Jose M Castaneda

Year: 2013

  • Playing nice with plugins

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    Yep, you read that right. Playing nice. With plugins. I know what you’re thinking and are probably wondering what I mean by that. Don’t lie You know you want to ask. What do you mean by that? What I mean is that as a themer you shouldn’t be adding frivolous things to your theme. What…

  • So you want to become a WordPress Theme Reviewer?

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    What does it take? Some PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS knowledge and a little bit of time to spare. At least that is what it takes to get the ball rolling. Yeah, very simple. Doesn’t take much really. The basics There are some things that you really have to know in order to becoming a WordPress…

  • Uploading and updating your theme

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    It’s no secret I love doing theme reviews. When I get a chance. The past couple of weeks though I’ve only been able to do one a week if I’m lucky. I do read the theme-reviewers emails when I open my inbox but of course that just isn’t enough. Background If you didn’t already know…

  • Make things a little more accessible

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    I was asked to redesign a site not too long ago and I’m pretty pumped about. Not going to lie. What I do like is that the site already has plenty of content to work with. The trick will be creating a good user experience for the person I will be handing off the site…

  • New look in the future

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    Let me start off by saying that it really has been some time since I even posted anything on either of my sites. Part of it is because I have been working weird, crazy hours at Starbucks and the other because I have a growing boy that loves to test my patience more than starving…

  • Theme previews are getting better

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    The current theme preview is comprised of a few sample posts and pages. That’s all good and great but let’s face it here, things have changed over the years. The biggest thing being post formats. That often helps decision making for many people. Some people want to just blog and show off their different things…

  • Choosing the right path

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    It’s no secret that I love using WordPress and love design. Those are pretty obvious if you’ve known me for some time. I guess you could say I’m a little addicted to WordPress. My digital meth if you will, but I also love design about the same. Working on WordPress themes is an amazing middle…

  • Filtering the page links

    Filtering the page links

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    Nothing is ever truly perfect. There are some things that do come close though. In the mean time we can make just a few changes to get our desired result. The photo above is a quick comparison of a photo I took a few years back while at Yosemite National Park. As you can see…

  • Be friendly and filter your foot

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    A brief glimpse of my WordPress.com hosted blog’s footer. I’ve had that thing for nearly six years. Yep, six years. A little hard to believe that I only have about eighty posts but it’s true. Part of that reason being me branching off and trying on a self hosted site. I wish I could tell…

  • Regenerate all the things!

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    So, I’ve been dabbling with WordPress for some time and I have loved every bit of it. I even helped a few people along the way. Learned many things and met and talked to many more. Every day I do feel like I am learning something new. Whether that is how to enqueue a certain…