Very often, users of IAMSocial, my WordPress Theme, contact me. I always answer to their emails, trying to understand what is their issue. Is it something they are doing wrong? Is it something that my theme is missing? Is it a bug? One day, an email particularly caught my attention; it was from somebody with […]
One of the first thing I do when I open my eyes at the morning is to grab my iPad and check my emails. This morning I received THE email I have been waiting for so long: IAMSocial has been approved! That means that you can now download it from the official WordPress Theme Directory. […]
After submitting IAMSocial to the WordPress Directory in August, I finally heard back from the Review Team last week. As I expected, my theme was not approved to go live right away and my reviewer sent me a long list of issues to be fixed. After working hard on them, I resubmitted IAMSocial, now 1.0.2. […]
After Mazzat Restaurant and Carroll Gardens Diner, Carroll Garden Association is the third business in Columbia Waterfront that I have helped with its website. However, it is the first ever, to go live with my WordPress theme IAMSocial. In fact, if you remember this post, they were my first testers. Thanks to their feedback my […]
Carroll Garden Association is a non-profit organization “Providing Housing, Economic Revitalization, Outreach, and Advocacy to the Residents of Southwest Brooklyn.” I met with its staff participating with Mazzat Restaurant at the 6th Annual Columbia Waterfront Fall Festival which the organization promotes each year in September. Since then, they have been helping me and Go digital! […]
About two years ago I decided to dig into Bootstrap. It took me some efforts at the beginning but with time and practice I got used to its column grid system standards, its powerful UI components and its LESS based structure. Always willing to try out new techniques, I was excited when our professor introduced […]
The challenge of creating a WordPress theme is to not only make it look good on the frontend, but also to provide users with features in the backend that allow them to easily customize their website without having to touch the code. WordPress makes it easy for us, web developers, to extend the admin to […]
The midterms are over. Yet, it is time to focus on the finals. Actually, I already know the requirements for my MMP 350 class: create a WordPress theme. This is a new step for me and my experience working with this CMS. Indeed, I have already created customized WordPress templates, coded for my owns projects, […]