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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 is a Hybrid child theme, designed by Develop Daly, made for small business sites.
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:
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 [...]