Just want to celebrate the sale of my first child theme for Ashford Pro, Axis made its debut earlier today and within hours the first copies where being sold. Axis is a child theme which allows you to choose from 7 bold color schemes: blue, green, grey, lime, pink, purple and red. Change your colors [...] Read more »
Often people download or purchase WordPress themes based on what it looks like. The problem is that most of themes are a pain to use, and no one tells you all the hoops and hacks that went into creating the demo site. Ashford is different. Out of the box its plain, but packed with premium [...] Read more »
As a way of getting back into the habit of blogging for Ashford, I just want to celebrate sale the 100th copy of Ashford Pro. Thanks everyone. Pro owners are the ones which push the ongoing development and improvement of the FREE version of Ashford. So anyone using the Free version, should thank you too. [...] Read more »
I have been feeling humble lately over some defects in Ashford and that some people have struggled to customize their site. So this morning when I got an email from Ernie who is working on a site for St. Peter UMC, I opened it with joy: Thanks for Ashford. Awesome theme! This customization of Ashford [...] Read more »
I like to see Ashford used in the wild and as a geek I’m really interested in how people modified the code. I get to see what’s important and get an idea of priorities. Costumes Best is a “micro-site” using Ashford to scour “through thousands of costumes on the internet, saving you precious time, to [...] Read more »
I am very excited to release v0.5 of Ashford and Ashford Pro. Following on the heels of Smashing Magazine selecting Ashford for a second time, listing it with other top WordPress frameworks like Thematic, Carrington and Hybrid, this release is the most child theme friendly version so far. With this release of Ashford v0.5, Added over two dozen [...] Read more »
Smashing Magazine has selected Ashford for a second time and listed it with other top WordPress frameworks like Thematic, Carrington and Hybrid. Ashford is not yet ready for third-party development, but the v0.7 will see the publication of child theme documentation. With the next release of Ashford (v0.5), I will be selling new momblogger themes and offering several [...] Read more »
After many months of consideration, I’m going to be releasing a set of “momblogging” child themes for Ashford. After reading this post and considering that my wife has been asking me for a theme, it seems like a great place to start. Fred at AVC writes about mombloggers, Momblogging is one of the fastest growing [...] Read more »
Ashford is free and will remain free. If you need unlimited support buy Ashford Pro for only $49: Learn how to customize Ashford Find out how to use Ashford features to build the pages you require Advocate for new features There will be support for advanced users as well as developers using [...] Read more »
I just noticed that a decent number of people are searching for how to remove the breadcrumbs. As this is a usability feature that I thought a “premium” theme should include, I am kind of surprised. You can expect in the next release to get a theme option to turn breadcrumbing off. See I’m listening [...] Read more »
Announcing the new release Ashford for WordPress websites. Download Ashford v0.4 New page templates include a simple FAQ template and a sexy carousel landing page that does not take a Ph.D to implement Preview a pro blogger layout template which is NOT yet ready for use but will be in the next release Blog [...] Read more »
Twitter is great for getting links to breaking news or new blog posts (@smahingmagazine, @fastcompany, @IncMagazine or @nytimes). Most of us like getting research or statistics on media trends and I found several media research companies on Twitter. Here is the my current list of research companies: Add your list [...] Read more »