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How to fix Thesis Image Framing Issues

August 13, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

Edit: With the release of Thesis 1.6, Chris has fixed the framing issue discussed below. If you’re still running 1.5, this post is still relevant. If not, not. Today I stumbled across an annoying bug in Thesis 1.5.1 that stops image frames from displaying even when the Thesis options panel and individual WordPress post settings [...]

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CMS your WordPress with these 10 plugins

July 15, 2009 Blog

There are 2 ways to make WordPress into a better CMS. The first way involves a lot more time spent building your theme and ultimately a lot more cost. The second way uses third party plugins to extend your CMS’ functionality. If I could install any 10 plugins to make a CMS more CMS-like, these [...]

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How to make the Thesis theme more Bing-friendly

June 22, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

You may think that Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, is a complete waste of time given Google’s 90%+ market share. But Bing is different. Unlike Google or Yahoo, it aggregates content. Ian Lurie, who writes about SEO/online marketing at Conversation Marketing, puts it this way: Microsoft’s Bing is the latest example of search engines as [...]

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Great with WordPress. Good Parent. Lousy Cook

June 2, 2009 Blog

A few weeks ago I redesigned my blog and re-wrote my tagline to reflect my 3 key areas of expertise, namely: Great with WordPress Good parent Lousy cook Well, earlier today Website maintenance guy and fellow South African Tertius actually noticed the new tagline and suggested to the nice folks on Twitter than I CAN [...]

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Thesis revisited

April 29, 2009 Blog

If you’ve ever taken a look at Chris Pearson’s Thesis theme (aff) for WordPress, you’d be forgiven for not being blown away by its supposed awesomeness. Out of the box Thesis looks kind of boring. Yes, it has pretty typography and a cool multimedia display box thingy, but it needs something. Like colour. So this [...]

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The Linkys – 17 April 2009 edition

April 17, 2009 Blog

Friday again! The perfect day to introduce THE LINKY AWARDS, a showcase of the most helpful, inspiring and all-round amusing Websites I’ve visitied in the past week. This week we’re focusing on Mac applications, WordPress, Daddy-blogging and good business advice. The ‘Information Overlord Award‘. This week’s award for the site that is ridiculously chocked full [...]

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Do forms follow function?

April 15, 2009 Blog

Forms are a great way to capture information from website users, right? Umm, wrong. I have a client who sells a very high end landscaping service in London, and he doesn’t want me to include an enquiry form on his websites contact page. In a way, I think he’s right. A homeowner with a big [...]

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Productum – a new WordPress theme from Woothemes

March 11, 2009 Blog

Yesterday Woothemes launched Productum, a new business theme for WordPress. The developers have stretched WordPress a bit on this theme, adding some very nice features, including: Home page image switcher to help promote your latest products Home page scrolling carousel dedicated to a specific category 6 widgetized areas (2 x left sidebar,4 x footer columns) [...]

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How to login to WordPress and customize your user settings

March 9, 2009 Wordpress

On your left you’ll see the beautifully styled, easy-to-manage WordPress login page. This is where it all starts for WP users. You’ll find the page at http://example.com/wp-login.php (obviously your blog’s name goes where the example.com bit is). The first time you login to WordPress your user name will be admin and your password will be [...]

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Where WordPress shines, and where it doesn't

March 5, 2009 Wordpress

WordPress has made life a lot easier for website owners who want to manage their own website content. Where you’d traditionally need to learn HTML, CSS and at least one server-side coding language to develop a decent small business website, you can now deploy a new, professional looking website in hours without writing even 1 [...]

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