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Better WordPress Theme Internationalization with Pig Latin!
During the process of creating my first public WordPress theme one thing was very important to me – I wanted the theme to be useful to as many people as possible. To reach this goal, I knew that I would need to make sure that my theme could be used in any language. Luckily, WordPress…
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* { box-sizing: border-box; } FTW
Paul Irish on HTML element widths being inclusive of padding at all times. That is to say if I define my box as 200 pixels wide then it should stay at a total of 200 pixels, no matter what I use for its padding value. The money shot is as follows: Also, an interesting read…
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Dusk To Dawn Now Available for WP.org Sites
Dusk To Dawn — a dark theme that melds old-style organic ornaments with modern design and typography, originally developed exclusively for WordPress.com and it’s received great positive feedback — is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory.
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Using Media Queries to Make a Clean Break from Legacy Browsers
There’s a nice, clean, javascript-free, approach to mobile-first design in Joni Korpi’s post Leaving Old Internet Explorer Behind. Adopting it sounds pretty tempting.
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Twitter Bootstrap and WordPress Theme Frameworks
If you haven’t yet you should make some time to read Building Twitter Bootstrap at A List Apart. Especially if you’re interested in building a WordPress Theme Framework or WordPress Starter Theme. Twitter Bootstrap is essentially a collection of HTML-CSS templates and some Javascript put together to “help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build…
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Optional Markup for Optional Post Titles
Whenever I write a post to publish on a WordPress powered website, I start by crafting a title. While I do this 99.9% of the time, there are definitely situations where no title is needed for a post.
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Vertical Rhythm Project
A project to link the aesthetic and discipline of modernist poster designs to the world of digital and dynamic grids, manifested by a series of WordPress themes, adapted from typographical posters. Some might know already about but this is worth to get a spotlight. Vertical Rhythm is a really cool project by Edit / Nitzan…
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Unsuck Your Jargon
What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked? Awesome writing tips over at unsuck-it.com, by the fine folks at Mule Design. Go read it, mmm-kay? That’d be great. The blog runs on WordPress, natch.
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What Do You Really Need in a WordPress Starter Theme?
I think it’s safe to say that I’m somewhat obsessed with themes that help you get your WordPress projects started quickly. Most likely because I’ve been there, staring at an empty project folder wondering where I should begin. Well, you shouldn’t have to stare at that empty folder for any project. Even when you’re starting…
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New High-Quality Free Fonts
The Editorial Team at Smashing Magazine shares a collection of new high-quality free fonts over on Smashing Magazine. Some of these fonts are intended for print publications, but there are several that are suitable for web design, available either to download or through Google Web Fonts. Which ones will you use for your next web…
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The WordPress Theme Lock-In Effect
Konstantin Kovshenin has a great post on one of my pet peeves. The lock-in effect. The rub? When you go to switch themes you find that your content is tied into the theme (or plugin) you’ve been using. Not good. WordPress has been known for its backwards compatibility for ages. In fact, you’ll not loose…
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