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It’s hard to beat fourteen files and an image folder 11 Jul 2013 | 03:56 am
Photo by Ryan Imel Sometimes I think theme frameworks just aren’t a good thing for the end user. When it comes to the experience with the least friction, the most welcoming to a new user, and the le...
My experience looking for an RSS service to replace Google Reader 3 Apr 2013 | 02:22 am
This morning I spent some time investigating feed readers and services to replace Google Reader. A lot of internet users have been since Google announced Reader is going away this summer. It’s easy to...
An update on The WPCandy Quarterly #2! 22 Mar 2013 | 09:29 pm
I’m happy to announce that we’re finalizing the second issue of The WPCandy Quarterly, in the last stage before sending it off to the printers. It’s an exciting — but busy! — time, and we’re most psyc...
The true value of a WordPress theme: Hermes Themes and a $200 price tag 19 Mar 2013 | 06:44 pm
$35, $75, $40, and $200. One of these doesn’t sound like the others. Dumitru Brinzan, who has a long history in WordPress themes at WPZOOM, has started a new theme project called Hermes Themes. The sh...
Theme Show #12: “The Compliment Sandwich” 12 Feb 2013 | 03:50 am
In our second Theme Show episode of the new year, “The Compliment Sandwich”, we stick to our new format and dish over four new themes and pick one to rule them all. Well, for another seven days that i...
Review: Professional WordPress Design and Development, 2nd Edition 12 Feb 2013 | 12:57 am
Let’s start this review with an honest admission. While in the 90s I collected (and read, mostly) tech books like they were going out of style. These days I barely get my hands around a book, let alon...
Sweet Plugin: TablePress, the successor to WP-Table Reloaded 9 Feb 2013 | 03:45 am
About two years ago (yeah, really!) I reviewed the WP-Table Reloaded WordPress plugin on our show The Sweet Plugin. After a rebranding and reworking of the code, WP-Table Reloaded is now TablePress. T...
Reader theme review: Minimal, but not in a lazy way 8 Feb 2013 | 10:30 pm
Reader is a theme by new theme shop WP Minima, a brand which sells entirely on ThemeForest at the moment. They’ve released two themes so far, one free and one paid. This is the paid theme, which costs...
The Story of WonderThemes: Why starting a WordPress theme marketplace isn’t easy 8 Feb 2013 | 08:00 pm
Michael Kimb Jones — or Kimb, as he prefers people call him – sat waiting for his time to stand up and speak. There he sat, on the ground floor of Surgeons Hall at the Royal College of Surgeons, runni...
WPCandy Roundtable #3: WordPress Meetup Discussion with 4 co-organizers 7 Feb 2013 | 07:34 am
Let’s talk about WordPress meetups! On this episode of The WPCandy Roundtable Podcast, I asked four awesome WordPress meetup co-organizers to chat about what makes a quality meetup and how they do wha...
