Finals, test and quizzes hit me hard right after I came back from FOWD it was almost overwhelming. I’m sure you’ve noticed I switched from posting twice a week to once due to finals. I also haven’t wrote up my post detailing my experiences at FOWD. These past few weeks have been crazy but I’ll get to it once I knock out a few priorities. In this article I’ll just be covering some stuff that’s been going on, what I’m up to and what to expect in the near future.

Internally, the purpose for this blog has changed several times since I first started this year. The direction which was once, write about WordPress, tutorials, how to’s, and more has changed to writing about my freelance gigs, interest and projects I’m working on. So trying to redesign my blog with all this confusion has been a hassle. I’ve learned the hard way that you won’t create a successful redesign if your blog doesn’t have consistent content. Write first, then the design will follow.

Content IS King so even though I’m not completely satisfied with the redesign, I plan on keeping it-as is so I can focus on building up my backlog and get a sense of what I like to write about. Once I have a good amount of content and some sort of organization set I’ll attempt to redesign ptahdunbar.com once more. I’ve noticed that with each redesign I attempt to roll out (along with a few others that didn’t make it public), I feel like I’m getting closer and closer to that holy grail in my mind so it’ll come eventually.

Speaking of holy grail, I started dabbling around with this idea on what I think is the holy grail for WordPress themes. Sure, I’m probably not the only one trying to figure this out, but I think my approach on this will be pretty slick. It addresses a lot of flexibility problems WordPress users have been requesting. I’m sure a lot of people will get a kick out of it, but more details in a future post.

Recently, I joined the WPCandy team to help Mike out with the site. My contributions won’t be daily or anything like that due to my crazy schedule, but when I do post there, I’ll make sure they’ll get something useful out of it for sure.

So looking back from last week after I released my first public WordPress theme called WPFreemium, it’s became pretty popular in terms of downloads so far. I received practically zero support questions yet so either my email address isn’t working or I left some pretty darn good documentation in the code. Not like it there’s anything hard to figure out anyway. But still, I’m proud.

With the possibility of me having to take two summer classes starting at the end of May, I won’t be taking anymore freelance work until my time frees up. For the next few weeks I’ll just be focusing on this blog, my side projects, and school.

What I’m currently working on for Ptahdunbar.com
So to end this post, I thought about just going over what’s cooking in the near future for this blog:

• finishing and releasing WP News Theme
• Tutorial on how I made WP News Theme in the form of a series
• 3 Custom WordPress Themes targeting different niches
• … and following each theme, a tutorial on how to make ‘em

Sounds like a lot of fun huh? Yup, I’ll be spending a lot of time in a dark room some where…