Curvy Corners
A quick snippet explaining how to add the curvy corners script to your WordPress theme. Continue reading
Author Archives: Devin
Texture Pattern
This repeatable background texture was built off a photo I took in Antigua, Guatemala. You can use any of the tiled images below, or download the .psd and make your own colors. No attribution needed. Continue reading
How to Make a Child Theme for Canvas
I’ve been working a lot with Canvas, a new framework by Woo Themes that gives users a plethora of design options. This video by Magnus shows a little how it works. Continue reading
Custom Page Templates with Thematic
How to add a custom page template to your Thematic Child Theme. This example describes how to make a full width post. Continue reading
How to Enable Multisite in WordPress
Video screencast showing how to enable the multisite functions in WordPress 3.0 Continue reading
Signing up With BlueHost
I use BlueHost for all my personal website hosting. In the last six years I’ve received excellent customer support and rarely had downtime on my site. At $6.95 a month it’s one of the cheapest options out there, it’s great … Continue reading
How to Add Content in WordPress
Here’s a short video tutorial explaining how to add content to your WordPress site. It includes an explanation of the difference between posts and pages, how to paste in content from a Word file, instructions for uploading photos, how to create a link, how to bold or italicize text, and how to add categories. Continue reading
Screencast Tutorial for Gallery Shortcode
A lot of people rely on plug-ins like NextGen to display images on their website, but the built-in WordPress gallery actually works quite well for most situations. Here’s a short video tutorial explaining how to use it. Continue reading
Dashboard Support Widgets
WordPress loads a number of dashboard widgets by default when an admin logs into the site. Some of these are incredibly useful, like the comments widget and incoming links. But others aren’t really necessary for the standard user, such as the WordPress News and Development Blog feeds. Continue reading
5 Reasons to Kill the Splash Page
Splash screens and intro pages are a remnant left over from the early days of the web. They’re increasingly becoming extinct because of SEO reasons, but I’d say at least 50% of my clients still request one. Continue reading
Optimize Plug-in Scripts for WordPress
If you look at the html for most any WordPress site, you’ll likely see a lot of javascript and css files that are loaded by plug-ins. In most cases, those files aren’t needed on every page- they just slow down the site. Here’s how to optimize this. Continue reading
Theming Process
I just finished building a WordPress website for a local artist in Portland. Instead of just adding another screenshot to my portfolio, I thought I’d make a video showing my process and how the site will actually be used by the client. Continue reading