Last month, Ian sent me simple question: What is the Future of WordPress themes? I wanted to reply but my answer ended up being too long (500 word limit). Instead, I’ll answer his question here: What is the Future of WordPress themes? First off, Noel has an extraordinary post on what he thinks about the future (of ... Read More
This was how Atlanta2Jamaica was supposed to look like.
When I started conceptualizing how I wanted my next redesign to look like (back in March before FOWD), I described the new theme as “dark, clean, vector style, tropical, colorful look if that makes any sense.” Well, after doing a little more brainstorming, sketching and inspiration seeking, I finally crafted out what I envisioned the ... Read More
So we need a new term to describe widgets
There’s been an interesting discussion on Justin Tadlock’s blog about replacing “sidebar” in WordPress. It originally spawned 10 months ago by Ian Stewart, but no progress has been made. It seems as if Justin already choose what he feels is correct for his Hybrid theme, but whatever that is, he’ll probably have to change it ... Read More
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WordCamp Miami 09
On February 22, I attended WordCamp Miami 09 and introduced WP Framework to a lot of WordPress users. How awesome was that. My goal for the talk was to get people interested in WP Framework and to get a few of them to try it out for the first time. Despite it being my first time ... Read More
On localizing your WordPress Themes and Plugins
I have to say, my views about localization and making your theme/plugin transalatable in different languages are completely aligned with Andrew Ozh’s post “echo __(’I Hate Localizing My Plugins. How About Something Different?’);.” The process of localization is a bit tedious and WP Framework hasn’t been localized because of this. Although it will eventaully become localized, that’s something ... Read More
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Best. IE hatred comment. Ever.
Hi, if you are coming to this site in Internet Explorer you might not be getting the best experience possible, honestly, I can’t even begin to think what your entire experience on the internet must be like…probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars blow by you on their way to Costco to ... Read More
Posted in Asides
My Goals for 2009
Well, after 47 days into 2009, I thought I should finally list my goals publicly before this year’s over! Even though I’m a little late posting this entry, I haven’t been slacking on the work to be done. Three major goals have already been crossed off the list: Start redesigning ptahdunbar.com, starting up a my first ... Read More
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A quick word on WordPress Child Themes
We all know and love the godfather of the child themes movement, Ian Stewart from Themeshaper. Yes, I’m calling him a godfather. He’s constantly advocating the promises and benefits on why you should be using child themes right now to customize your WordPress theme, and he’s right. You should. However, child themes aren’t the end ... Read More
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