Redesign – March 2011

Josh Stauffer Redesign

A redesign for my blog was long overdue. I’ll continually be making tweaks and improvements but I am really pleased with how it came out. This design is a child theme for the Genesis Framework. I tried to add some flavor by incorporating some jQuery effects, CSS3 styles, the Google Font API, and some Genesis [...]

Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes – Review

This book was on my Amazon wish list for a few months before I bought it from Barnes & Noble last Saturday. I literally just got done reading it and honestly, I would have finished it sooner but life got in the way. It’s a fairly short read, less than 200 pages with some full [...]

Free Genesis Child Themes

The Genesis Framework by StudioPress is quickly becoming one of the most popular Theme Frameworks for WordPress. StudioPress currently offers 30+ turn-key designs that may be purchased individually or you can get the Pro Plus All-Themes package which gets you all updates and future themes. If that’s not enough, you can take advantage of these [...]

Ternary Operators Anyone?

While reading through the WordPress Coding Standards, I read some good advice to follow when using ternary operators. To keep things from getting confusing when using ternary operators, always have the statements test for true instead of false. // (if statement is true) ? (do this) : (if false, do this); $basketballteam = ( ‘lakers’ [...]