• The blessing and curse of using Foundation

    So it’s been a couple of weeks since I started the process of creating my new theme, Fotographia. Since the last update, I’ve finished the mockups and begun the process of creating and styling the templates themselves.

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  • Getting started with a new theme

    So the last month or so has been a down period for me and WordPress. After sending off the initial version of Giornalismo and the 2.0 release of Nuovo, I haven’t been doing much work in developing on WordPress.

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  • WordPress 4.3 not flashy, but a solid update nonetheless

    Last week, WordPress 4.3, nicknamed “Billie Holliday” for the jazz musician — as are all of the major releases for the blogging platform — was released to the world. This was the first release cycle that I followed heavily through the Make WordPress blog, so none of the features in the release caught me off…

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    Read More About plugin released this week

    While waiting for Nuovo and Giornalismo to go through their respective theme reviews, I received a bit of good news this week from the plugin front. Mere days after submitting it, the Read More About plugin was approved for the WordPress Plugin Directory, making it technically the third plugin I have in the directory, but…

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    Playing the waiting game

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    So this past week has been a pretty good week with the WordPress theme development. Since this time last week, I’ve submitted Giornalismo for the theme review to get into the WordPress Theme Directory as well as the Nuovo 2.0 update. That has gotten a lot off of my plate development-wise, but now comes the…

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    Moving right along with Nuovo

    To say that the work with the rebuild of Nuovo has been quick might be an understatement. This time last week I was only a part way through the different templates. Now, seven days later, I’ve finished all of the template files and have put it up on the development site. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite…

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    A soft opening for Giornalismo

    Roughly 10 months after sketching it out in a journal and just barely starting writing the code, the heavy duty development with Giornalismo is over.

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    Complete style change for Giornalismo

    So after the success of Nuovo and the JM Breaking News plugin, I’ve restarted working on Giornalismo full time. I ended up getting a ton fixed on it over the past couple of days, but no one change was bigger than the font and a slight color change.

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  • JM Breaking News banner on a website running the Giornalismo theme

    JM Breaking News plugin added to WordPress plugin directory

    Yesterday I announced that I had submitted a breaking news banner plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. A few hours after that post went up, I got the news that JM Breaking News had been accepted into the plugin directory.

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  • Diving into the realm of plugins

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    After succeeding in getting a theme into the WordPress Theme Directory, I’m trying my hand at doing the same with plugins.

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    Finally in the WordPress theme directory

    Ten months after submitting it to the WordPress Theme Directory, my number one goal with Nuovo finally got checked off. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Nuovo was finally accepted into the WordPress Theme Directory and is available for anyone to download and use.

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