Daily recipes to cook with WordPress.

One of the great things about WordPress is that it doesn’t limit how content is displayed, but provides a ‘framework’ of ways to do so. Even better, it’s possible to change the display according to the content. This tutorial describes how to make posts be displayed within ‘the loop’ according to their content - or contextual differences.

Photo Credit: “Last Days of Autumn” by don2g

It’s that time of year when the trees turn golden, the sun stays close to the horizon and the early morning mist rolls down off the hills. That’s right folks, autumn is here again (fall for our American friends). The days are getting shorter and the nights longer and you’re likely to spend more time indoors than out.

In short, it’s the perfect time to “reboot” your weblog with a new design or feature set. Why not take inspiration from nature’s glorious autumnal colours and refresh your website. To help you along the way, I’ve put together this little list of website design “thingies” that you might want to integrate into an autumn reboot.
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Make your WordPress-powered website even better with these great sidebar widgets.

A three part series covering structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully CSS-based XHTML, and finally WordPress implementation.

 
Just discovered a rather tasty WordPress theme called “simple.business” that I think I’m going to use for an upcoming project. It’s a nice clean design, contemporary and with a lovely random header image. Looks pretty slick.

A theme for WordPress and an experiment aimed at exploring the possibilies of generative web-design. »gen« is not a fixed design but changes its appearance (layout, typography, colours and background images) over time depending on the content of your website. It’s not yet ready for release, so in the meantime visit www.kingcosmonaut.de/gen to stay updated. Sounds Intriguing. [via]

Happyblog Design brings you the best free and premium WordPress themes available in the universe. Providing clean and original themes created by many great designers.

There is some confusion about whether Gears allows an offline mode of WordPress and also about the privacy of using this Google browser add-on. This informative post answers the most pertinent questions.

Quick reference guide to expedite WordPress theme development. The content was reformatted for quick reference from the Template Tag section of theWordPress.org Codex, a relative encyclopedia to WordPress theming, and great reference for your WordPress questions.