"Beautiful Premium WordPress Themes" is how Elegant Themes describes their designs. They don't lie. (Elegant Themes is one of two theme design companies I rely on -- the other is StudioPress. Because I like and trust their themes, I've joined with them as an affiliate. That means, if you purchase a theme from a link on this site, I earn a commission. It allows me offer my WordPress setup services at such low rates.) Currently offering 87 themes, it's obvious that design is very important to …
Require Featured Image Plugin: Review
Plugins add functionality and dress up your WordPress website. I've just found a new plugin that will help you make your blog pages look a lot more interesting! It's called the Require Featured Image Plugin. What's a Featured Image? The Featured Image is the little image that shows up on a blog page next to the excerpt from the article or post. If you forget to add it before you hit the Publish button, your blog page will look like this (boring!). Now there's a plugin that won't let you …
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8 Sites that should use the WordPress Explorable Theme [Review]
Recently I had the chance to install the new Explorable Theme by Elegant Themes. It's an excellent choice for travel-related sites, with a giant map on the home page. (Maps are integrated from Google Maps.) To put pins in the map you create Listings. The listings pop up on the home page when a reader clicks a pin on the map. Or they can follow the link on the short description to go to a page with more detail about the location (the theme creates this page for you automatically). You and …
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WordPress Site Structure — Don’t Let the House Fall Down!
Some people are organizational whizzes. All their paper documents are filed neatly in cabinets, all their virtual documents are in the proper folders, and they can find anything in no time flat. The rest of us? Not so much. But no matter what level your organizational skills are, you need to structure your WordPress site so that readers can easily find what they're looking for. You wouldn't expect someone visiting a retail store to paw through teetering piles of mixed goods -- sweaters, …
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Eleven40 WordPress Theme by StudioPress [Review]
I just finished setting up a website for a Pilates studio. The owner chose the Eleven40 WordPress theme from StudioPress. The first thing you notice about Eleven40 is that it's w-i-d-e. You don't have a lot of empty space alongside your columns in this theme! I'm a big fan of white space. It's a very important part of design. (As its name implies, white space is the area of background around your images, text or other website items that separates one thing from another.) White space tells …
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