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The Duster Theme is Now Available For Download
I know more than a few of you have been patiently waiting for this announcement: the Duster theme is now available for download at the official WordPress Themes Directory. Go get Duster and let us know how you’re using it on your blog!
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WP_Filesystem Tutorial on ottopress.com
Tutorial: Using the WP_Filesystem Writing files from code, whether it be from a theme or from a plugin, is generally bad mojo. However understanding why you shouldn’t is confusing to many, and then understanding why you shouldn’t do-it-yourself and should use the WP_Filesystem is even more confusing. A great writeup by Otto on how, why,…
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Join the WordPress Theme Review Team
Justin Tadlock eloquently explains how you can become a better developer and give back to the community by joining the WordPress Theme Review Team.
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Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Cap
Besides being an absolutely stunningly beautiful design it looks like Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Cap is built on top of our Toolbox theme. Nice!
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Mediaqueri.es, a collection of responsive web designs
In the spirit of Ian’s post about responsive web design and the discussion ensued from it, here is a collection of examples of said practice and technique (not constrained to WordPress sites). Several good designs on display there.
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ChaosTheory Now Available for WP.org Sites
ChaosTheory—a dark, single-column theme developed exclusively for WordPress.com—is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory.
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HTML5 Edition for Web Developers
If you’re like me and dread reading detailed specs for web technologies, but want to dig into and learn the details that matter to your work, check out the WHATWG HTML5 specification for web developers by Ben Schwarz. The focus of this specification is readability and ease of access. Unlike the full HTML specification, this…
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Andy Skelton’s WordPress Code Surprise
If you’re designed out for the day and need something sufficiently geeky to bring you back to midfield, I suggest Andy Skelton’s excellent writeup about a lesser-known but oft-used WordPress string formatting function, WordPress code surprise: wp_sprintf.
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The Webkit Web Inspector
For those that fancy doing web design and debugging on Webkit browsers, here is a recently announced round of improvements. I personally shall appreciate the fact that color values are rendered as originally written —if desired—, which should make experimenting and copying from the browser to the original stylesheet much easier, by preserving the chosen…
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Mark Jaquith on Theme & Plugin Security
Lead developer for WordPress core and WordPress security expert Mark Jaquith’s presentation on Theme & Plugin Security from WordCamp Phoenix 2011 is a must-watch video for all Theme Developers. Check it out.
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