At our sister site Answer Guy Central, things have just been converted to Ultra, a brand-new WordPress theme from the folks at Themify. Themify sells themes based on a home-grown page …
Making WordPress Easy with Theme Customizer
Our goal at The WordPress Helpers is making WordPress easy … or at least making WordPress easier. WordPress, great as it is, can be incredibly frustrating under the right wrong circumstances. …
WordPress Theme Lock-In
What controls the way your WordPress site looks and acts? There’s more to WordPress than Themes, Plug-ins and Widgets, but those things manage most of the heavy lifting. So, simple …
Escaping Envato, The Walmart of WordPress
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s article revealing Envato as the Walmart of WordPress, we’ve come across an article at WordPress mouthpiece WPTavern detailing one theme vendor’s attempt to leave …
15 Questions for WordPress Developers
As with all hiring decisions, when seeking a WordPress Developer your success depends on the way you ask questions. Wouldn’t having, say, 15 Questions for WordPress Developers come in handy? Last month …
WP Designer: Own Your Themes, Functions, and CSS
See this pretty picture? Go check it out; WP Designer is a new plug-in that “allows you to add extra functionality to your site in a standard compliant way using customization …
Theme Builders, Page Builders, WordPress Theme Concepts
We’ve been planning a piece on the best way to build a WordPress site, literally since before The WordPress Helpers launched. We questioned the idea of WYSIWYG (and more to the …
A Gem of a WordPress Theme
The absolute, no-question-about-it, most difficult thing about WordPress is finding a gem of a WordPress Theme. We could point you at our favorites, be they free or paid, and at …
Is It OK? WordPress Theme Checker
Security is almost as important to your WordPress efforts as the look and function of your web site. And because of WordPress’ size, there are all kinds of bad guys out …
WordPress Theme Documentation
At The WordPress Helpers, one of our favorite theme vendors is Elegant Themes. They turn out beautiful work, give great support, and publish a daily blog post about WordPress that stands …
