Leland

You can find Leland on his other website, Theme Lab, where he frequently releases free WordPress themes, publishes reviews of third-party themes, and posts in-depth WordPress tutorials.

Sophia

Sophia

Sophia is a minimal and elegant Thematic child theme, designed by WPLover.

Create an About the Author Area in Thematic

Learn how to create an “about the author” area in Thematic with this tutorial by Cristi at Cozmos Labs. You’ll learn how to:

Insert the HTML markup in the Thematic theme
Use CSS to style it properly
Use the authors template

The tutorial comes with detailed code examples.

Thematic Theme Option Panel

Learn how to create a theme options panel in Thematic with this tutorial. Learn how to:

Use a child theme framework to build new themes
Add additional options and use them in your theme

Comes complete with code examples.

Child Themes in the WordPress.org Directory?

If you think WordPress child themes have a place in the WordPress.org theme directory, have you say here. At the present time, only “parent” themes and theme frameworks are allowed, but no child themes.
As long as a parent theme is included in the directory, I don’t see any reason why their child themes shouldn’t [...]

WP Full Site

WP Full Site

WP Full Site is a Hybrid child theme, designed by Develop Daly, made for small business sites.

Photo Lover

Photo Lover

Photo Lover is an interesting Thematic child theme, designed by Gite Guru.

Create Custom Category Pages in Thematic

Create Custom Category Pages in Thematic

Adam Warner over at WordPress Modder teaches you how to use the category icons plugin to create custom category pages in Thematic. In the article, Adam goes over:

How to create category page templates
How to add custom content to those category page templates

The output should look something like this:

Early Morning

Early Morning

Early Morning is an elegant Thematic child theme, designed by Cozmoslabs.

WordPress Theme Frameworks Explained

Wordpress Theme Frameworks explained is an article written by Cristian Antohe over at Cats Who Code. In the article, Cristian goes over:

Reasons to use a WordPress theme framework
An overview of six different frameworks for WordPress
Introduction on child themes, filters, actions and templates

You may know Cristian from the amazing child themes he has developed at [...]

Critical

Critical

Critical is a minimal Hybrid child theme, designed by Justin Tadlock.

About This Site

Themelets.com is a site dedicated to WordPress child themes and theme frameworks. We have reviews, tutorials, and other stuff to help you set your WordPress blogs up the right way.