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WordPress as a CMS: How To Think About Building a Website With WordPress
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…
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What’s new in Thematic 0.7
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…
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Jacob Santos on WordPress Child Themes
WordPress developer Jacob Santos on WordPress Child Themes: WordPress Theme Modifications should be made in Child Themes.
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An Interview with Ian Stewart on WordPress Child Themes
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…
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The Problem With Child Themes
Pat Dryburgh outlines the drawbacks to child themes—which hinder public acceptance and experimentation—that he’s discovered while working with Thematic.
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Instinct & The Thematic Theme Framework
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.
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Exploring WordPress Frameworks and Child Themes
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.
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Starkers for WordPress 2.6.2
Elliot Jay Stocks has updated and re-released his WordPress starter theme, Starkers.
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Essay & The Sandbox For Movable Type
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.
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Smart Cache-Busting For Your WordPress Stylesheet
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.
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The Ethics of WordPress Themes at a Premium
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…
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Use WordPress As A CMS With Thematic, Part 1
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.