Jason G. Designs

WordPress Themes, Design Tutorials, Linux Themes and more…

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JGD-BizElite

JGD-BizElite is a free responsive/fixed theme with premium features. Ideal for a content heavy blog, JGD-BizElite is packed with options. Customizer modifications include WordPress’s Custom Logo, Custom Header, custom menus and background. Additional Customizer options give you the ability to hide the post date, tag and category links, and change the footer text. Eight layouts, six color schemes and two custom page templates are included.

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Ubuntu Linux, Permissions and a Local WordPress Install

Flames and codeUpon installing LAMP and WordPress 3.3 on my local computer, I ran into a couple issues when trying to put my own previously created themes into the wp-content/themes directory. Mainly, it was the “Connection Information” screen that may pop up when installing a theme, not being able to access the /themes directory and the Manage Themes screen not recognizing themes once I had access. This article describes how I researched then remedied those. Read More…

Blue Green Blast Tutorial is Now Updated for WordPress 3.0

If you followed the former Squidoo tutorial series beginning with Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6 and ending with Converting a Static HTML Site into a WordPress Theme- Part 2, you may know that these tutorials are out of date. Even though they are comprehensive, they leave out current best coding practices and more importantly, they are do not take advantage of WordPress 3.0! Read More…