What’s a widget anyway?
Last week we discussed WordPress sidebars and include files. This week we’ll explore how we can prepare our sidebars (or any other area of our theme) to accept widgets. In case you haven’t done your homework, the WordPress Codex defines a widget as being:
…like a plugin, but designed to provide a simple […]

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Sorry I missed last week folks but my bad back (the curse of walking upright) struck and, even with a laptop, it’s hard to write when you’re horizontal. This week I’m back among the (mostly) vertical and thought I’d jump in to a topic suggested by Rebecca Laffar-Smith:
Is it possible to add additional sidebars to […]

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Welcome to the first ever WordPress Wednesday! Each week we’ll be answering as many of your questions about the blogging platform WordPress as possible. If you have questions you’d like answered that aren’t covered here, feel free to drop them in the comment form below. With that out of the way, let’s jump right in!
I’d […]

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Not long after we put the Blogging Experiment Theme up for sale, it became obvious to me that we needed to set up an affiliate program to allow other people to sell it as well. We get more sales, and the affiliates get to make money selling a product without having to create it or […]

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The following is a guest post from James Cook of StudioJMC.com. 
In the course of developing a custom WordPress theme and testing it with numerous installations, I’ve realized that even well designed themes may contain hidden traps. In order to avoid as many of these as possible, I’ve created a 12-step program to minimize potential problems.

Use […]

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