The latest iteration of WordPress, 4.7, is a from-the-ground-up overhaul. There are a lot of cool new features here, some which have been on the workbench for over a decade. But because this update is so close to the bone, there is a chance that some of your plugins may fail, while plugin developers scramble […]
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10 Great WordPress Resources for Beginners
If you are new to WordPress and want to dive in and set up and design your own web site, you should pay a visit to these 10 web sites. They are chock full of great WordPress information and how-to’s. WordPress Codex — The the online manual for WordPress and a living repository for WordPress […]
10 Great Genesis Resources
If you are building WordPress sites using the Genesis framework, here are some resources you might want to bookmark. Genesis has become one of the most popular frameworks on which to develop WordPress and now there is no shortage of third-party themes (free and premium) and online resources devoted strictly to Genesis. We will be […]
Take Ten: An Anniversary Post
This is another 10 Best article, but of another kind. Since this month is Pixelita.com’s 10th anniversary, I want to do something special to highlight our path forward. But first, a history lesson. Back in 2002, I designed my first for-pay web site, for political blogger Sean Hackbarth’s site, The American Mind. It was based […]
A Membership Plugin Comparison
Recently, Pixelita Designs undertook to investigate several popular membership plugins for WordPress. Most of them tend to be geared toward selling “subscriptions” to protected content or digital media downloads (ebooks, etc.). Only two, CSS Jockey Front-End Membership and Member Mouse, seemed more “member-centric” and focused more on the member, with custom member profile pages and […]
Open Letter to WordPress Theme Authors
Please, please, for the love of god and the mother of dragons, stop putting a home.php page in your theme if you do not understand what it does and what it’s for. Further, just because you can do something doesn’t always mean you should. I am sick of seeing premium themes with a million, billion, […]
Pardon Our Dust!
Hang tight because you are going to see a revamped Pixelita.com in the next few weeks. I have ben flip-flopping between premium Genesis child tthemes Agency Pro, Beautiful Pro, and Centro Pro, and have decided that as much as I do love the Genesis framework, I am going to roll my own on this one, […]
Download Our CMS Shootout Whitepaper
We’ve just significantly revamped and updated our whitepaper, CMS Shootout: WordPress Versus CMS Made Simple. Download it below. Download the Whitepaper Please follow and like us:JoniJoni Mueller has been designing web sites for hire since 2003, when she first blew up her web host’s server by insisting on running Greymatter. Since then, Joni has designed […]
