There are many truly amazing commercial theme developers in the WordPress community these days. Our selection of theme choices have grown exponentially and the overall bar for design work has been significantly raised since I first started designing themes in 2008. So much has changed! Yet, there is one design practice that continues to befuddle me and that is the size of fonts in new themes. There is no doubt those in the WordPress community have likely heard the cries of Brian Gardner atop Mt. Starbucks imparting designers and developers to start using larger font sizes in their themes and I […]
Editorial Theme Leaves A Lot To Be Desired
I’m back with another review and this time it’s about a new theme release, Editorial, that was pitched to us via our “Submit News” button. We love to get pitches like this, with PR and marketing collateral to boot, but that does mean that you’re opening yourself up to attention, both good and bad. I guess that’s the price of being bold sometimes! Moving right along; I don’t know about you but I’m a big fan of themes, well to be more specific, good themes. I like good design. It has to be well thought out, practical and beautiful. I […]
Envato Updates Marketplace Membership TOS
Envato announced late yesterday that they now have updating TOS for membership into their marketplaces. The changes are “minor” so most people and authors shouldn’t have any issue. Things of note are listed in the announcement but a lot of clarification has been added so that the language isn’t confusing, such as changing “application” to “signing up,” and such things. If you’re a big-time player you’ve most likely reviewed the changes but for the average user you can continue on with your day now.
Themes as Apps: More Than Just Blogging
We’ve talked before how WordPress is becoming more “app” like in both development and implementation as well as how it’s being slowly understood as a platform for application development. Traditionally (and forever perhaps) it will always have that blog flavor, but that doesn’t mean that WordPress can’t grow up as developers find more and more unique ways to execute against core. Joshua Sprague over at ThemeForest has a collection that was shared with me late last night that I thought is a good showcase of how some theme authors are paving a way for these “App Themes” that are definitely […]
Fantasktic: Simple Support For Anything WordPress
Here at WP Daily we’re always on the look out for new WordPress related services and sites. It just so happens that one fell into our crosshairs the other day as Fantasktic was submitted to us for review. I enjoy doing reviews for a number of reasons: It keeps me apprised of what’s new in the WordPress world, gives me an excuse to delve even deeper into a service I wouldn’t otherwise analyze and if we’re being honest it’s fun to share my opinions about what I like and what I think is pointless. With that, it’s on to our review of Fantasktic, […]
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