Make a Child Theme on WordPress

How to Create a WordPress Child Theme Using One-Click Child Themes

The team at Slocum Themes has made it easier than ever before to create a WordPress child theme using our themes. Built right into the functionality of our clean and elegant themes in the theme options panel is a section to create a one-click child theme that is easy to manage. Read on to discover …

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Display Motivational Quotes and Testimonials

Display Motivational Quotes and Testimonials in WordPress

We have finally found a great WordPress plugin to display motivational quotes, testimonials, or taglines. Only problem is, the plugin is ancient (read: has not been updated since 2009). Good thing it still works with our themes! The name of the plugin is Advanced Tagline. It is a free plugin that can be found in …

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How to backup wordpress

How to make a WordPress backup and migrate with BackUpBuddy

A long time ago, our team compared two of the most popular plugins available for creating WordPress backups, BackupBuddy and BackWPup. While we decided they were both great plugins, we never truly taught people how to make a WordPress backup using BackupBuddy or BackWPup. We start here, with a look at how to create a …

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Flat Design

Flat design is becoming flat (editorial)

From the moment Windows 8 and Apple’s new iOS 7 launched to the marketplace, the buzzword in web and tech design has been “flat.” Fast forward to today, and even WordPress is utilizing flat design with the WordPress 3.8 dashboard UI and the newly released default theme, Twenty Fourteen. What is flat design?