Themelets

Sophia

Leland — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:48:48 +0000

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

Notes

View the live demo.

Create an About the Author Area in Thematic

Leland — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:24:48 +0000

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

Leland — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:12:54 +0000

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?

Leland — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:03:56 +0000

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 be in the directory. Right now a lot of WordPress users are missing out on some great themes because they’re not listed.

For a better visual on how some think it should work, check out this post or read some more thoughts about it here.

WP Full Site

Leland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:38:04 +0000

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.

Photo Lover

Leland — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:08:08 +0000

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

Notes

Randomly loaded photograph in the background.
View the live demo.

Create Custom Category Pages in Thematic

Leland — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:03:01 +0000

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

Leland — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:48:27 +0000

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

Notes

Ability to upload your own logo
Custom designed Twitter widget included
5 background color options: Green, Turquoise, Brick Red, Gray and Black
One column page template and archives template included

WordPress Theme Frameworks Explained

Leland — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:51:41 +0000

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 Cozmoslabs.

Critical

Leland — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:35:32 +0000

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

Notes

Uses the Get the Image script to load images on various archive-type pages.
Integrated with the WP-PostRatings plugin to handle the ratings.
View the live demo.
Support is provided in the Theme Hybrid support forums.