I just wrapped up a new custom wordpress theme for 5 Minds Computing. The client had a very specific idea about how he wanted it to look, sort of a retro-tech vibe. The client is happy with the results, and I think all things considered it turned out well. As simple as it looks there are some very cool features under the hood including the css rollovers for the WordPress menuing system that I wrote about previously.

As always, if you are interested in a custom wordpress theme for your site, just click on over to the contact page and drop me a line, I’ll be more than happy to read over what you are looking for and we can discuss how we can implement a winning wordpress solution for you.

I’ve been creating custom WordPress themes for a living exclusively for half a decade or more now, and there are a number of features that I code repeatedly and have developed and refined over the years. One of these is a “featured post” section – a way to highlight a certain post or a series of posts section on the front page of a custom theme. Today I thought that I would share my preferred way of creating a featured posts so that you can cop my code for your custom WordPress theme.

The first thing that you will want to do is familiarize yourself with WordPress’ query posts. As with most things WordPress there are a myriad of ways that you can use query posts, the simplest of which is something like this:

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I’ve been posting about the Shopp WordPress plugin lately, so I thought that I would post the first project that I completed with it and the new framework I have been using – so here it is Neurvana Edge. The code is just a pretty as the site itself . As flexible as Shopp is, I still had to hack it a little to make it do exactly what the client wanted, but in the end I think his custom e-com wordpress theme came out very well indeed.

Over the past week I have been revamping the custom WordPress theme over at Lucernex to give it a more modern look without changing other aspects of the existing site. Additionally the client also had a number of very specific functions and plugins that they wanted to keep that I had to work around and interact with.

Joe V – The President of Lucernex – says:

Jim – this is excellent, my whole team loves the new site!

Over the last month I created a very cool, challenging custom WordPress theme for the good folks at The National Center for Weight and Wellness. Dr. Kahan is big time, he’s been on numerous national television shows and even talked at TED!

I think it turned out great, and Dr. Kahan just emailed me a thank you, so it’s all good…

Over the last few weeks I designed and developed on a custom wordpress theme for a very cool client – The Mental Health Social Worker.

Like all projects this custom WordPress theme had it own set of set of priorities and problems, but the client and I both like the way it turned out – so win/win

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.

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.

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.