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10 Beautiful Responsive WordPress Themes from the Official Directory
If you’ve just started a WordPress blog, you may not want to invest money in premium themes. Don’t worry, there are nice looking, free, and responsive themes in the Official Directory! I’ve picked ten themes that help to get your newly created blog up and running quickly.
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The WordPress.com Public Theme Guide
They say Valentine’s Day is all about love. Well, the thing I love the most about working on the Theme Team at Automattic is the attention to detail that goes into each theme launch. There is an inital build process followed by a series of peer reviews. More times than not a theme will be…
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Finding the Perfect Theme
Our very own Lance Willett spoke recently at WordCamp Phoenix about the art of finding the perfect theme: Feel free to get started by checking out our latest four themes that were added to the WordPress.org theme repository: Forever, Vertigo, Reddle, and Quintus!
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_s Version 1.3 Ready For Download
I’m happy to announce that _s 1.3 is ready for download on both Underscores.me and GitHub. The most notable changes introduced during the last two versions are basic support for Infinite Scroll, theme customizer integration, and additional Post Formats. There was no blog post published for _s 1.2, so consider the following notes to be a brief overview of…
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Theme Standards
There was some confusion on WP Daily the other day about Obox, ThemeForest, GPL, and WordPress.com. It was disappointing to read since we’ve always been very open about our standards for WordPress theme licensing; 100% GPL for every thing, every time. It’s pretty easy to understand and it’s the only way to really have an…
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Envato’s License Changes For The Worse
There’s been a lot of talk lately about ThemeForest, Envato, WordCamps, and the GPL. I’ve been paying close attention because, you know, themes. I love them. I think they’re a huge part of the WordPress mission to democratize publishing and I think the good ones are making the world a more beautiful and better place.…
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Getting Excited About Edge Code
Last night Adobe’s Create The Web Tour rolled into Portland, Oregon and I attended. The night consisted of two presentations highlighting the new tools that Adobe has developed for creating the web. Of the many tools demonstrated, Edge Code really made an impression. It looks a bit like this: In the past, I’ve used a…
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Distributing Your WordPress Theme
You’ve created an amazing theme and now you want to share it with the rest of the WordPress community. In this lesson, we’ll walk through the best practices to follow when preparing your theme for distribution.
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Custom Background & Custom Header
With the templates and CSS in place, let’s round off our theme building by adding a way for visitors to add a personal touch with their own Custom Backgrounds and Custom Headers. I recommend adding support for these features after you’ve completed the CSS for your theme. It’s faster this way, because you can make…
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How To Reset & Rebuild WordPress Theme CSS & Define Your Layouts
CSS can be tricky. It can also be incredibly easy. I had a lot of help getting my head wrapped around CSS when I was first starting out and I take great pleasure in helping others the same way I was first helped: with solid code examples to learn from.
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The WordPress Theme Sidebar and Footer Templates
We’re going to round off our theme template building with the sidebar and footer templates. Registering Sidebars Let’s start with sidebars. In WordPress, term “sidebar” refers to the part of a theme that contains widgets.
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The Archive Template
What archive.php does (and all its related templates) is show posts based on a select criteria. A date range, or posts by a certain author, a category, or a tag. So, basically, it’s a lot like index.php. Our theme will have one multipurpose archive.php template to cover date, category, author, and tag archives.
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