Amidst a complicated and overcrowded online world, it’s refreshing to come across a clean and simple site that gets the message across. These six minimalist WordPress themes can help make your website one of them. “Less is More.” “Clean and crisp lines.” “Utilizing white space.” “Simple, yet elegant.” These are just a few common phrases that might come to mind …
Themes of the Future: A Design Framework and a Master Theme
WordPress theming has a rich history. Over the years, theme authors have brought a plethora of features to the platform. In part, it is because they have often had to solve foundational issues with WordPress to create the features that end users want. The post and body classes all theme authors use today? Those were originally in a theme called …
The ULTIMATE Search For The Best WordPress Themes 2018
You’re on a journey to find the Holy Grail – the best WordPress theme for your website. I salute thee, bold knight, wanderer on the web, seeker of great wisdom! It’s not an easy task, I warn you, but I am here to help you start. This in-depth article sheds a light on all the […] View original post at …
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 […] View original post at …
HTML to WordPress Theme Tutorial: Step 2 – Creating Theme Template Files
Welcome back to this series showing you how to create your first WordPress theme from static HTML. In the first part of this series, you took your static index.html file and converted it to a PHP file. You added some template tags and a loop. In this second part your file will start to look […] View original post at …
SEO Stressing You Out? Try One of These SEO-Friendly WordPress Themes
While tackling the subject of how to find trustworthy themes last year, I suggested that SEO-friendliness might be a feature indicative of trustworthiness. That’s because, in addition to looking great and being chock-full of features, a WordPress theme that’s conducive to search optimization is one that was clearly built by a developer that understands your […] View original post at …
Why You Need to Look at Competitors’ WordPress Themes and Plugins
When it comes to WordPress development, there are a number of ways you can spy on other websites in order to gain a competitive edge. Today, I’d like to focus on how you can find out which WordPress themes and plugins others are using and how you’ll be able to benefit from having this information. […] View original post at …
WordPress Web Design Trends You Need to Know for 2018
Looking back on 2017, I think it’s safe to say that it was a good year for WordPress and web design, in general. Sure, there were stories about security breaches and examples of branding gone bad, but that kind of stuff is inevitable when you consider how many websites are in existence. If you look […] View original post at …
How to Find the Best (and Most Trustworthy) WordPress Themes
Let’s say you’ve researched the best free WordPress themes and you’re really excited about what you see. But then you remember there are a whole bunch of premium themes floating around out there, too. While I’m not one to discourage anyone from using a free theme, I do think it’s important to survey the full […] View original post at …
The Ultimate Guide to Accessibility and WordPress
So you want to make an accessible WordPress website? Congratulations – your site will be available to the widest possible audience! Not sure why accessibility is valuable? Accessible sites have benefits including faster load speed, better SEO and being good for PR. Plus making an accessible site is just the right thing to do. Themes […] View original post at …
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