Avatar Manager for WordPress is a sweet and simple plugin for storing avatars locally and more. Easily. Enhance your WordPress website by letting your users choose between using Gravatar or a self-hosted avatar image right from their profile screen. Improved workflow, on-demand image generation and custom user permissions under a native interface. Say hello to the Avatar Manager plugin.

One of the best things about my education at the University of Scranton was the recurring lesson we learned about reuse. Reuse is incredibly important in programming for many reasons: easier testing, saving time, the ability to focus on more advanced things, etc. Once I graduated and entered the wonderful world of full-time freelancing, I decided if I was going to keep doing WordPress work, I would need to apply those reuse lessons to my everyday life. Number one on my list was a simple WordPress theme framework.

In part one, we'll talk about the planning stages of the project and consider what is really necessary for a ticketing system, take a look at how to use WordPress to build a pleasant environment for your users/customers, and we'll take a look at building a skeleton ready for part two.

Themes are a huge part of what makes WordPress as popular as it is, and in this three-part series we'll take you through a step-by-step process that results in a completed, functioning WordPress theme. No prior knowledge required, this is the perfect place to start if you're completely new to WordPress!

Word of warning: this Session is not for the faint-hearted! Throughout the course of nearly fifty screencasts Adi Purdila will walk you through conception and completion of an entire WordPress blog theme. You'll start out on the first section (Adaptive Blog Theme: From Photoshop to HTML & CSS), translate the design into an adaptive HTML and CSS build, then jump to this section where you'll rig everything up with WordPress.

There's rarely a better way of learning web design than to watch over someone's shoulder for the duration of a complete project; this is your chance to do just that.

Let's be honest: the PHP community hasn't been as quick to the test-driven development scene as other communities, such as those around the Ruby and Python languages. We hope to help change that on Nettuts+! In this session, you'll learn both why and how to test-drive your applications using the fantastic PHPUnit. Ready?