Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’


Benighted Wordpress Theme

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Alright. I’ve just finished (I think) the first theme I’m going to release free to the public. I’m calling it Benighted. It’s a dark, monochrome, 2 column theme. I think some people might find it a bit too dark but it’s supposed to be (hence the name).

**** Check out the LIVE DEMO ***

BenightedSS

Tested in Firefox, IE6, IE7, and Opera.

This theme is released under a Creative Commons license. If you would like to remove my link at the bottom, please donate $5 via PayPal.


Please test it out and let me know of any bugs.

Download:

Benighted Wordpress Theme Version 1.0


How to install WordPress locally

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Setting up a local installation of WordPress has many advantages, even if you aren’t a theme developer. However, it requires PHP and a MySQL database and most people don’t have a clue on how to set these elements up on their home machine. Luckily, you don’t really need any knowledge of how to set up a server or any of the technical stuff to get it done. I’ll show you a few tools that make setting up PHP and MySQL locally painless and easy.

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