So you want to create WordPress themes huh?

22 Mixed Quality Wordpress Hacks WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or less similar, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you need to tweak it a little bit by using quality hacks. You all must’ve known that the new version v2.8 is already arrived and most of you going to update your WordPress to v2.8 anyway. So, it’s a right time to implement some new hacks also.

Jon Holato » Wordpress The reason why you or I or anyone else blogs shouldn’t be popularity. If you’re blogging for fame and fortune, you’re more than likely in for a rude awakening. We should be blogging mainly for two reasons: 1) we love to write; 2) we have something to say. That being said, it sure exhibits a warm feeling when you know that many people are actually reading and taking something away from what you write. WordPress Theme Park “Paalam” [meaning "Bridge" in Tamil], is a two-column Theme for WordPress, made possible by Best Web Hosting. Features: Internationalized version [includes .pot file in the theme package]Custom Header ImageGravatar Support for WordPress 2.5 and aboveThreaded Comments support for WordPress 2.7 and aboveSidebar Widget CompatibleTag Support in WordPress 2.3 and abovePage Template for Archives PagePage Template for Contact PagePage Template for Links PageAutomatic Author PageAutomatic Top Navigation404 pageAbility to float images within the content, using class=”left” or class=”right” from the img tags. Take a look at the Theme Demo ! Here is the Download Link for Version 2.1 i18n!

How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch part 3b » Themetation July 17th, 2008 by kailoon under Tips continue from part 3. You still can refer to this link when you are doing it. Let’s continue then. Sections that we will cover in this chapter: Digital Pyrotechnic Matrix Copyright 2006 NAO Design The Infernoptix Digital Pyrotechnic Matrix is the latest in high-impact visual and audio entertainment. The 96-inch screen employs computer-controlled bursts of fire, in a 12 x 7 array, to create scrolling text, simple animations, freehand sketching (via mouse), and an audio level meter. There's even a percussion mode, which takes advantage of the concussive nature of each burst to allow scripting and playback of complex rhythms.

10 tricks to make your WordPress theme stand out Guest post by Alex Denning, a Twitter fan who recently launched his new blog, Nometech.com, where he blogs about WordPress, blogging and web design. After just releasing my first WordPress theme, NomeBlog, I thought I’d share the experience I’ve learnt with you guys on CatsWhoCode. The problem: there are so many WordPress themes out there these days that it is hard to get noticed and stand out from the crowd. The solution: create a WordPress theme that has so many unique features users will be bending over backwards to get hold of it! In this post I’m going to show you ten tricks to make your theme stand out from the very large crowd.

Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 1 Life as a WordPress blogger has become remarkably easy. If you can hold a mouse and follow instructions then you’re most of the way towards carving out your own niche on the internet. A fresh installation gives you a powerful and attractive system with minimal effort, and with a little luck you can be blogging in under half an hour. Despite the availability of hundreds of themes, and the general goodness of the default Kubrick theme, sometimes you just want to give your blog that personal touch, and the only way to do this is by going under the hood and having a look around. A month in to running a WordPress-based website and I find myself doing the very same thing. None of the themes were exactly what I was looking for, and after investigating the internals of WordPress I realised it was a lot more involved than it initially appeared.

13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should - Opensou Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. As we have already published a post few days ago about wordpress themes. I have also in my mind to write about wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and power using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience. WordPress Theme Development Tools Update: We’ve created a second edition of this article, with updated code samples and coverage of the latest theme development techniques. Check it out at WordPress Theme Development Tools. It’s part of The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme Tutorial: 2nd Edition. Before we get started building any WordPress Theme we’re going to need to get our development tools in place. In this post, we’ll run through the best of the best and build ourselves a cross-platform WordPress Theme test environment that would do a professional Theme developer proud.

NitroTracker - A Fasttracker II style tracker for the Nintendo D Overview Foreword Disclaimer NitroTracker is still beta software. Therefore, bugs exist. 130 WordPress Plugins You Could Ever Need: The Best Of: Part 2 This is Part 2 of these article series – again I needed to separate those articles, otherwise I couldn’t post them online. So here is continued list with reminding half of plugins. And You’ve got also bonus plugins at the end of the post..well not really bonus, but I didn’t find these mentioned everywhere else, but these are really worth checking out! So enjoy the list and feel free to add more plugins, if you know any!