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The ThemeShaper JavaScript Theme Tutorial
Dive into the brave new world of JavaScript WordPress theming, looking at best practices and pitfalls along the way.
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Meet Blask and Colinear
We’d like to introduce another pair of free themes now available in the WordPress.org directory: Blask and Colinear. Putting the Jetpack portfolio custom post type to good use, Blask showcases all types of creative work – like photography, graphic design, illustration, or painting – in an elegant, minimalist way. Blask was developed by Automattic’s Ola Laczek, based…
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JavaScript, jQuery and the Web Landscape Today
This is the first in our five-part series on building WordPress themes with JavaScript. Let’s kick things off with an overview of today’s web landscape and how JavaScript fits in. The vast majority of WordPress themes today use jQuery for at least something, so I’ll look at how we’re building themes today, and how we can…
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Theme Duet with Afterlight and Libretto
We’re pleased to launch two new themes on WordPress.org. Afterlight is Takashi Irie‘s variation of his earlier Cyanotype. Opt for a full-screen background image or choose a solid background color to make a bold statement. Featuring big, bold drop caps and oversized images, Libretto is ideal for showcasing longform writing or stunning imagery. Its classic…
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Set Your Blog Free With Libre
Designed by Automattic’s Caroline Moore, Libre brings a stylish, classic look to your personal blog or longform writing site and is now available for download at WordPress.org. Libre’s main menu stays fixed to the top while visitors read your posts, and three footer widget areas let you tuck extra content away at the bottom of…
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Publication
When Automattic’s Thomas Guillot was designing Publication, he aimed to incorporate two sidebars in an original way, while putting emphasis on large, full-screen featured images. Now available in the WordPress.org theme directory, Publication is well suited to magazines or blogs about fashion, food, travel, or design — or any topic where visuals are an important focus.
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Announcing Apostrophe
A classic magazine-style theme, Apostrophe is now available for self-hosted sites. An update of Konstantin Kovshenin‘s Semicolon, crafted by Automattic’s Sarah Semark, Apostrophe supports a site logo and featured posts once Jetpack is active. With its traditional horizontal menu and right sidebar, Apostrophe also lets you “star” posts on the front end to set them…
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Let Your Restaurant Shine With Confit
We are proud to bring Confit, an elegant free theme geared to restaurants, cafés, and bars, to WordPress.org. Confit lets you easily add food and drink menus to show off your best dishes and beverages, through Jetpack’s Custom Content Types module. The plugin’s Contact Info widget – available through the Extra Sidebar Widgets module –…
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Meet Argent, Cerauno, and Canard
We’re proud to present a trio of new free themes, now available for your self-hosted site through the WordPress.org theme directory. Argent is a modern portfolio theme, perfect for creative professionals like designers, artists, and photographers. Designed by Mel Choyce and developed by Ola Laczek, Argent lets you add portfolio projects through Jetpack’s Custom Content Types…
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Elmastudio on Running Your Own Business, Theming, Selling on WordPress.com and More
Devin Price of WP Theming recently interviewed Ellen Bauer and Manuel Esposito of Elmastudio about running your own theme business, selling on WordPress.com, and much more. You can listen to the interview or read the transcript. It’s a great peek inside a successful theme business. Here are a few of my favorite quotes: Ellen, on the hardest…
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Resonate With Resonar
A recent creation from Automattic’s Takashi Irie, Resonar is an elegant theme perfect for fashion, food, or design blogs. Its layout showcasing full-screen featured images works especially well for longform posts with large images. Combine strong images with Resonar’s beautiful typography to craft posts that make an immediate visual impact. Explore the demo site or…
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Pull Your Blog Together Coherently
A new theme designed by Automattic’s Tammie Lister is now available in the WordPress.org directory. Coherent‘s elegant slide-out panel tucks away navigation, a social menu, and widgets, keeping visitors’ focus on your posts. Optional full-screen featured images let you showcase strong photos or other graphics. Check out the Coherent demo or activate it on on…
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