Creating a WordPress post calendar date icon

Posted January 9th, 2010 in Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

WordPress date icon tutorial

Blog calendar date icons, which show the publication date next to each entry, provide a simple way to spice up your WordPress design. Using just a single image, a bit of CSS and some WordPress PHP this tutorial will show you how to implement something similar in your own themes. Plus we have some free graphics for you to use…

Top free web template designs of 2009

Posted January 1st, 2010 in Free Web Templates, Jooma, Just Free Templates, WordPress

Top Free Web Templates of 2009

In 2009 over 400 free templates were added to our website, while over 200,000 downloads were counted and close to 1 million views of the themes and designs on the site were logged. Going into the new year we highlight some of the top content of the past year based on views, downloads, ratings and our editor’s opinion.

WordPress automatic upgrades will replace default themes

Posted August 9th, 2009 in Tips, Tutorials, WordPress

WordPress

A fair few people are still finding out the hard way that automatically upgrading WordPress via the control panel will overwrite the two default themes. This post is a warning about it and how to avoid it…

Decrypting encrypted WordPress footers

Posted July 22nd, 2009 in Articles, WordPress

Decrypting WordPress footers

More and more theme authors seem to be encrypting their theme footers in order to make sure people keep links back to their website in place. This guide gives a quick and easy method to decrypt such footers so you can customise such templates.