Smarter Wordpress Theme

Smarter is a Wordpress theme for small and medium sized companies. It's meant to build a presentation site in a minimum amount of time without touching a single line of code.

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Smarter Wordpress Theme

wp_nav_menu shortcode

Along with WordPress 3.0 we now have access to the really useful wp_nav_menu functionality. We can now create our own menus without resulting to several plugins or tricks.

Another cool thing we can do with this new menu is build the sitemap. I was in need the other day of a plugin that would generate a sitemap page (something like an archive page). Not an xml sitemap, just a standard page from where the visitors of the site could navigate more easily. The best solution appeared to be an WordPress menu shortcode.

Since I couldn’t find something like this I realized that I could use the wp_nav_menu function and built a shortcode to insert it into my page.

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By Cristian | Posted in General, Wordpress | Tagged , | 2 Comments

The new Smarter and WordPress 3.0

As you all know, WordPress has made the 3.0 transition, which brings the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress and a lot of new features to the table.
Trying to keep up with the goodies we developed a new version of Smarter, which runs smooth on 3.0 and takes advantage of the new feature list.

A Smart WordPress 3.0 Theme

As mentioned before Smarter theme was designed as a powerful CMS for company websites. It’s a business wordpress theme, with a SEO friendly structure.

This being said, here are some of the new things that Smarter 2.0 has to offer.

The News Items was implemented using the custom post type feature from WP 3.0. Now, adding and editing news is simple and straight forward, leaving no room for confusion.

The custom navigation menu has been set as the theme default menu, so now you will be able to insert and organize things like pages, categories, news or custom links in your theme menu.

Smarter also comes with a big package of different color child themes, giving you the option to choose the right color range for your business.

In case you’re aiming for a multilingual website, Smarter 2.0 has been tested and works great with WPML plugin.

Smarter Theme Options, which let you customize your site looks, comes with a lighter interface which includes all the options from the previous version. So you have options like: selecting between multiple theme layouts, uploading a header image, editing the featured slider page etc.

To find out more about Smarter 2.0 and it’s new features check out the screencast below:

Pricing

For 25$ you can purchase Smarter 2.0, which includes all the functionality of the old version, plus the new features mentioned before. The zip also includes the psd files and the color child themes. Being released under a GPL license, Smarter can be used on an unlimited number of websites.

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Support

If you have any suggestions or questions regarding the new version of this theme, please visit our forums (http://cozmoslabs.com/forums/).

By Adrian | Posted in General, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Charisma, Free Genesis Child Theme

Charisma is a free Genesis child theme that will work perfectly for your WordPress personal blog.

When I started designing Charisma I had in mind an elegant, simple, well structured theme which highlights the content and gives the user a pleasurable reading experience.

Charisma, Free Genesis Child Theme

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By Cristian | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Thematic Tabbed Widgets

Tabbed widget areas for Thematic


Tabbed widgets for WordPress themes have been around since WordPress it self. They are a perfect way to save on vertical space and add a bit of interaction with the users.

There are two classic ways of implementing the tabbed widgets.

  • Creating a hard coded widget and using the jQuery Cycle plugin. This means you can’t easily modify the content of the tabs unless you open the widget file.
  • Using a tabbed widget plugin. While this is ok for some users it just ads a lot extra code that doesn’t justify the end.

Luckily there is a optimized way of doing things. Write a bit of javascript that converts any default thematic widget area into a tabbed widget area. The title of the widgets placed in you widget area will automatically become the widget tabs.

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By Cristian | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 16 Comments

Theme Teasers

Themes in the Work

The last two months have been really productive. So I thought I’d share with you two of the works in progress. While still far from ready to be released, they are ready to be shown.

Both will be child themes, but with a twist. This is as much as I can tell you at this point, but I’ll post more details by the end of the month.

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By Cristian | Posted in Theme Design | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments

Remove Google Buzz from Gmail

I don’t like google buzz.

Here is how to remove Google Buzz from Gmail in three easy steps.

Hide Google Buzz from the Gmail interface

Turn off Google Buzz completely

By Cristian | Posted in General | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Exclude posts from WordPress Navigation in Thematic

Let’s say you have a certain category that you want to be displayed some place other than on your main blog page. No big deal, you just exclude your special category from the main index loop.

Now, you’re probably also want to make some changes to the single post navigation, and make it so that single posts in your special category won’t get posts from any other category in their navigation links. And also, chances are you’ll want to exclude posts from your special category from the navigation links of posts in all other categories.

In other words, in the navigation links of single posts from your special category you’ll only get posts from that category, and in the navigation links of posts from all other categories, you’ll get posts from all categories except your special category. Two separate navigations.

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By Cristian | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Extending the admin post filtering

We have a brand new plugin for all you WordPress maniacs out there.

Multiple filters in the posts management screen

Multiple filters in the posts management screen.

Now you can filter your posts in all imaginable ways, even by custom taxonomies! Download it via the official WordPress plugins repository.

Filter the admin post listing by:

  • authors
  • tags
  • custom taxonomies that you have declared
By Cristian | Posted in Wordpress, plugins | Tagged , | 26 Comments

WordPress Photo Slideshow with NextGen Gallery

After looking into tons of solutions for a WordPress photo slideshow, most of them being flash applets, I’m confident that I’ve found the very best one. And it’s not even Flash, it’s just JavaScript.

Are you familiar with the NextGEN Gallery plugin? Well, you must be, since it’s probably the most downloaded photo gallery plugin. Well, we’ve found a little addon plugin that integrates NextGEN with GalleryView, an excellent jQuery gallery plugin. What more could we want?

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By Cristian | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 32 Comments

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