Hide all your links
Want to concentrate solely on typography and foundational structure while you’re designing your next WordPress theme? Hide all your links. Make them black. Get rid … Continue reading “Hide all your links”
Thematic Version 0.3
Thematic version 0.3 is ready. If you’re upgrading, stuff moved. That’s beta for you—but don’t worry, I’ve made things better. Here’s what I’ve gone and … Continue reading “Thematic Version 0.3”
How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress
Now that Gravatar support is part of the WordPress core adding them into your WordPress theme is easy. Adding them to your comments has been … Continue reading “How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress”
How To Build WP-PageNavi Into Your WordPress Theme
WP-PageNavi, from Lester “GaMerZ” Chan, gives you an awesome upgrade to your WordPress post-page navigation. Instead of the typical “Older Post/Newer Post” links, you get … Continue reading “How To Build WP-PageNavi Into Your WordPress Theme”
We Need To Kill The Sidebar
It’s time for the WordPress sidebar to go, and all mention of it to be wiped out from existence. I’m not talking about the visual … Continue reading “We Need To Kill The Sidebar”
A WordPress Theme Structure with Meaning and Possibility
Continuing work on my next theme, Thematic, one thing I want to get out of the way immediately is the structure, or skeleton, of the … Continue reading “A WordPress Theme Structure with Meaning and Possibility”
Coming Soon: My Personal WordPress Theme Starting Point
I will soon be releasing the hacked-up version of The Sandbox that I’ve been using as a starting point to develop free and custom themes. … Continue reading “Coming Soon: My Personal WordPress Theme Starting Point”
A Proposal for Theme Management in WordPress
The handling of plugins in WordPress 2.5 is perfect. It’s superb. It’s easy. It’s cake. But now that I have cake, you know, I want … Continue reading “A Proposal for Theme Management in WordPress”
A Better Spot for The WordPress Meta
One of the first things many new blog owners do is remove the Meta section from their sidebars. Great idea. The Meta information is almost … Continue reading “A Better Spot for The WordPress Meta”
The Future of WordPress Themes 2008
Hey There! If you haven’t yet, make sure you check out The Future of WordPress Themes 2009 after you’re done reading 2008’s predictions. It’s a … Continue reading “The Future of WordPress Themes 2008”
The Future of Premium WordPress themes
It’s prediction time: The Premium WordPress Theme phenomenon has approximately one year left before collapsing entirely, leaving a rather large hole between completely free WordPress … Continue reading “The Future of Premium WordPress themes”
MNML, A TumbleLog Style WordPress Theme
Automattic, the folks behind WordPress.com have a great quote on their company site, “Blogging is too hard.” I totally agree. Why did you start your … Continue reading “MNML, A TumbleLog Style WordPress Theme”
