Tutorial: Using the Theme Customizer

Oh, Theme Customizer with Live Preview, where have you been all my life? The WordPress 3.4 update gives us the power to preview, tweak, and test-drive a new theme without applying it to our live site. 

 

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Want to learn more? Check out my tutorial on Peachpit.com!

By August 24th, 2012 See more in: Tutorials · VQS · WordPress · WordPress 3.+

Tutorial: Flexible Header Images

By now you already know that WordPress 3.4 has introduced a ton of great features (because you always perform core updates, right?). One of the coolest new features is support for Flexible Header Images. Remember in the dark ages of WordPress, when you had to crop your header image to fit in the predetermined header space? Now you get to decide how much header image you want, without having to touch any code.

Awesome, right? And it’s easy to get it to work with your theme.

Check out my article on Peachpit.com for a full tutorial!

Read the full tutorial over on Peachpit!

By August 9th, 2012 See more in: Tutorials · VQS · WordPress · WordPress 3.+

Congrats to all the winners!

You guys rock! We’re delighted to be sending out a batch of freshly-printed Second-Edition WordPress Visual QuickStart Guides to all our contest winners.

Didn’t win this time? Be sure to Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to be the first to hear about future giveaways and contests!

By October 28th, 2011 See more in: VQS · WordPress · WordPress 3.+

Win The Book!

WordPress Visual QuickStart Guide Second Edition

WordPress Visual QuickStart Guide Second Edition

You love WordPress. You love free stuff.

This contest is for you.

Win a copy of our NEW book, the WordPress Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition. It’s the newest and best edition yet, chock full of step-by-step instructions and clear, useful screenshots to guide you through the process of doing pretty much everything you could possibly want to do with WordPress.*

Here’s how you enter:

There are THREE WAYS you can enter to win a copy of the new book.

  1. Use the Tweet Button at the bottom of this list to tell Twitter that you want to win our book
  2. Become our fan on Facebook and leave a comment on our wall telling us you want to win
  3. Post a link to this contest on your blog, website or Facebook page and encourage your readers to enter

As an added bonus: if you do ALL THREE of the things listed above and post a comment on this post telling us about it, we will enter your name THREE TIMES.

UPDATE: The contest runs from NOW until October 27. We will choose 10 winners. GOOD LUCK!

*This statement is almost certainly mostly somewhat untrue. But we do walk you through a LOT.

By October 20th, 2011 See more in: VQS · WordPress · WordPress 3.+

get the book!

Itching for a copy of our new book, the WordPress Visual QuickStart Guide? Of course you are, and we’re here to help.

The book hits stores on November 23, and over the course of the next couple of weeks we’ll be giving away copies to celebrate.

For now, you can sign up for our email newsletter over on our Facebook page; one lucky winner will be chosen at the end of the day tomorrow (November 20). And while you’re there, become a fan of couldbe studios!

More to come…keep your eye on this space.

By November 19th, 2009 See more in: VQS · WordPress