WordPress Child Theme Basics In this post you’ll learn all the basics of WordPress Child Themes: WordPress Child Theme file structure, how to make any WordPress Theme a blank framework, how to import Parent Theme CSS styles, how to override Parent Theme styles, and how to override Parent Theme Template files. You’ll also learn that all of this is incredibly easy and within your grasp and that it might just change how you think about WordPress and Theme development. Child Theme File Structure WordPress Child Themes are located in /wp-content/themes/ like any other WordPress Theme. Except they don’t need theme files. The Comment Section In The Child Theme Stylesheet The key to understanding how WordPress Child Themes work lies in one single line of a basic WordPress theme style.css file. Here’s an example style sheet header from the WordPress Codex. We’ll be concerning ourselves with 1 particular line from the style sheet header. According to the WordPress Codex What does this mean? A Framework Ready For Your CSS Easy.
Nine Company Blogs That Are Fun For Anyone to Read - ReadWriteWe Here at ReadWriteWeb we spend a lot of time reading the blogs of companies we write about (send yours to tips@readwriteweb.com) and we've found that some of them are just plain fun. An interesting company blog can be a great way to draw in new people through relevant content of general interest - and some of them will stay to check out the service you provide. Some companies just blog about updates to their own technology and that's good for existing users to see. 37Signals You can't talk about interesting company blogs without mentioning Signal vs. Ning Ning powers niche social networks and the company's blog is a great place to find out about all kinds of groups that are actively using this technology. Viddler Viddler is a crazy feature rich video hosting service with a very good blog. Newsgator RSS company Newsgator has a great blog about RSS use cases, data portability debates and other industry topics. A.viary Collaborative design tool A.viary has a couple of very good blogs. Strands
A 3-column template system with rotating header images — Neoclas After downloading Neoclassical, one of the first things you’ll want to do is customize the random header images that now grace the top of your site’s pages. Doing this effectively requires knowledge of exactly how these things work, and with my help, you’ll be a professional image randomizer in no time. Oh, but before we go any further, you’ll need to download and install the updated version of rotating_images.php. In order to provide you with a more robust rotator, I had to modify the original code slightly. What was the first thing you noticed when you came to this site? The sleek typography set to a 20px baseline grid? Naturally, you noticed the huge header image! What is the primary component of every site on the Web? Content. Why, then, are so many sites – and WordPress themes, in particular – typographically challenged? As a Webmaster, your primary goal ought to be to clearly convey your message to your audience.
Web Templates, WordPress Themes Turn Your Ubuntu Intrepid Into Mac OSX Leopard This is an updated version of my previous post Turn Ubuntu Hardy into Mac OSX. That post was written six months ago and many things have changed during this period of time: release of Ubuntu Intrepid, newer Mac4Lin theme, better globalmenu applet etc. As such, I have decided to rewrite this tutorial for the Intrepid platform. Disclaimer: This tutorial was based on Ubuntu Intrepid and Mac4Lin RC1 themes. I don’t guarantee that it will work on other distro or other version of Ubuntu. Download the Mac4Lin themes and extract it to your Home folder. Preparing the installation path Next, in your Home directory, press Ctrl + H to reveal all the hidden files. Installing the Mac4Lin themes Open a terminal, type in: cd Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1 sh Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh This will install the Gnome themes (window border and icons), change the wallpaper and the panel background. After the installation, your desktop should look something like this: Installing the AWN dock sudo apt-get install xcompmgr Install AWN
Useful tools « ThemeShaper Forums i find eclipse php the way to go for dev of php (well for any code really). sure its a bit bulkier then just a lil editor, but imo its worth the weight. download it here: ex on how to dev a plugin w/it: in my workspace i always add a project with the thematic src and also the wordpress source -- this allows eclipse to lookup functions from those respective sources. if you're serious about development, take a read at its features -- you may find it to be a time saver blog convertor -- Convert your blog from one platform to another This project contains a number of converters to and from different Blog services. The code is written in Python with scripts to execute the conversions either on the command-line, through a Windows batch script, or hosted on Google App Engine. If you were directed here from a .appspot.com hosted service, please see the README file for information on how to run the various converters. This project is open source and distributed under the Apache license. If you are experiencing any problems with the converters or the hosted service, please add to the issue list or ask a question on the discussion group. For the list of supported conversions, see the ProductConversionsMatrix.
100+ Wordpress Video Tutorials, from Basic to Advanced : Speckyb While WordPress is known for making content management relatively simple, the depth of this CMS is surprisingly vast. There are multiple facets to discover, but you can learn about them on an as-needed basis. For example, if your goal is to input and edit content, you probably won’t need to learn about theme development. And theme developers don’t necessarily need to know much about writing plugins. We’ve compiled a collection of cheatsheets and reference guides to help you along your journey with WordPress. Introduction to WordPress Are you looking to learn some of the basics? WordPress Theme Development Theme development with WordPress is quite flexible. WordPress Plugin Development Whether you want to add functionality to your own site or share it with the world, building a WordPress plugin is a great way to get it done. Advanced WordPress Below are guides to topics that go beyond traditional themes and plugins. Security The Community that Spreads Knowledge More Cheatsheets
Thematic for WordPress | The Super Space-Ninja of WordPress Themes Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It’s perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals. Download it from the official WordPress Themes Directory. Thematic Features Praise for Thematic “A theme framework that I highly recommend to anyone working with WordPress. “An amazing theme, back-end and design wise. “An open-source theme designed as a starting point for simple customisation, which also happens to look pretty darn good out of the box.”Best WordPress Themes Support for Thematic The Thematic Forums If you’ve got a problem with Thematic you can find help from the Thematic community in the Thematic Forums. The Thematic Guide A guide to using Thematic. Thematic Child Themes Lead Developers Like this: Like Loading...
10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Theme | WPShout After finishing up with the new design for WPShout, here are ten tips I’ve got to improve your WordPress themes. 1. Make your sidebar tabbed One of my favourite features of the new WPShoutdesign is the tabbed sidebar. How did I do it? [css]/*Tabbed Sidebar bit*/ }[/css] And the sidebar code (using the WP-PostViews plugin): [php]<div id=”tabbed”> <div class=”domtab”> <ul class=”domtabs”> <li><a href=”#t1″>Popular</a></li> <li><a href=”#t2″>Latest</a></li> <li><a href=”#t3″>Tags</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <a name=”t1″ id=”t1″></a> <br /><br /> <? 2. Widgetising your footer isn’t anything particularly new, but it is often overlooked and I really believe that you can do a lot of good with a nice footer. 3. This is a brilliant tip that I saw first on WebDeveloperPlus – you can use WordPress’ built in functionality to display resized images on the front page without a custom field. [php]<? 4. 5. Anyway. Delicious: [xml]<a rel=”nofollow” href=” Digg: StumbleUpon: Reddit: 6. 7.
How To Change The Look of Thematic With a WordPress Child Theme « ThemeShaper Forums Don't Panic: This is a copy-paste extravanganza that shows you how to quickly create a WordPress child theme that looks just like the basic Thematic style. A perfect place to start messing around with the look of your theme. No programming skills are required. Like any WordPress theme, you can just dive right into the Thematic code and CSS and hack away. I've done this myself and it's the reason why I created Thematic in the first place, as a starting point. But! Let's get started. What is a WordPress Child Theme? A Child Theme inherits all the template files of the Parent Theme—except for style.css and functions.php, which take precedence over the original. The Minimum Requirements The Minimum Requirements for a WordPress Child Theme are a uniquely-named directory (awesome-theme, bonzotheme, etc.) within your themes directory and a syle.css file within that unique directory (bonzotheme/style.css). The style.css file must begin with a commented section something like the following.
Blogs According to a recent report by Forrester Research that looked at 90 blogs from Fortune 500 companies, most corporate blogs are “dull, drab, and don’t stimulate discussion.” Sadly, two-thirds hardly ever get any comments, 70% stick strictly to business topics, and worse 56% just republish press releases or already public news. That has lead many to think that corporate blogging isn’t really worth much effort, which is a shame, because properly done a corporate blog can have tremendous value. Below is a list of 15 companies that really get corporate blogging and produce blogs that are informative, fascinating, and a joy to read even for people who aren’t die-hard fans of the company. Dell – Though Dell’s corporate blog rarely strays from Dell-centric news, the company posts with a great conversational voice, often breaks news on their blog (which keeps people coming back), and listens and responds to customers. What other corporate blogs do you enjoy reading?