http://themelets.com WordPress Child Themes Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:19:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Braintied is a resurrected theme originally designed by WPDesigner, and ported to Thematic by Theme Lab. Notes Originally designed by Small Potato back in 2007. Unusual index post display made possible through custom filtering and no new template files. View the live demo. http://themelets.com/child-themes/braintied/ Over at my other site, Theme Lab, I announced the concept of bringing old WordPress themes back to life. Some older themes from WPDesigner, and other popular themes back in the day are no longer supported by their developers. I proposed the idea to port them as Thematic child themes ... http://themelets.com/community/resurrected-thematic-themes/ Astatic is a minimal Thematic child theme, designed by Leland of Theme Lab. Notes Features a two-column post display on index and archive pages A standard one-column display is set aside for posts and pages No images are used in the design An accompanying tutorial on how the theme was coded View the live demo http://themelets.com/child-themes/astatic/ Sophia is a minimal and elegant Thematic child theme, designed by WPLover. Notes View the live demo. http://themelets.com/child-themes/sophia/ 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. http://themelets.com/community/create-an-about-the-author-area-in-thematic/ 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. http://themelets.com/community/thematic-theme-option-panel/ 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 ... http://themelets.com/site-news/child-themes-in-the-wordpress-org-directory/ WP Full Site is a Hybrid child theme, designed by Develop Daly. Notes Designed for small business sites. Theme options page to input contact information and other info. Get help in the Develop Daly support forums. View the live demo. http://themelets.com/child-themes/wp-full-site/ Photo Lover is an interesting Thematic child theme, designed by Gite Guru. Notes Randomly loaded photograph in the background. View the live demo. http://themelets.com/child-themes/photo-lover/ 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: http://themelets.com/community/create-custom-category-pages-in-thematic/