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Jetpack 1.8: WordPress.com’s mobile theme now available for WordPress.org sites
Today’s Jetpack 1.8 release makes the WordPress.com default mobile theme available for WordPress.org sites. If your site has not been optimized for mobile devices, you can provide a clean, readable interface for your mobile visitors with the WordPress.com mobile theme.
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Work with Image Sprites? Generate CSS with SpriteCow
SpriteCow is a nifty tool that generates CSS for your image sprites. Upload a sprite, click on the desired region and — like magic — SpriteCow will generate a CSS snippet containing the background position, width, and height for that region. At the time of this writing, SpriteCow only works in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and…
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Developer plugin v1.1: Optimize Your Theme Development Environment
The amazing Code Wranglers at Automattic recently released version 1.1.1 of the Developer Plugin, which helps you optimize your WordPress development environment (plus saves you time) by making sure you have all of the essential development plugins installed. This new version targets the people who design and develop themes — you! Read on to learn…
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Underscores.me — The Best Way To Get Started With The _s Theme
Back in February we introduced you to _s, or Underscores, the WordPress starter theme we use at Automattic to build the majority of our themes (and even when we’re not building themes from it we’re referring to it). It’s come a long way since then with a steady stream of refinements. But one thing about…
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Introducing the Monster Widget
An important part of the theme development process is testing. As a member of the Theme Team at Automattic I can say that we like to test everything we can! One thing that we have observed is that widget testing can take up a lot of time. WordPress provides 13 widgets, many of which contain…
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Our very own Ian Stewart was a special guest on the ShopTalk Podcast.
Recently, Ian Stewart was a special guest on the podcast by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert, ShopTalk. Ian discussed many web topics, including WordPress (obviously!) and answered questions from listeners. http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/016-with-ian-stewart/
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Theme Options Gallery: The Best (and the Worst) Theme Options Screens Around
Man, theme options. 🙂 There aren’t many more topics in WordPress theme development that inspire more discussion these days than theme options. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Konstantin Kovshenin’s Theme Options Gallery. Konstantin reviews the best and worst theme options pages around there. It’s where the best discussion on theme options is…
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Let’s Talk about Semantics
If you’re interested in HTML Semantics and are looking for a good place to start learning more about it and what it means start out with this post at HTML5 Doctor, Let’s Talk about Semantics. At the very least, you’ll learn why we don’t have a pineapple element in HTML.
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Tighter and leaner WordPress templates with get_template_part()
If you’re interested in learning more about how to use get_template_part() in your themes and why you might want to, designer and developer, Terry Sutton, has a great post up called Tighter and leaner WordPress templates with get_template_part(). It’s well worth a read. (And not just because he mentions _s though that’s pretty cool too.)
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10 Beautiful WordPress Themes from the Official Directory
We are obviously theme junkies here and everyday we check the official free theme directory. It’s only March now but many free themes have already became available since the new year. To highlight the great themes there I picked up ten themes added in 2012 that are not only coded well but look beautiful. Like…
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Sundance is Now Available for WP.org Sites
Sundance — a brand new free video theme brought to you by the team here at Automattic is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory.
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