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An Elegant Solution For Blog Design

Want to take your blog design to another level? Acamas is the WordPress theme for you. Make your content clear with it’s multiple structure approach to blog layout. Make it elegant with refined typography and a distinctive look. And make it powerful, with a Child Theme built on Thematic.

This is ThemeShaper; a WordPress-powered thinking machine disguised as a Blog, home of Thematic, the popular and free WordPress Theme Framework and whole bunch of other really cool WordPress Themes.

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Any WordPress Theme Can Be a Blank Framework

A question from a reader has prompted this post. What makes a WordPress Theme Framework? I say, any WordPress theme can be a theme framework. I’m researching Thematic and would really like some clarification on child themes. You say several places to use a child theme but I couldn’t find a list — is Junction the only [...]

A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks

WordPress is exceptionally easy to Theme—but it can be better. WordPress can be a smart little CMS for most websites—but it can be better. How? WordPress Theme Frameworks. A while ago I asked a whole bunch of smart people what they thought the future of WordPress themes would look like. I also asked the whole [...]

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The WordPress Theme Index Template

Index.php is the most crucial WordPress Theme Template. Not only because WordPress needs to use it if you’re missing any of it’s brother and sister templates (like, category.php or tag.php) but because the work we do here, getting this template right, will help us breeze through the rest of our templates (with the exception of [...]

How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial

In only 11 individual lessons this WordPress Theme Tutorial is going to show you how to build a powerful, up-to-date, WordPress Theme from scratch. As we go along I’ll explain what’s happening including (for better or worse) my thinking on certain techniques and why I’m choosing one path over another. Essentially, I’ll be teaching you [...]

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Toolbox: An HTML5 WordPress Starter Theme

The Problem: You want to start hacking away at a WordPress Theme and get your site online. You don’t want to start with a Parent Theme, or a Theme Framework. You want to make your own theme—and you want it to be ready for HTML5. Only, you don’t know where to start. The Solution: Start [...]

A Sample WordPress Theme Options Page

Problem: You want to create a simple theme options page for your new WordPress theme but all the tutorials and sample theme options pages you’ve seen are way too complex or don’t fit in at all with the existing WordPress look. Solution: We’ve come up with a simple, sample theme options page you can use [...]

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