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Why I Don’t Recommend WordPress Themes Not Listed in WordPress.org

Why I Don’t Recommend WordPress Themes Not Listed in WordPress.org

Most of the sites I have worked on use themes from the WordPress respository (WordPress.org). But, I have had a few scattered experiences with themes from other sources, specifically Avada from ThemeForest (2), Thesis from DIYthemes, and Headway themes, which seems to be its own thing. Each of these systems …

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When Technologies Collide, part 2

When Technologies Collide, part 2

Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.

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Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes

Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes

Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes Do you know how many themes are installed on your WordPress site? This is not a trivial question. I have seen at least one site that was hacked through an insecure theme. The owner of the site had taken a WordPress class and learned …

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THEME WORKAROUNDS: How Do I Get Kahuna Feature Boxes to Represent Categories Instead of Posts?

THEME WORKAROUNDS: How Do I Get Kahuna Feature Boxes to Represent Categories Instead of Posts?

See More about Working with Themes Basic Principles In all my years working with various CMS (content management systems) where themes written by someone else are available, I have never found a perfect theme. The purpose of using themes is to avoid the cost of custom design and the custom …

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When Technologies Collide, part 1

When Technologies Collide, part 1

On my first WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, I created a child theme and added a MetaSlider to the home page banner in the child theme code. I didn’t even bother with the Customizer tools because they are not intuitive On my second WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, …

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How the Kahuna Theme Does and Doesn’t Fit my Goals

How the Kahuna Theme Does and Doesn’t Fit my Goals

One of the problems with an off-the-shelf theme, is that there is no way that it is going to meet any particular set of needs perfectly until you install it.

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