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Font: Maven Pro
Maven Pro is a relatively new sans-serif font designed by Joe Prince and offered for free to use. The typeface includes support for basic Latin and western European diacritics, with new weights in development.
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Subversion Cheatsheets
Version control is a key part of a successful software project, and we use Subversion heavily at Automattic. All our themes, side projects, and even PSD files go into SVN repositories. We often talk to theme designers that are getting into more advanced theme development who need a quick crash course on using Subversion. As…
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The Steira Theme Now Available
Our previously WP.com-only theme Steira, designed by Made by Elephant, is now available for WordPress.org users. Go get it while it’s fresh!
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Toolbox 1.1 Now Available For Download
Toolbox 1.1, built for WordPress 3.1 and up, is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory. Have at it!
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Post Formats and Content Templates in the Toolbox Theme
Toolbox 1.1 is on it’s way with support for two of WordPress 3.1’s new Post Formats — Aside and Gallery — and a new template structure based on a content.php template. Let’s take a look at what’s new. Update: It’s available now! Go get it and check it out. So, Post Formats. I love them…
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CSS Tip: Hiding Content with Clip
In our themes on WordPress.com we often hide text from screen display but still want it to remain for screen readers. Typical techniques like text-indent and absolute positioning work fine until you try to add RTL support to the theme. After adding RTL styles those techniques cause layout issues; most commonly a huge horizontal scrollbar…
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What’s In a Name: Duster
A lot of people have been asking where the name for the Duster theme came from. I love naming themes (it’s probably something that warrants a post of it’s own in the future) so I’m glad to share the backstory. We started work on Duster during a team meetup in Arizona — notorious land of…
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New Duster Theme
Check out the new Duster theme launched on WordPress.com, designed and developed by us, the Theme Team at Automattic.
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Interview with Lance on WPWeekly
Listen to Jeff Chandler interview our very own Lance Willett on the WPWeekly Podcast.
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An Interview with Lance on WP.com premium themes
If you haven’t checked it out yet, give a listen to the Interview with Lance Willett of Automattic on WordPress.com premium themes over at WPCandy.
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Premium Themes on WP.com, the backstory
It’s kind of appropriate this is my first post here on Themeshaper, given I first kicked off discussion of a WordPress.com theme marketplace four years ago. (It’s funny to see some of the comments there, some of the same cast of characters.) The terms we’re launching with are the same as in that post, an even split,…
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