Don’t Fear the Internet is another beautifully designed site by Jessica Hische — this one with Russ Maschmeyer. It looks to be built on top of our Toolbox theme, which is awesome.
Author Archives: Lance Willett
We’re Presenting at WordCamp San Francisco 2011
Three Theme Wranglers will be involved with theme-related sessions at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco (Aug 12–14, 2011).
- Michelle is presenting Friday on themes and custom design tools at the First-timer Workshop.
- Saturday morning Ian is giving a talk called Awesome Up Your Boring Theme: WordPress Post Formats.
- Also Saturday, Lance is moderating a panel on commercial themes titled Making Money And Having Fun Selling WordPress Themes.
Themes, themes, and more themes! If you’re in town for WordCamp please say hello, we’d love to meet you.
Update: Videos of WCSF 2011 presentations are now live on wordpress.tv.
responsivepx.com
A sweet tool for responsive designs by Remy Sharp that helps you find the exact breakpoint widths to use in media queries. (Via @tucsonlabs.)
Theme.it
Ian Stewart Speaking at FOWD London 2011
I’m super excited to announce that our very own Theme Wrangler Ian Stewart will be speaking next week at FOWD London 2011. He’ll be presenting on WordPress and themes in a talk titled “Power Your Design With WordPress” — read more about it on the FOWD London schedule page.
If you’re attending FOWD London be sure to come to Ian’s talk and learn how to kick-start your theme design and development. It’s going to be an action-packed, information-filled 40 minutes.
(And come say “Howdy” to the entire Theme Team, we’ll be there with bells on.)
Tiny Screens First
320 and up by Andy Clarke takes on the notion that when using responsive design with media queries small devices load assets they don’t need. This technique uses a tiny stylesheet first, and loads larger assets only when needed.
WP_Filesystem Tutorial on ottopress.com
Tutorial: Using the WP_Filesystem
Writing files from code, whether it be from a theme or from a plugin, is generally bad mojo. However understanding why you shouldn’t is confusing to many, and then understanding why you shouldn’t do-it-yourself and should use the WP_Filesystem is even more confusing.
A great writeup by Otto on how, why, and when to use WP_Filesystem to write files from a WordPress theme or plugin, including code samples and a demo plugin.
Join the WordPress Theme Review Team
Justin Tadlock eloquently explains how you can become a better developer and give back to the community by joining the WordPress Theme Review Team.
ChaosTheory Now Available for WP.org Sites
ChaosTheory—a dark, single-column theme developed exclusively for WordPress.com—is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory.
HTML5 Edition for Web Developers
If you’re like me and dread reading detailed specs for web technologies, but want to dig into and learn the details that matter to your work, check out the WHATWG HTML5 specification for web developers by Ben Schwarz.
The focus of this specification is readability and ease of access. Unlike the full HTML specification, this “web developer edition” removes information that only browser vendors need know.