Ashford WordPress Theme

St. Peter UMC Case Study

Tim Bednar — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:52:06 +0000

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 »

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Halloween Costume Site Uses Ashford

Tim Bednar — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:22:18 +0000

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 »

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Ashford adds fresh features and Pro Bundles get more value

Tim Bednar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:22:09 +0000

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 »

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Smashing Magazine selects Ashford as a WordPress framework

Tim Bednar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:04:28 +0000

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 »

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Momblogging

Tim Bednar — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:12:06 +0000

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 »

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Customizing your site? Get Ashford Pro.

Tim Bednar — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:53:38 +0000

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 »

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Removing breadcrumbs

Tim Bednar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:36:05 +0000

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 »

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Sexy page templates, blog improvements, custom backgrounds and fixes to menus

Tim Bednar — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:17:38 +0000

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 »

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comScore and Pew Internet plus 3 other statistic companies to follow on Twitter

Tim Bednar — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:33:44 +0000

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 »

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7 places to download images for your blog

Tim Bednar — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:22:07 +0000

Ashford now supports using thumbnail images in its blog layout. Using an “hero” image is now an important part of running a professional blog. The best blogs select eye catching images that relate well with the title. Our latest release is optimized to use a 300×220px image in single blog post. (It supports the use [...] Read more »

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