This is the second part of a 2 part interview with Ian Stewart on child themes. Enjoy. 5. Speaking of child themes and theme frameworks, can you explain how one would upgrade a child theme when a theme framework is involved? From the end users perspective there’s really no change in how you use a Child Theme as opposed to a regular theme and there’s really no change in how you upgrade that theme. Even if a theme framework is involved. But the process of upgrading that Child Theme can be improved on. One thing I do in the pre-designed Thematic Child Themes I release commercially is add in a function that looks for a “variant.css” file in the wp-content directory. That function lets you make minor changes like adding background images and changing colors within variant.css without touching the original Child Theme CSS, making it ready to be upgraded […]
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Archive for 2008
Child themes are a trend which appears to be gaining traction everywhere you look. Theme authors such as Ian Stewart, Justin Tadlock and Darren Hoyt are just a few of the influential people pushing this concept. In order to try and grasp an understanding of child themes, I interviewed Ian Stewart of Themeshaper.com. His responses were so long, this interview will end up being published in two parts. Here is part 1. 1. First off, could you please explain what Child themes are in the simplest way possible? A Child Theme is a WordPress theme that installs and activates just like any other WordPress theme—with 2 crucial differences. Firstly, it requires no PHP template files of it’s own to work. That’s because it uses the template files of a defined Parent Theme. The Parent Theme must be installed—but not activated—in your blog’s themes directory for the Child Theme to work. […]
[Continue Reading...]Business Directory for WordPress Business Directory for WordPress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog WordPress Multibox Plugin This plugin brings the great Multibox from phatfusion to your blog images. WP-RecentComments Display recent comments in your blog sidebar. Woopra Analytics Plugin This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Activate the plugin and configure your site ID in the Woopra settings. Collapsing Categories This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable the set of posts for each category. Lazyest Gallery Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation Adminimize Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. CommentLuv Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post […]
[Continue Reading...]Episode 23 of WordPress Weekly is now ready for your consumption. In this episode, Keith and I discuss the IntenseDebate acquisition and what that means for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org while also discussing the business aspects of the deal. We also give our thoughts on the developmental version of WordPress 2.7 thus far. We highlight the fact that there has been at least two differen UI surveys available to the public highlighting the increased awareness as well as end user participation into the final product. There is a major difference between the way the UI is being handled in terms of end user feedback between WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.7. Last but not least, Keith and I give you our plugin picks up the week. Stories Discussed On The Show: Automattic acquires IntenseDebate WordPress 2.7 – Tentatively Scheduled For Release On November 10th WordPress Usability Surveys: / Navigation Options / […]
[Continue Reading...]Desk Space Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich WordPress theme. It comes with a robust set of built in features and plugins, including the ability to switch out the background wood finish color to one you like. Spicy Typography Two column, widget ready, fast loading theme. Under Water Two column, Blue, White, Purple, Grey and Black widget, ready fixed width theme Simply Ornate Two column theme designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography and comes in 5 flavours.
[Continue Reading...]Revolution Theme Going Open Source: Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme for WordPress is going 100% Open Source. All the themes that are currently on Brian’s Revolution site will no longer be available as or October 31st and will be replaced with a set of new themes that will be developed and released under the GPL. The original Revolution themes will continue to be supported for those who have purchased them in the past. The new GPL themes will also be sold in packages that include support, access to customizations, tutorials and other items. Brian explains his decision in the linked post, talks about his plans for the future of Revolution and explains why he chose to remove the original Revolution themes from his site. I have met Brian at various conferences and we have become friends. In our past discussions on valid and financially viable models for theme developers and designers […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Blurb Limit posts, pages, categories or your custom text. Limit the number of characters to what you like. You are calling the plugin function from your theme. Ajax Twitter This plugin is using the Twitter API to get and post the updates. WordPress MU Sitewide Tags This plugin creates a central blog where all the most recent posts on a WordPress MU site can be found. The number of posts is configurable and defaults to 5,000 posts. (Only for WordPress MU) WP Dockbar Wp Dockbar is a plugin developed for users of WordPress who are not very familiar with the use of javascript code, html and CSS. With Wp Dockbar will not be necessary edit html code, even for the inclusion of new buttons in dockbar. TDW Combobox Links Display links in a combobox. bbPress Live bbPress Live allows you to pull data from a bbPress 1.0 forum using […]
[Continue Reading...]StayPressed StayPressed is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right hand-sidebar and a magazine style – kept simple, to let your blog content do the talking Case Case is a dark WordPress theme with blue accents. It has an Ajax box in the sidebar that allows you to switch between categories, tags, recent comments, and recent posts without reloading the page and without taking up a lot of space, which keeps your blog nice and clean. Iris Iris is a a two column WordPress theme with Iris like colors. The theme is mostly purple, with pink, and blue, with nice gradients and textures. It has nice rounded corners on every post to separate them and drive focus to the content. It is widget ready and ready to demo and download. Designredux Two column, black and white theme Jin Two column gravatar and widget ready theme with ability to post […]
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WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements
Otto, who is a well known and respected member of the WordPress community has published a pretty cool article (WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements) which explains the various comment enhancements that have made it to the core of WordPress 2.7 thus far. Otto’s reasoning behind the post was to allow theme authors to gain a head start on creating themes which will be compatible with WordPress 2.7. One thing to keep in mind while reading this article is that, this information was compiled from using the latest developmental version of WordPress 2.7. This means things may not be set in stone with further additions or retractions possible before the initial release. Here are some of the enhancements that Otto covers: Creating a 2.7 compatible comments.php file Password protection check The comments loop The power of Ajax Styling Thanks Otto.
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