Theme cards, for the love of free themes and templates

Handy reference next time you’re hunting for a nice looking free theme: Theme.cards. Explore the best free themes. VOTE UP & COLLECT YOUR FAVORITES. THEME.CARDS IS A CURATION OF TOP, RESPONSIVE THEMES & TEMPLATES. Source: Theme cards, for the love of free themes and templates, HT Product Hunt

Minimal WordPress Themes

You’ve got a ton of ideas for some great blog posts, and you don’t want your site’s theme getting in the way of all your great content? Check out these minimal WordPress themes: Unicode – $39 Unicode features a beautiful minimalstic profile, super-simple interface, and high-performance code. Ponder – Free When you’re thinking thoughts you really just […]

Make Your Site Faster with Async and Deferred JavaScript: Introducing script_loader_tag – WPShout

Learn how to speed up your WordPress page loads by using the script_loader_tag filter. WPShout explains how.

Today I’m going to discuss a new, and very nice, site speed improvement that became possible in WordPress 4.1. What changed? The introduction of a new filter, script_loader_tag. This filter lets us easily change the HTML markup of enqueued script elements—that is, of JavaScript files that were correctly added into a WordPress site using WordPress’s wp_enqueue_script function.

Source: Make Your Site Faster with Async and Deferred JavaScript: Introducing script_loader_tag | WPShout

EasyEngine – WordPress On Nginx Made Easy!

EasyEngine makes it easy to set up and manage your own VPS with WordPress sites running on Nginx. EasyEngine (ee) is python based command line control panel to setup NGINX server on Ubuntu and Debian Linux distribution for HTML, PHP, MySQL, HHVM, PageSpeed and WordPress sites Source: EasyEngine – WordPress On Nginx Made Easy!

Snowball – A powerful WordPress plugin for creating immersive longform articles for the web

Snowball is a WordPress plugin that serves as an additional editor inside your admin. Inside Snowball you can build longform articles that sit alongside the rest of the content on your site. Have an idea for a special post with full-width images, pull quotes, and other enhanced features? Install Snowball and get to writing and […]

Build your next Preso with Reveal.js and WordPress

The next time you’re tasked with creating a presentation, will you start by opening PowerPoint? Allow me to offer you another solution combining Reveal.js and a WordPress theme. For starters, Reveal.js is a javascript powered HTML presentation framework. With it you can build beautiful, full-featured presentations that work inside a web browser. Check out the […]

Pique Theme — WordPress Themes for Blogs at WordPress.com

I love a nice one-page scroller. The format is great for introducing yourself or your business. The Pique Theme by the folks at WordPress.com is a great option for this type of site. Want to give your business a little pep? Pique is the theme for you! Designed to help you quickly build a one-page […]

Paperback WordPress Theme – Array

I love the attention to detail and typography found in Array’s new WordPress theme: Paperback. Paperback is a magazine-style theme that empowers you to quickly and easily create beautiful, immersive content with images, galleries, video, audio and more. With multiple homepage templates, several slick content discovery features, and premium Typekit typography, you can offer your […]

BuddyBoss Inbox Plugin • Enhanced BuddyPress Messaging

A couple months ago, I setup an install of WordPress + BuddyPress + the Boss. theme for community.codetn.org. Among the many BuddyPress features that we take advantage of over there is the messaging feature. Out-of-the-box, BuddyPress + Boss. provides a very vanilla message composing interface. Now the makers of the Boss. theme have released a new plugin, […]

Recent Work: GoingPlacesSpeech.com

GoingPlacesSpeech.com is a nice little one-page scroller that I designed for my client Melissa Land. Earlier this year Melissa started her own speech pathology practice, and she came to me needing a website. So, one morning the two of us got together over coffee, and we specced out her site in a couple of hours. Her […]

Links of Interest – IBM goes Mac, Chrome Devtools Tips, and WordPress Stuff

I’ve had my head down lately as I’ve closed on several long running projects. Now that I have some breathing room, I thought I’d share another round of links. Read on to find out about IBM’s adoption of Macs, some cools tips on using devtools in Chrome, and a couple of WordPress related links. Only […]

Twenty Links: a Delicious-inspired child theme for WordPress

Do you miss the old Del.icio.us? Do you want a place to keep your links? Check out this WordPress theme: Twenty Links Twenty Links is a child theme of Twenty Ten for WordPress. It turns your WordPress site into a bookmark repository that, coincidentally, looks a lot like the old Delicious. Source: Twenty Links: a […]

Knoxville Marriage Initiative Website

Today I’m proud to announce the launch of the Knoxville Marriage Initiative (KMI) website. The Knoxville Marriage Initiative is a partnership of community organizations and churches in the Knoxville area. Their goal is “to grow a network of church and community organizations that provide effective and accessible relationship assistance to citizens of Knoxville and surrounding […]

Easy Docs – WordPress Documentation Theme

I came across this WordPress theme a couple years back. It serves one purpose: providing a place to publish your documentation. To use it, simply setup an install of WordPress, install/activate this theme, and start documenting. This one is targeted at a very niche audience — the people who have to write documentation for products. […]

Links of Interest – WordPress and the GPL, Apple Music, Charles Dickens’ notes

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress Brian Krogsgard has written a thorough analysis of conflict between Automattic (the parent company of WordPress) and Chris Pearson of DIYthemes (makers of the Thesis Theme). This one has been going on since 2010, and it involves a dispute between the two companies over WordPress’s GPL license and the licensing of […]

WP Time Capsule

WP Time Capsule provides incremental backups of your WordPress site. It only backs up files and db changes. This type of backup strategy provides features like going back in time for the past 30 days and saving on storage space.

Links of Interest – WordPress Development

Today’s Links of Interest are all about WordPress development: So You Want To Use WordPress To Make An App? At WordCamp Miami, which I attended recently, one of the most popular topics of discussion was leveraging WordPress to power mobile applications. At this point, I think everyone is an agreement that you can, in fact, […]

#devnotes – site concept, logo, and website in one week

I have a couple of clients who primarily know me as a “coder”. I’m the guy who keeps their website running and codes new functionality for their existing infrastructure. As far as my graphic design skills go, they haven’t had much interaction with me. So, it’s fun when one of those clients passes me a project […]

Adding HTML id attributes to Visual Composer rows in the X Theme

I’ve been providing coding assistance for the web team over at CodeTN. For their initial launch, they’ve built out a one page scrolling website which also has a couple additional pages. Here’s a look at their one-pager along with its accompanying main menu from the WordPress admin: This setup is pretty typical, but on sub-pages […]

MailPoet – A newsletter plugin for WordPress

MailPoet is another feature packed newsletter plugin for WordPress.