Archive for the ‘Themes’ Category

Guidelines for cutting a WordPress theme from PSD

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Even if you are cutting a theme for a single site and it will never be moved away, you should follow some simple guidelines to ensure quality in your theme. This will make sure that even if your customer does something crazy and unexpected, that your ...

Upgrading my Swift Theme completely broke my site

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Over at Journey To a Better Man, we use the Swift theme.  So far we have absolutely loved it because it provides some great functionality that helped us to get a clean theme out of the box that has some great and easy customization tools. Everything was going great, until the ...

WordPress Theme: WP-Polaroid Questionable Code

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Matt and I came across a nice business styled WordPress theme called WP-Polaroid. We both liked the style and format, and with some minor color changes we decided to make it the theme for our Spotted Koi Website. As I dug into it to make some edits we found a couple strange ...

WordPress Theme: WP-Polaroid RSS Feed Correction

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Having recently installed WP-Polaroid on our Spotted Koi business website we wanted to run through all the links and make some customizations.  We ran across a few oddities (like this one) including a BIG problem with the RSS Feed link. It seems the designer decided that our RSS Feed ...

Installing and Changing Your WordPress Themes

Friday, July 4th, 2008

When you get your site set up, or you have your site set up and you have found a theme you like and that fits your website's purpose, you need to install it. Just about the only way to install your theme is to use an FTP program to push it ...

Choosing Your Theme (template)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

When you first install WordPress you will find that the theme is, well, bare.  While some famous blogs like XKCD (also one of my favorite webcomics) choose to leave their blogs with the original theme, this sort of thing only works for people who already have TONS of traffic coming ...