50% off – Our 5th Birthday Extravaganza!

We’re turning 5 years old! To celebrate, we’re running a huge holiday + birthday + happy day SALE! Use the code: HAPPY And knock 50% off your next purchase. Sale ends 31 December. Happy holidays! P.S. We’re also changing our prices and deleting some themes. You should read why we’re doing it.

A delicious new theme: Aperitive

We’ve just published our most delicious theme for WordPress yet. It’s called Aperitive and it’s as tasty as blueberry pie. Perfect for chefs, critics, and food lovers all around. What makes Aperitive so great: 50/50 Aperitive is designed to show you what you’re eating on the left, and tell you what it is on the […]

New! Veni – a fashion, lifestyle, blog theme!

Inspired by the latest trends in fashion, lifestyle and blog web design, Veni is a sight to behold. Lots of active negative space helps guide eyes to your content. An asymmetric layout keeps it from looking boring. Veni is contemporary, chic, and delightful. Use it for: travel, fashion, and lifestyle blogs… or anything else you […]

Kill your popups or be damned by Google

Does your website use a huge popup asking for people to sign up for your newsletter? Well, Google’s not a fan. Starting 10 January, 2017, Google will begin to penalize websites with intrusive popups and interstitials. What’s an interstitial? It’s basally a popup that doesn’t let you see a website until you tap the close […]

Pre-order your .Blog domain!

Automattic, the people people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce,  and more, recently won the rights to the .blog domain last year. It wasn’t cheap, either: they spent about $19 million to secure the domain. Hopefully, people will be interested enough to buy .blog web addresses to offset the price. This is a pretty big deal because there […]

What We’re Working on: Veni

Veni is a sleek new travel theme for the adventurous globe trekker. Celebrate summer by travelling somewhere. Preferably, the further away the better. Say, Iceland? Then, once you take a few gorgeous photos of Iceland’s unforgiving landscape, write a quick post for your travel blog! You’ll be able to feature your best writing as well as your photo stories. […]

Add style to Ippo with 804+ Google Fonts

The Ippo theme for WordPress comes with the full Google Fonts catalogue. With over 804+ fonts at your disposal, you can mix and match for a style that’s perfect for your website. But with over an infinity of combinations, it’s difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff (the good from the bad). Here are our fave font combinations for a bunch of styles and websites.

Why the hamburger menu is killing your business

The hamburger menu is the three stripes you see in the upper corners of a website. It was inspired by mobile design patterns, where screen space is small (or rather used to be small before phablets showed up). You can’t put too many navigation links on a mobile site, so a new trend birthed itself from this problem: hide the navigation links under a menu. This menu was often designed as the, now notorious, hamburger icon.

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Magazines are the best.

There’s a vocal bunch of people shouting PRINT IS DEAD most often in comment sections on the internet. Sometimes they write long winded articles about print’s inevitable demise, too. Then there’s the other bunch of people shouting back, although a little quieter, NO IT’S NOT.