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Sequential
Created by Thomas Guillot, Sequential is a multi-purpose business theme featuring three custom page templates, including a special homepage layout and one for a grid page. It supports Jetpack Site Logos and is now available in the WordPress.org theme directory, ripe for downloading.
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Intergalactic Takes Flight
Discover Intergalactic, a new free theme designed by Mel Choyce and developed by Caroline Moore. With prominent featured images, high-contrast typography, and a slide-out side panel for menu and widgets, Intergalactic makes a bold statement while keeping the focus on your images and text. Download it from the WordPress.org directory or explore the demo.
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Penscratch
Penscratch, a crisp new theme designed and developed by Caroline Moore, made its debut in the WordPress.org directory this week. “Penscratch was inspired by a similar portfolio theme, Sketch, which I designed for visual art. I wanted a clean, minimalist theme with a similar look and feel, but tailored to writers.” With support for Jetpack…
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Working with the Eventbrite API Plugin
Eventbrite and WordPress are the perfect fit, but until now, integrating the two has not been for the faint of heart. In early 2014, Eventbrite announced its new upcoming REST API, and this became the perfect opportunity to give theme developers an easy-to-use set of tools for working with Eventbrite events: the Eventbrite API plugin.…
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Minnow
Minnow, a new free theme designed by Automattic’s Mel Choyce and developed by Caroline Moore, is now available for download in the WordPress.org directory. Looking for a fresh, clean theme perfect for a contemporary blog? Give Minnow a spin.
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The Power of Eventbrite on WordPress
Eventbrite is the world’s premier event-management service, and we’re happy to announce two new ways to add Eventbrite events to your self-hosted WordPress site! We’ve offered Eventbrite integration on WordPress.com for a while, with two dedicated themes. While this made getting your events on your WordPress site easier than ever, it wasn’t available to self-hosted…
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Mastering the post_class() Function
The post_class() function is one of the many functions provided by WordPress to facilitate theme development. As the name suggests, the post_class() function outputs an HTML class attribute and sets its value to classes related to the post being output. The correct way to use the function is to add it to the HTML tag that serves…
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Making Features Available to Themes
I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a problem. A couple of months ago, we released a new feature called Site Logo on WordPress.com, that allows you to set a logo for your site and have it persist between theme changes. It went over well, and it was decided to roll it into Jetpack for…
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Prefixing in WordPress Themes
An important best practice when coding a WordPress theme or plugin is correct prefixing. In this post, we’ll look at: Why prefixing is needed in PHP. Why prefixing is needed in WordPress specifically. How to prefix properly in your code. Prefixing in PHP Programming uses the concept of namespaces. It’s an abstract concept that can…
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Five New Themes Come to WordPress.org
We’re tremendously pleased to announce the WordPress.org launch of three gorgeous portfolio themes and two elegant business themes by Automattic. Espied, Illustratr, and Sketch take advantage of the portfolio custom post type available through Jetpack to let your projects shine. Illustratr was designed by Thomas Guillot and Sketch is by illustrator and web developer Caroline…
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Why Bootstrap is a bad fit for WordPress Themes
Since its release in 2011, Bootstrap has quickly become the most popular front-end framework on Github. This popularity also has an impact on the world of WordPress themes, with authors using the framework during development or even releasing themes that feature Bootstrap as unique selling point. This is surprising, because Bootstrap is not a great fit…
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Underscores With Automated Testing
After adding Sass support early last week, we added yet another enhancement to Underscores that should make everyone’s life easier. Philip Arthur Moore, the first external committer to the Underscores project, announced the change on his blog and went into some more details.
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