If you are using Pro or any Premium theme for your site, you get what I call an instant mobile experience. The mobile version of your site is delivered to modern smart phones: iPhone, Android, WebOS, Window Phone 7 and Blackberry. Ashford follows the SEO guidance provided by Google’s John Mueller, John Mueller – @Paul [...]
Jetpack is a plugin by Automatic (the company behind WordPress) that gives self-hosted WordPress installations access to many of the cool features loved by hosted WordPress.com users. The only feature of interest to most Ashford users will be the Stats feature — for simple in dashboard reporting.
Ashford v2.0 started supporting post formats. Right now I only support asides. The remaining post formats—gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio and chat—will be supported in the future. Post Formats gives you a standardized list of formats for your posts which allows you the ability to build your site like Tumblr. Asides are short content (often without [...]
When you are logged into Ashford, there is a small “grid on” box that appears under the Admin Bar (see the highlighed area). This is super useful when you are developing or creating content for the site (see right for screen shot of the grid turned on). But there is a chance that you need [...]
If you are running WordPress 3.1 (now you should be running 3.2), Ashford adds the Admin Bar to the top of your site when you are logged in. This post will show how to remove it. I happen to love it, but there will be projects where it must be turned off. In the Dev [...]
I just posted new documentation on how to build mega menus with Ashford. If you have a working example, please comment and share.
Ashford is translation ready (v3.0 has a bunch of updates thanks to Kenneth Poveda Mata) but editing a .po or .mo file can be intimidating even with a tool like PoEdit. I recently stumbled across a better way to do translating in WordPress with the Codestyling Localization plugin. If you are running a multilingual site, you also should take a look at the WPML plugin.
Until now, this feature has be undocumented as I have been divided on how to implement giving more content tools to authors. The visual editor is a mixed blessing. It is the reason most client love WordPress, but it also is the source of headaches. It does not always behave as expected especially when combined [...]
This is the second post in my series, How to build a web site with Ashford. My previous site had four pages: home, services, portfolio and Ashford. The new site will have more pages: home, design, development, mobile, consulting, portfolio, Ashford and about. The home page will list recent blog posts. I will create category for each [...]
This is the first post in a series called, How to Build a Web Site, where I will blog the relaunch of my web site, Turtle Interactive. These posts will be edited and refined at a later date. This post is mostly background rather than “how to”. I use WordPress because it makes clients happy [...]
