The Frances Wright WordPress theme is a new blogging design from ThemeSweet. It is a simple clean design with beautiful typography and would be a good option for a personal blog due to its simplicity. The sidebar is on the left hand side though this could be changed easily with a few edits to the templates and the stylesheet. It lacks...

No More Passwords is a cool new WordPress plugin from Jack Reichert that lets you login to your WordPress powered website by scanning a Quick Response Barcode with your smartphone. Once you have activated the plugin you will see a QR barcode in your login page. The idea is that you scan the code with your QR application and it automatically...

CityTheme is a premium WordPress theme that was designed for city guides and directories. It’s a great looking theme though during testing I came across a lot of problems that made using the theme difficult. Before I speak about these limitations, let´s look at the main features of the design. Citytheme has a magazine layout with...

The security of your website is something that most WordPress users tend to forgot about. That is, until your site gets hacked. WordPress forum member Kris recently advised that his own website had been hacked despite the website using the latest version of WordPress. It appears that this was caused by vulnerability in a plugin he was...

Since it was originally launched in May 2011, Jigoshop has went on to become one of the most popular ecommerce solutions for WordPress. Tomorrow sees the release of version 1.0. Jigoshop marketer Dan Thornton got in touch with me today to advise me about some of the great new features the plugin will feature. The press release notes that: Product...

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. This is especially true in the design world. Elements from popular websites have been duplicated across the web. Some developers have gone one step further and attempted to duplicate the entire design of a popular service. You may be surprised at how great some of these imitation designs...