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How to add Google fonts to WordPress themes
When enqueuing Google fonts, there are five things to consider: Is the font enqueued instead of included directly in the template files or CSS? Is the font enqueued on the correct hook? Is the font URL protocol independent? Can translators deactivate the font if their language’s character set isn’t supported? Can the font be dequeued…
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Sass comes to _s
I’m pleased to announce that you can now get Sass rolled into _s by simply checking the box on Underscores.me. The community has driven this change through pull requests and forks. It’s taken a little while, but we wanted to do it right. As with the rest of Underscores, we wanted to keep it as simple as…
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Adaption, Bosco & Isola – Three New Free Themes
A trio of themes from Automattic designers has launched in the WordPress.org Theme Directory. Designed by Tammie Lister, Adaption has a bold, contemporary, vibe. It features full-width images, two widget areas, and an optional third column. Looking for an uncluttered single-column theme with strong typography? Check out Bosco, crafted by Frank Klein. Isola was inspired…
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Meet Kelly
Kelly, a colorful personal-blogging theme designed by Automattic’s Kelly Hoffman, is now available for download from the WordPress.org Theme Directory. Here’s how Kelly explains the creative inspiration for her namesake: I really wanted to keep it simple but fun, which is why I went with bold splashes of color and large type. I went with…
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Customizing Jetpack’s Sharing module
One of my favorite feature in Jetpack is sharing, but if you are a theme designer/developer like me, it can be really frustrating trying to customize it. By adding a simple filter to functions.php or inc/jetpack.php if your theme is based on _s, you can actually avoid the Sharedaddy stylesheet from being enqueued. Now you…
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Spring Theme Launches on WordPress.org
Over the last few months, Automattic has released a half-dozen new free themes in the WordPress.org theme directory, ranging from stylish personal blogging themes to photo-intensive portfolio themes. Meet the class of 2014: Designed by Automattic’s Dan Hauk, Pictorico is a snazzy portfolio theme with large featured images and a classy post slider. Caroline Moore…
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Granting Commit Access to Underscores
With Underscores’ growing popularity and continuing maturation as an open source project, we decided to take the next step and open up commit access to contributors outside of Automattic. Please join me in congratulating Philip Arthur Moore on becoming the first external committer to an Automattic project on GitHub. Philip has been a fairly easy choice as…
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Underscores on WP Tavern
Delve into the Underscores starter theme in Jeff Chandler’s WP Tavern interview with Automattic code wrangler Konstantin Obenland. Find out how it’s meant to be used in theme development and how to contribute to the project, and explore a sampling of the outstanding sites built using Underscores.
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HTML5 Galleries in WordPress 3.9
With the new release of WordPress will come the ability to declare support for HTML5 markup in galleries. Once a theme declared support, the definition list elements will be replaced by <figure> and <figcaption> for better semantics. If you decide to not only adopt this new feature but also maintain backwards compatibility, then there are two ways to achieve that:…
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Proper use of template_redirect and template_include
WordPress Lead Developer Mark Jaquith explains why template_include, and not template_redirect, should be used to load alternative template files.
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