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A Comparison of 6 Popular WordPress Frameworks

jayzee — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:58:12 +0000

Being that most of us are working against multiple deadlines at one time, we need to be able to save ourselves as much time and headache as possible, and help prevent ourselves from unnecessarily re-inventing the wheel. That is why frameworks are such a time and life saver in the development arena.read more

Wordpress Premium Themes Becoming Too Heavy and Bloated With PHP Code

Stuart — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:43:00 +0000

Premium Wordpress Theme providers are everywhere on the net these days with some having made very successful business’s developing themes for sale. Is the relentless push and advancements of wordpress theme development also having a side effect of themes now becoming very PHP heavy and server resource intensive.read more

WordPress Hosting - What everybody ought to know

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:11:18 +0000

It's the time of the year for rethinking things, and for being honest. In this quite long post I'm about to tell you why I'm now hosted on a VPS.net Cloud Server, why I still love WestHost and how this WordPress hosting business really works. It's time we, as a community of (WordPress) bloggers, come clean about this: we make money by promoting (WordPress) hosting companies.read more

20 Examples of Creative WordPress Sites

Stuart — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:51:41 +0000

Today’s post features a wealth of uniquely creative WordPress sites. I share a little bit about each site and why I think it’s creative and then provide you with the opportunity to do the same. So read my thoughts about each of the sites below and get ready to awaken your inner art critic.

Use WordPress to Create Amazing Sites

Stuart — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:17:09 +0000

There are lots of Innovative ways to use Wordpress, because of its flexible plugin and theming architecture. I am compiling list of websites and look at how you can use WordPress to create a variety of different types of sites and manage different functionalities. As you’ll see with a bit of cleverness, the sky is the limit!

Elliot Jay Stocks on WordPress for Designers

Stuart — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:28:28 +0000

In the first in a series of short form interviews we ask renowned web designers and front end developers a few questions about their areas of interest as well as their opinion on the future of web design. First up is Elliot Jay Stocks, web designer, author and globe trotting speaker.

10 More beautiful websites using WordPress as CMS

Stuart — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:52:11 +0000

Loving WordPress is SO easy! You got thousands of great looking blogs, custom themes, free themes, premium themes and designers go beyond that by using WordPress as CMS for their non-blog projects. A while back I showed you 10 non-blog websites powered by WordPress, and now it’s time to take a look at 10 more!

20 Creative and Inspirational Wordpress Blog Designs

digitonik — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:18:45 +0000

Here you will find 20 extremely creative and inspirational Wordpress designs that really get those creative juices flowing.

Great Examples of Free WordPress Themes Modifications

Stuart — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:55:31 +0000

In this article I created a small showcase of modified WordPress themes. The modified themes are very creative and some of them are better then original. I think it’s better, faster and easier to get a theme for free then to change colors and backgrounds and to make it a unique theme than creating the theme from zero. The original themes are provided by Woothemes that are free.read more

15 Creative Wordpress Footers

Stuart — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:56:35 +0000

Wordpress allows designers to take advantage of the functionality that the CMS provides. Becase of this, gone are the days of having a simple copyright footer and hello to the days of complex, inviting and informational footers. Designers have found ways to design some amazing footers and in this post, Designussion showcases a numer of inspirational and great footer designs.

Wordpress.org Nearly Beats Google.com

fluxpattern — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:04:00 +0000

After a playing around with $timator the cool new ‘whats my website worth’ tool we noticed that Google.com was topping the charts at an unbelievable (but not surprising) $938,550,265! Which site did we automatically enter for a valuation? You guessed it Wordpress.org

Who’s Who in WordPress (50 people you should be following)

Stuart — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:58:08 +0000

I’ve said before that what makes WordPress so powerful is the community behind it. I’ve pushed the importance of getting to know your WordPress developers before, and would like to think I’m doing my part in publishing interviews with members of the community as well. This time around, I’d like to publish my own “Who’s Who” of WordPress.

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress

SunSeth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:47:53 +0000

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It's capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress' robustness never ceases to amaze me.

35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs

SunSeth — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:19:13 +0000

Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is one great way to expand one’s blog. Assuming the recruiting of writers part is being taken care of, the next big problem you could be facing is management. Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task.read more

Innovative Use of WordPress: The WordPress Link Directory

jayzee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:02:01 +0000

This will be the first in a serious of posts devoted to highlighting new and interesting ways people are using WordPress. I already have at least 3 amazing uses of WordPress lined up that you probably have never seen before and are sure to spark your interest. So stay tuned, subscribe to our feed and be on the look out for more innovative uses of WordPress.

Hackers Attack & Stats Drop: Your Wordpress Blog Could be a Victim

SunSeth — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:06:03 +0000

It all started when I logged into my Google Analytics to check on my stats. I wanted to see if I had broken another traffic record, instead I found that my search engine traffic had dropped by about 80%. I frantically checked Google for a keyword I know I rank for, and found that I was completely absent from the results. I checked another term, and I was nowhere to be found.read more

Best WordPress Permalink, Organizational Structure for SEO and Why?

SunSeth — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:06:13 +0000

Lately I’ve been spending more time working on aesthetics, performance, and friendliness of this site. Now I’ve come to a very important decision to make and that is, should I change my permalink/organizational structure?read more

The Flexibility of WordPress

Stuart — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:04 +0000

WordPress is still regarded by many as just a blogging platform, even though it’s capable of much, much more! The flexibility offered by the WordPress engine is phenomenal - being able to publish anything from a basic blog to a forum, from a web showcase to a corporate CMS site! Here we take a look at some of the great ways WordPress has been used so far.

10 Wordpress Blogs You Should Be Reading

Stuart — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:38:50 +0000

In case you haven’t picked up on it - I loves me some Wordpress. I think it’s one of the most monumental additions to the web developer’s toolbox to date. Almost every project I’ve done in the last couple of years has been built on the Wordpress engine, even if it didn’t need to be. These are my ten favorite blogs on the subject of Wordpress, did I miss any?

Most Expensive WordPress Blog Ever Sold?

SunSeth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:16:29 +0000

I was looking at this deal and was thinking if this isn ’t the highest price tag paid for a single WordPress blog than it must be the most profitable WP blog ever sold! A deal estimated at $15M, seemingly all organic search traffic