
There’s a question that exposes more about the health of a university than almost any accreditation review, board presentation, or strategic plan.
We’ve released an update to the Social plugin for WordPress. Social is a plugin that creates a two-way integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can broadcast your posts to your social networks and bring responses back in as comments. It’s also integrated into our FavePersonal theme. This version includes…


I’ve been a fan of Michael Lopp for the better part of a decade. The content on Rands in Repose is stellar; consistently giving me insights and sparks for new ideas to consider. It’s one of the sites I link to most frequently from my personal site since 2004. Earlier this year I saw a…

I’m very excited to announce that Crowd Favorite is joining forces with our good friends at VeloMedia! Karim (VeloMedia) with Jon, Jonel and Alex (Crowd Favorite) at WordCamp Denver 2013. When I started building the team at Crowd Favorite I did so with the intention of creating a sustainable business where I’d want to work.…



Today we’re happy to announce we are the proud maintainers of two brand new gems on RubyGems: Capistrano-WP: A Ruby gem containing recipes for deploying, rolling back, and maintaining remote WordPress installations with Capistrano. In other words, these are the set of tasks that we use for local development environment configuration and remote Capistrano deployments…

Crowd Favorite had the pleasure of working with Solvitor to re-launch the NIH Director’s Blog on WordPress.com. Using the “Customized CSS” add-on, Crowd Favorite helped take an existing theme, Able, and customize the CSS to nearly match the NIH’s site-wide styles. Be sure to visit the newly re-launched NIH Director’s Blog on WordPress.com.

Crowd Favorite is proud to sponsor Junior Achivement . Four out of the last five years we’ve sponsored a hole at the JA golf event at the Sanctuary. Alex played with the Ernst & Young golf foursome and the team tied for 3rd gross score and placed first for net (handicaps applied) score. Alex says,…


In conjunction with a re-branding effort, Crowd Favorite and Backflip Studios have worked together to re-design and re-launch the Backflip Studios company website. After selecting WordPress as the desired platform for managing their content, the Boulder-based company selected their Denver neighbors, Crowd Favorite, to help with the design and development efforts. We’re very pleased with…


The team at Crowd Favorite is proud to announce the re-launch of the National Geographic Kids Blog on WordPress. The team at Kids was very clear and concise in what would make their blogs successful: privacy and protection for kids to leave comments clean, simple content presentation whimsical headers for each blog “mini” blog subject…
*This article was originally published on Forty.co. Forty is now Crowd Favorite. I’m still a numbers guy at heart, That’s why I get so frustrated every time I hear someone recommending crowdsourced design services like 99designs. The math just doesn’t work out for business owners, but it looks like such a compelling solution on the surface…

*This article was originally published on Forty.co. Forty is now Crowd Favorite. A web typography template is a good tool to help web designers remember all the styles they’ll need to consider to make sure none of their content’s formatting options fall through the cracks. After writing an article about the benefits of a web typography…