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Hide all your links
Want to concentrate solely on typography and foundational structure while you’re designing your next WordPress theme? Hide all your links. Make them black. Get rid of the underline and make them blend in. Destroy all visual evidence of hypertextuality. Show no mercy as you attack the lists and paragraphs and headings that shore up your content and don’t let anything distract you from your end goal: typographic excellence. Assuming you’re starting with a white background an [...]
Thematic Version 0.3
Thematic version 0.3 is ready. If you’re upgrading, stuff moved. That’s beta for you—but don’t worry, I’ve made things better. Here’s what I’ve gone and done. Added a 3 column stylesheet Cleaned up the post meta and separated it from the comments section following popular convention (and probably breaking stylesheets) Prettified the sliding meta panel with a photoshop-y G.I. Joe handle (it’s like Snake Eyes designed it!) Added an o [...]
How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress
Now that Gravatar support is part of the WordPress core adding them into your WordPress theme is easy. Adding them to your comments has been documented. How about adding them to your post titles to highlight the comment author? That’s fairly easy too. Here’s the code: <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '80' ); ?> Pretty simple, huh? get_the_author_email outputs the post author’s email and the “80” is the size of the avatar image in pixels [...]
WordPress 2.5.1 Released
Another version of WordPress (2.5.1) is now available for download and it includes a very important security fix. In addition to the security fix, version 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights: Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages. Better performance for those who have many categories Media Uploader fixes An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7 Widget Administration fixes Various usability improvements [...]
How To Build WP-PageNavi Into Your WordPress Theme
WP-PageNavi, from Lester “GaMerZ” Chan, gives you an awesome upgrade to your WordPress post-page navigation. Instead of the typical “Older Post/Newer Post” links, you get “Digg-like” pagination. Like so: Very cool. But what if you want to incorporate it into a WordPress theme? How do you style it when the instructions tell you to modify the plugin files? Good questions. I’ll tell you how. First of all you want to tell WordPress to use the plug [...]
Changes At ThemeShaper
There have been some changes at ThemeShaper in the past week. I have a new host for all my blogs and projects, I started an Amazon Bookstore, and the next version of my development theme, Thematic, has been released. Hosting with Fused Network I’ve changed hosts and I couldn’t be happier. Fused Network now supports ThemeShaper by hosting it for free. Free. I could cry. On top of that all my projects, domains, subdomains, databases, settings and assorted whatnots were m [...]
Live Wire Series by Mark Forrester and Adii
The Live Wire Series was released last month by Premium News and it consists of three different themes: Live Wire 2.0, Live Wire Edition, and Live Wire Style. Adii worked with Mark Forrester on these themes and according to Adii, Mark was the lead creative “director” for this project. Adii and Mark packed these themes with a lot of features and they also spent a considerable time testing and troubleshooting it prior to release. The features included are: Automatic Image Resizer (requires PH [...]
We Need To Kill The Sidebar
It’s time for the WordPress sidebar to go, and all mention of it to be wiped out from existence. I’m not talking about the visual idea of a sidebar on your blog. No. I’m talking about the WordPress function get_sidebar() and the use of the term, Sidebar in the WordPress admin. This way of thinking is obscuring the vision of WordPress designers and limiting the potential of your blog theme. Here’s why: A sidebar doesn’t have to be a sidebar. That’s it [...]
A WordPress Theme Structure with Meaning and Possibility
Continuing work on my next theme, Thematic, one thing I want to get out of the way immediately is the structure, or skeleton, of the thing. The outer structure of any HTML+CSS document is where things usually go bonkers and the last thing I want is for my markup to make things worse when I update versions. So, that said, here’s the basic divisions of markup, which I’ll follow with some of my thinking. I’m hoping we can start a conversation over this—and I’m totally up f [...]
Coming Soon: My Personal WordPress Theme Starting Point
I will soon be releasing the hacked-up version of The Sandbox that I’ve been using as a starting point to develop free and custom themes. For free. On Google Code. As an open source project. Since I have different goals than the Sandbox creators (and not as much skill!) I won’t call my changes improvements but they are changes you may appreciate: Search Engine Optimization A grid-based starting point CSS Reset and Typography based on Blueprint Markup allowing eve [...]
Stripped Down Naked to Honor Web Designers and Developers
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WordPress Theme: Pro Profile 1.0
Over on eXtra For Every Publisher, I have released a new WordPress theme called Pro Profile. Here are some details on it: It is a three column, widget ready theme with a really nice and simple look to it. One nice feature is the ability to allow users to select the colour set they feel comfortable with, and hopefully this will be something that all of you will take full advantage of in making new styles for the theme to be added to the set. The theme is released under the Creative Commons Attri [...]
Strip Down Your Blog: CSS Naked Day
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A Proposal for Theme Management in WordPress
The handling of plugins in WordPress 2.5 is perfect. It’s superb. It’s easy. It’s cake. But now that I have cake, you know, I want to eat it too. I’ve got a proposal for how upgrading of themes should be handled in WordPress 2.6 (or whenever) using a .org theme repository. Maybe more like a couple of ideas. But watch out! My first item is going to be somewhat controversial amongst theme authors. Use WordPress Theme Options [...]
The Best Ideas for a New WordPress Default Theme
The contest is over and done! Here’s how the winners were selected: I went through everyone’s ideas and selected the seven best. These seven ideas were forwarded off to Cory Miller of iThemes for ranking. My opinion was asked. An order was set. Three people won some iThemes themes. [...]
Kubrick (DE-Edition)
Das Standard WordPress-Theme basierend auf dem bekannten Kubrick. Download (101) [...]
WordPress Themes: Live Wire Series
Adii has released three new themes under the Live Wire name. We have Live Wire 2.0, Live Wire Edition and Live Wire Style. Very much a magazine theme, the Live Wire themes are still very usable without needing to have your own magazine blog. Starting at $99.95 for a single license, $149.95 for a three pack, which contains all three themes, and two licenses, or $249.95 for the developer license which allows you to use the themes on an unlimited number of blogs, the features help speak [...]
Mastering WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
Over on Noupe there is a great post that goes over some of the millions of ways you can effect major changes on your WordPress theme. Some are difficult, others are very easy, and almost all of them are powerful to bloggers looking to add customizations to their blogs. It includes links to dozens of tutorials from all the great sites on the web that cover WordPress, and can help you an [...]
Retro 50
Retro 50 ist ein zweispaltiges Design. Drei widgetfähige Kolumnen unterhalb des Contents. Es ist lokalisiert. Retro 50 ist ein Liebhaber-Design für Retro-Freaks. Download (25) [...]
Green Dog
Green Dog ist ein auffälliges und vom Design ungewöhnliches Theme. Trotz abgerundeter Ecken, grauen Verläufen, Schatten etc. ist es sehr schlank und übersichtlich gehalten. Download (67) [...]
slide-o-matic
Einspaltig, klar und einfach. Mit aufklappenden Widgets. Download (213) [...]
NewForest
Schlichtes Theme mit buntem Header, dunkler Hintergrund und weißem Contentbereich. Download (38) [...]
Beautiful Day
Beautiful Day ist ein schlichtes aber sehr schönes WordPress-Theme. Mit weichen hellen Farben und einer schicken horizontalen Navigation. Ein attraktives 2-spaltiges Theme, welchem dem standardmäßigen Blog-Aussehen entspricht. Das Theme wurde komplett eingedeutscht und um die Tag-Kompatibilität bei der Ausgabe der Beiträge erweitert. Download (117) [...]
More Than Blogging Software
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WP Contact Manager
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Are You Ready and Willing for CSS3?
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WordPress Theme: SpringLoaded
A good friend of mine, Chris Garrett, has released a nice looking WordPress theme called SpringLoaded on his WordPress theme development company site, The 449. My friends, it gives me great pleasure to announce SpringLoaded, the 449’s very first free theme! [...]
Upcoming Changes
Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the directory. We’ve been working very hard on a new Subversion-backed database for themes that will allow you to upload themes as you did before, as a plain ZIP file, and we’re transparently check it into SVN so changes can be tracked just like we do for WordPress development. [...]
BranfordMagazine
BranfordMagazine ist ein Premium WordPress-Theme im Magazin-Stil, das sich durch viele interessante Funktionen auszeichnet. Download (608) [...]
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