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Context-Aware Previews within the WordPress Customizer
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
The WordPress Theme Customization API is an incredibly powerful tool, enabling folks of all skillsets to dive in and customize their websites — if their current theme supports it. Having worked quite a bit with extending the WordPress Customizer at ThemeBeans, I started production on a newly minted Customizer-dependant commercial plugin, coined Login Designer.
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10 Practical Tips to Building Quality WordPress Themes
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
Intro A few weeks ago, I published a guide on three key principles to designing functional WordPress themes. This week’s article stays on the topic of WordPress theme design but leans towards actionable tips and techniques to building quality WordPress themes.
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Download Tabor, a WordPress Theme for Growing your Audience
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
Over the last few weeks I have had quite a lot of requests to release the WordPress theme that runs this website. I’m happy to announce that my WordPress theme, appropriately named “Tabor“, is available on ThemeBeans.
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Improving the Custom Logo WordPress Customizer shortcut
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
I’m currently in the process of migrating the older WordPress themes in my catalog to utilize the core custom logo functionality, instead of a theme-specific WordPress Customizer option. Along the way I ran into a bit of a snag, so here’s a quick tip on how I improved the custom logo WordPress Customizer shortcut.
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Designing Highly Functional WordPress Themes
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
Designing WordPress themes Designing beautiful and highly functional WordPress themes is not as simple as opening your design editor of choice and going to town. There’s a lot more to think about when it comes to developing beautiful WordPress themes that intentionally focus on both form and function.
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What’s on my Desk
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Updated Apr 13, 2022
Inspired by Matt Mullenweg’s annual “What’s in my Bag” post, I thought it’d be fun to share the gear that gets me through the day-to-day grind at my home-office workstation. Let’s get started!
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Merlin WP beta is now available on GitHub
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
Good news! After a couple weeks of nailing down some issues and cleaning up the code base, I’m pleased to announce that the public beta of Merlin WP is now open to all.
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Better WordPress Theme Onboarding with Merlin WP
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
You get one chance to make a fantastic first impression. Just one. WordPress itself isn’t particularly known for its first impressions, and WordPress themes in general are notoriously difficult to get rolling.
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6 Bite-Size Takeaways from my Experience at PressNomics
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Updated Feb 18, 2022
PressNomics 5 was an incredible experience – one that I’ll remember for sure. I put faces to names of folks I’ve chatted with for months – even years, and made strategic (and more importantly) personal connections with the people who basically power the WordPress business economy.
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Maximizing the Profitability of Freemium Themes
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Updated Feb 18, 2022Over the past couple of years, the freemium pricing strategy has become more and more popular among WordPress theme and plugin shops. Having a bit of experience with selling freemium WordPress themes, it only seems right that I take the time to share what I have learned so far. So here we are!