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One of the most requested features by The Unstandard WordPress theme users was a easier method for photo thumbnails on front pages. After exploring a few options including using the baked in WordPress media image re-sizer, Raul’s code snippet to ...

Ian Stewart (ThemeShaper) has compiled a collection of responses from 15 WordPress theme developers in response to the question: "What is the future of WordPress themes?" My response to the question challenged the idea of distribution & updates vs. design ...

Grid Focus was announced as the first new theme release for WordPress.com in 2009 via Almost Productive. Self-hosted WordPress users can continue to download the theme for modification and use from the official Grid Focus page. If you have always wanted ...

Similar to the updated Grid Focus release, The Unstandard theme was dropped into TextMate for a little WordPress 2.7 feature support. The Unstandard and Grid Focus now both share the stripped down imageless base for designers or developers to build ...

As much as I prefer WordPress as my blogging platform, I have never been a fan of the baked in search functionality which has proven to be hit or miss - more often a "miss". WordPress will search your posts but ...

WordPress 2.7 is available for download. The update packs a number of new features that any current or new WordPress user will welcome with open arms. WordPress Upgrader WordPress 2.6 already offered immediate plugin updates directly from within the admin Dashboard. 2.7 ...

A few weeks ago I was approached with a request to help setup a simple WordPress site from the ground-up. The simple requirement being that after the initial setup, the site be ready for steady growth with minimum update requirements ...

Congrats. You have your own WordPress blog. Each passing day results in a handful of new unique readers. As your site continues to grow, convincing visitors to explore your site beyond your most recent posts becomes more of a challenge. ...

The Unstandard WordPress theme is released / shared with the intent of breaking the typical blog mold. Farewell to the blase reverse chronological text heavy front pages, and hello to visuals & imagery to lure visitors deeper into your website ...

Some time ago a tutorial was posted on 5ThirtyOne which addressed customizing the DB Error page rendered whenever visitors landed on heavily trafficked WordPress site. Since then, the method has been proven "useless", ushered away by recent updates to the ...

Warning for new and existing WordPress users: DO NOT download WordPress themes from 3rd party "galleries". Identify the original source of the theme and download directly from the authors website. As WordPress - both hosted and self-hosted - continues to enjoy ...

Thanks to Milo for giving me the heads-up concerning the discomforting news which targets WordPress & Joomla users. Templates Browser is re-distributing public blog themes which are modified in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting ...

After much personal debate and the incident concerning the WP China Forums, I've decided to release the WordPress Grid Focus as a "theme". The decision was made after receiving a considerable number of emails requesting that a variant of the ...

An ideal blogosphere would be free of comment spam - solicitations for enlarging your manhood with knock off drugs, wooing the lady with tried and true sex tips, or drug pedaling bots which believe that BBCode is a compatible comment ...

Motivated by email requests from a few readers, I've thrown together this simple tutorial on how-to style author comments under WordPress without the need for extraneous plugins. What we're going to do is instruct WordPress to identify specific author emails ...

UPDATE #2: A variant of the Grid Focus is now available for download. Feel free to visit the project page for details. UPDATE #1: I've since updated. Feel free to see a preview of Gridded Focus on Flickr. I spent some time ...