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5 Ways to Use WordPress

WordPress started out as a blogging platform, but it has exploded into a full blown CMS that is used by millions of people all over the world. Here is overview of five different ways to utilize WordPress. 1. Blogging This is naturally the first option when deciding to use WordPress. A blog is a collection […]

Digital Downloads Added to Dr. Wholeness

We recently added the ability to purchase our good friend Dr. Matt Angove’s (aka Dr. Wholeness) new book, Outrageous Health, from his website. He wanted to offer a digital download to his readers, in addition to the Kindle version sold on Amazon. First, we formatted his book for digital download. Then we set up an […]

New Custom WordPress Theme for ShortandHat.com

Our friends over at Short and Hat came to us with a project. They wanted to move their blog from Squarespace to a self hosted WordPress blog, but wanted to keep the look and feel of their site the same. Could we take their current design and recode it into a WordPress theme so that […]

Music Compilation UI for Spilling Hope

We recently helped add a special functionality to the Spilling Hope website, an organization that helps drill clean water wells in Africa. They had a group of musicians from around the country that had donated songs for download, and wanted to present the artists and their music in an interactive and interesting way. We designed […]

Advantages of Using WordPress as a CMS

Wordpress started out as an open source blogging platform and over the years has transformed into a full blown content management system (CMS). It even recently won the Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award in head to head voting against other CMS powerhouses Joomla and Drupal. The newest versions allow for custom menus, page […]

Creating a WordPress Plugin: The Idea

I am working on developing a new WordPress Plugin. It will be a simple Featured Content slider using jQuery and dynamically generated from posts. Here is the plan: Create HTML and CSS of design Add jQuery and classes Integrate dynamically with WordPress Add plugin functionality and admin options For now these are the steps I […]