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 […]
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 […]
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? Within the loop? That’s fairly easy too. Here’s the code:
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), ‘80’ ); ?>
Pretty simple, huh? […]
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 for release? How do you style it when the instructions tell you to modify […]
There have been some changes at ThemeShaper in the past week. I have a new host for all my blogs and projects and the next version of my development theme, Thematic, has been released.
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 […]
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 […]