September Tutorials

September’s online tutorials will be starting on Monday 6th September 2010, and will run over two weeks, in this second set we will be creating a nice business theme, this theme will be very close to a premium theme, so … Continue reading

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Ten Good Reasons to use WordPress Child Themes and Template Parts

We are really getting into the WordPress 3 child themes and template parts, they can cut down the workflow and time to market for theme developers, learning to use WordPress child themes and template parts can give you the edge … Continue reading

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Child Theme Plugin

It is no secret that I was disappointed with the latest offering from Artisteer, it is still a great product for community groups and webmasters, but for me as a developer the use of the ini file which is causing … Continue reading

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Great WordPress Theme Tutorial

After a bit of work we have finished the first set of tutorials on theme development, we have used the default WordPress 3 twenty ten theme. The preferred method of theme creating for WordPress is child themes, this is a … Continue reading

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Changing Times

Digital Raindrops is a website for sharing information about WordPress and theme development, and we hope it will become a well visited and useful website and resource for visitors looking for WordPress tutorials. After some recent feedback we are changing the … Continue reading

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Twenty Ten Tutorials

After some feedback about the way we structured the tutorials and the content we are creating a set of tutorials for the twenty ten theme over the next six weeks, we will cover many areas of theme modification without editing … Continue reading

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New Look

Well we hope you like the new look to the website, we thought it was time for a quick update. As you can see we have been quite busy adding the plasticity theme features and BuddyPress to the website, you … Continue reading

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Artisteer Online User Group

I have been looking on LinkedIn for an Artisteer Group, being active on the Artisteer forums the level of questions is fairly low level, with some of the users not even understanding how to create a page or post, and … Continue reading

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Blogging with Images

So you have your blog setup and you have created a few posts, people are visiting your website but the bounce rate is high, and those that stay are reading a few posts which shows the content is interesting but … Continue reading

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How-To Live Writer

We read many posts where the author has pasted content from Word online, if you are a Windows user there is a free product that you can use to get your content online with one click.  If you have windows … Continue reading

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