Most magazine-style themes draw their homepage and archive images from custom fields added to each post by the user as they’re written. This can be a time-consuming process, particularly if you’re using a plugin (Amazon Autoposter, for example) to create many posts automatically. It’s also a step that a lot of newcomers find confusing, and if you’re building websites to sell them you can find that even more of your time is eaten up in answering queries on the procedure.

In contrast, the Abundance theme uses a simple script to draw the first image … read more

Magazine themes are very popular, both with conventional users and with website flippers, who need to make their sites as attractive to potential buyers as they aim to be to surfers. However, there are times when you don’t want to use a magazine theme immediately – perhaps if you’re more concerned about putting content online first and then prettying it up later once it’s got sufficient traffic coming to it (a better option than simply hoarding inactive domains because you’ve no time to do anything with them). Perhaps you’ve some sites you don’t want to … read more

If you’re a conventional WordPress user with few sites to think of, then the chances are that a color picker in a theme’s Admin options panel is just a welcome time-saver that makes life a little simpler. However, for a website flipper or someone growing a large website empire of their own, a color picker can make quite a difference to productivity.

Gone is the need to repeatedly edit and upload CSS sheets until you’re either happy with the result or just prepared to settle for it – the color picker makes changes possible in seconds. … read more