I recently volunteered to prove that one million dollars is attainable by focus and determination, not by a stroke of luck. I have until December 23, 2009 to earn $1,000,000. That’s my twenty-third birthday, thirty-four months from now. Note: I’m going to earn one million, not become a millionaire. This post is to announce that […]
Lesson #2: WP Theme Layout and Template Files
Now that we’ve gotten past the structure and terminology of themes, this lesson will go into the depth of WordPress template files and the layout of each custom page. This article is a follow-up of my WordPress theme tutorial series. If you haven’t read Lesson #1, I would suggest you read that first to clear […]
Lesson #1: An intro to WordPress theme creation for the starters
Welcome to the first lesson of WordPress theme creation series. I will not teach you everything all at once. That will be confusing and burdensome. Right now what I will show you is not a reference. It is meant to teach you one by one. If you want a reference manual for WordPress themes, then […]
Small Potato vs John Chow
Backstory: I wanted to get into Technorati Top 100 after reading John Chow’s post of the same goal. Technorati basically ranks you by how many blogs are linking to you within 180 days. The race: Several days ago, John agreed to race me. By then, JohnChow.com was ranking in the 400s, WPDesigner was in the 200s. Before the race, and even […]
32 WordPress Themes in 32 Days Recap
I published one WordPress theme per day for 32 consecutive days to complete my ridiculously mind-numbing WordPress self-challenge. The last record, held by WP Diva in August 2006, was 31. Check out my themes. Expectations Stepping into the challenge, I knew I could create a theme from scratch within one day; I’ve done it before. But multiple themes, consecutively? […]
The Worst Client Ever!
I was hired for a freelance job. I did it and stuck around for almost a week to help him make changes. Now he wants his money back. WTF? First of all, who do you know that would stick around for almost a week to help after completing a $75 job? I was dumb/nice enough to do […]