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 […]
So You Want To Create WordPress Themes, Huh?
Creating a WordPress theme from scratch is not hard. I’ll hold your hand through it. Tutorials on this topic have been written before and the WordPress Codex also has guides for you to follow. But are those tutorials and guides really helpful to you when you don’t understand the lingo? Even I got lost while reading the […]
Can you believe it?
Someone tried to kill me during an argument, while I was eating dinner at the kitchen table. If it wasn’t for mom running toward the kitchen to stop him, I doubt that I’d be writing this right now. He said, “If I can give you life, then I can kill you.” Respectfully and literally, I […]
Self-Challenge Revision
Originally, I wanted to challenge myself to publish one unique WordPress theme per day for 30 consecutive days, but someone has already accomplished the 31-day feat. Rationally, that shouldn’t matter because the self-challenge was to find out if I could do it. However, I’m a bit competitive. To play right by the rules of Planet […]