I get a lot of questions both on the site and in forums about WordPress themes well suited to the property rental market, and I always struggle to recommend a theme which can work ‘out of the box’ for people with only a basic knowledge of WordPress. Unless you know how to edit CSS, a lot of themes don’t fit what rental property owners need.
So, I’m releasing my first free WordPress theme called Orange Mist Random, and you can download it at the bottom of this post. Read More
Today I’ve just launched a website for lovely clients Emma and David Worth who run Walnut Maison, a gorgeous gite with outdoor swimming pool near Bordeaux. The website design for this gite is based on a WordPress theme, and the site includes a variety of features including: Read More
Just added a bit of new functionality to the Gite Guru website today which uses the excellent Aeros theme, making the background image randomise on page reload (try clicking around the pages on the blog to see the image switch between different photos). Note, this only works on versions of Aeros up to 1.04, and not the more recent 1.05 release, sorry!
I learned how to randomise a header image on a website whilst building a client’s site, and thought it would be pretty cool to implement it on the background image on this site. Read More
Photo lover theme is sponsored by Ferienwohnungen Normandie and designed by Normandy Gites
WordPress TV launches
I’ve stuck a few videos on here in the past showing how to do a variety of things on WordPress. Today, WordPress announced that they are launching WordPress TV which will host training videos and also videos from various WordPress events around the world. Worth checking out if you’re into blogging and WordPress in particular for designing your gite website. Of course, their videos won’t be a patch on mine… !