Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

A while back on the official WordPress blog the team called out to the design community in order to find some qualified icon designers for the upcoming 2.7 release’s admin interface. In this first post everything appeared normal with no indication that designers would go unpaid for their work. However it was a recent post asking the community to vote on the icons from a group of selected designers that had me perplexed.

I hate tag clouds, there were obviously must have been created by a programmer (no offense). The default offering completely lack any sort of hierarchy or organization. While increasing the size of the tags does convey which tags are the most popular, it certainly is not the most elegant or clean solution. Up until a couple of weeks ago I had no solution other than to remove the tag cloud, or just give a simple list of tags which is more of a copout than a solution. That was until now, or before I conceived the idea for the tag grid, which I will share with you in a step-by-step how to.

Another tip of the hat to Elliot Jay Stocks, he has release quite possibly to most useful download I have come across in months. With the release of the “Starkers” theme Elliot has created the foundation that we designers need to quickly develop custom Wordpress themes. By removing all of the unnecessary code found within the basic Wordpress theme the process of starting from scratch is now infinitely easier. In addition our code will be extremely cleaner, and much easier to debug. I applaud Elliot for releasing the very thing that every Wordpress designer has dreamed of since they first time they touched a style.css file.

Earlier today I came dangerously close to going over my monthly bandwidth limit on my old host. Because of this, and the rapid growth this site has received over the last month I have decided to purchase a domain and hosting package. There are a still few bugs to iron out from the move, but the site should be almost completely functional. This site has grown so fast in fact that I think I may have to design a new theme for positive space, possibly in more of a magazine format to accommodate all the new features I am planning.

So welcome to positivespaceblog.com, and make sure to update your bookmarks!

I recently ran across the article Do not download WordPress themes distributed by 3rd party sites on the 5thiryone blog. Apparently there are a number of 3rdparty free wordpress theme sites that are popping up all over the net that are including malicious code in the themes. What does this mean? Basically, the sites are placing small snippets of code in the themes that could potentially open up your server for their Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. This is very bad for your as a webmaster because not only does it waste your precious bandwidth, but it can also get your ip banned and cause numerous problems with your hosting possibly even getting your hosting canceled.