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Sidebar and Content unification

March 6, 2012 | 0

If you have the following scenario: <div id=”wrapper”> <div id=”sidebar”> ….  </div> <div id=”content”> …. </div> </div>   And you are stuck in the situation not knowing when the content would overflow, then you probably need to do: #sidebar { position: absolute; height: 100%; } Which would apply the auto-full-height to the sidebar. The only extra [...]

Install a theme on WordPress 101

December 3, 2011 | 0

Due to a ticket from a very green user today, wanted to note a few things for theme installing on WordPress. First of all, I have a quick video on install on Screenr for Progressio - http://www.screenr.com/DcLs Two important tips: When you download a theme, you need to actually add it to a WordPress installation. This [...]

Theme submission steps – presentation

August 12, 2011 | 0

The WPORG theme reviewers’ mailing list got an interesting email from Chip where he shared an awesome SlideShare presentation. The WordPress.org reviewers are volunteers and they help each other with technical and philosophical questions on the WordPress platform, best practices designing and structuring a theme or a framework, obsolete and modern functions, security and more. It’s [...]

Sonne free WordPress theme

August 11, 2011 | 5

I just released Sonne (the theme that runs DevWP.eu) as a open source theme on WordPress.org. Now anyone who is interested in the two-column index layout, centered text alignment and some other fancy details in this classical minimalistic theme, feel free to download it from your “Appearance -> Themes” section or from the Extensions section [...]

How to start a WordPress project?

August 1, 2011 | 0

There are tons of themes available – free or premium – and lots of theme markets for premium resources. I even mentioned a script for running your own theme market – that’s how popular it got recently. Anyway, as a WordPress developer and consultant I try to select the best options for my clients. And [...]

WordPress custom pagination

July 16, 2011 | 0

When designing a theme pagination is required for listing of posts on the index page. WordPress, by default, presents only the ability of one to use “Previous page” and “Next page” – which might be enough to navigate through the archives but is however incomplete and annoying. The standard navigation has <<, >> and numbers [...]