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cosmetic dental marketing on Sun, 17th Jan 2010 3:44 am 



Sticking with nitche as well as relating to the content with suitable tags are the crux of matter that can resolve the issue of receiving better result through Word Press.
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Josiah from Tumblr Themes on Mon, 25th Jan 2010 7:51 pm 



Yea, Wordpress is pretty awesome, i use it on all my sites. Most anyway..

I like the call to action feature, might check this out
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affiliate network program on Mon, 8th Feb 2010 5:00 pm 



Sticking with nitche as well as relating to the content with suitable tags are the crux of matter that can resolve the issue of receiving better result through Word Press.

Uba from Opalescence Teeth Whitening Reviews on Thu, 25th Feb 2010 6:46 pm 



Can’t believe there are so many people with colored teeth. And there I was thinking I was the only one. Lol. Opalescence is really good. You should have seen my teeth before. Oh wait… I was probably hiding them back then..

Mike from Tooth Whitening Best Deals on Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 9:38 pm 



Stay away from hard foods like nut or even carrots when you do bleach your teeth cos you won’t even believe the amount of pain your teeth can give you if you’ve never felt it before.

siyal from holiday cottages on Thu, 4th Mar 2010 1:04 pm 



Wordpress is widely used by people to devise a blog and get their business start but to me its quite difficult to make blog by Wordpress. Every time when I try to do so my Hosting service gives an error and stops it.

Rob from wordpress themes on Sun, 25th Apr 2010 7:26 pm 



Well, you should have mentioned what benefit does wordpress really give to small business owners, to people that their soul base is a business, and not blogging. While WordPress was made for bloggers, to have their own blog and start making some content around it, some other people like business owners can use wordpress in the opposite way. True, WordPress is not a CMS, but it’s an open source project and lots of people have contributed to it. Business owners can utilize WordPress to create websites that their main goal is the business itself, and a blog as a second goal. The cost on creating such website will be minimalistic, while still reaching the destination, of a professional business website.

Cochrane custom homes on Fri, 30th Apr 2010 3:34 pm 



I purchased a domain 2 days ago, i have to see for some good word press theme….. by searching of theme i reach here. Thanks for the cool information

Roofing Contractor Charlotte on Thu, 6th May 2010 6:18 am 



Hi, Somethings wrong with your site. The image at your post doesn’t appear. Maybe you could fix it for a while.

Indian handicrafts on Sat, 8th May 2010 6:50 am 



This looks like a great tutorial! I’ve tried going through WP’s Codex and the language is very complicated. It takes reading several times to understand some of it, and although I’m starting to understand a lot more, as a learner I find it very confusing. I’m trying to learn JS and PHP but it’s going to take some time, so any help I can get along the way is a boost! Thanks for this.

Angela from Webdevelopment on Thu, 20th May 2010 12:42 pm 



WordPress is a great CMS for most small business and personally, I think every website deserves a custom theme, because frankly: every website is unique. I’d rather hire a cheap graphic designer than buy a theme that has already been used a 100 times before.

Adam from Quick Step Flooring on Tue, 25th May 2010 6:36 am 



By combining creativity with WordPress customization, you can impress your visitors with a unique design that encourages them to subscribe to your feed or come back to check out some more content when you make updates. If you already have a fully designed website, you can utilize the WordPress customization features to enable your blog to integrate perfectly with your web site’s theme for complete branding

Miguel from PC extender on Sat, 29th May 2010 5:15 am 



One of the greatest themes on hand for affiliate marketers is the Affiliate WordPress Theme. It is very easy to set up and very simple to operate which makes is a breeze to set up for anyone with little experience. There is one more theme that works very well with affiliate marketing and that is the Flexibility Theme. This theme is particularly customizable (you can change just about every aspect of the entire blog) plus it has space already set up to customize product ads above the fold at the top of the page.

Tom from Tagesgeld Zinsvergleich on Sun, 30th May 2010 4:08 pm 



I really like to use wordpress for my blogs. Up to now i always searched for a free template. I real custom wordpress template would be great – no doubt.
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Dental Hospital India, Dentist India, Dental Clinic Hyderabad on Mon, 31st May 2010 7:05 am 



WordPress is a great CMS for most small business and personally

Tom from Autocad Training Courses on Mon, 7th Jun 2010 1:44 am 



I just love WordPress. It is online and offers multiple users, which means you’re not the only one who can fix something in a pinch and you can access it from anywhere. Which means if you’ve got Internet access in Tahiti, you could work from there. That also means your important site is backed up on a secure server with multiple redundancies, not some high school kid’s laptop.

Robert from New Forest Camping on Wed, 9th Jun 2010 5:47 am 



I just loved this article and I love wordpress too. I personally use Joomla. For the people who don’t know what it is- Joomla is one of the pioneering editors of WordPress themes. Beginners of WordPress design often use the creations of Joomla. Aside from their artistic designs, their WordPress themes and templates are easy to run. Unlike other WordPress themes it has an uninstall option which makes it more manageable. It is also capable of restoring its own configurations when sudden problems occur. The concept of having a secured WordPress theme is also one of the famous ideas of Joomla.

rob Anderson on Fri, 11th Jun 2010 1:06 am 



Great article and thanks. We have created custom wordpress themes ourselves. I wish I had found this article before we got started.

Rob Local on Fri, 11th Jun 2010 1:52 am 



Having 6 themes rather than just looks like it will provide great flexibility for setting up profitable websites. thanks for sharing.
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Brent from Contemporary oil painting on Fri, 11th Jun 2010 6:40 am 



Hi, does anyone know why I can’t find the template option dropdown in Wordpress?. I’m using? the latest version but it doesn’t appear on the right hand side as it did in the earlier versions. I guess customizing wordpress can be a real headache. Thanks for sharing the tutorial.

Gina Gaudio-Graves on Mon, 14th Jun 2010 8:22 pm 



Hi Brent:

I’m not sure that I understand what you are looking for when you say the “template option dropdown in Wordpress”. What are you trying to do?

If you are looking to put in a new theme, you would select “Themes” under the “Appearance” section in the left sidebar. There’s an option to import a new theme there as well. Then, from the “Appearance” page, you sould simply select the theme that you want to use from the screenshots that appear on the page.

If you’re looking for something else, please be more specific and I will do my best to respond. Note that you can often get a faster response by asking your question in our forum. You’ll find it at http://www.DirectionsU.com . That’s our new site with our new brand — Directions University. Inside, you’ll find a social network and a training portal. It’s at http://www.directionsu.com .

Georg Smith from summertime movie on Tue, 15th Jun 2010 5:33 am 



While the default WordPress theme is simple and elegant, customizing the theme allows you to give your site a personality and identity. You can put business logos or brand names to give people a better idea on what blog they are reading. It also serves as the basis for what color scheme to use since color schemes often revolve around the logo.

Eric from flv converter on Wed, 16th Jun 2010 4:33 pm 



Writing a blog is so very important when it comes to digital (Internet) marketing. It is one of the more important tasks

Richard on Fri, 18th Jun 2010 8:32 am 



Exact what I did yesterday, didn’t know some tips from above. But it seems to me Word Press isn’t the best distribution or it’s the power of habit.

Pete from Web Design New York on Mon, 21st Jun 2010 1:02 am 



By combining creativity with WordPress customization, you can impress your visitors with a unique design that encourages them to subscribe to your feed or come back to check out some more content when you make updates. If you already have a fully designed website, you can utilize the WordPress customization features to enable your blog to integrate perfectly with your web site’s theme for complete branding.

Fred on Mon, 21st Jun 2010 10:08 am 



I prefer WordPress more than others and thank you for posting articles about it. I do appreciate it.
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Pete Carr on Tue, 22nd Jun 2010 6:32 am 



I use wordpress for all my niche sites, will check this out. Save paying designers for my themes.
Thanks
Pete
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Michael on Wed, 23rd Jun 2010 2:24 am 



Nothing could be easier than to create a custom theme in WordPress. There are a lot of templates in the web for any taste, than in preferences chose widgets and with it whatever you want.

Peter on Thu, 24th Jun 2010 6:38 am 



Michael, I chose the template that I like. What should I do after, how to integrate it with WordPress?

Darrell on Mon, 28th Jun 2010 7:58 am 



Peter, save it on local machine, add to your WordPress unpacked distribution on server, choose it in tabs – widgets and go ahead.

Peter on Tue, 29th Jun 2010 2:14 am 



Darrel, thanks for your help. I managed to do it and now my site looks exactly as I want.

Brian on Tue, 29th Jun 2010 9:40 am 



Sure, with this huge amount of WordPress templates you can create any website with absolutely any theme.
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Jon on Wed, 30th Jun 2010 6:10 am 



WordPress distribution archive is the “lightest” comparative to other site-engines. And nothing difficult to create any theme you like!

Dirk on Thu, 1st Jul 2010 2:52 am 



Thanks for advice about WordPress theme, my girlfriend wants to create her own page and asked me to help.

Gaye Sougstad from georgia bodysculpture on Thu, 1st Jul 2010 3:31 am 



Great review, just Stumbled. Like you I’ve gone the Thesis route. But surprised you didn’t mention Headway as its caused a fair amount of discussion of late – especially on Twitter – as a few big promoters & supporters of Thesis have jumped ship. I’m committed to Thesis, but if starting from scratch I would have to give Headway serious consideration.

Tony on Thu, 1st Jul 2010 9:29 am 



Tell me please if I can integrate in my WordPress at least 3 payment systems for connection with members.

Richard on Fri, 2nd Jul 2010 5:10 am 



Though I have installed. Customized themes for my WP clients , I have never tried designing a theme from scratch because of the cross-browser compatible issues. This article has given me an idea on how to make it happen , let me try it shortly.

Indian Recipes on Sat, 3rd Jul 2010 2:18 pm 



designing a WP from scratch seems like a nightmare. plus there are so many WP themes from which to choose why bother?

Alvin on Mon, 5th Jul 2010 7:08 am 



It’s certainly a good idea to experiment and build your first themes from scratch. Nowadays, I use the Hybrid framework to get a head start on my WordPress projects.

Lynn on Mon, 5th Jul 2010 10:29 am 



I’ve been thinking of looking into creating my own WordPress theme, or at least learning how to do it, so this will be very useful indeed!

Glory on Tue, 6th Jul 2010 8:05 am 



Hi thanks for you tutorial….thank you so much, anyway i will implement those theme into my site.
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Aida on Thu, 8th Jul 2010 3:28 am 



Still with default theme waiting for a great tutorial to make my own one. I think this moment is coming. Thanks for it.

Daniel on Thu, 8th Jul 2010 9:57 am 



Getting into designing wordpress themes this is just what i needed. thanks

Robert on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 5:00 am 



Thanks for this, I’m just getting to grips with word press at the moment. Hoping to launch my blog soon.
Robert´s last blog ..Effective Complaining

Daniel on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 10:04 am 



Good manual – it leaves no stone unturned, and follows the entire process from creating your first index.php template page to implementing a comments system and using rudimentary PHP to controlling variables in the theme.

Tony from Gearhub on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 2:19 pm 



Thanks for the information. I should be able to put this info to good use in the near future.

Leonard on Mon, 12th Jul 2010 9:39 am 



I’m fan of joomla, but after reading your tutorial I’m nearly to change my mind. Thanks a lot.
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Taryn on Tue, 13th Jul 2010 10:16 am 



Just now have finished creating my own WP theme with help of your tutorial. Thanks to you for this!
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Harbin on Thu, 15th Jul 2010 3:24 am 



Thank you for populating the Word Press. This is my favorite engine for sites!
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Patrick on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 3:45 am 



Sincerely speaking, I like Joomla, because of it’s much more simple. But anyway thank you for this tutorial.

Jimmie on Fri, 16th Jul 2010 11:56 am 



I think it’s so easy that even a baby can do this with your tutorial Thanks a lot!
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Gary on Tue, 20th Jul 2010 3:30 am 



Some extremely useful stuff here, wonder what theme dreamer is like! , thesis is defiantly a cool theme.
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Chasy on Wed, 21st Jul 2010 4:22 am 



Great resource- thanks very much. I’m currently re-vamping my site (using Blogger) and am getting a bit frustrated with it! I’ll be changing to Wordpress in the future, no doubt, and this is going to make it much easier – thanks!

Alexandrin on Thu, 22nd Jul 2010 4:42 am 



My friend just now suggested me your website to learn WP customization. Seems that I’m in the right place! you rock, congrats.

Gela on Fri, 23rd Jul 2010 4:51 am 



After making the theme, countering endless bug submissions from the users is a major challenge.

Kay on Mon, 26th Jul 2010 4:11 am 



I also love WP and design all my sites in it; as a CMS or Blog it has such a wide scope of use. I’m not sure if I glossed over but by far the most helpful tutorial that got my WP skills moving was by Chris Coyier at CSS-Tricks. He has a three part screen cast that is fantastic – first one I actually committed and stuck with and I learned a ton.

Ronald A. Michaud on Tue, 27th Jul 2010 4:11 am 



I’m currently developing a public theme (probably gonna sell it on theme-forest), and it’s really hard to cover everything since i have no idea how the user is going to use it. Does he use the post thumbnail feature for post thumbs, or he uses custom images or nothing at all, does he want the first image from the article to be shown or he doesn’t want any thumbs. That’s just a single example.

Marco T. Grubb on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 4:01 am 



Thank you for a very good article. I also prefer to work with WordPress and the information that you have provided will come in very handy. Splitting custom and public helps and the points that you mentioned are valid.

Pedro J. Bush on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 5:02 am 



I’ve started just recently creating custom WP themes for clients, as well as developing WP as a CMS. Your post is really timely for me – great info, thanks!
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Shirley S. Fleetwood on Fri, 30th Jul 2010 4:09 am 



There is another way many designers are using WP themes. That is customizing a WordPress theme from a custom or public theme. Now this is not in the scope of your article, but what are your thoughts on this?
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Pauline E. Miller on Mon, 2nd Aug 2010 4:00 am 



Hi, I did this and it worked great- except for one thing. Under one of the ‘customs’ I added a subpage and it’s visible all the time (shows up under the custom). Can I hide it so it’s only visible when i roll over the custom?
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Mathew I. Gruber on Tue, 3rd Aug 2010 3:53 am 



THANK YOU! This is my first blog that I’ve designed and am trying to build and your plugin and video have been the easiest part! I am so excited! Now, if I can just figure out my missing 2nd sidebar. Do you have any videos about that?

Theresa on Wed, 4th Aug 2010 4:18 am 



Creating something on my own, always love this. Your tutorial is good for custom theme and now I try to do it.
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Jeffrey M. Thompson on Thu, 5th Aug 2010 3:58 am 



It’s very easy to create the theme with your tutorial, so did I. Want to thank you for this.
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Craig on Fri, 6th Aug 2010 4:19 am 



With the help of this manual I was able to do the theme on my own, and of course it’s my first work of such kind.

Russell T. Beck on Mon, 9th Aug 2010 3:59 am 



That’s great to have such opportunity to create the theme on your own. If you don’t want to follow somebody’s thoughts, but yours, this is for you.
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