Design/build: WordPress themes

from design prototype to theme : how to get started

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Some WP building notes

Working on your very first theme can be quite a challenge but it’s actually much more straight forward than you might expect. No matter which tools you use for your project planning and design work – to create your theme, your best plan of action is a coded prototype, one that you develop yourself. That […]

Helpful tutorials

Upon recommendation from Ridj and Niya ~ here are two great tutorials that might be useful to check on if you are currently learning theme development from scratch. How to Create a Custom WordPress Theme – Full Course This is a two and a half video tutorial which takes you through the steps of creating […]

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