5 Great Resources For Designing Your Own WordPress Theme
If you’ve seen my earlier blog post about my new theme that I’m releasing soon for WordPress.org users, you’ll know that I tweaked that theme from another website project I had worked on for another site. But sometimes, tweaking a theme to suit WordPress isn’t the easiest thing in the world (as I found out). In this blog post I’ll guide you through the best resources to start building your own WordPress theme.
My New WordPress Theme (Coming Soon)!
I’ve always wanted to delve into the WordPress Theme Development pool but I’ve never really had the motivation to do so until recently. For the last few weeks I’ve been working away on a new ‘basic magazine style’ greyscale theme for WordPress self-hosted users. Take a look at the screenshot of the homepage below:
Want To Protest SOPA? Here’s How With WordPress.com!
Today, January 18th 2012, there are many sites around the globe (including WordPress and Wikipedia) protesting the SOPA and PIPA US legislations. Although I don’t reside in the US, I feel very strongly against these legislations, so I’ve decided to black out MyTutorialz from 8am to 8pm EST (1pm to 1am, Thursday 19th January 2012 GMT). I’ve been able to do this through a new settings pane WordPress.com users now have in their Settings page.
10 Best Free WordPress.com Themes For Tech Blogs
Welcome back everyone to MyTutorialz! You’ve not missed out on anything, this is my first post in 2012 and I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best for 2012 – hopefully, fingers crossed, this will be a big year for my blog – I sure hope it is!
Using PHP To Check If Post Is In A Category In WordPress
Firstly, this will be my last post on here before Christmas – so allow me to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012! Now, let’s move to the point. One of the major parts of a WordPress blog post is the categories in which the post is placed. In this tutorial I will show you how to use PHP in the WordPress loop to display text or an image above the post if a post is categorized in a certain category.
How To Connect Twitter With WordPress
If you’ve got a Twitter account, believe it or not you can utilise your account to drive traffic to your WordPress.com blog! The WordPress team has made the bridge between your blog and your Twitter account very easy to setup and this post I will show you how you can bridge the gap between your two accounts. Firstly, make sure you have both a WordPress.com blog and a Twitter account!
Quickie: How To Get The New Desktop Twitter
For those of you that haven’t heard, Twitter has a new layout – dubbed ‘Fly’ - which will be rolling out to all users during the next few weeks, these changes will be reflected on the mobile Twitter applications aswell as the beloved Desktop site.
WordPress Vs Blogger: The Showdown
For those who have been waiting what seems a life-time for this final post of the ‘WordPress Vs Blogger’ series – rejoice, for this is the moment you have been waiting for! In this delayed final post of the series, I will weigh up the pro’s and con’s of both WordPress.com and Blogger.com
Getting Into Blogging: Pressing Words With WordPress
In the second part of MyTutorialz’s series of blog posts comparing the blogging world’s biggest platforms, we will take a closer look at the WordPress.com (hosted) blogging platform. Ps – sorry for the delay in posting this! Read More…
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