WP Themes 101

For my presentation on WP Themes at the Santa Cruz WordPress MeetUp, Wednesday October 22, 2014 Outline: Free vs. premium vs. custom, pros and cons of each What to look for in a theme Where to find themes (and where not to look) Child themes P.S. WP Remote — an...

Hide a page or post title

Sometimes you don’t want the title of a page or post to be displayed, but you still want to give it a title. Here’s how, thanks to the great folks (Joe Foley in this case) at WPMUDev.org...

WordPress.com vs. wordpress.org

And yet again, the bloggers at Elegant Themes offers us important and helpful information about the world of WordPress web design.This article offers many great insights into both wordpress.org and wordpress.com, and how to use each. Since we here at Agora Media...

20 Best WP Themes in 2014, and more

Once again, the folks at Elegant Themes offer an informative review of some of the best themes out there. In addition, the article includes a nice overview of the pros and cons of free themes vs. premium themes, as well as “freemium” themes, which they...

WordPress 4.0

WordPress 4.0, “Benny,” was released on September 4, 2014. Here’s a summary of “What You Need to Know” from an article by Adrian Spiac and posted at CozmosLabs: More Focus on Content — Improved WYSIWYG text editor Visual Media Embeds —...

12 WP books

The folks at Elegant Themes, in addition to creating truly elegant themes, also post lots of great information for WP users; many of them are lists, like “Best WP portfolio plugins,” “Best contact form plugins,” “Best WP tutorial...