Archive for September, 2010

eFrog – a new WordPress theme site

Posted on September 3, 2010 by The Forge
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After the wonderful success of our 3 free WordPress themes released earlier this year – Organic, Greyzed and Aqualine – we have taken the big plunge and created a dedicated theme shop through which to distribute our existing themes and release new premium themes.

After many months of lovingly planning, designing and building our innovative Premium WordPress Theme website, we are thrilled to finally announce the launch of our fresh new company, eFrog Digital Design, into the World Wide Web today.

To kick things off, a stylish new eFrog Premium WordPress Theme called “Parallax” is on offer, designed especially for photographers and other folk wanting to showcase a digital portfolio.

Parallax has been specifically developed for WordPress 3.0 and makes fantastic use of custom post types, archive and navigation menus to create a flexible and elegant portfolio solution.

As an added bonus, eFrog Digital Design is celebrating its launch by offering a 10% discount on the Parallax theme until 10 September 2010.

Our team is rather proud of what we’ve achieved and hope you’ll enjoy the themes we have on offer at eFrog, as well as all the great designs we’re working on for future release.

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Sprogs

Posted on September 2, 2010 by The Forge
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After the successful development The Wedding Directory, we were commissioned by Limelight Websites to build another directory site for them – Sprogs.

Sprogs showcases a useful collection of child-related resources in South Africa, from events and shows to schools and support groups.  The website is powered by WordPress and includes a number of interactive features like blog posts, birth notice submissions and voting polls.

Here are some of the important elements we incorporated into the redevelopment:

  • Advanced Post Custom Fields -Additional details relevant to the section to which a post belongs are aggregated and stored much more efficiently than standard custom fields. This allows for the system to be highly powerful without compromising efficiency.
  • Improved Category Filtering – The system not only offers users two levels of filtering for finding listings but also offers complete control over which criteria are used in each level. This means users can filter listings first by type and then area, or first by area and then type.
  • Enhanced Pagination -Improving on the standard WordPress next and previous post pagination links which can ensure that the posts share at least one category. Sprogs service provider pagination links efficiently ensure that pagination links to a post which shares all the same categories as the current post.

Click here to take a look at the Sprogs website.