Interested in learning more about WordPress? Join our monthly WordPress Meetup at Cruzio. Below are resource links from our September meetup.
- Getting Started: WordPress.org
- State of the Word link from Chris Burbridge who attended WordCamp SF
Unique Fonts That Work on the Web from meetup member Agatha Malina
- Google Fonts
- Popular Web Font Embedding Services
- Learn about it and don’t forget to click on Google Announcement link.
- Free fonts and more fonts and hacks to make it all work better
Premium Theme Suggestions:
Slider/Gallery Plugins:
Garden Lane Soaps: Next Generation Gallery Link to plugin site: Uses jQuery and AJAX/Web 2.0 technologies
Equity Transitions Slider (Child Theme for Thesis from Themedy) uses “featured image” and Next Gen Gallery, too.
Chris Martin Designs: Simple Viewer Gallery Link to plugin site: Free, customizable image viewing application features smart preloading, a resizable interface, thumbnail menu and optional description text. This example is part of the post.
Another Simple Viewer Example with thumbnails bottom, or top
Santa Cruz Volunteer Center SlidePress Link to SlidePress plugin info. ($39+)
Accordian from CodeCanyon. I’ve used some of their other products (a slideshow that is not WordPress and code was easy to follow).
Free Tip: How do I add extra space in WordPress? Use “
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Contest Plugins? Don’t have but I do have a “Polls” plugin for voting? Plugin site
stumbled on this falling leaves feature when I was doing my research: (It’s free.) I use one of their slideshows for standard websites but they don’t appear to have a WordPress show.
[leaves id=1 custom=1 width=500 height=427 upload_image=https://santa-cruz-web-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/leaves.jpg number_leaves=40 rotationtype=2D]