I feel like WordPress has been a part of my life for more than 10 years.  But this past May, WordPress reached a 10 year milestone.  What began with a conversation between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little about forking their favorite blogging software evolved into the most powerful, ubiquitous website platform in the world.  Currently [...]

If you’re like me, you are running multiple WordPress websites with different goals, content and readership.  In my experience, dedicated WordPress administrators keep coming back to WordPress as the foundation of most any type of website.  This leads to many different WordPress installations. Although WordPress is so easy to use, so managing multiple sites is [...]

WordPress is a blog platform.  But much more important than the blogging feature is the community that comes with WordPress.  From a vibrant developer community to an active support community, WordPress is buzzing.  From a bustling designer community to a dynamic content producing community, WordPress is alive. In a recent post, I wrote about building [...]

With an active development community, you can always count on regular releases as WordPress evolves.  WordPress 3.6 is currently in beta 3 with the option to download and test it.  There is also a plugin called WordPress Beta Tester you can use to test out the new stuff.  Even with this plugin, I would highly [...]

The kind folks over at Themeshock have given us 5 copies of their “Shock Bundle” to give away to our readers. The Shock Bundle is a huge bundle that contains a lot of quality designs, this bundle includes all kind of resources with sources that any web designer would want for their next project, such [...]

WordPress is many things.  A blogging tool, a business tool, a constituent relationship manager (CRM), a community gathering place, even a social networking platform.  With the right plugins and powerful theme, WordPress can be given the tools to create a social networking platform that rivals the big boys. Why build a social networking platform on [...]

Someone once said about blogging: “never before have so many people said so much to so few”.  I find this quote hilarious because it really does capture a lot of blogs quite well.  What makes the internet so powerful is always what makes it so bloated.  The ability to broadcast information instantly and efficiently to [...]

Spring is in the air, and so are some amazing new WordPress themes.  Although it’s not advisable to switch your WordPress theme with the seasons, it is nice to modify it to reflect the changing weather.  A fresh theme, even if just some minor touches, makes visitors feel like your content is fresh.   Here is [...]

WordPress themes are coming with more and more handy features, some you don’t even want.  As things evolve, clever and competitive designers are putting more of the handy features into themes and there becomes less of a need to hack one’s theme to expand functionality. That being said, there are many theme hacks that are [...]