Quick Tip! If you’ve been using WordPress for a long time you might still be locked in to using a video embed plugin like I was a few hours ago. Yes plugins are great, but these days it’s part of the WordPress core. So how do you get rid of those YouTube and Vimeo shortcodes? I haven’t found an easy way to do it and yes I’m still frustrated with the shortcodes concept in...
Macros in WordPress, Thoughts & Experiments
Hey there, been a while eh? I’ll write a little bit more about what’s happening here in a few days, but this weekend I’ve been watching the WordCamp San Francisco 2011 conference, and with all the brilliant sessions I got inspired, so this morning I crafted this: Thinking if this is at all usable. I’m thinking yes since I’ve been using TextMate for a little longer...
A Freebie WordPress Theme: San Fran
Hey there, hope you’re all doing great and having an awesome weekend! We’ve been working hard on one of our free themes projects over at Theme.fm and just last week we got through the approval process straight into the WordPress.org themes directory, so meet San Fran for WordPress. A few of the features of the theme are custom colors and typography, multi-level navigation, clean...
A Call for WordPress Writers, Developers & Designers
Howdy readers! I haven’t published for quite some time now and some of you probably know the reason — Theme.fm. For those of you who don’t, Theme.fm is a new venture dedicated to theming WordPress, has tutorials, reviews, tips and tricks, freebies and news. Yesterday Theme.fm has turned exactly one month old seems like we’re doing pretty good, with all the references and...
Great News Folks! WordPress 3.2 is Here!
Right, go download it from the WordPress.org website. If you’re looking for a localized version it might be unavailable for a while so you’ll have to wait, although the Russian one has been shipped already. The new interface is fantastic, although I’m used to that already since I’ve been working with RC’s locally for a while. And the credits screen, ah the credits...
Fine Tuning Your WordPress Themes with Theme.fm
Hey there, long time no read eh? Well the reason to that is that I’ve been extremely busy with an exciting project, and today I’m glad to announce it, although it’s been launched last week. Theme.fm is a blog, journal, magazine (call it whatever you like) about fine tuning your WordPress themes. And what does that mean? Well, themes for WordPress are certainly not new, but they...
WordPress 3.2 RC1 Preview (Screenshots)
Not a technical post indeed, but simply one that showcases the new WordPress 3.2 (actually it’s release candidate) with some walkthrough screenshots, from the new admin panel UI to the new Twenty Eleven theme that ships as the default with WordPress 3.2. If you’re wondering I’m running the Theme Unit Test data which is why my brand new installation has so many posts and pages...
Woot! Zendesk Rolls Out Their WordPress Plugin!
When it comes to customer support, the first thing that pops into my mind is Zendesk — a web-based helpdesk software. And trust me, it’s difficult to find anything better than that, proof is the list of their clients — Twitter, Tumblr, Groupon, Rackspace and more. I’ve been playing around with Zendesk for quite a while now, and planning a full-blown customization usage on...
Themes Weekly: Blogitty — A Magazine & Blog Theme
I loved Blogitty the first second I saw it and @cosmothemes have clearly done a good job at this one — clean and easy to understand layout, awesome built-in widgets, social tools and of course things you’ll normally find in a good premium theme: custom shortcodes, typography, layout changes, colors and styles, page templates and a pseudo-portfolio page done with the standard WordPress...
Themes Weekly: Continuum for WordPress
Released only a few weeks ago, the Continuum Magazine Theme is doing quite well on Themeforest with two updates already published which means a lot in terms of support. The theme is optimized for WordPress 3.0+ and claims to be working out of the box, although still over 150 options to play around with for customization-crazy people ;) Suitable for magazines and blogs, gaming and music websites...