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Using Custom Headers for Avatars
Some themes like to use the admin account’s avatar, if available, in the header of the theme to highlight the author. However, it’s nice to be able to change that image if the admin email’s avatar is not appropriate nor changeable. The free Automattic theme Writr, by our very own Thomas Guillot, takes the approach of…
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Did you know that there’s a WordPress.com-specific version of Underscores? By adding a special parameter, your download will include special code used only in themes on WordPress.com. Use it to make the greatest theme ever, and send it in to themes [at] automattic.com for consideration! http://underscores.me/?can_i_haz_wpcom
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Theme Performance
Website performance is a daunting, complicated subject; everything from servers, networks and the code itself affects the length of time it takes for our carefully-crafted pixels to arrive on the screen of our viewer. However, when it comes to WordPress themes, there are a few simple guidelines we can follow to make sure our themes…
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Bushwick now available on WordPress.org
Bushwick, a lightweight, unique blogging theme originally designed by James Dinsdale, is now available for download from the WordPress.org Themes Directory.
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Forefront, a responsive business WordPress theme is now available on Creative Market
Forefront, a responsive business and corporate theme that helps you to create a strong—yet beautiful—online presence for your business, is now available on Creative Market.
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Advanced Translation Voodoo
This serves as another installment in the series about “Why We Do Things The Way We Do Them” in Underscores. It is about a commit that we made almost a year ago. That commit dealt with a bug that a few themes have on WordPress.com, and which just recently came up again internally, on an old…
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Why you should use a WordPress starter theme
Expert WordPress theme developer Drew Strojny lays out why you should use a WordPress starter theme.
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Twenty Fifteen Development
Default theme developer, Konstantin Obenland (who helped build the last three themes that shipped with WordPress!), shares some insight into the design and development of previous default themes, and proposes an interesting approach to the development of Twenty Fifteen. Twenty Fifteen →
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Theme Development Enhancements In WordPress 3.8
Some news on recent changes for WordPress 3.8 that make theme development even easier: Post Formats From 3.8 onwards, theme developers will be able to check if a post has any post format associated by checking has_post_format() without passing an argument: Background Images Additionally, it is now possible to be more specific about a theme’s…
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Writr Now Available for WP.org Sites
Writr — a minimalist, content-oriented tumblelog theme developed exclusively for WordPress.com — is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory.
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Language Packs in 3.7 and WordPress Themes
Make sure your theme is ready for language packs by following this essential guide from Otto: Language Packs 101 – Prepwork.
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