New section Layout added to Theme Customizer

Comprehensive Guide to make WordPress Theme Options with Customization API

After install a high quality WordPress theme, you find it has a Theme Option page. Per theme, developer will make their own Option page (functions, features, layout …) so it can not be compatible with your theme or others.  Let’s me know what’s you feel when changing to new WordPress theme then you start learning again to re-configure WordPress and you’ll see why that’s a bad thing for WordPress publishers. That’s why I always disliked about theme settings pages was how vastly different they would get.

The Theme Customizer was introduced since WordPress version 3.4 then it’s become a relatively new way of WordPress Themes to provide you with options. It allows for an editing environment where theme options can be tried by the administrator before being applied to the live site. Currently, I’m using WordPress Theme Customizer as my default theme options instead build my own or using other theme options way.
In this tutorial, we will look at exactly how this feature can be added to a theme and I show you how to create your own classes to extend the controls to make your own Customizer Custom Controls, since not all fields and requests are in the core already. You can access existing solutions of the community or create your own classes.

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WordPress Dashboard keyboard shortcuts

Navigate & Control Your WordPress Dashboard with Keyboard Shortcuts

Today, my wireless mouse’s battery empty, but I found that I left backup battery at home. So I must find the way to control WordPress Dashboard with keyboard instead mouse. I printed all the keyboard shortcuts and start becoming familiar with keyboard shortcuts. Using keyboard shortcuts on WordPress, my hands don’t have to leave the keyboard to use the mouse and click on the icons. If I need to make a text bold/italics, or insert a link/image or wrap a text in quotes all I need to do is perform the keyboard shortcut. Not only does this enable me to save time but it also helps me to blog more efficiently.

Now, without wasting much time I’ll go to the list of shortcuts available from your WordPress dashboard. Of course, I’m not talking about Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, and other basic stuff. I’m talking about WordPress specific shortcuts. And there’s a truly wide selection of those.

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Best Free Premium & Beautiful WordPress Themes September 2013

Best Free Premium & Beautiful WordPress Themes September 2013

Like previous month, on second week of month I will listing best FREE PREMIUM beautiful and high quality WordPress themes. This month I’ve had some excellent themes to choose from and had a tough time narrowing them down! They are all simple to use and customize ensuring that you can easily convey a unique style and brand on your site.

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Free Premium Files: September 2013 1

Free Premium Files: September 2013

The Envato marketplace give away free file every month. In September I’ll continue give you new awesome collections of free premium files from different marketplace in one place.

Envato Marketplaces offers free “premium” product called “Free File of The Month”. The start of the month always brings free files for us all.

Please note these files are free for this month only, next month download links won’t available so don’t forget to sing-up and get the items free, and I added little review and demo for every one of files, check them and Hurry! Grab your free premium file of the month copy today.

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