Pro Blog Design

WordPress makes it straightforward to create a gallery from the images attached to a post. Just a couple of clicks and the gallery shortcode will be inserted into your post for you.

Why not make it even easier though? In this post, I will walk you through adjusting your theme to automatically insert a gallery after every post.

We’ll also limit how many images show up in the gallery (The rest can be shown on the individual image pages themselves), and exclude our post’s featured image if it has one.

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Today is the 3rd Blog Action Day, meaning that you’ll be bombarded by articles from all over the internet on helping our environment. We took part in the first two, and of course we’ll be taking part in the bombardment today as well.

Keeping in line with our regular topic, we’ve pulled together a collection of the best designed “green” blogs and websites out there.

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Wordpress is the very customizable and developer friendly. You can make just about any website you have in mind with it; blog, portfolio, gallery, e-store, etc.

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform. If you still see it that way, you will change your point of view after seeing these great sites using WordPress as a CMS.

Click on an image to see the site in full!

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When working on a new blog theme most designers like to look around at examples of well-designed blogs for inspiration that can be used in their own work. Sometimes the most impressive and inspiring designs are those that manage to achieve a great look with simplicity rather than excessive design elements.

In this post we will showcase 30 blog designs that have an effective, attractive design with a clean style. In many cases this style lends itself to proper emphasis on the content and excellent readability.

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Logos make a big impact on how others view your blog or company. It is of great importance in creating brand identity, and you should be very careful in choosing one.

Below we have selected some beautiful and creative logos that will hopefully inspire you to be creative or give you an idea of what the current logo design trends are.

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By its very nature, handwriting and paper are 2 things we just don’t associate with the internet. Our desks might be full of little scraps of paper with notes scrawled across them, but computers have a way of feeling much more organized.

That is part of what makes it so refreshing to see handwritten type and paper effects replicated online. The very best of these designs are still well organized, but they bring a little of that un-restricted, freeform nature of pen and paper to our screens.

In this post we’ve pulled together 31 of our favorites using these effects.

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In part 1, we showed you the first 50 of the best grunge and creative designs we could find. Now in part 2, it’s time for the other half!

Below are some of the most colorful, unique and creative designs we’ve seen. Great inspiration for anyone!

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