Do you fancy yourself a WordPress Warrior? Do you want to conquer the world? WordPress World Map just may be able to scratch that itch. Using Google Maps, WordPress World Map allows you to announce your home location to the world. You can do so by one of two methods: by placing a marker on the world map, or by geolocating yourself Once you ... Read More »

A number of posts have been popping up around the interwebs criticizing the support, or lack of, in the WordPress Support Forums. I won't link to these posts, not because I don't respect what the writers have to say but rather to avoid any potential flame wars. People who are as passionate about WordPress as I am tend to be quite vocal about it ... Read More »

I don't know about anyone else but I really like the redesigned backend of WordPress. I find the current iteration much more functional while the colour scheme is subtle and pleasing. A number of GUIs were looked at before deciding to go with the current one but what of the others that didn't make it? Here is a look at one such mockup created by ... Read More »

Back in December I wrote a post about some of the finest free magazine-style themes available for your WordPress powered site. (see WordPress Magazine Style Themes) Since a few of those themes have since either been updated or discontinued I thought it would be a good time to revisit this topic. I have also added a few more that I discovered along ... Read More »

Quick, how well do you know your smilies? You know, those cute little faces that appear in posts and comments when you type in certain characters? Most people are aware of the more common ones such as : ) which will render a happy face or ; ) which gives you a wink or : ( which translates to a sad little face but did you know WordPress has a ... Read More »

I've written several posts on the topic of WordPress themes that contain encrypted code and why you should avoid them like the plague, the most recent being Say No To Encrypted Footers. It seems as if at least once a week someone in the forums posts a footer.php file belonging to one of these shitty themes. My usual response is to tell the person ... Read More »

In December of last year I wrote a post about certain WordPress themes containing encrypted or obfuscated code. Thanks to a recent post in the forums I thought it would be a good idea to once again touch upon the topic. There are a growing number of unofficial WordPress theme galleries popping up all over the web. New ones appear every day. ... Read More »

As I mentioned in a previous post the popularity of magazine-style themes appears to be growing by leaps and bounds. And for good reason. The main advantage of this type of theme is the layout. A blogmaster can display his content in various blocks throughout the page as opposed to the standard blog format which displays content in chronological ... Read More »