Plugin authors! Why no love for multimedia?
Not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but multimedia plugins out there are simply not good enough. Some play audios. Some play videos. And most don’t allow you to customize via your own CSS file. I’m searching for a multimedia plugin that: uses HTML5 and Flash fallback, is easy to skin via CSS, can play audio, video,…
Theme Release: Good
A mobile friendly blog theme that comes with built in breadcrumbs, pagination, single post stylsheet capability, Jigoshop e-commerce plugin integration, and simplicity. You simply upload, install, and start using this theme, no complicated theme settings to configure. I hope this second solo theme release is re-assuring that DevPress is here to stay. This and the…
Theme Release: Dotos
Introducing Dotos, a mobile-friendly photo-blog theme with native support for Jigoshop. View the live demo. This is the first theme designed and coded by me after the recent DevPress change of ownership. I wanted to release Dotos a week ago, but due to taking time off (my birthday) and a sidebar bug I had to…
A Step Back for the Team, A Step Forward for DevPress
After months of inconsistent collaboration, DevPress is left with one remaining co-founder, me — Tung Do. Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly, and Ptah Dunbar are going to pursue personal projects. To some, this isn’t surprising. DevPress managed to release high quality products and tease the community of buzz-worthy ideas, but what we needed most was consistency….
Using Google search within a WordPress site
Let’s face it; WordPress search sucks. Its harsh, I know, but its true. Google didn’t dominate the Internet because they found decent search results. They’ve built an empire upon sophisticated algorithms that help us find extremely specific things amongst the trillions of possible pages. WordPress publishes the content. Let’s let Google find it. This tutorial…
Theme Preview: Restaurant
While Patrick and Justin code the upcoming Stanley theme, I’m working on a restaurant theme design. See it below… After looking at what other WordPress development groups or companies have created in this niche and what the typical restaurant website looks like, I found that most WordPress themes made for restaurant websites are almost the…
How to setup subdomains for a local WordPress network
As a follow up to the first WordPress development environment post, I wanted to offer a solution for running a WorPress network locally. My decision to run a local website using the real domain is crucial here. As opposed to using localexample/ we’ll utilize example.com locally where example.com is also the live domain. Many tutorials…
Small Potato’s Wedding
I’m putting DevPress on a five-minute break from tutorials, themes, and plugins to share with you my wedding. (Now you know why I’ve been missing in action.) I married the Wife on July 9th, 2011. My wife and I took the stress-free approach to wedding planning — let the venue, restaurant, cake, and flower people…
DevPress Club
Some of you asked for a themes club from DevPress.com after we’ve established our presence with several more theme releases. This prompted a discussion among our team members about the future of DevPress. Discussion was short and simple. Yes, DevPress will have a club, but not a themes club, plugins included. Details The club will…