24 Best free icon sets

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When you designing your own WordPress theme, it’s important to make sure the interface is natural and easy to use. Using icons along side navigation links is one key ingredient to achieving this. But Instead of creating icon sets from scratch, which can be time consuming, why not use icons that have already been created for you?

Here are some of the best icon sets out there for use in your design.

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Customize Comment Central

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I’ve received a lot of questions on how to remove “Archive” and “Categories” from the top menu. This is relative simple.

First log into your administrator panel. Then select the Editor in the left sidebar underneath Appearance. Next choose the file suckerfish.php in the right of your screen.

The file suckerfish.php is now in the editor field. Delete the next lines from this file:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
 
  <li><a href="#">Archives</a>
 
    <ul>
 
      <?php wp_get_archives(); ?>
 
    </ul>
 
  </li>
 
  <li><a href="#">Categories</a>
 
    <ul>
 
      <?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
 
    </ul>
 
  </li>

That’s all!

Move the Kubrick Sidebar to the left

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The default Kubrick template that comes with WordPress
is great straight out of the box. However, some people prefer to have their pages and posts laid out differently.

By default, the sidebar is located on the right side of the page rather than the left. The following tutorial explains how to easily move the sidebar from right to left.

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New WordPress theme

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Today my new theme is approved by WordPress.org. I’m very pleased to see the theme on the first page of the free themes directory!

This time I’ve made a theme with a bit of a grunge look.  The background is a nice green wooden texture wich gives the theme a fresh look.  For Comment Central  I’ve used the Suckerfish dropdown menu.

You can see a example here.

Download the theme

If you enjoy this theme or you have a question or comment, please leave a message.

Changing the Size of the Avatar

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The default size of an avatar in a wordpress theme is 32×32px, which is sometime’s a bit small. In my new theme design I want to change it to 60×60px instead.

In your theme, open the comments.php and look for the following code:

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<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>

This simple line of code has a lot of options available. If you want to learn more about them, just have a look at the WordPress Codex pages. For now, we’ll just concentrate on the size of the avatar.

The way to change the default size is simply by adding some text inside the function, like this:

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<?php wp_list_comments('avatar_size=60'); ?>

It’s that simple!

Say hello to WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”

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The long awaited WordPress 2.9 is finally here. This version is called  “Carmen” on the behalf of honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org.

A few of the new features are outlined in the video below.



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How to create your own WordPress theme

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For quite some time I’m working on websites and WordPress themes. As a designer it’s not that hard to ‘draw’ a good design. The real job is turning this great design into a functioning WordPress theme. But no fear,  I´ve found some great tutorials and resources which tell you exactly how!

  1. Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch
  2. How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1
  3. How To Create A WordPress Theme From Scratch (Complete Video Series)
  4. How to Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch – net.tuts
  5. Designing for WordPress: Complete Series & Downloads
  6. Creating a WordPress theme with Dreamweaver – Part 1: Learning the basics