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  • AboutIn a nutshell, we’re a bunch of people who really care about WordPress themes and want to see them get better and better — on WordPress.com and every self-hosted WordPress site. This is our blog. We are Ian Stewart, Lance Willett, and Matías Ventura. First formed in early 2010 at Automattic, we develop themes for the millions of users on the popular blogging service WordPress.com. While improving themes from the community as well as crafting our own we work hard to ensure our improvements make it back to the open source community. Our Goals Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly, that is exactly how they want to present themselves to the world, that they’re excited to show to their friends. We want everyone to feel a sense of momentum and ever-increasing possibilities, and to do so we will present as many perfect-fit WordPress themes to as many WordPress.com users as we can. We will ensure all of our public work represents the best in coding practices, web standards, and technical excellence. We will craft all of our themes to have consistent user experience and meet our users expectations and hopes. We will teach…
  • ContactWordPress and Theme Support Need support for your theme or have a WordPress question? Help is just a click away. WordPress.org Support If you pay for your hosting, post questions on the WordPress forums and get help from hundreds of WordPress developers and volunteers. Tip: tag your post with the name of your theme. WordPress.com Support If you have a site on WordPress.com start here: WordPress.com Support. If you don’t know which applies to you, you can can read more about the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. Of course if you want to talk themes, WordPress, web design, the weather in Winnipeg — or just to say howdy — you can reach us via email at themes [at] automattic.com.
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  • Will Your Email Address Really Never Be Shared?

    Sep 8, 2011

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    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Development

    WordPress.com Happiness Engineer Ryan Markel runs down why you should avoid putting language like “Your email address will never be published” in your themes.

  • Awesome Up Your WordPress Theme With Post Formats

    Sep 7, 2011

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    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Development

    This August I had the pleasure of speaking at WordCamp San Francisco on awesome-ing up WordPress themes with Post Formats. If you wanted to check out my presentation but weren’t there, or missed the livestream, have no fear! You too can check it out, right now, right here, thanks to the magic of WordPress.tv. If…

  • Don’t Fear the Internet

    Aug 22, 2011

    ·

    Lance Willett
    in Asides

    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.

  • We’re Presenting at WordCamp San Francisco 2011

    Aug 10, 2011

    ·

    Lance Willett
    in Theme Team

    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…

  • Matt Mullenweg on the TimThumb Saga

    Aug 8, 2011

    ·

    Michelle
    in Theme Development

    Matt Mullenweg weighs in on the recent discovery of a security flaw in TimThumb, a popular image-resizing library.

  • responsivepx.com

    Jul 28, 2011

    ·

    Lance Willett
    in CSS Tips

    A sweet tool for responsive designs by Remy Sharp that helps you find the exact breakpoint widths to use in media queries. (Via @tucsonlabs.)

  • A Quest For The Ultimate WordPress Theme

    Jul 22, 2011

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    Ian Stewart
    in Design

    If you’re a WordPress theme designer or developer looking to understand the desires of your users you can’t go wrong with one WordPress.com bloggers quest for the ultimate WordPress theme. It’s one of the best WordPress theme posts I’ve read in a long time.

  • Let’s make your theme smarter to take advantage of WordPress gallery functionality

    Jun 1, 2011

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    Takashi Irie
    in Theme Development

    “You don’t really need plugins to create photo galleries.” – Otto published another great post about making cool galleries without plugins. He refers Matt’s gallery as a neat example of WordPress gallery implementation.

  • Powering Your Design With WordPress

    Powering Your Design With WordPress

    May 24, 2011

    ·

    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Development

    Can you use WordPress to power your web design work? Of course you can. But how? That was the subject of a talk I gave at the 2011 Future of Web Design conference this May in London. If you missed FOWD you missed a great time and some awesome presentations but you didn’t miss everything.…

  • Theme.it

    May 10, 2011

    ·

    Lance Willett
    in Asides

    Jason Schuller — of Press75 fame — launched Theme.it, a collection of unique WordPress theme-related tutorials, articles and videos. (Via WPCandy.)

  • Ian Stewart Speaking at FOWD London 2011

    May 9, 2011

    ·

    Lance Willett
    in Theme Team

    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…

  • Tiny Screens First

    May 3, 2011

    ·

    Lance Willett
    in CSS Tips

    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.

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