Thanks for the warm welcome! I’m Pawel Ciszewski the new owner. I’ll keep this post short and to the point and answer some questions the community has been asking. Who are you and what are your plans with WPDesigner? My names Pawel Ciszewski, the names Polish but I’ve was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI and [...]

The new owner is Pawel Ciszewski. If you haven’t been following the auction, I recently sold Wpdesigner.com here. Other than introducing Pawel, below are some news and review: The themes club will be continued. I will stick around and blog on Wpdesigner.com from time to time while traveling. To get in touch with me, my personal site is [...]

Although April Fools is less than a month away, this is not a joke. I’m selling Wpdesigner.com. Why Sell? Before I give you my reason, I want to thank you for reading this blog and thank you for all of the support you’ve given Wpdesigner.com in general and me in particular. With everything that has been going [...]

Reduce Comment Spam to Zero Without Akismet After my trouble with Akismet, I tried Arpit’s suggestion on reducing spam. It worked! I used to get hundreds of spam comments and trackbacks per day, which makes it hard for me to find ones that were accidentally marked as spam. Now, I get less than a handful of [...]

“Market” is a new premium theme from Andrew of Astereostudio.com, which allows you to use your blog as an online store or marketplace. View the live demo here. Via custom fields, you can enter a description, 1 large image with 3 smaller images, a price, and other information for each product or item. It also allows [...]

The following tips will help you get help for WordPress problems. If you don’t follow my tips, your question will get ignored, no matter who or where you’re trying to get help from. Search Before You Ask WordPress.org, Google.com, within the site you’re trying to get help from, etc. Double Check the Read-Me File Themes, plugins, and even WordPress [...]

This article was written by Chris Cagle. Do you want to create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information? Do you want it to be flexible, be very little work after initial setup, and use a world-class open source platform that you are already familiar with? Your first thought might not be to use Wordpress [...]

Article’s written by Jeff Chandler. As I browsed the WordPress themes released for February 25th 2008, on WeblogToolsCollection.com, I came across a theme that had everybody raving. It was called Options and was created by Justin Tadlock, the same theme author who created Structure. As I browsed the theme, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities [...]

The $5 WordPress themes club is giving away 20,000 accounts to your readers. Wpdesigner.com will sponsor your blog contests and giveaways by using the themes club memberships as prizes. To be a part of this giveaway, sign up your blog by leaving a comment or contact Wpdesigner.com between February 23 and March 8. Rules Your blog must [...]

Designs with complex structures are typically more fun to look at, but they’re also typically more cluttered and harder to use. I find it interesting that WordPress users haven’t gotten over the “premium” news and magazine themes craze because they’re mostly designs with complex structures (and not exactly done right either). First, I admit it. This [...]