5 tips on using blogs to create relevant backlinks

Posted by Toni Anicic under Online Marketing, Wordpress @ 10th NOV 2008

Building backlinks is the most important part of SEO work. The only thing more important is how relevant the becklinks you build are. You could actually rank at number one spot on Google for a keyword you don’t have anywhere in your content solely based on your backlinks. This have been proven in practice many times and I have personally done this on several keywords.

Revolution 2 is launched

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 30th OCT 2008

Something wonderful happened today. Brian Gardner, the creator of the notorious premium Revolution themes for Wordpress, just released a new set of open-source Wordpress Themes under the name of Revolution Two. All of the themes on the new site will be made available under the open source/GPL license.

Kapitol Reef :: Magento store with 1 product

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Magento, Wordpress @ 28th OCT 2008

Can online store have only one product? Sure it can and the one is now launched. Kapitol Reef was founded to develop, perfect, manufacture and market a new breed of snorkels based upon pressure-balanced breathing in the aquatic environment. The entire focus for this company is to deliver best-of-class products, starting with the snorkel. Kapitol Reef is in the market for many years and this week they published a new site. Similar to Teraflex project, here we also used Wordpress and Magento platforms for the development.

Is current Wordpress page in the hierarchy of some other?

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 1st OCT 2008

This topic could be interested for those of you who deal with Wordpress theme creations. If you are not one of them, you will not find this interesting at all. Developing a complex Wordpress site with many sections with pages may be limited with Wordpress standard content structure. Posts are in categories. Categories can have subcategories and pages can have subpages. There are some default functions that help you in identification of which element is child and which is parent. But when we need something more advanced, things get complicated.

WordPress Navigation Management

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 19th SEP 2008

While searching for new version of Wordpress breadcrumbs plugin, I stumbed upon something I needed for a long time. One of the issues I had with using Wordpress as CMS was its frontsite navigation customization possibilities. Yes, we have default wp_list_pages() function with some options, and yes,  we have wp_list_cats() function with options on its own. But, what if I wanted to make sidebar navigation to be a combination of pages and categories?  This was the problem where I used a lot of custom coding in sidebar.php or header.php file. I found an easier methond with NAVT, Wordpress Navigation List Plugin.

Wordpress: advantages and disadvantages?

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 1st SEP 2008

Couple of days ago I posted a question to LinkedIn Q&A. It was for those individuals/companies who use Wordpress to run their main site. I was interested to know why do they find Wordpress to be their chosen one CMS. The users were supposed to name top 3 key elements in WP that they find most important for your site.  That was the easy part to most of them. Harder part was to name top 3 key elements they miss in WP, but have a feeling it would be important for their site.

There were some really interesting replies.

Our first Magento Store :: TeraFlex Suspensions

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Magento, Wordpress @ 22nd AUG 2008

After many weeks of work, our 1st Magento project hit the Net: TeraFlex Suspensions. As the purpose of the site in not primary selling, but also branding and community development, we decided to use Wordpress and Magento combination to accomplish clients goals.

Create a WordPress theme from scratch.

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 29th MAY 2008

If you are a Wordpress newbie and you are willing to learn it, the 1st step would be to find a really good guide of how to create a Wordpress theme from scratch. Small Potato from WPDesigner gives a really detailed tutorial for beginners. Best this about those is that he gives a free PDF download of all 3 book parts.

First part is called How to Design a WordPress Theme where you will find a PDF file containing design instructions, a folder of images (step-by-step screenshots), and a PSD file for you to mess around with.

Second part is How to Slice a WordPress Theme which will help you to deal with layers and CSS.

Last, but not the least, third part is How to Code a WordPress Theme. This part handles PHP programming part.

Even the tutorials are for starters, I believe that even more experienced developers will find many useful hints.