In this two-part series, we're going to take a look at how to introduce a jQuery date picker into our post editor so that we can associate a date with a given post.

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.

Throughout the next series of posts, we'll take a look at a number of practices that can help provide some guidelines on how to begin researching, building, releasing, and maintaining premium WordPress projects on the cheap.

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!