrease database size.

// August 6th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Design, For Geeks, Geeks, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, wordpress tutorials

How to turn off post revision in wordpress and decrease database size.

Revisions posts feature was introduced in wordpress 2.6 this feature turned on by default in 2.6+ versions. Revision posts create a lot of extra entries into your database and causes of database growing at very high speed.

So if you are worry about the size of your database or you don’t need hundreds or thousands of revisions posts in you database.

Here is the solution.

Open your wp-config.php into a text editor and add following lines into it.

define(’AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 500 ); // seconds
define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false );

This will increase the auto save time from 60 seconds to 500 seconds
and you will not get auto saved posts.

And if you want to delete already created revision posts from your database than go to your hosting control panel and open

PHPMyAdmin and run this SQL-query:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

If you don’t want to edit your database there is a plugin Revision Control available for you.

15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better

// July 13th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Tutorial, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, web tools, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Wordpress is a very powerful CMS (Content Management System). It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. There’s only one thing in the way from all of this power and you as the blog owner – your theme. See, no matter how many awesome features such as threaded comments or breadcrumb navigation or even an “edit” link beside each post are added, you’re limited by your theme that you are using. If you theme isn’t “smart” enough to use these features, well, quite frankly, you can’t use them.
This is a post for all the Wordpress theme developers out there. Here are only a few of the many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better. Please, use them.

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How to Make Money Online With Wordpress Themes!

// July 13th, 2009 // 7 Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, blog, free, web tools, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Making money online. When you hear those words, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? A year ago, I would’ve instantly thought “Google ads on a website”. I’m sure that’s what many of you thought of too.
There are literally hundreds of ways to make money online, and if you can just perfect one of those methods, you’ll be good to go. Maybe not quit-your-day-job rich, but you’ll have a very comfortable amount of secondary income coming in every week. Who wouldn’t want that?
In this post, I’ll be outlining the 3 best ways to make money with Wordpress themes. I’ve used each of these methods myself, and have experimented around in all three. I know what works best for me, and what doesn’t. At the end of the post, I’ll let you guys know my opinion on what I feel is the best technique.

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Tutorial – Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

// July 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Graphic Design, I recommend, Tutorial, Useful, Website Templates, Wordpress Themes, free, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn’t know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too. While browsing the web, I saw so many nice looking websites and wished I had the skills to create such designs. Today I can and I’m going to teach you how to do so too! Essentially, it requires a few Photoshop skills and an eye for detail. Through this tutorial, I will point out these tiny details which make a website design look beautiful. Fire up Photoshop and let’s get going!

Author: Marko Prljic

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

The final PSD designs are, of course, on sale at ThemeForest.net.

Best Wordpress Podcasts

// May 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, For Geeks, Geeks, Ipod, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

 Here is a short list of some Podcasts about Wordpress. Some of them do a pretty good job at being entertaining and geeky at the same time. I can dig it.

WordCast Podcast

Join Beth Skinner, Kym Huynh and Dave Moyer each week to hear all about the latest in WordPress and the blogging world! You’ll be incredbly informed with all the coolest plugins, the best looking themes, awesome interviews, the latest news, and much, much more

• Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes
• http://wordcastpodcast.com

WordPress Weekly Podcast

WordPress Weekly is a podcast hosted by Jeff Chandler and co host David Peralty from WP Tavern and Jeffro2pt0. The show is produced live every Friday evening at 8 P.M. EST (USA). Discussed are a wide range of topics around the WordPress community.

• Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes
• http://www.wptavern.com/wordpress-weekly

The WordPress Community Podcast

Great podcast delivery by Charles Stricklin and Jonathan Bailey gives lots of information on anything happening in the WordPress world. Unfortuantely shows are not weekly, more monthly.

• Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes
• http://wp-community.org

WordPress Plugins Podcast

Almost every week Angelo Mandato covers one WordPress plugin with occasional interviews of plugin developers for around 15 minutes.

• Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes
• http://www.pluginspodcast.com

The Theme Playground WordPress Podcast

The Theme Playground Podcast is a podcast for WordPress developers. Created and run by Ryan Imel and joined by J. D. Bentley.

• Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes
• http://themeplayground.com/wordpress-podcast/

Cybers Ebay Wordpress Plugin

// May 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Cybers Ebay Wordpress Plugin

The eBay Wordpress Plugin is finally available.

The eBay plugin is very simple but effective. Once installed you input your EbayNetwork Campaign number into the settings, and how many ads you want to appear on each post.

Place the code <?php cybersebay(); ?> within the Wordpress loop and you are set.

The first time you use the plugin you will add a Custom Field to your post with the Key name, ebay. And use the value to hold the keyword for this post to import eBay ads. From here on out, whenever you write a post, you can select the custom field key, ebay from the pulldown list and add the keyword you wish to show listings for.

Below is an example from another site. The article is titled “Fun Stocking Stuffers” and the keyword for eBay is “Christmas Stocking Stuffers”

Click for full size screenshot

During my testing of the plugin I received a $27 click, and that is certainly the highest valued click I have ever received !

And it is ONLY $9.95 !!

High Roller Black Theme

Release Date: March 30, 2009
Latest version: 1.0
Wordpress Version Up To: WP 2.7.1

Features:

The High Roller Theme for wordpress is a highly customized theme for your gambling affiliate website.

Here are some of the features:

• Custom top casino/poker room table
• Customize index page images and posts in seconds
• Hide affiliate links and track outgoing hits
• Custom banner management system with click tracking
• Custom review and bonus templates
• Custom room management system
• Customize index page images and posts in seconds
• Very clean and professional design

How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer

// May 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, I recommend, Premium Wordpress Themes, Tutorial, Useful, Website Templates, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

How To Be A Rockstar WordPress Designer

Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.During the course of the book you’ll build THREE WordPress themes, a blog, a portfolio site and a general site with menus and submenus. Each theme demonstrates different aspects of WordPress theming and all three are packaged with the book so you’ll have Photoshop, HTML, CSS and WordPress PHP files to refer to..

The book is aimed at anyone with a solid understanding of HTML/CSS. You don’t need to know PHP, you don’t need to have ever even touched WordPress before. The examples begin from scratch and build on each other, while basic PHP principles that are used are explained in an easy to understand manner.If you’ve ever wanted to get started with WordPress theming, or you’re looking to take your skills to the next level with advanced theming concepts, this is the book for you!

Price: 29.00 USD

You are buying this product directly from Rockable Press. Please contact Rockable Press for ANY questions related to this product or purchase.

212 Pages of Expert
Freelancing Advice

Covering everything from getting started to expanding your business, How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is the official Freelance Switch book. Written by Collis & Cyan Ta’eed – the founders of the site – it’s packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog.

If you want to start your freelance career the right way, then How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer will give you everything you need to become the best freelancer in town!

WP Remix 2.0 – Not just a theme. A complete package.

// March 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Headline, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Not just a theme.
A complete package.

The more I get into your template and coding of WP Remix, the more I am amazed at the versatility. This is by far the most versatile theme for Wordpress on the planet.

Bundled with more than 50 strategically designed & coded custom static page templates, the theme enables everyone to publish a small sites in minutes saving weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards-compliant quality.

WP Remix a WordPress powered master theme, is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options that helps everyone create custom websites in minutes saves weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards – compliant quality.

• Ideal for EVERYONE!
  Multi Purpose, hassle-free theme that covers almost every possible layout. Saves you weeks of time.
• WordPress as CMS at its best.
  Insert a page layout by a single click. Edit them in visual editor and publish!. What’s more you can set different sidebar and headers for different pages if you wish.
• Multiple Options – Easily Customizable.
  A Blog + 10 Homepage options + 20 Single page with different layout + 10 product/gallery page + 5 Miscellaneous page, Plugins compatibility, Ajax slider, Smart Drop menu, Tabs, Table…
• Light-weight, Professional code and design
  W3C Valid, Table less & Cross browser compatible, widget-ready, highly customizable…

You only need one WP Remix theme to build all your web projects. Take a look at complete features! or View Videos on how the theme works

10 Magazine Style Wordpress Themes..Nice!

// March 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, web tools, webdesign, wordpress tutorials

Imprezz Free Wordpress Theme

by ProductiveDreams.com

Newsday Wordpress Theme

NattyWP has recently come out with some really sweet premium designs. I didn’t used to be a very big fan but after checking out this theme and a few of their other new themes.. I’m excited to see what else they have to offer.

Newsday will be a perfect choice for a news site (magazine), a corporate blog, and also as a business template for a company site.
NattyWP

Skyye News Theme

The News Theme

The Web News

Magazine Basic 2.0

Webo Magazine

Hybrid News

Vibrant Theme

Best Free Webmaster Tools & Wordpress Resources

// February 22nd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Geeks, Headline, I recommend, SEO, Social Network, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, google, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Webmaster Tools

• Websiteoutlook.com - is the perfect place to evaluate any website. When choosing to buy or sell a website having the proper information about your investment can be crucial to your success. Websiteoutlook is dedicated to finding all pertinent information that may pertain to your personal interest. And it’s FREE!
• Google Webmaster Tools - Probably one of the best free tool sites for webmaster. It is Google after all. Free website analytics and tutorials.
• scrubtheweb.com – ScrubTheWeb.com™ has been helping Website owners and search engine optimization services worldwide achieve top search engine rankings since 1996! Offers FREE tools such as Meta Tag Builder, Meta Tag Analyzer, Easy Submit and SEO tips and tutorials.
• Page Rank Tool - Find out how your site ranks.
• iwebtool.com – Free webmaster services including SEO, Search Engines, Domain Checkups, HTML and Other many useful tools.
• Keyword Generator – Need keywords for your meta tags? Use this free tool and also try the keyword Suggestion Tool.
• Copyright Generator – free online tool will generate a copyright notice that will automatically update when the year changes! No more having to change the date manually.
• Viewstep.com - offer thousands of webmaster resources and webmaster tools for webmasters and developers. Resources include articles, seo tools, design tools, domain tools and other webmaster resources and many more to improve your web site.
•  Bandwidth Speed Test – tests your Internet connection speed.
• Search Engine Position Tool - will check your site’s position on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AltaVista. Just enter the search terms you would like to use, and the URL of the site you wish to check, and click “Submit.”

Articles and Resources on Search Engine Optimization – better understand the complex world of SEO and its often obscure corners.

Free WordPress Themes

• Wpdesigner – Has a nice collection of free WordPress themes, mostly designed by Small Potato himself. Occasionally he also announces quality WordPress themes designed by others.
• WpSnap – Quality over quantity. Unlike a lot of other free WordPress theme showcases out there, Wpsnap has only features high-quality handpicked themes.
• Design Disease – Not a huge selection, but what they have is high quality.
• Free WP Themes – This site has all of the templates from freecsstemplates.org ported into WordPress.
• WordPress.net – Can’t forget the official WordPress theme viewer.
• Brian Gardner – A nice collection of very popular free WordPress themes. Also the designer of the popular Revolution Theme.
• ThemeShaper – Home of the popular Thematic and Launchpad WordPress themes
• plaintxt.org – If you’re into minimalistic design, this is the place to get WordPress themes.
• WP Theme Designer – Some very nice magazine-style WordPress themes, designed by ChiQ Montes.

WordPress Galleries

• We Love WP – A showcase of the best designed WordPress sites. This stuff really shows all the amazing possibilities one can accomplish with WordPress.
• LoopPress – Another WordPress gallery. Maybe I’m a little biased, but they must have good taste.
• Gallerific – Yet another web design gallery, with a category for WordPress powered sites.

Other WordPress Sites

• How To Spot-Er – Has an amazing collection of WordPress guides and tutorials
• JaypeeOnline – This isn’t specifically a WordPress-related blog, but it does feature lots of blogging news, WordPress theme reviews, and a lot of other useful information.
• Weblog Tools Collection – One of the top WordPress-related blogs around. They announce any new noteworthy theme or plugin releases for WordPress, along with any other news regarding WordPress.
• WP Themes Gallery – A great WordPress-related blog and home of the famous “Top 40″ WordPress blog list.
• WordPress Modder – A useful resource with articles and videos on modding your WordPress blogs.
• Hack WordPress – Lots of great tips on modifying your WordPress blogs along with other news about the latest WordPress themes and plugins.
• WPThemesPlugin – Another great WordPress resource site featuring the latest themes, plugins, and WordPress news.
• WPZOOM – A new WordPress blog featuring themes, plugins, tips, and more.
• WP Candy – Another WordPress-related site, highlighting some of the best themes, plugins, and WordPress-powered sites.
• WP Project – A site offering free WordPress tutorials and tips, along with other WordPress articles and news.

How to Customize your Feedburner Headline Animator

// February 16th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Design, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, RSS Feeds, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, free, web tools, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

A good way to promote your site is by using Feedburner for your RSS Feeds. One of their cooler features is their Headline Animator widget and if your anything like me and you love to design graphics then this can be a fun little project for you to add to your site.
For those of you who are not familiar with Feedburner..First you will have to register at Feedburner and burn your blog.
Once you’ve done that,  log into your account,  select your feed,  click on the “Publicize” tab and look for the Headline Animator service which is listed in the left-hand side bar.
Under “Theme” select “provide your own background” from the drop down list. Required (GIF only).

Create your graphic in Photoshop. I created a .gif that was 243px × 110px pixels and a 468×60px .gif.  (view them below)

Your Headline Animator will be the same size (height and width) as the background image. Play around with different shapes and sizes. Once you’ve uploaded the new graphic, feedburner allows you to drag and drop the animated text where it needs to be on the graphic and the length of the animated text box. You can also choose the text color of your font and the size. You don’t have a lot of control but you can play with it to make it look pretty cool if your creative. If you decide to make one..make sure to post your link here so we can all check out your creation.

If you have any questions or if you get stuck feel free to leave your questions here or check out Feedburner’s FAQ.

Creating a Wordpress Theme From Scratch – Screencast Series…

// February 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, I recommend, Tutorial, Useful, Video Tutorials, Videos, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster, wordpress tutorials

Check out this Wordpress for Designers screencast series by In the Woods Blog by Themeforest.net

The following screencast is day #3 which is explained below:

WordPress for Designers: Day 3

Moving right along into day three of our Wordpress for Designers series; today we will start creating our own theme from scratch. We will have a close look at how exactly to go about setting up your themes stylesheet and information, as well as creating the index.php page. In addition, we will examine wordpress template tags, what they are, and how to use them properly.