WordPress Themes

Getting started with Thematic child themes – Part 2 – the structure of Thematic

This entry is part of a series, Thematic child themes» The Thematic framework is a robust tool for designers and developers, but before we can even begin to dig in to making modifications we’re going to need to know where to look.  Thematic provides a robust set of predefined CSS selectors and fortunately for [...]

Getting started with Thematic child themes – Part 1

This entry is part of a series, Thematic child themes» If you haven’t heard of WordPress child themes you’ve either been buried under a rock somewhere or, like me, you just don’t keep up with the WordPress developer buzz as well as you should.  Either way, child themes are about to revolutionize the way [...]

Thinking Thematically

I’ve been doing a lot of gearing up for change this year, both here and at my other blogs.  One change I’ve been considering is a switch to a theme framework, rather than a standard theme.  One such option is of course, the venerable Thesis theme famework, but for my personal needs at the moment, [...]

Aptana, the only IDE you’ll ever need for web development

If you work with WordPress or any other CMS platform there will undoubtedly come a time when you need to modify the template files to suit your own needs. Off the shelf templates are a great starting point, but there always seems to be something that could work better if it was tweaked just a [...]

Modifying Mimbo 2.2 Step Three – Changing image handling

This entry is part of a series, Modifying Mimbo 2.2» This is the third in a series of articles that will cover making several modifications to the Mimbo 2.2 Theme by Darren Hoyt.  I am modifying the theme to fit the requirements for my own site.  To see the first step requirements and get [...]