Today I’m excited to introduce my newest theme called Bottega. I’ve designed it with restaurants and cafes in mind as a way of providing them with an attractive and easy to maintain theme to run their site. The home page comes with a large image slide show, plus a features row where you can show […]
I’m excited to announce the release of the Agency Theme for WordPress. This theme is designed from the ground up to serve the needs of non-profits and organizations of all sizes. I wanted to take the best elements of the World Theme–including the fully widgetized homepage and large header images and move it a giant […]
Sometimes churches and organizations need to use a sign up form for an upcoming event, but aren’t exactly sure how to integrate PayPal with their favorite WordPress form plugin so they can take payments along with registrations. I’m a huge fan of Gravity Forms, but there is no built in support for PayPal as of […]
In my quest to speed up Organized Themes as much as possible, I’ve been experimenting with the settings of the excellent W3 Total Cache plugin and with my web host. Here’s what is working best for me according to Pingdom’s response times (see graph above). For me, hosting on VPS.net (4 nodes), I get better […]
As part of providing support, I often get an inside look at WordPress conflicts. If you’re troubleshooting your own site a great step is to disable all of your plugins and see if that fixes your problem. If it does, then you just need to reactivate your plugins one at a time until you discover […]
Here are some useful plugins I’ve used to help out churches that I think you might find helpful. Staff Directory Many churches and organizations like to have an online directory of their staff. While you can create this with the visual editor in WordPress, it generally doesn’t turn out as well as you’d like. A […]
We’ve already seen how I saved 37% of my page load time by editing and removing a few unnecessary plugins in this post. Now I’m going to share a few more methods I used to cut another 3 seconds off my page load time. Load jQuery from Google My site, like most WordPress sites uses […]
