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Old Themes Resurrected As Thematic Child Themes
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 because Thematic is a free, [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]