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My Recommended WordPress Themes and Plugins

After having used WordPress for a number of years, I’ve really started to get into more plugins that help me present and share my content the way I want. I’ve also gone through some themes and picked one I like, including versions for desktop and mobile. Here’s my recommendations for WordPress themes and plugins…

Themes

Twenty Eleven

twentyeleven2Twenty Eleven is still my WordPress theme of choice. It’s feature-full, clean, elegant, and problem free from my experience.

Please note it’s not actively updated so you may need to Google around for fixes. For example, I wrote a post on how to fix the featured image that is buggy in the default Twenty Eleven theme.

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How to fix WordPress Twenty Eleven Featured Image

I like the Twenty Eleven theme and I still haven’t upgraded it. Luckily, some people are keeping it up to date and compatible with the latest WordPress in 2015! But there was one bug that bothered me for a long time and that was featured images were broken. These are the big header images at the top of posts (for example, the big image at the top of this post, or the grid of cars image at the top of one of my other posts). These image are just broken and will not display your custom featured image in the stock Twenty Eleven. So here’s how I fixed it…

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