Lifestreaming. Plugins. Plugin. 10 Ways to Customize and Personalize your Wordpress Blog. Having a unique theme and adding personal touches to your blog is by no means a necessity, but it can really enhance and enable your site to stand out more among the blogosphere’s branded band of bloggers.
Just like with any aspect of your brand, you want people to immediately make that association with you and your blog. This can easily be done with a custom design and the subtle injections of the person or persons that are behind the blog. If you are not in a position where you can create your own custom theme, do not fret, customizing a free or premium theme can work for your blog as well. These attentions to detail tend to attract readers more than the impersonal feel that can be imparted by using a standard theme that lacks the personality and flavor of a customized one. So in this post, I have assembled 10 ways that you can easily adjust and tweak these details to give your site that distinctive edge that will help establish your blog’s presence. Tutorials, Tools & Resources Matt. BytesForAll WordPress WP Themes. Design Disease - Blog Design. 10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website - Nettuts.
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Imagine what it would be like to promise your clients a web presence that is fully integrated with their Twitter strategy and makes it easier for their content to go viral on Twitter. Would be nice, no? Well -- why imagine? The tools for web developers to add a touch of Twitter to any site are out there and easy to use. Trust us -- your clients will love you for it! There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. 1. If you're just getting started with wanting to integrate Twitter into your site, than simply adding the traditional Twitter widget to your site's sidebar is a great start.
Twitter widgets can be used with virtually any site or blog, including HTMl-only pages. 2. Twitter Buttons is a nifty little service that helps you quickly create a badge to promote your Twitter account. 3. ... and much more. 4. Twitter is a powerful promotional tool. Top 50 Wordpress Tutorials - NETTUTS. As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing 'Wordpress' as an area of expertise.
Of course, unless you want to bluff your way through jobs, you'd better have the skill to back-up that claim. This collection will help. Wordpress Basics 1. Unraveling the Secrets of the comments.php File Nettuts+ author Gilles Maes has written an in-depth overview of the comments.php file and how to make the most of the template. 2. iThemes has a tutorial on how to become a Wordpress developer. 3. Streamline your Wordpress set-up by installing multiple instances of Wordpress on the same database. Theme Tutorials 4. Nettuts+ author Sam Parkinson gives a thorough overview of how to make your own custom theme from scratch, complete with source code. 5.
A lengthy and thorough series of tutorials covering nearly every aspect of Wordpress theme development. WordPress Theme - Statement. Are you ready to make a statement with your blog ?
Well, the new free WordPress theme from Blog Oh! Blog lets you do just that and more I am happy to release a new WordPress theme for all you hardcore bloggers called the “Statement”. The theme features a nice and clean look with two sidebars on the right and a tabbed section (available in many premium themes nowadays) for recent posts, comments and archives. I am sure that this theme will appeal to people running professional services on their blog and catering to well-educated audience, like authors, education services, book blogs, science blogs, publishers etc.
EDIT : I have included the image.php file in this theme as per request and also fixed the WordPress 2.5 Gallery functionality. Test Run | Download Please leave a comment to become a close friend of B.O.B (Blog Oh!