15 Stunning and Fresh Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

• 19th January 2010
• Articles

A benefit of building a portfolio using WordPress is you have the ability to use the powerful blog features alongside your portfolio. A blog discussing your work or more about your processes and inspiration will add to the personality and allow potential clients to get to know you more increasing the attractiveness of you as a web designer. WordPress can also act as a more than adequate CMS for displaying your portfolio work.

Previously we’ve looked at Fantastic Presentation Styles of Web Designers’ Portfolios so taking what has been learnt from there, let’s look at WordPress themes which make great portfolio displays. Many people are of the assumption that WordPress is nothing more than a blogging platform but it can easily be adapted to behave more like a traditional content management system as the following themes demonstrate. Continue reading →

How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site

• 11th January 2010
• Tutorials

Any good website owner knows that they need to be constantly looking at ways to improve their site even through small little tweaks. If you’re using Wordpress you’ll notice that it isn’t easy to create a development version without creating a separate installation. Of course, you can make changes directly on a live WordPress site but that isn’t recommended for anything other than minor tweaks. Continue reading →

7 Very Simple Tips and Tricks for getting More out of WordPress

• 27th August 2009
• Tutorials

WordPress is a very powerful blogging and CMS tool but as with all content management systems it needs tweaking to meet certain needs. Here are seven things you can do to get more out of WordPress with very little effort.

Comments are Working Again

• 5th August 2009
• the simple things

Earlier today I realised that nobody was leaving any comments on the last few posts so something must have gone wrong or my writing got even worse overnight which is very possible! Turns out that upon hitting the submit button, … Continue reading →

Add a Category and Page Specific Class to the Body Tag in WordPress

• 23rd July 2009
• did you know...?

WordPress is a powerful CMS, especially for blogging but what if you want to style something on a single page and not affect anything on other pages? There isn’t built-in way to do this so we need to use the … Continue reading →