In April of this year we announced a pivot to our business model. We decided to say goodbye to Upfront, our unique solution to the problem of visual web design within WordPress. We did this to narrow our focus. To work exclusively on the aspect of our business that has always been our strongest suit: […]
Target CSS for Specific Content With WordPress Template Tags
One of the things I love about WordPress is its flexibility. You can use it to run a simple blog, as a high powered content management system, or to drive custom applications. Within theme development, one aspect that gives you lots of flexibility is the use of template tags. These will dynamically fetch data and […]
Understanding How WordPress Outputs Code From Child Themes
If you’ve ever needed to make tweaks to a third party theme, or you’re using a theme framework, you’ll be familiar with child themes. They’re a powerful feature of WordPress, giving you the flexibility to make customizations to any parent theme without losing them when the theme is updated. I use them to make edits […]
5 Excellent Ways to Hack the Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme
Twenty Seventeen is the most versatile default theme WordPress has ever seen. However, the options built into the theme leave a few things to be desired. In this post, I’ll show you five hacks you can use to make Twenty Seventeen uniquely your own. We’ll start with the basics and move on to more challenging […]
Will You Still Need a Child Theme With WordPress 4.7?
WordPress 4.7 is slated to arrive in early December 2016. While a lot of new features will roll out with the latest version of WordPress — the new Twenty Seventeen default theme, thumbnail previews for PDF uploads, and more — it’s the custom CSS editor added to the WordPress Customizer that caught my eye. The question this new feature raises …
How to Turn Any WordPress Theme Modification into a Simple WordPress Plugin
One of the first things budding WordPress developers learn is to use child themes for customizing WordPress websites. While this is a sound practice, there will also be times when you want to reuse code you’ve added to a child theme with a different theme or on a different website. The best way to package code for use with any …
How to Automagically Create Child Themes in WordPress
You already know that if you’re going to modify a WordPress theme you had better be working with a child theme. Modify the theme itself, and all your hard work will be lost the next time the theme is updated. WordPress developers, and most implementers, don’t have any trouble creating a child theme from scratch in just a few minutes. …
How to Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme
Have you ever picked a WordPress theme and started to put together a website only to realize that you’ve picked the wrong theme? With money and time already invested, switching may be out of the question and you may be stuck using a theme you’d be better off without. Picking a theme is a bit like picking a car: It’s …