Author Archives: Ryan

Ian Stewart on Child Themes and Frameworks

Ian Stewart on Child Themes and Frameworks

An interesting read over at ThemeShaper. I wasn’t even aware of child themes and this sort of use. Awesome.

Review of WordPress for iPhone

Review of WordPress for iPhone

On the way home last night I was browsing through unread feeds and saw someone talking about installing the new WordPress app on their iPhone. I jumped straight into the App Store and downloaded it for free (look for it under “Utilities”). The download was quick (even on an Edge connection), and within seconds I [...]

Interview with WordPress Theme Designer Small Potato

Interview with WordPress Theme Designer Small Potato

There are a few names which stick out in WordPress developer/designer circles. One of those names is, curiously enough, a made up name: Small Potato.
Small Potato ran a very popular website devoted to WordPress called WPDesigner. Since some time last year Small Potato has disappeared and hasn’t (as far as I know) been in contact [...]

Interview with WordPress WPBits Blogger Leonid Mamchencov

Interview with WordPress WPBits Blogger Leonid Mamchencov

I had the opportunity some time ago to interview someone who is very much interested in WordPress development: Leonid Mamchencov. He’s the blogger over at WPBits, and makes a point of explaining that his blog is not a blog about blogging.
I think I like him already. Full text of interview below.

Bloglet, Stylish Minimalist Blogging

Bloglet, Stylish Minimalist Blogging

Thanks to the ongoing pestering from me, Scott Andreas has thankfully released Bloglet, his stylish minimalist theme. He uses it himself, so you know he has put some care into it.

10 Impressive Tumblelog WordPress Themes Reviewed

10 Impressive Tumblelog WordPress Themes Reviewed

Tumblelogs are a popular form of blogging, whether they take the traditional minimalistic form or not. When the amount of information is available the way it is online via blogs, strong and simple messages are all the more valuable. The popularity of Jason Kottke’s kottke.org and John Gruber’s Daring Fireball are two examples of this [...]

Adding a Class to the First Post

Adding a Class to the First Post

Adam Brown has a nice little post detailing how to (with simple PHP) add a class to the first post on your blog page.
Thanks, Adam.

Announcing Theme Playground WordPress Discussion Live on Ustream.tv

Announcing Theme Playground WordPress Discussion Live on Ustream.tv

What I’m calling Theme Playground On WordPress (Live) — real original, right — will be an hour long discussion, from 9pm to 10pm EDT tonight at Ustream.tv.

Chris Pearson and User-Functions.php

Chris Pearson and User-Functions.php

Chris Pearson has put together a nice tutorial all about creating a user-functions.php file in your WordPress installation.
Do you enjoy your widget-ized sidebars? Then you have functions.php to thank. Theme developers can also use functions.php to add extra functionality to their themes. Just recently I customized a functions.php file in order to enable a theme [...]

Theme Review: Amazing Grace

Theme Review: Amazing Grace

This morning I received a notice from Vladimir Prelovac that he has just released his newest theme which he is calling Amazing Grace. Since he was nice enough to send me a note about it, I thought I could be nice enough to review it.