Make Your Posts More User Friendly with Tabs, Accordions, Columns and More

Sometimes a piece of well written content and one or two images can be enough to produce an effective post in WordPress that does a good job of engaging your audience and bringing in new readers, clients, or customers.

However, if you want to go beyond the standard post format of images and text, there is a lot you can do in WordPress to make your content easier to read, better organised, and more attractive. Continue

Top Exquisite and Enticing WordPress Themes for Writers

WordPress Themes for Writers

Writing as a profession has evolved a lot in the past few decades. The shift from the physical paper medium to the online one has been a humongous one. However, apart from simplifying things for the writers, it has also brought a lot of challenges for them. The quest for trying to be better than your competitors or rivals has provoked the writers to implement innovative and creative design approaches. Continue

How to Create a Custom WordPress Theme?

WordPress – I can certainly give dozens of reasons why I always choose and suggest using this CMS over any other platform available to build websites. Among those dozens of reasons, the best one that stays on top is that WordPress is a free and open source platform. It’s highly customizable and does not charge even a single penny for using it. This means you can build your own site with an entirely unique look. We’ll show you how to create a custom WordPress Theme.

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Review: DW Magz – Best WordPress News Magazine Theme

When talking about WordPress news & magazine themes, you might find a wide variety of theme out there, both commercial and free collection. Yet, it is not quite easy to find the best minimalistic & modern theme that gives you a balance solution where performance is well optimized while adding sufficient sets of the feature.

If you look for a light-weight, modern news & magazine theme for your WordPress site, our new DW Magz would be a strong contender you should consider, besides current flagship design DW Focus, DW Argo in our news theme category.

Enhancing readership, mobile-oriented news consumption are among key factors drive us toward the simplicity in each design & development perspective of DW Magz. And here’re fundamental functionalities packed in the theme:
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Top 10 Multipurpose WordPress Themes for Every Web Design Whim

This blog post includes a collection of the most advanced multipurpose WordPress themes.

Let’s start by answering simple questions and then make a quick recap of the advantages of each theme.

What are multipurpose themes and who can benefit from their usage?

As for the author of this article, she believes that multipurpose themes are a great step forward in web design and development. Their price is almost the same as the price of a regular theme designed for one particular business niche. However, when purchasing a multipurpose theme you get much more. Of course, different providers pack their themes with different sets of features, but the fact that you can build absolutely anything with these kinds of templates stays constant. As a rule, multipurpose themes include multiple layouts from which you can choose. They can vary from a simple personal page to a fully functional e-Commerce store. Multi-purpose themes are easy to customize and suitable for both professionals and newbies in web design. Actually, when buying a multipurpose theme you get access to numerous designs, plugins and extensions. It’s a kind of construction set you can play with until you attain the desired effect. And what is even better, when your design becomes outdated, you can always refresh it with the help of another pre-designed page available in your package. This is a great way to keep your website up to date, or just constantly improve it, by adding more features, plugins, using more shortcodes and other stuff delivered with your multipurpose theme. Continue

DW Focus 1.2.6 is back – DW Mega Menu and more

We are pleased to announce that our new DW Focus 1.2.6 has been released and is available for download today. In addition to compatibility update with WordPress 4.3 Billie, a new DW Mega Menu plugin and revamped theme setting panel have been included.

Brand new DW Megamenu

As planned in our DW Focus 1.2.0 release, we have just built from the ground up a new Mega Menu plugin dedicated for DW Focus theme.

We tried to make DW MegaMenu dead simple that can work seamlessly with WordPress default UI while solving the need of adding a versatile navigation to your site. A few features brought to you in DW MegaMenu: Continue

Introducing DW Store – Multipurpose WooCommerce theme

Update Aug 26, 2015: DW Store stable version 1.0.0 is now available for download.

Finally our first-ever multipurpose WooCommerce theme DW Store is live! Early this month, I had chance to highlight the 6-built-in styles when introducing the first sneak peek of this theme.

Today, I will walk you through detailed features that illustrate the DW Store’s effectiveness when used to create a fashion shop, a clothing store, an electronic shop or even a gift store or a pharmacy shop.

Our ultimate goal in DW Store is to provide a drag-n-drop-based theme that helps you get your store up and running seamlessly, with native WooCommerce shop functionalities. And truly you can create a hugely complex e-commerce solution that’s elegant and fast with DW Store.

Now, lets start with the navigation layer first, before diving into the page builder, multiple blog pages, enhanced shop functionalities perspectives. Continue

All New DW BrickStore – Responsive WooCommerce theme

UPDATE July 23, 2015: [New features] DW BrickStore blog and product pages now have infinite scroll feature added.

UPDATE July 16, 2015: DW BrickStore update version 1.0.1 has just been released, with 3 new page layouts added: classic homepage variant #3, Lookbook and Typography.

Changelog detailshttp://bit.ly/1TO3Siw

Today we’re proud to announce DW BrickStore, a brand new eCommerce theme to join our portfolio. DW BrickStore is a lightweight, flexible premium WooCommerce theme.

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DW Focus – New update version 1.2.0

DW Focus 1.2.0
UPDATE 28 May 2015: The DW Focus stable version 1.2.1 is finally available. You can find the download link in your DesignWall profile. For any question related to the new DW Focus 1.2.1, please submit via this dedicated forum
NOTE 24 May 2015: This version is not recommended for your production site. The updated Focus sees some revamped elements which differ from the old Focus version. Also this beta release might see potential bugs, it takes our team some time to have all fixed in the stable release.

DW Focus has been one of the most wanted Responsive News & Magazine WordPress theme. This theme was ranked 10th out of Mashable’s 20 Stunning Responsive WordPress Themes – http://bit.ly/dw-focus-mashable

DW Focus comes with the beauty of simplicity, from typography, grid-based layout and structure. The updated DW Focus 1.2.0 almost inherits what make this theme a stand-out:

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How to Create Charts and Graphs in WordPress to Visualize Your Data

Adding images to your posts is an essential way to bring your content to life. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then adding a few relevant images to your posts can help win over your readers and get your message across in a more effective way than just a wall of text.

While screenshots are great for illustrating software related posts, and photographs can really enhance a travel blog, when it comes to illustrating data-focused content, the available options aren’t as obvious.

Screen grabbing charts and graphs from a spreadsheet is one option for visualizing your data, but if you are using WordPress then there are a few better options than that available to you. To find out the best way to add graphs and charts to your WordPress posts, read on for our guide to the best data visualization plugins for WordPress. Continue

The A to Z guide: How to create a WordPress child theme

How to create WordPress child theme

Last week, we have had a nice write-up on WordPress child theme topic, which covers what a WordPress child theme is and how it should be useful for your web project.

As a follow up, in this how-to tutorial, we will help you produce a child theme. Remember our WordPress blog and portfolio theme DW Wall, which features various styles as WallPress, WallChristmas, WallPin and WallDark? To bring forth such unique styles, we have applied the technique of creating child themes for WallPress theme so that we can generate any style we want.

Today we are going to help you achieve just that. You’d learn all basic steps needed to create a WordPress child theme for any theme you like.

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Rules for Making Your Content More Engaging and SEO-Friendly

When it comes to producing written content for your website or blog, there are a number of rules and guidelines you can follow to ensure you get the biggest returns on your investment.

In this post we will take a look at some of those rules to show you how you can make your content more engaging, rank better in the search engines, and help grow your audience and build your brand. Continue