Design/build: WordPress themes

from design prototype to theme : how to get started

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A shift for WordPress publishing

Like everything on the web, WordPress keeps evolving and changing fast. In the early days of it being a nicely typeset CMS for bloggers and writers, the editor offered great formatting options though the themes needed substantial edits for more creative layouts. This changed slowly to offer more and more flexibility as WordPress grew in […]

Looking after our site

Any website using a CMS will require looking after. This will involve settings for backups, security as well as performance. This post outlines which plugins I’d recommend for each of these 3 aspects.

Automattic’s AI data handling

With the current rise of the AI in every corner of the web, it seems there are some troubling developments affecting our chosen CMS, WordPress. The recent headlines seem to imply that Automattic have sold out entirely – though this is not quite true.

WordPress 101

There are many many tutorials out there that will go through the various stages of building a theme. This is the one that Fabiana found useful in her MP journey and it might help you too ツ

post thumbnails

Additions like post thumbnails are not currently part of the tutorial itself and so the theme here does not include this feature. This post will outline the steps needed to add this feature to our theme by adding 2 code snippets.

MP tips

As you’re all in the midst of your WP theme builds, I thought it might be useful to summarise some important aspects for workflow and setup for WP. A few reminders of basics and some things to avoid. Content Out This goes without saying really ~ don’t even attempt to start on your theme build […]