WordPress Theme Detector Blog

Introducing the new WPThemeDetector

Posted by Luis Alejandre on 13 February, 2014 - 14 comments

I´m very proud to announce the brand new version of our site. As our most regular users must have noticed, we´ve changed everything: our theme, our logo, the way we display the detection results, our statistical Top reports… Everything. It was clear that WPThemeDetector was needing a new...

Changing the colors of the Twenty Fourteen theme

Posted by Luis Alejandre on 29 December, 2013 - 27 comments

The new WordPress default theme Twenty Fourteen was released with WordPress 3.8 on Dec 12, 2013. That very same day, a new plugin developed to easily re-color the Twenty Fourteen theme appeared in the WordPress Plugin Directory. I realized about the existence of this plugin when, a few days...

Add functions to your WordPress child theme (3) – Introduction to WordPress Hooks

Posted by Luis Alejandre on 6 October, 2013 - 17 comments

So far in this tutorial series we have seen how to add a new function to our WordPress child theme, either by modifying an existing function or by creating a brand new one from scratch. The example functions we used on both cases worked right away for us, they...

Standard Theme, where are you?

Posted by Luis Alejandre on 26 September, 2013 - 9 comments

Almost a month ago I published my post Standard, one of the Top WordPress Themes, says goodbye after 8BIT announced that they were closing down for business. On that post I showed my concern about one of our top themes going away, apparently for good. Then a week ago I wrote...

Our Top WordPress Themes reports welcome Twenty Thirteen

Posted by Luis Alejandre on 7 September, 2013 - 2 comments

One month and one week after the public release of WordPress Version 3.6 “Oscar”, the new default theme Twenty Thirteen that comes with it has finally made its debut today on our Top WordPress Themes reports. The Top WordPress Themes reports are dynamically generated from the data we collect every time...

Interview with Marcel Sobieski of TeslaThemes, a promising Theme Club.

Posted by Luis Alejandre on 30 August, 2013 - 0 comments

TeslaThemes is a quite new WordPress Theme Club, launched just about 3 months ago. Therefore you won´t see any of their themes ranking on our Top WordPress Themes reports yet (they haven´t been in the market long enough to get there). Nevertheless I thought it would be a good...