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Consider Canapé
Looking for a fresh, elegant theme for a restaurant or other food-related site? Explore Canapé, now available in the WordPresss.org theme repo. Designed by Automattic’s Ola Laczek, Canapé retains its sophisticated look on mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. Add features like food menus and customer testimonials with Jetpack, and showcase up to three food-menu sections…
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Show the Latest Featured Image from Featured Content
For the latest ThemeShaper remake, we added Featured Content to Twenty Sixteen. That’s standard, but our design called for not showing the featured image of every post, but only the latest post. That image serves as a backdrop to our collection of featured posts, which can be from one to three posts at a time.…
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ThemeShaper v.2016
If you’re a regular reader, you’ve probably noticed that things look a little different around here. The last ThemeShaper remake took place three years ago — it was definitely time for an update! We crafted a child theme of Twenty Sixteen to take advantage of its fresh design and typography, while putting our own spin on…
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Divine Dyad
Dyad, a new theme crafted by Automattic’s Laurel Fulford, balances text and images in beautiful harmony. Now available in the WordPress.org repository, Dyad is well suited to blogs where words and photographs are equally important. Dyad is a fork of Receptar, a theme by WebMan Design.
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Jetpack Social Menu
With the release of Jetpack 3.9 last month, we introduced a new tool available for all theme developers: Social Menus. It allows site owners to create a new menu location which is used to display links to Social Media Profiles. Adding Support Theme developers can add support for a Social Menu by following these three…
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Introducing Components: A Toolbox for WordPress Theme Development
Meet Components, a starter-theme generator to speed up WordPress theme development.
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Give Your Jetpack Themes a Boost
If you’re making themes, Jetpack allows you to easily add additional functionality to your themes in a consistent way without a lot of overhead — and without accidentally wandering into “plugin territory.” Here at Automattic, more and more of our themes take advantage of Jetpack to implement site logos, featured content sliders, testimonials, portfolios, food…
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WordPress Themes and User Experience
Good user experience in WordPress themes can make the difference between frustrated or happy users. Yet, it’s often overlooked. A solid user experience can feel just right, creating sound expectations and delight. If you’re looking to boost your theming skills and learn more about themes and user experience, we recommend these three recent talks by members…
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Savor Sapor
A minimalist theme crafted by Automattic’s Tammie Lister, Sapor is geared to showcase your passions. Designed with food blogging in mind but well suited to anything from gardening to healthy living, it features a left sidebar for menu and widgets, and offers a Site Logo option with Jetpack active. We’re pleased that Sapor is now…
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Challenges in JavaScript-Based Theming
Welcome to part three of our tutorial on building themes with JavaScript. In part one we considered the JavaScript web landscape and where it leaves us today. In part two we looked at the forthcoming WordPress REST API. In part three, we will consider the most pertinent question: how do we apply all this to…
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Introducing REST APIs
Welcome back to our tutorial on building themes with JavaScript. In part one, we considered the JavaScript web landscape and looked at where we are today. I suggested that while JavaScript lets us render content in new and interesting ways, there are challenges when it comes to fetching the content in the first place. Watch the…
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