I just wrapped up creating a custom mobile WordPress theme for a client and began working on one for this site. It occurred to me that these days every site needs a mobile version of their website – and if your website uses WordPress for a back end – creating a mobile version of it is fairly painless.

Need a custom mobile theme for your WordPress powered site? Get in touch with me – it is very affordable and if your logs are anything like mine more and more of my visitors are viewing my site on a mobile device…

Hey Now, I am very happy to present a new custom WordPress theme – Free to try Offers. Tim said:

Looks awesome! – You’ve really outdone yourself this time. It’s looking beautiful.

I am happy with the way that it is turning out as well – it’s fun creating a funky theme for a good site, and it is always awesome when everyone is happy with the result.

Hey Now – it’s been awhile but here it is – another free WordPress theme for you enjoyment: Danu.

Danu is a free, W3C-compliant, CSS-based WordPress theme featuring: multiple columns for posts, custom background and headers, custom menus, widget support, custom thumbnail images, additional page templates, and much much more… You can see it in action and download it over here.

I have been developing custom WordPress themes professionally for the past 6 years exclusively, it is what pays the bills and I have learned much about the technical details and minutiae of WordPress and WordPress themes over the years. One of the simplest things that you can do to ensure that your WordPress powered site is successful and one of the things that many of my clients fail to do – keep your WordPress installation up to date.

WordPress is fairly secure – much more so then many other freely available CMS’ out there – but the security of your platform can be compromised by not keeping up to date. When the WordPress developers identify and patch potentially vulnerable holes in their software they announce what they have done – which gives the hackers info about vulnerabilities in older installations that have not been upgraded.

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I finished up a design and custom WordPress theme for Lindis Courtney over the weekend. I think I got very close to the look she was going for and that her custom theme turned out successfully. She obviously agrees – this is what she said:

Thank you so much! Now I know about widgets too.

You are a good man, James Kendall. I will be back for more projects and
tell all my fellow life coaching friends about you.

Thank you Lindis, great clients make great projects much easier.

Today’s WordPress advice come straight outta a project that I am working on….

If you are going to launch a new WordPress powered site, please host it somewhere reliable and appropriate. Which in a nutshell means not at Yahoo…

Here is a project that I did not blog about when I created it initially a few months back, but since I was doing some major modifications I thought that I would give it some link juice.

Tigers & Magpies brings you Korean travel reports and photos so that you can learn a little bit more about the Korean peninsula.

I revisited this project recently and added some custom views to a pair of categories and filtered those categories from the from page as well as cleaning up some odds and ends. Addendum: Evidently Eddie is happy with the results as well – see his comment here.

Most of my WordPress design work is done for people from far flung places – but I am proud to announce the launch of a localish project – Georgia Orthopedic Resources.

I worked closely with the staff to develop a logo, create the proper branding, design the site, develop the custom WordPress theme, and provided onsite WordPress consulting.

As happens from time to time I am completely booked up! I have taken on a couple of new and exciting WordPress theme design projects and those projects combined with cleaning up my previously booked WordPress theme development projects means that I cannot accept and new projects at this time.

So if you are looking for someone that can turn your WordPress project around in less than 30 days I suggest that you look elsewhere ( maybe Bam! Pow! Media ) – but if your project has a slightly longer lead time contact me and maybe we can work out a timeline that works for both of us.

I recently had occasion to try DreamHost for hosting WordPress sites for free so I gave it a shot. The free trial just came to an end and I cancelled the account. They asked why, so I thought I would share my reply:

Hey now – the server not responsive enough for my wordpress development needs. I have a dedicated server with hostgator and was looking at alternatives. imjtk.com was the main domain i was considering moving but I need to be able to write to the server all of the time and you guys’ timed out repeatedly as I tried to save a file.

So – as of now, I would still recommend HostGator ( no affiliate link or anything – honest evaluation ) for your WordPress hosting needs. Blue Host will get a shot next….