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Premium WordPress Plugins Discussed

Premium plugins have been around for a while now. They started off as a way for people to express their support for a plugin developer and over the past year have started to take off. GravityForms, PluginBuddy and CodeCanyon have all contributed to the rise to prominence. But where next for premium plugins? This post explores.

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Any Problems Facing WordPress?

The third of four instalments of the "Why WordPress" series (parts ONE and TWO) asks the same groups of twenty one what problems they see facing the WordPress community at the moment. Like last time, some really interesting answers from the WordPress users, developers and designers.

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WordPress Wizards Week: Day 1

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!

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WordPress Wizards Week: Day 2

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time! The series continues today with Nathan Rice, developer at StudioPress and largely responsible for the recent release of Genesis.

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WordPress Wizards Week: Day 4

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time! Today, Cory Miller from iThemes is in the hot seat.

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WordPress Wizards Week: Day 5

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!

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WordPress Wizards Week: Day 3

After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in slightly more focused discussion than last time! The series continues today with Alex Cragg, co-founder of WPShift which enticingly has "made a theme that lets you build your own layout just by dragging and dropping."

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Better iPhone WordPress Themes

Your iPhone optimised WordPress theme doesn't have to be the single column look we often see; there's no reason at all why you can't just slightly simplify your theme and still give iPhone users a decent experience when visiting your site. That's what we'll be doing in today's post, using just CSS.

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A Guide For Selling WordPress Themes

Recently there's been a lot of (mis) information around about "how to start your own premium WordPress themes site". They make all make it sound fairly easy: just make a design, hack it into a WordPress theme, buckle on a zillion theme options using the old Woo options panel and you have yourself a wonderful theme that'll make you rich. Not so, this tutorial explains some of the things to look out for when building a premium theme.

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WPShift Launches!

After months and months of working on it, WPShift has now launched! I'm really delighted to be able to say that :) Find all the low down about the hottest WordPress theme in town!

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