I got a chance to interview ChiQ Montes. It really is fun to make new friends within the WordPress themers community. What follows is some fun insight into ChiQ Montes. ChiQ Montes, Please tell us a little about yourself. I am ChiQ Montes. Female. Filipino. I have been building websites and blogs for 5 years already and have been designing WordPress Themes for more than a year now. I am a techie at heart and...

Recently, I did a presentation a the Web414 June Meet Up, which is a group of developers, designers, programmers, publishers and webpreneurs in the greater Milwaukee area here in Wisconsin. They invited me to speak on a topic I love and am passionate about: WordPress. I got to pick my own topic – which is never easy when it comes to WordPress, because there is just so MUCH that can be talked about when...

Just thought I’d share a few links with you today of bloggers that design themes too. Headset Options Sunny has a bunch of high quality themes. He also has one of the best tutorials I’ve found on DOMTab. One of his newest themes is Silk(image to the left). Keep up the good work Sunny! Justin Tadlock This guy really doesn’t need a link from me, But I like his themes because he has challenged...

After many request I have taken my old WordPress theme Loopy Blue and have made 7 skins for it and have renamed it Loopy Rainbow. once installed you can go to the theme’s option page and choose your color set. You can pick: blue, black, red, purple, pink and rainbow. I have also made a few small changes to the core like the RSS Icon has been added to the sidebar. Download Loopy Rainbow Preview it in black I...

A Political WordPress theme for you guys! Its a 3 Column widget ready with 2 built-in Adsense spots. Valid XHTML! Demo Political Politics | Download Political Politics You can add your Adsense publisher numbers in the files adsanse_sidebar.php & adsanse_top.php. Open bio.php to edit your bio. AKPC_IDS += "207,";Popularity: 13% [?]

I was helping a friend with the design of a squeeze page today and it inspired me. It’s a single column, widget ready theme, with 3 column sidebar at the bottom and a page menu at the top. Download Squeeze Page | Preview Squeeze Page Please tell me what you think. UPDATE Yan from [Geeks Are Sexy] reported a bug in the header. It’s been fixed. Thanks Yan! AKPC_IDS += "198,";Popularity: 13% [?]

So I got a question today: How do I install a WordPress theme? After finding your new theme it’s very easy to install your new theme. Here is the quick guide: Unzip your theme Upload your theme to the themes directory Enable your theme from your WordPress dashboard You can use WinZip or my favorite zip utility WinRar to unzip your new theme. Next you’ll need to upload the theme directory to your...

Free WordPress Theme: Sport Fishing Sports Fishing is a 3 column WordPress theme with 2 widget supported sidebars. I thank this is one of my best WordPress themes so far! Preview Sport Fishing | Download Sport Fishing AKPC_IDS += "182,";Popularity: 61% [?]

Did you know you can organize your themes within the theme directory of WordPress? By putting your themes in subdirectories you can organize your themes. WordPress will automatically know where the themes are and all your images and styles will still work. Why? For me, this makes it easy keep track of themes I’m working on, themes I need to upgrade and the themes of my clients. AKPC_IDS += "179,";Popularity:...

I wish I had some news for you that are interested in an update. I have tried contacting everyone I can thank of who might have some news. I haven’t yet received any replies. I do know that the longer it lingers with no update the sadder it could become for the WordPress community. The theme viewer served many purposes. At least that’s they way I feel. For me it served as inspiration in the fact...