Category Archives: WordPress
Jul 17, 2009 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
This month’s featured WordPress theme is Doc. [Preview]
Doc is a minimal one-column theme, about as minimal as you can get. Lots of whitespace, and absolutely no imagery. It’s all typography. The theme is meant to put your content front and center, with as few distractions as possible.
While the concept is a bit unusual, it’s a nice niche theme. It would be well suited for use on a very word-heavy blog, such as a book review site, or an experimental blog-as-a-novel project.
The typeface used is Times New Roman, though it should be easy enough to change it to prefer to something more elegant if you so chose. (I rather like Georgia and Garamond myself, though you can’t necessarily count on everyone having them installed…)
Jul 15
If you do much in the way of WordPress plugin development, whether you’re doing plugins, themes, or just customizing your own sites, you may have come across a scenario where you wanted to have a function fire every so often. WordPress has a system,…
Jul 13
Envato’s ThemeForest marketplace will now be licensing the PHP portions of their WordPress themes under the GPL. To better respect the spirit of WordPress, beginning August 4th, all WP templates on ThemeForest will be sold with two licenses. The first is the GPL, in…
Jul 10
Suppose a major WordPress plugin, such as WP Super Cache, All in One SEO pack or insert-name-of-your-favorite-plugin, decided to go the paid support route, would you pay? If they offered the plugin for free, but sold an optional package with some extras as well…
Jul 8
I’ve been working on a neat enhancement for my Tweetable WordPress plugin. Already I have a handy “Documentation” link on the plugin’s pages in the WordPress admin. When clicked, it opens a ThickBox dialog pointing to the README.txt file. Not bad, but it had…
Jul 7
If you’ve ever wanted to put a list of the headlines from an RSS feed, perhaps that of another blog of your’s, somewhere on a WordPress site, there’s no need to resort to a plugin or some external script. WordPress includes the functions to…
Jul 6
Joost de Valk thinks WordPress.org should have a section for commercial GPL-compliant plugins, like the new one for the themes. I couldn’t agree more. Of course, we plugin authors get to host our own plugins on wordpress.org, and we can get links back to…
Jul 2
Digging Into WordPress recently put up an interesting article, WordPress Configuration Tricks, that covers a bunch of useful features hidden in that little-accessed part of WordPress: The wp-config.php file. [What] many users don’t know is that the wp-config.php file may be used to specify…
Jun 29
I recently read an interesting post over at Blogsessive on the big controversy over the GPL and WordPress. It covers the other perspective, that of the smaller theme developers trying to earn a living, from a somewhat neutral standpoint of someone who on one…
Jun 24
A new feature recently launched on WordPress Extend allows plugin authors to create changelogs in their plugin readme files, which will now show up in a separate tab on Extend, as well as in the dialogs that appear when you click the “View version…
