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Why Hard Working Classes Slack in WordPress
Nathan Ford wrote a great article about how you can use the attribute selector to define styles for a multitude of classes that share a common element. Initially I thought this was great (I actually still think this is a great idea), and used it in _s and Twenty Thirteen to simplify the clearfix selector…
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Don’t Update Your Theme (From _s)
I recently attended Steve Zehngut’s session on Underscores at WordCamp Los Angeles, where I was surprised to learn that a lot of developers are unsure how to update their themes with the changes we make on _s. Version-less _s For that we decided to make _s version-less, to prevent the feeling you need to update…
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How to Override Jetpack Infinite Scroll Settings in a Child Theme
When a theme author adds Jetpack Infinite Scroll support to their theme, they configure its options specifically for that theme. Occasionally you might want to override the theme’s defaults for your purposes, and in this article, I’ll show you how to do so in a child theme.
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Attachment Body Classes
There was an interesting bug reported for Twenty Twelve recently: The .single-attachment body class only gets applied when the attachment’s parent is a post (or custom post type). If the attachment’s parent happens to be a page, that class is missing. In case you have been using .single-attachment to specify styles for the image attachment page,…
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Home Page and Front Page Templates
Chip Bennett, Team Rep and Administrator of the WordPress Theme Review Team, wrote a comprehensive post about the intricacy around home page and front page templates. Highlights are his tips around conditionals in front-page.php to avoid code duplication. Enjoy!
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A Proper Loop
Working on _s, I came across an issue asking if we could remove the loop syntax in singular templates since there is never more than one post. I asked for Michael Field‘s opinion on the matter and he pointed me to a core ticket for Twenty Eleven about the same issue.
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(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Themes, Love, and Understanding
I had the chance to speak at WordCamp San Francisco this year and, this time, I tried to do something different. Instead of doing a talk with lots of code examples and howto info that could be read in a blog post I decided to put my heart on my sleeve and shoot for inspiration.…
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HTML5 Support in WordPress Core
I’m excited to share that we’re pushing things forward in WordPress 3.6 – default snippets for comments, the comment form, and the search form are updated with the latest HTML5 markup. While the changes to both the search form and the comment form are rather marginal (added classes and some streamlined markup), the comment markup…
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ThemeShaper Re-Themed
It’s been a while but we finally changed the theme on ThemeShaper! No need to scroll to the footer it’s using Further designed by the illustrious Takashi Irie. We’ve made a few modifications using a simple child theme but it’s pretty close to the stock theme. For now. I’m sure there will be many tweaks…
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Misty Lake and Untitled Are Now Available for WP.org Sites
Misty Lake and Untitled are now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory!
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Happy Anniversary, WordPress!
Everyone knows that we love WordPress Themes which means, of course, that we also love WordPress. But we don’t go around saying it everyday even though we do. With the 10th anniversary of WordPress around the corner of a team meetup in Italy the WordPress.com Theme Team had a chance to not just to say…
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Five Minutes with Philip Arthur Moore
Did you know we have a Premium Theme Team at WordPress.com? They’re the folks who audit all of the premium themes available on WordPress.com — that’s not just the themes we make but also the ones made by other shops too — and make sure we have a consistently amazing experience with them. Philip Arthur…
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