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My Muse Beckons

Yesterday morning (April 26, 2008), my muse whispered into my ear. Though she offered only the briefest glimpse of what was to come, I found myself at her mercy throughout the day. I spent my breaks and every extra moment designing, building and crafting a new WordPress theme for this site.
I’m calling this theme [...]

Using The WordPress Sandbox and The Blueprint CSS Framework Together

Lately, I’ve taken a liking to building WordPress themes using a combination of the WordPress Sandbox and the Blueprint CSS Framework. If you’re a designer who builds custom WordPress themes and you haven’t heard of either of these two masterpieces of code, an introduction is in order. Then, after you’ve met, I’ll show you how [...]

Running the Bleeding Edge: WordPress 2.5

I’ve just upgraded this website to the newly released WordPress 2.5. Everything went very smoothly, and I really love the new capability to upgrade plugins directly from the admin.

WordPress 2.5 RC2 Screencast

Matt Mullenweg shows off the new WordPress admin and demos the new uploader in this screencast.

BlogInfoSec.com

Uploaded by Michael Wender 10th March, 2008
During the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hard at work designing the layout for BlogInfoSec.com, an information security magazine in a blog format. The blog features articles written by a distinguished lineup of information security executives and practitioners.

The HW Salon

Uploaded by Michael Wender 6th March, 2008
Janet of The HW Salon has cut my hair since the mid 1990’s. Today is the debut of the WordPress based website I’ve designed for the salon.

iThemes - Premium WordPress Themes

iThemes features a nice collection of premium WordPress themes which are great for quickly getting your own website up and running. (I’m partial to their Essence theme.)

HowTo: Develop Your Photoblog Workflow

In part one of this series, I showed how easy it is to create your own free photoblog using WordPress.com and Flickr. Now that you know how to create your own photoblog, I’m going to share my tips for maintaining an efficient photoblogging workflow.

Fixing Grid and List Views in WP e-Commerce Gold

Recently, one of my clients asked me to setup and configure an online store using WordPress and the plugin WP e-Commerce Gold by Instinct Entertainment. As a part of the design, I needed to implement the Grid View module to display the products in a nice layout. Unfortunately, whenever I tried to use the Grid [...]