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Ryu is now available for WP.org sites
Ryu is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory! It’s a clutter-free theme that is perfect for personal bloggers.
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Online Resources to Help You Learn All The Things
The web industry is always changing. Just when you get settled into a routine, the flow of technological innovations force you start a new one. Can you keep up? It never hurts to set aside some time for learning new skills and sharpening your current ones. In this post, I’ll outline a few online resources…
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5 Common Theme Development Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Review is a key part of Theme Wrangling, so we spend a lot of time looking “under the hood” at themes. Here are some of most common theme development errors that come up in the review process, and some tips on how to avoid them.
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Putting Posts on a Pedestal with Jetpack’s Featured Content
Looking for a better way to manage featured posts from theme to theme? Kirk Wight has a great post explaining how to use Jetpack Featured Content in your theme.
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Behind the Design of the Ryu Theme
Much like I did for the Further theme, I’d like to share my thoughts behind Ryu — the free theme I released recently. Yes, you guessed right. It’s named after the main character of the classic game. If you know why the character was named Ryu, you will understand why I named this theme Ryu,…
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The Recipe for a Great Theme
Have you ever looked at a WordPress theme and thought, “Man, I wish I could do that!” Well, here’s a little secret: You totally can. Yes, you can make a theme, and you don’t need to be a theme expert to do so. You just need three things: An idea, a healthy dose of curiosity,…
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The Line Between “Feature” and “Integral Part”
Last week, in light of the Evernote hack and a few others, I took the time to finally update all of my passwords to using 1Password. It’s a fantastic app that does its job very well, and I had tried it once before, but was turned off by the pop-ups, alerts, autosubmit, and the cluttered mess that…
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The Genericons Icon Font Story
Icon fonts are a truly great hack. They’re lightweight, scalable, and a clever way to use vector-based images on the web at a time when SVG just doesn’t have enough popular browser support to be practical. Despite starting out life as a hack, icon fonts are like the sprites of vector graphics, and I think…
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The Further Theme: Now Available On Creative Market
Our friends at Creative Market announced last week that all themes sold on their marketplace are now 100% GPL. We couldn’t be more thrilled about this and send hearty kudos to the gang at CM for doing the right thing. To show our support, we’ve jumped into the fray by offering for the first time…
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Creative Market Themes Now 100% GPL
With the recent GPL discussion, this is a smart move by the folks at Creative Market: All WordPress Themes Now 100% GPL.
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