Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

Open or Closed, Part II: License and Free(dom)

I found another portion of the open or closed question. What about open and closed software licenses? Here’s a quick rundown of the license categories (check here for more details): GNU GPL type licenses. Very open. Liberal Licenses (i.e. Creative Commons type, Mozilla Public License). Mostly open. Closed source (i.e. proprietary license). Closed. The more [...]

Notice for WordPress Theme and Plugin Developers

Just wanted to pass some info along to all of you budding theme developers. Your themes need to be licensed under GPL. Well, okay, part of them. According to this article from WordPress the php and html in your themes are GPL because WordPress itself is under the GPL. However, the css files and any [...]

New WordPress Page: Got Themes?

Lately, I’ve been coding some WordPress themes and code. So, I thought I’d showcase my efforts here on my site. Check out my new WordPress page to see what I’ve been up to. There will be some items to download for your own use. Not all of them will be free, but some will. I’ve [...]

WordPress Development Cheat Sheets

Found this via John Saddington today. It’s good enough that I wanted to post this for any of my readers who design WordPress themes. This article contains some WordPress cheat sheets for all of your theme development and design needs. I’ve already downloaded most of them, and will be referencing them often. So, click through [...]

Consuming vs Producing

Here’s a quickie for the start of the week. I’ve taken a little break from tweeting and blogging for the last week. Part was for vacation. Dusty and I went to Pigeon Forge, TN for a few days. We had a great time! No computers, no Twitter, just us. Wonderful. But it did cause me [...]

Building Blocks for a WordPress Theme

As a new theme builder myself, I had to ask around on what I needed to know to build a WordPress theme. So, I made a short list. Here are the basic things you need to build yourself a WordPress theme. CSS Cascading Style Sheets are awesome. They make your whole site look great (and [...]

My Blog Has New Home and Theme!

Joshua Wagner Online now has a new home. The blog is now being hosted on DreamHost and is powered by WordPress. I’ve been working on the new theme for about three weeks now, and I think it works pretty well. I’ll be adding to it here and there for probably a few weeks. I’ve called [...]