Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It's perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals.
This is ThemeShaper; a WordPress-powered thinking machine disguised as a Blog, home of Thematic, the popular and free WordPress Theme Framework, a trusted place to purchase excellent WordPress Themes or professional Customization Services, and your first and last stop on the way to driving the competition crazy with intelligent blog design.
In this post we take a look at four excellent, and popular, designs, from simple to complex, that can help inform your next blog design. The sites we’re going to look at are Lifehacker, PSD Tuts, Smashing Magazine and Canada’s National Post.
We’ll look at the general layout in great detail, via a wireframe of the [...]
Problem: You’ve finally found a theme you like but you want to modify it. The modifications are pretty simple but what happens when you want to upgrade the theme? Do you really want to go through all those files again hunting down the changes? Don’t you wish you could just upgrade and be done with [...]
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 [...]
In this post you’ll learn how to leverage modular CSS in your WordPress Child Themes by looking into another directory with @import or the <link> tag. We’ll be making a Child Theme called Chiron that will use the modular CSS of the Thematic Theme. A theme you can use as the basis for further customization—and [...]
One of the cooler ideas for a new WordPress default Theme that’s come up has been the idea of including a not-so-blog-ish custom home page template with the Theme. Something optional that you could use if wanted your home page to look a little different. Maybe more of a traditional web site look (whatever that [...]
In case you didn’t hear ThemeShaper was hacked. You know what? It really sucks. I’ve got two tips and a plugin recommendation that I want to pass on to you so the same stupid thing doesn’t happen to your WordPress install. And these aren’t even my ideas! These are time tested and tried things that [...]
My name is Ian Stewart. I’m a professional designer, and WordPress enthusiast, trying to shape how we think about the exciting and dynamic world of WordPress themes.
Back in 2006 I took my first tentative steps into the world of theme design. I didn’t know it at the time but those first steps would change how I think about design completely. Since then, I've done my best to change how we all think about designing WordPress themes.
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