Since I’m currently doing a lot of upgrades to get all my clients up to the newest version of WordPress, an ugly and frustrating problem has reared its head. The most frustrating thing about it is it’s a problem that has existed since WordPress 2.1 Upgrades, and it still hasn’t been fixed. The newest version [...]

I’ve been doing Custom WordPress Theme Design for awhile now, to the point where I’ve completed somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 sites. There are also a lot of sites using Kickass Free WordPress Themes. You’d think that having done so much WordPress web design that I’d be tired of it, and would have “seen [...]

WordPress has had a security update to fix some issues. This is in both the 2.0.x branch and the 2.2.X branch. For once it was pretty painless, since it just involved using the trac differential to upload the changed files, which in the case of the 2.2.X branch are here. It stated on the dev [...]

A couple years ago I wrote about using WordPress as a CMS, and how, for most small business and non-profit websites it serves as an ideal tool, allowing the site owner to easily update the website without having to call the webgeek. It’s still one of my most visited blogposts. Truth is that though I [...]

A good portion of the jobs I do are WordPress Design jobs. In working with WordPress Design, there are a few things I’ve learned that are peculiar to working with wordpress. First and foremost, certain negative margin layouts are a nightmare in WordPress, particularly Ryan Brill’s layout that is written up on A List Apart. [...]