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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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