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Personality and WordPress Themes
What will happen to the WordPress Themes community as the main portal for theme downloads moves from a host of developer sites and their interlinked communities to the individual WordPress administrator’s Theme Panel—much like what has happened, and is happening, with WordPress Plugins? I imagine this will have an effect on pay-to-download WordPress themes. Every…
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Crystalline, A crystal sharp Child Theme for Thematic
If you haven’t started using Thematic yet for your blog it wouldn’t surprise me if you switched just to use the Crystalline theme by Cristi of Cozmoslabs. It’s beautiful. You can demo it and download it at Reflection Media.
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Thematic 0.8 is live
Thematic 0.8 is live and ready for download! The main upgrade is, of course, comment threading for WordPress 2.7+. International users will note some fixes to localization. Thematic hackers will notice some bugs have been fixed. More exciting to me is what will happen with Thematic 0.9 and eventually version 1.0 (if you’ve got a…
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WordPress Theme Frameworks on The Codex
Check out the WordPress codex page for Theme Frameworks that “ease theme development by reducing the volume of work which may be needed in creating a backbone for your theme”. Thematic is mentioned along with The Sandbox and others.
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Replacing the Thematic Menu with a DropDown List of Categories
Cozmos Labs has a great tutorial showing how to replace the default Thematic menu with a dropdown list of categories. Included with the tutorial is a free Child Theme, CatDrop, perfect for those of you interested in making Thematic more like a magazine-style theme or wanting to see how to make a dropdown menu work.
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Join The Thematic Project
I’m looking for co-maintainers for the Thematic project to help make Thematic one of the best WordPress themes available, free or “premium”. Specifically, I’m looking for motivated people to help with the following: Localization: going through the template files and translation files, making sure everything is up to snuff. The future of any successful WordPress…
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Blog Design That Works
In this post we take a look at four excellent, and popular, designs, from simple to complex, that can help inform your next blog design. The sites we’re going to look at are Lifehacker, PSD Tuts, Smashing Magazine and Canada’s National Post. We’ll look at the general layout in great detail, via a wireframe of…
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Boumatic, a Ridiculously Beautiful Thematic Child Theme
Allan Cole has released a ridiculously beautiful WordPress Child Theme for Thematic called Boumatic. You have to see the demo. Isn’t it great? Can you believe it’s Thematic? Find out more about Boumatic.
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Byty: Another Impressive Thematic Child Theme
Cristian Antohe has released his amazing looking Thematic Child Theme, Byty. It’s free, it’s awesome, go download it now and let Cristian know what you think of it!
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How To Create a Custom WordPress Write Panel
A good solution for avoiding a confusing mess of custom fields needed to fill out the content in a complex theme: create a custom WordPress write panel. (via WPCandy)
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How To Optimize Your WordPress Meta Descriptions
Nathan Rice has good advice on how to optimize your WordPress Meta descriptions and take more control over how your blog appears in search results.
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How To Create Custom WordPress Content Types
Andrew Rickmann demonstrates how to create custom content types in WordPress—and creates a WordPress Twitter clone in the process. Amazing. Anyone using WordPress as a CMS needs to read this post.
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