Author Archives: Ian Stewart

About Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart is probably thinking about WordPress Themes this very minute. Don't forget to follow him on Twitter to catch his near-continuous ramblings and mutterings.

My WordPress and Web Design Feed Short List

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I recently started subscribing to RSS feeds again after having given them up totally for several months. I was relying on the cream to rise to the top in Twitter and a handful of sites that I would visit every day or week. And now, after declaring feed bankruptcy, I’m back at it again (switching to Reeder as my feed reader was a big part of that decision). I have pared things down though. Here’s my must-follow short list of WordPress and Web Design sources that I’m following right now. These sources let me keep on top of what’s going on in WordPress and Web Design.

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Powering Your Design With WordPress on WordPress.tv

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If you enjoyed the Powering Your Design With WordPress article in spring you can now see the presentation that inspired it on WordPress.tv courtesy of the fine folks at the Future of Web Design. Go Check it out!

And speaking of FOWD, it’ll be rolling back into London May 14th – 16th, 2012. I heard some great presentations, met some awesome people, and had a great time there in 2011. I’m sure 2012′s FOWD London will be even better.

Let Your WordPress Smilies Smile

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I love smilies. I mean, just take a look at these two happy fellows.

They look pretty happy, right? I think they’d look a lot happier if they didn’t have the same background color and padding as the rest of the images in my theme though. Don’t you? Make sure you’re adding something like the following to your theme stylesheet somewhere after your main image styles. This is a good start for resetting the existing image styles you might have.

img.wp-smiley {
	background: transparent;
	border: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

Do that in your WordPress themes and you’re all set. :)

Awesome Up Your WordPress Theme With Post Formats

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This August I had the pleasure of speaking at WordCamp San Francisco on awesome-ing up WordPress themes with Post Formats. If you wanted to check out my presentation but weren’t there, or missed the livestream, have no fear! You too can check it out, right now, right here, thanks to the magic of WordPress.tv.

If you want to follow the along with the slides, you can do that too by downloading them right here.

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Powering Your Design With WordPress

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Can you use WordPress to power your web design work? Of course you can. But how? That was the subject of a talk I gave at the 2011 Future of Web Design conference this May in London. If you missed FOWD you missed a great time and some awesome presentations but you didn’t miss everything. The video is available on WordPress.tv and I’m going to share some of the ideas I brought up in my talk right here. Including a free custom theme for you to use in your own projects.

I’ll presume here that you’re already interested in WordPress if you’re reading this but in case you’re not, why WordPress? What’s the big deal? Well, right now, about 14% of the web is built on top of WordPress. That means, as web designers, it’s important that we get this whole theming thing right. Tipping point numbers like that mean more and more of your clients are going to be asking for WordPress. It’s probably starting to happen to you right now.

You’re already a web design expert. You should be a WordPress theme expert too.

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