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Beautiful background patterns can distinguish and highlight your site, amongst millions of others. However, web designers should ensure that the pattern matches theme of the site and does not overwhelm the content. Additionally, avoid using patterns throughout the site.

"In celebration of Cyber Monday, today we're going to show you a technique for creating a custom "Splash Page" for your WordPress theme. You're probably seeing a lot of these around the net today, so you know that they're great for running quick promotions of products or events... but you can have fun with it and come up with creative ways to use a splash page such as advertising, donation button, radio pledge drives, highlight of an upcoming race, or highlight of a new product."

"YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. Feature highlights: Grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset; It offers suggestions for improving the page's performance; Summarizes the page's components; Displays statistics about the page; Provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint."

A well-written introductory text can help visitors to understand purposes of the website. Additionally, it should highlight the benefits that the site offers to the users. Keep the content short and simple.

Many people think that pencil sketches are not suitable for professional websites. However, this is not true. Using pencil drawings cleverly can pep up your site and highlight its uniqueness.

This week, we´re covering highlights from WordCamp Europe, WordPress 4.3 Beta 1 and more. Check out the WP Daily Themes Weekly WordPress Roundup #16

"Have you ever came across a site that style their posts differently? Some sites have different sticky posts highlighted whereas others have each category post styled with a different color, or some may even have a totally unique outlook altogether. Well, that is exactly what we are going to cover in this article. We will share how you can style different WordPress posts in different ways. So what are we going to use? We will use a function called post_class. Post Class function prints out different post container classes which can be added, typically, in the index.php, single.php, and other template files featuring post content. Note: This tutorial requires that you are somewhat familiar with WordPress theming, and know fairbits of HTML / CSS. "

An alternate, fast, accurate search engine for looking up WordPress functions. Highlighted on the WordPress Weekly podcast.

Here are the FAQs that have been requested by you our readers, or were researched and produced because we faced a problem or liked a suggested solution. We hope that you will benefit from these and will be able to pass on the tips to others that might need them. Please feel free to republish with proper attribution to us. We would love to know what other questions we can help answer for you about WordPress.

"Tired of using a theme with built-in shortcodes, switching themes and then losing all your awesome styles? No worries, this is why I've created the Symple Shortcodes plugin! Now you can add buttons, highlights, boxes, toggles, tabs, pricing tables…among other awesomeness and take them with you no matter what theme you decide to use."

"WP Pro Quiz (Free) Quiz and Survey Master (Free and Premium) SlickQuiz (Free) mTouch Quiz (Free) FSQM Pro (Premium) Watu (Free and Premium) Viral Quiz Builder (Premium) OpinionStage (Hosted, Free and Premium) Riddle (Hosted, Free and Premium) After getting users to visit your website, you need to make the site "sticky" enough for visitors to stay and engage with your content. Creating quizzes can be a great way to get users hooked. However, a popular quiz takes more than just writing some questions. Site owners need a way to gather responses, score the answers given, and communicate the results. WordPress plugins can greatly simplify the process of creating and managing quizzes by making it easy to create quizzes with multiple question types, establish a system for scoring the responses, and ultimately generating results. By using a plugin, quizzes can be created as needed with little difficulty. This post will help identify the best quiz plugin for you by sharing several free and premium plugins, outlining key features of each, and highlighting the factors to be considered for different scenarios."

WordPress magazine themes 2018 generally come with the clean and functional design. These best premium WordPress themes generally show portion or headlines on the homepage and highlight your most important or latest news or updates.

Looking for highlights from SXSW Interactive 2013? Well, you are in the right place! With a dizzying array of panels, keynotes, industry parties and start-up hype, this years SxSW Interactive conference has proven to be one of the biggest yet.

If you offer SEO services in India, you must have heard about Google's new search result recommendation service called Google +1? This has revolutionized...