Last night, a visitor named Mike left a comment to my post WordPress, Themes and the GPL: What am I missing? A site like Elegant Themes distributes their themes under GNU Public License. They charge a fee for doing it, which is obviously supported by the license. However, anybody who gets the themes has the … Read more
Let me begin with a confession. I am a theme freak. Yep! Since I have started working with WordPress, I have seen tons of themes. Apparently, I am also a control freak, because I prefer versatile themes that allow me to setup the theme – and therefore the website – my way. No matter how … Read more
This site – wilwebs.com – runs on the Genesis Framework from StudioPress. As a StudioPress Pro Plus member, I have access to all Genesis child themes. That is all current and future child themes by StudioPress – 46 to date. Community themes and other third party child themes for the Genesis Framework are excluded from … Read more
Last week I have published The Best and Safest Places for Free and Premium WordPress Themes. Initially, it was my intention to include a paragraph “WordPress, Themes and the GPL”. However, since the post had become a bit lengthy already without the text on GPL, I had decided to slash it. The very same week, … Read more
When I started working with WordPress, I was initially so excited that I had a WordPress site up and running that I was very happy with the TwentyTen theme that came with WordPress. However, as soon as I got a little familiar with this wonderful content management system, I felt the urge to broaden my … Read more
Last week, I have published a post titled Taking Stock on WordPress Theme Frameworks. I promised to update the article whenever I learn about new frameworks. Well, here is the first update, since I have stumbled into three more. The newly discovered WordPress frameworks are: MultiToool, NHP Theme Options Framework, and Ultimatum Theme. A brief … Read more
Today, ColorLabs & Company has published my guest post titled: WordPress Theme Frameworks – Beyond the Theme. With a delay, the copy is now available on wilwebs.
Base by Graph Paper Press is a responsive theme framework, build to empower child themes. Base supports WordPress Post Formats allowing you to take advantage of Tumblr-like features. This Post Formats support makes Base also very well suitable as a blog or a tumblog theme. This theme supports natively two WordPress 3 menus: Graph Paper … Read more
Recently, I became interested in WordPress theme frameworks. To help me get a grip on this matter, I wanted to make a nice list of all the theme frameworks available. In order to accomplish this task, it had to be clear what a theme framework is – you can only count sheep, when you recognize … Read more
From my point of view, a geek is a computer enthusiast. At school he – or she – was good at mathematics. When going for a degree, it will usually be in one of the beta sciences like physics or more practical (information) technology. My background is in business administration. My first computer was as … Read more