Choosing a WordPress theme has become one of the most daunting tasks when starting out with WordPress. There are so many themes out there, both free and premium, all claiming to have the most and best features, all claiming to be the prettiest, the most responsive and so on that it’s really easy to get lost.
Here’s a list of what we’ve come to look for when searching for yet another “perfect” WordPress theme.
Have you met Kahuna yet? She’s been available on our site for about a week now and yet you haven’t been introduced.
We wanted to give you a chance to meet her ‘by accident’ while browsing our site and have now finally decided to make the proper introductions.
Serious Slider is a fast and slick slider plugin which relies on WordPress’ custom post types functionality to provide a simple and efficient slider management system. It uses minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.
While still young and with plenty of room for new features, we feel our slider plugin has already surpassed the capabilities and robustness of our previous theme integrated slider. Find out why we decided to write it and recommend it with our themes and most importantly, how to use it.
Our Anima WordPress theme has been available to download and install freely from our site for about two months, but, as promised, it has now become available to auto install from WordPress.org (or your WordPress dashboard).
WordPress automatically generates excerpts (short introductory texts) out of the posts’ content. However, it also implements the ability to manually type in the posts excerpts instead of the auto-generated ones.
This functionality is slightly hidden in the screen options, but can be quickly activated and used.
After a long time hanging at the very edge of version 1.0, Verbosa gets some much needed attention and becomes a complete WordPress theme.
Follow us after the jump to see what goodies (*ahm* landing page *ahm*) this version brings.
Anima, our latest free WordPress theme has everything our previous themes have accustomed you to, from responsiveness to SEO, plus a few extra perks.
Find out what those perks are, as well as all the download and demo links after the jump.
Our latest theme, Septera, is finally LIVE on WordPress.org and ready for you to one-click install it and take it for a spin.
Septera is still free, it’s still awesome and it’s still brimming with personality but during the review process a few things have changed. Find out what.
WordPress generates the appropriate image sizes and crops at the time the image files are uploaded to the Library (directly or to a post or page). Once all the crops and resizes are generated they will be used as-is and not be re-generated again, regardless of any image size options changes. Our themes support a lot of customizability related to their general and elements sizes and as a result the images displayed (header, slider, featured) all have configurable sizes as well.
However this can be problematic when switching themes or when you decide the current sizes don’t really work and need adjusting. The solution to make sure these crops/resizes are at the appropriate (current) configured values is to use a thumbnail regeneration plugin.
Tempera receives a well deserved cosmetic update. This update brings lots and lots of small changes, edits and fixes making Tempera an even more gorgeous and stable theme.
This being a pretty big update, you may want to check out the theme’s demo before making the update, just so you know what to expect.
