So you want to learn how they do those pretty slick WordPress search forms. The ones that have drop downs of categories, filtering through your posts as soon as you press submit. These are most often used in advanced themes such as eCommerce, job posting and real estate themes. These search forms are a real […]

Ever wonder how to convert your WordPress blog into a more automated posting process? One that can accept guest posts, job listings or even a forum-type of blog? Where users can submit a post, save it into your drafts section and all you have to do is approve or deny? The beauty of the open […]

Whenever I download a WordPress theme there’s hardly ever a time that I leave it as is. Almost for sure – I will have to change some things to customize according to the site’s identity. For instance, maybe I’d want to match the heading styles to a company logo, or change the background colors to […]

Grid based web design is becoming an art that each web developer must master. News portals, magazine layouts as well as showcase websites all adhere to the intricacies of the grid – which when mastered, is definitely a good addition to your web skill arsenal. We all know that a typical grid design uses some […]

As I was following the tutorial on How To Create a Theme Options Page for Your WordPress Theme, from ForTheLose.org, I stumbled upon an irritating issue. I wanted to create an option where you can paste your Google Ad Sense code from the theme admin panel. The problem is, as soon as I drop stuff […]

There’s no real correct way on how a sidebar should look. But since the dawn of HTML, we’ve seen sidebars that span vertically in the left, right – twin column, triple column – heck – I’ve even seen them in the middle! (I guess that wouldn’t be a sidebar then would it?). Nonetheless, the sidebar […]