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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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  • WordPress as a CMS: How To Think About Building a Website With WordPress

    Oct 9, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Design, Theme Development

    Plan your WordPress site design Figure out what sort of pages we’ll need Before a visual design can begin, you need to do content design. Determine what exactly you’re going to say. Words, sentences and paragraphs are the building blocks of your site’s foundation. Make sure you’ve put them together correctly. And make sure you…

  • What’s new in Thematic 0.7

    Oct 6, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Themes

    Thematic 0.7 has been officially released with two major upgrades that’ll help you get what you need done with your WordPress blog or site faster and easier. Rapid Site Development With Modular CSS I’m doing my best to make Thematic a tool for rapid site development whether you’re digging into it and using it as…

  • Jacob Santos on WordPress Child Themes

    Oct 5, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    WordPress developer Jacob Santos on WordPress Child Themes: WordPress Theme Modifications should be made in Child Themes.

  • An Interview with Ian Stewart on WordPress Child Themes

    Oct 5, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    If you want more of an introduction to theming your blog or website with WordPress Child Themes you can read my two-part interview with Weblog Tool Collections’ Jeff Chandler on the subject. Part One gives an introduction to the concept with a ridiculously easy tutorial that guides you through making your own Child Theme. Part…

  • The Problem With Child Themes

    Oct 4, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    Pat Dryburgh outlines the drawbacks to child themes—which hinder public acceptance and experimentation—that he’s discovered while working with Thematic.

  • Instinct & The Thematic Theme Framework

    Sep 25, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    Instinct, makers of the popular WordPress e-Commerce Plugin, have converted their former K2 powered site into a Child Theme for the Thematic Theme Framework (with a little help from me). Check it out and see what you can do with WordPress Child Themes and Thematic.

  • Exploring WordPress Frameworks and Child Themes

    Sep 18, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    Darren Hoyt explains why he’s interested in WordPress Child Themes in Exploring WordPress Frameworks and Child Themes. He does a great job illustrating why professional designers using WordPress to power sites need to take a serious look at them.

  • Starkers for WordPress 2.6.2

    Sep 18, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    Elliot Jay Stocks has updated and re-released his WordPress starter theme, Starkers.

  • Essay & The Sandbox For Movable Type

    Sep 10, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    My Sandbox Design Competition entry, Essay, along with a host of other Sandbox Child Themes, and The Sandbox itself, have been ported to Movable Type.

  • Smart Cache-Busting For Your WordPress Stylesheet

    Sep 9, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    Alister Cameron has written a simple function you can add to any WordPress theme that lets you intelligently and automatically force browsers to use your updated WordPress stylesheet.

  • The Ethics of WordPress Themes at a Premium

    Sep 8, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Theme Development

    Are WordPress Themes open source? Is it right to release them on a pay-to-download basis? … what these premium theme providers are doing … we would call that “Evil”Chase Sagum … themes link and use lots of internal WordPress functions, which make them linked under the GPL and subject to being a GPL-compatible license. If…

  • Use WordPress As A CMS With Thematic, Part 1

    Sep 8, 2008

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    Ian Stewart
    in Asides

    Cozmos Labs has published Use WordPress as a CMS with Thematic. Part 1 of a two part series of posts that details how they made the Kraft Auto site.

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