Monthly Archives: June 2010

Force an Image Size

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 14, 2010

Short and easy solution to force an image size: Image sizing is always a problem for themes. Theme designers want their theme to be pixel perfect in all cases, but WordPress wants the user to have some form of control. With image sizes, WordPress lets the user pick the size of their image thumbnails and [...]

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How to Create your own BuddyPress theme

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 14, 2010

Good start to get you into BuddyPress theming: Finding a good-looking BuddyPress theme you like is hard too, compared to WordPress there isn’t near as good a selection. So why not make your own? In this 2nd guide of the series we’ll be making a bp-default child theme, which will only contain 2 files, this [...]

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Interview with Jason Schuller on the ThemeGarden Marketplace

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 14, 2010

Interesting move by Jason Schuller: After running the primary site for several months, I have come to the realization that ThemeGarden.com should have always been a community WordPress theme marketplace from the start which is what I am focusing on with the relaunch. Plus, I have a successful business of my own over at Press75.com, [...]

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The Essential Guide to @font-face

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 10, 2010

All you ever wanted to know about @font-face It seems to be the current rockstar of the bunch, garnering all the attention and causing a number of sites to pop up offering both free and premium fonts in support of it. This guide will teach you how to implement @font-face with cross-browser compatibility and will [...]

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Optimizing Your WordPress RSS Feeds

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 10, 2010

Most of your focus on optimizing your WordPress sites is probably on the look and feel of your design and the layout of specific things. Getting that content to display as perfectly as possible. Given that fact it’s a shame we spend as close to none time on optimizing our RSS Feed output. Sure, we [...]

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