Child Themes are by far the easiest way of creating a new look and introduce new functionality to a WordPress powered site. By creating a WordPress child theme you get all the benefits of the parent theme while gaining the ability to … Continue reading
Above is the slide deck for my WordCamp Victoria presentation entitled “10 WordPress Theme Hacks to Improve Your Site”. Unlike my regular presentation this one is entirely slides based which means if you just read the slides, you’ll get the … Continue reading
I promised something big, and here it is. On this 24th and Last Day of WordPress (for 2010 at least) I give you the new Vidunder WordPress theme that you see running on this very blog. Download Vidunder right here! … Continue reading
On this 23rd Day of WordPress I figure you are pretty well tied up in planning for the holidays and not really in the mood to get down and dirty with some hard core code examples. So I have something … Continue reading
In Custom Fonts with Google Fonts I explained how to add custom fonts from the Google Font Directory to your WordPress site. The problem with the Google Font Directory is that it only has a limited (but growing) supply of … Continue reading
If you’ve been playing around with the twentyten theme at all you will have noticed that under Appearance you have a new function called Background. From here you can set a background colour or upload a photo to be used … Continue reading
If you have worked with WordPress either as a stite owner or a developer you have likely run into situations where you add a plugin or a new theme only to find that some functions that previously work no longer … Continue reading
One of the great advantages of working with WordPress is that it has a blogging platform built right in. Some would argue that this is because WordPress is a blogging platform but I disagree. WordPress is a content management system … Continue reading
So far in this series we’ve looked at how to creating and use Custom Page Templates and Custom Category Templates, but what about custom single post templates? As of right now, there is no built in function for creating custom … Continue reading
Right now I’m working on a site for a local video production company called Reeltime Videoworks. As part of the spec for the site was the ability for the owners Sue and Don to add testimonials to the site that … Continue reading
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.