New WordPress Podcast
You can download and listen to the first episode of daWPshow, a new WordPress podcast by yours truly. The featured topic for the first show is WordPress security. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Custom Post Types with Genesis
This is a tutorial showing how to add a custom post type with custom metaboxes in WordPress. We’ll take it one step further and create a page template to display the new post type using the Genesis Framework. I’ve learned that there’s a “Genesis way” of doing things, so I wanted to share that here. Continue Reading →
How to Choose a WordPress Theme
At WordCamps and on the WordPress.org support forums, I meet quite a few new WordPress users who want a few tips on finding good WordPress themes. Continue Reading →
What’s the Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?
The nice folks over at WooThemes explain the differences between the software from WordPress.org and an account from WordPress.com. Continue Reading →
Build a Landing Page Template for WordPress
A few of my clients have requested landing pages for their websites. They wanted a way to use WordPress on the backend to make it easy to edit and add forms via the Gravity Forms plugin.
In this example, we’ll build a landing page template off of the 2010 theme by means of a child theme. This will keep all changes protected from updates to the parent theme. The steps shown here could be used to build a landing page template for most other WordPress themes. You’ll need to be comfortable with editing WordPress template files, and know some CSS to make the final customizations. The code is available to check out at GitHub.
If you’re looking for a custom landing page solution that will integrate nicely into another theme, contact me for a quote.
