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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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  • ThemeShaper.com Probably Unhacked

    Dec 3, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Site News

    Update: I’ve done a mass hardening (that sounds gross) on everything here at the ThemeShaper ranch and—and it looks like we’re cool now. Let’s hope things stay that way. Hey!—at least I learned something about WordPress security, right? — I’m not sure when but some time ago ThemeShaper.com was hacked. I’m fairly sure it wasn’t…

  • Neutica+: An Advanced Child Theme for the Thematic Theme Framework

    Oct 13, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Thematic Child Themes

    Thematic expert, Allan Cole, has released another beautiful Thematic Child Theme. This time it’s an advanced Child Theme called, Neutica+.

  • The Photo Lover Thematic Child Theme

    Oct 12, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Thematic Child Themes

    Dave Smith of Gite Guru has launched a new Thematic Child Theme called Photo Lover specifically targeting those with a love of photography and imagery.

  • Can I Make a ‘Premium’ Theme My Own? And Then Release It?

    Oct 9, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Development

    Can you make a ‘Premium’ Theme your own? And then release it? For free? Or for a fee? The answer is simple. Yes. That is, if the ‘Premium’ WordPress Theme in question—premium meaning you have to pay for it—is licensed under the GPL. The GPL is the GNU General Public License; a document included with…

  • 40+ Thematic Resources, Tutorials and Links

    Sep 29, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Tips

    The post Build WordPress Sites Fast With the Thematic Theme Framework by Es Developed is a great resource for anyone wanting to get started with the Thematic Theme. It lists over 40 resources and tutorials that’ll get you where you want to be with rapid WordPress Theme development. And there’s some great explanation behind why…

  • Get The Thematic Feature Site Theme

    Aug 23, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Thematic Child Themes

    Want to get the Thematic Child Theme I used to build the last 2 versions of ThemeShaper? Well now you can! I call it the Thematic Feature Site Theme and—just like the Power Blog Theme—it’s another entry in the Thematic Development Series. Just like Power Blog it requires a little bit of code-editing but it’s…

  • Early Morning Thematic Child Theme

    Aug 20, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Thematic Child Themes

    Cristi Antohe has—yet again—released a beautiful and incredibly usable Thematic Child Theme, Early Morning. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising. This theme is all about blogging. It doesn’t scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets readers read. It also has some nice features out of the box: You can upload your…

  • SimpleCart (js) a free WP E-Commerce & Thematic Child Theme

    Aug 20, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Thematic Child Themes

    Want a free Thematic Child Theme ‘specially designed to work with the awesome WP E-Commerce Plugin? You can start with the brilliant SimpleCart (js) Theme by Chris Wallace.

  • How To Reset & Rebuild WordPress Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts

    Jul 7, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in CSS Tips, Theme Tips

    Update: We’ve created a second edition of this article, with updated code samples and coverage of the latest theme development techniques. Check it out at How To Reset & Rebuild WordPress Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts. It’s part of The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme Tutorial: 2nd Edition. CSS can be tricky. It can also be…

  • The WordPress Theme Sidebar Template

    Jul 6, 2009

    ·

    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Tips

  • The Archive, Author, Category & Tags Template

    Jul 3, 2009

    ·

    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Tips

    Update: We’ve created a second edition of this article, with updated code samples and coverage of the latest theme development techniques. Check it out at The Archive Template. It’s part of The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme Tutorial: 2nd Edition. Much like we did with index.php, we’re going to get one master template done right and use…

  • The WordPress Theme Search Template and Page Template

    Jul 2, 2009

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    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Tips

    The Search Template and The Page Template are vital to any complete WordPress Theme. And they’re both really easy to code. For both these two Templates we’ll start with our template-template again but, of course, each one is going to take it’s own different path.

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