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Two of my favorite web designers with super helpful blogs, Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks and Jeff Starr of Perishable Press, have just released their new collaboration! The book, "Digging Into WordPress," is now available as a PDF download, and if you buy the PDF book now, you will be eligible for a "sweet discount" on the hard copy of the book when it comes out, plus receive updates free. They've done a great job on this book, which covers setting up WordPress, anatomy of a WordPress theme, theme design and development, extending functionality including using WordPress as a CMS, working with RSS feeds, SEO, dealing with comments, and keeping your site "healthy." I already followed both of these designers before they began their collaboration, and have found countless useful tutorials, code snippets, design ideas, and much more on both of their sites - I've relied on Perishable Press as a source for great unobtrusive javascript code, and on CSS-Tricks for all kinds of other useful tools for making valid, functional, and beautiful sites. This book is bound to be a valuable reference to anyone who works with WordPress.

A list of free WordPress Theme Frameworks to help you find best solution that will suit your development style and practices. The list of themes / frameworks range from completely striped down themes to ready to use frameworks which require almost no programming to create customized look.

How to minify WordPress theme stylesheets properly

We are all used to seeing an image below blog posts titles, be it on blog homepages or on individual posts. However, until recently, adding these images was not as straightforward. Before the ability to register post thumbnails in themes was introduced in WordPress 2.9, WordPress theme developers were forced to use the post metadata in order to display an image associated with a post. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add this functionality to your themes and we will play around with some of the function options.

Practical Uses for Post-Thumbnail function in WordPress 2.9

WordPress is an excellent web development tool. Thousand of WordPress themes are available online with some stunning effects. Wordpress has fully established itself as the perfect web development and web design tool.

You're in luck if you've been looking for some nice minimal WordPress themes. Here are 50 classy and free minimalist WordPress themes that you would find useful.

One Page WordPress Theme, a single-page WordPress theme with beautiful responsive design and some great features, is suitable for multiple purposes.

"Suite of components that enables the creation of interactive storytelling themes for WordPress. The Aesop Story Engine is a suite of open-sourced tools and components that empower developers and writers to build feature-rich, interactive, long-form storytelling themes for WordPress. At the heart of ASE are the suite of storytelling components, which are created on the fly while crafting posts within WordPress."

"If you are a WordPress developer and are looking for an easy way of rapidly building HTML5 ready themes without having to re-write the same WordPress code over and over, then this post is for you. Blank, bare-bones, naked, themes, or whatever you prefer to call them, are a life-saver for developers who have to build WordPress themes on a regular basis. They are basically stripped-back themes that have had all of their surplus non-essential code stripped away, leaving only the bare necessities and a fantastic starting point for any new project."

Premium WordPress themes should come with unique features plus an options panel that can be easily customized. Most of the WordPress developers create theme option panel for layout, background and navigation configuration and also to help users or clients modify the theme without changing any codes.

Having a local WordPress test environment is essential for developing themes, plugins, and updating sites. The last thing you want to do is update a live site or install a plugin that completely breaks the site. In this tutorial I'm going to take you through the steps that will give you a local WordPress environment that will allow you to safely and efficiently develop for WordPress.

"The edit_theme_options capability should allow the user to edit the sidebar as described on this page : http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Widgets_SubPanel Code to add to functions.php $role = get_role('editor'); $role->add_cap('edit_theme_options'); Edit: This should work to prevent editor accessing themes or menus function custom_admin_menu() { $user = new WP_User(get_current_user_id()); if (!empty( $user->roles) && is_array($user->roles)) { foreach ($user->roles as $role) $role = $role; } if($role == "editor") { remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'themes.php' ); remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'nav-menus.php' ); } } add_action('admin_menu', 'custom_admin_menu'); I haven't had chance to test this, but it only removes them from the menu they may still be able to access them by typing in the URL directly."

"Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count Only the 'real' text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept) Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts) Adds a read-more link to the text Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ) Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer."

"Allows admins or all visitors to switch the blog theme. Has a restricted preview mode for your clients and includes a widget. Description Installation FAQ Screenshots Changelog Stats The plugin is great for theme development as you can tweak the template online without breaking stuff for visitors. You can also use it for presentations, to show off various templates. There is a widget and a theme cloud shortcode to make this easier."

We've released another free and high quality Wordpress Template for all of you guys to download and hopefully enjoy. All of the features from our previous Wordpress Themes are in this one of course, and I've also included an extra here and there.

Few days back, the widely used WordPress has hit the web development industry with its much-awaited 3.4 version. The recently arrived WordPress 3.4 version named as "Green" in honor of guitarist Grant Green. The new 3.4 version of WordPress comes with lots of improvements that adding more to the usefulness of the WP. A live theme-customizer, custom backgrounds and headers, better support for internationalization and revamped XML-RPC are some major additions to the new version.

In the present time, WordPress have the lion's share of the millions of successfully running web portals in comparison to the dozens of other platforms Joomla, Drupal and more. WordPress is considered as one of the most popular choice of Content Management System in the web development industry because of its simplicity, user-friendliness, easy installation and great functionality.

Profile wordpress theme with responsive layout and useful features is a theme designed as an online CV for individuals to showcase their works.

Directory the multipurpose WordPress theme is an absolutely unique premium WordPress theme, it is the result of our hardworking development team and constant feedbacks from users and buyers. This theme is built in cooperation with you! Your users will never have access to the WordPress dashboard, everything is done at front-end.

Whether you need a great photoblog layout, personal lifestream, or more business-oriented design, there's almost surely an existing theme out there worth checking out for your next blog or blog upgrade. And if you're already a developer or are willing to acquire a small set of template editing skills, you can always modify an existing theme to taste.