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Version 7 Design Update

After reading all the suggestions and opinions, I’ve made a few changes to this new version of WPDesigner. Here are the changes: added a favicon darker background color simple horizontal navigation, that…

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How to Design a WordPress Theme

This is the unofficial 33% release of my upcoming ebook. This part is called How to Design a WordPress Theme. The next two parts are How to Slice a WordPress Theme and How to…

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Sandbox Design Competition Favorites

Below is a list of my favorite Sandbox skins from the Sandbox Design Competition, listed in alphabetical order. I included notes written about each one while judging for the competition. View…

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Templates Browser Problem

TemplatesBrowser.com/wordpress-themes/ is a WordPress theme download site, re-distributing hundreds of modified themes while piggy-backing the theme authors’ credit messages in the footer to link back to TemplatesBrowser.com. Other than ripping…

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How to manipulate category templates

One of my favorite WordPress template features is the ability to customize category templates to cater specific categories of your choice. Here’s my default category template. It simply displays excerpts:…

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What’s going on in the WPDesigner community?

Previously, I linked to a list of blogs and asked whether your blog was on that list. Here’s the semi-follow-up to that post, highlighting what some readers of WPDesigner.com are up to….

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