Are you a fan of WordPress? Us, too! We came across the We Love WP site and quite enjoyed frolicking around in their gallery of sites built using WordPress. The nicest thing is that to qualify for inclusion, a site has to be custom-designed or a drastically-altered pre-built theme, so you get a nice variety of sites instead of a zillion blog-looking sites that are all nearly identical. You can even submit your own WordPress sites for inclusion in the gallery. All in all, a very cool site to check out.

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Getting started with WordPress can prove a little daunting for a total newbie – particularly for those of us who are more design-minded and less code-geek. Graphic Rating has put together a handy WordPress cheat sheet that helps give an overview of the most important things you need to know about creating a custom WordPress theme from scratch.

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With all the WordPress plugins floating around out there, it can be a chore to sift through the less-than-stellar options from the truly useful and well-built ones. Lunartics has compiled a list of the 25 most popular Twitter plugins for WordPress. Plug in and enjoy!

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Not sure whether we believe this really works as easily and well as the article suggests, but it’s definitely an interesting concept. Divine is a Photoshop plug-in that helps you turn your layout into a real-live custom WordPress theme in only a few minutes. Too good to be true?  Not sure yet. We’ve not had time to test it out, but the concept sure is appealing in a lot of ways.

Have you tried it? Love it? Hate it? Leave a comment and let us know what your experience is and whether the plug-in lives up to the hype!

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If you ever thought that WordPress was only good for blog sites, this article will make you think again. WordPress is a robust and flexible system that has evolved into more than blog software, but a full-featured content management system capable of handling web sites of many different types, sizes and styles.

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After having our WordPress RSS feeds mysteriously stop working and spending hours on researching possible causes and solutions, we learned an interesting (and, possibly, obvious) lesson that we thought we’d share with our readers so they can avoid similar issues.

With all the social media sites out there, we were looking for a way to clean up all the extra URLs we’re using to direct people to our various profiles on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc.

Instead of having a bunch of different, messy-looking web addresses all over the place (ie: www.twitter.com/designgroupies or www.flickr.com/groups/designgroupies), we decided to set up several sub-domains under our web hosting account control panel and create redirects to the different sites. So, we set up a sub-domain for each social media site, such as: facebook.designgroupies.com or twitter.designgroupies.com

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Check out this collection of 12 great tutorials on the ins and outs of building a WordPress theme from scratch.

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WordPress is a powerful tool that can be used not only to power your blog, but also as a highly-customizable content management system (CMS).  Pro Blog Design shows how to design and build a custom WordPress theme step by step.

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Web Designer Wall is a beautifully-designed site that includes tutorials on WordPress, Photoshop and other topics of interest to web designers.

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