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I am a photographer, a videographer, a designer, a writer, a marketer. I am not a developer… and I’m freaking out because I just finished building a WordPress theme from scratch – without writing a single line of code – with Upfront Builder. Most people I know have no clue what it is that I actually do. They know it has …
Astute testers may have noticed a new feature in WordPress 4.7 beta 1 that enabled users to search, preview, and install themes from within the customizer. This feature was part of five feature projects related to the customizer that were approved for merge last month. Its goal is to unify the theme browsing and customizing experience. Customizer Theme Browser Flow …
WordPress 4.7 will ship with a new default theme in December. David Kennedy merged Twenty Seventeen into core yesterday as his first commit to WordPress. Any remaining development issues for the project will now be managed via Trac. In the merge proposal, Kennedy described Twenty Seventeen as “an ambitious theme that focuses on a creative home page and an easy …
digitale Pracht is a new theme on WordPress.org created by the folks at PALASTHOTEL, a digital products company based in Germany. The name translates to “digital splendor,” which aptly describes the theme’s bright new twist on the traditional blog design. The designers made a few bold choices with the layout, which does not support a top menu or include a …
Snowbird is a new theme released last week on WordPress.org, designed for storytellers with a blog-centered home page. It features a fullwidth header image, bold typography, and a host of layout and color options in the Customizer. Snowbird’s sidebar is hidden off canvas and can be toggled into view using the floating hamburger icon that disappears when you scroll. It …
Zerif Lite, one of the most popular themes on WordPress.org, has been suspended by the Theme Review Team for several violations of the Presentation vs. Functionality guideline. As a result, more than 300,000 users (including those on child themes of Zerif Lite) can no longer receive maintenance and security updates to the theme. Justin Tadlock, an admin on the Theme …
If you haven’t updated your theme this past year – or in even in recent years, gasp! – it’s probably about time you reviewed your site, checked out the current trends, and thought about how your design could be better. Because great designs aren’t just about flashy animations. With a well-thought out design, you not only grab your visitors’ attention, …
photo credit: Jeffrey Betts During Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A session at WordCamp Europe, an unidentified Google employee asked about making WordPress sites more mobile-friendly: I work at Google with search and we think the web and mobile are important, but one thing that we noticed is that 28% of the new sites that choose WordPress and come online (that we’ve discovered) …
WordPress has plenty of responsive themes to choose from; both free and premium. Many of them bear copy that states each of them is the best (and the last) WordPress theme you’ll ever need. But how do you know which of these themes truly stands up to its claims and which are just full of hot air? Going through the …
First impressions are everything. And when it comes to your online “home” making a great first impression can make all the difference between your website being a total success or a complete failure. It’s only natural that choosing the right theme and the plugins to go with it, are crucial parts of establishing your brand. But choosing the right theme can …
