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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 [...]
Thematic Gallery Launched
Thematic Gallery is a showcase of sites powered by the Thematic theme framework. It looks like it’s running a modified version of Chris Wallace’s Gallery theme and is looking great.
You might be able to see some of these Thematic sites in @iandstewart’s tweets, although it’s nice to have them all collected into one site. [...]
Create Your Own Theme Framework
Ryan Imel over at Theme Playground has started a series of posts on how to create your own theme framework. In the series so far, he’s gone over the following:
Popular Theme Framworks – A Look into the World’s Most Popular Theme Frameworks goes over frameworks such as Sandbox, Carrington, Thematic, and Hybrid.
Crafting Your Theme [...]
The Complete Thematic Resource List
Danny over at Altamente Decorativo has just published a great list of various Thematic resources. The resources are broken down into the following sections:
Where to download Thematic
Where to download child themes
Where to find support
Other websites
On Twitter
Be sure to check out this list here, and also be sure to check out some of great Thematic [...]
Hybrid 0.6 Released
Justin Tadlock, designer of the Hybrid theme, recently announced that Hybrid 0.6 has been released. This release has a number of new features, a lot of which are WordPress 2.8 specific. Unfortunately with all these new features, the latest version of Hybrid is not backwards compatible with previous versions of WordPress.
Much more lightweight [...]
Thematic 0.9.5 Released
Ian Stewart, designer of the Thematic theme, recently announced that the Thematic version 0.9.5 has been released. With this update are a number of new features and refinements, some of which are listed below:
Extension files in the library are now better organized and documented
Each default widget area is now hookable
Hook before and after the [...]
WordPress 2.8 Released
The release of WordPress 2.8 “Baker” was just announced. Visually, it looks almost the same as WordPress 2.7, however it is supposed to be a lot faster than previous versions. WordPress 2.8 also fixes a number of bugs and also adds a number of new features.