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Add a search box to the thematic menu

A search box in main menu is something a lot of themes have by design. Although this is not the case with the Thematic Theme Framework, it’s easy to customize it with a few lines of code. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct [...]
By | Published: April 15, 2009 | Also posted in Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 51 Comments

Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!

Update 11.17.2010 The category image was removed and all thumbnails are now created using the Featured Image default functionality. If no Featured Image is added a default image appears in place. Simply put I have been lazy lately. I know this isn’t the best way to sell my self but a little bit of honesty [...]
By | Published: April 7, 2009 | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 283 Comments

Multilingual solutions for a wordpress installation

Photo by mykreeve From my point of view the internet has became a really crowded place. No more “build it and they will come” mentality. Today’s internet business have started to compete for every single user and the need to address all potential users is more important then ever. This is where multilingual web-sites and [...]
By | Published: January 22, 2009 | Also posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 24 Comments

Replacing the Thematic Menu with a DropDown List of Categories

There comes a time when you might want to use the Thematic Theme for other things then just a blog, like a magazine or a portal and it might be best suited to have the categories of your blog on top instead of your static pages. After all, you’ll probably have two static pages (about [...]
By | Published: December 17, 2008 | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 24 Comments

Installing WordPress Child Themes and Customizing the Byty Theme

Source byty.ro Since I’ve launched by first WordPress Child Theme based on Thematic I thought writing about how you can make small changes to the theme and put your own graphical logo, add css for other plugins, basically create a customized version of it. This post is divided in 4 different parts, particularly: Installing WordPress [...]
By | Published: October 29, 2008 | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 18 Comments

Byty the Free Child Theme – Built on Thematic

         This is my first Free to Download Child Theme. It was built for a friend of mine and we decided to release it for free in hope of some extra publicity . In order to install it you have to download the Thematic Theme (from which this child theme inherits all of the functionality), [...]
By | Published: October 25, 2008 | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 119 Comments

Use WordPress as a CMS with Thematic – Part2

Photo by solarnu In Part 1 of the tutorial we’ve discussed about: Installing WordPress Creating a Child Theme Implementing out blog design Css tricks The functions.php file Setting up WordPress and adding pages. Now we take over from where we left and make the web-site fully functional. In order to do that we’ll use a [...]
By | Published: September 14, 2008 | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 11 Comments

Use WordPress as a CMS with Thematic Theme- Part1

This will be a two parts tutorial in which will use WordPress as a CMS with the Thematic WordPress Theme Framework. Requirements: WordPress Thematic Theme framework A ready made layout design Coffee ( preferably hot with cream and no sugar) We all know how powerful WordPress can be. A lot of people have done this [...]
By | Published: September 7, 2008 | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 33 Comments

10 design tips for your custom wordpress theme built with thematic

Photo by *nomi* & malcolm I’m quite happy with the way my custom weblog theme design turned out. There is still room for improvement but for now things will stay like this. I didn’t make huge changes from the base Thematic Theme, but it dose look different and somewhat close to my personality, and this [...]
By | Published: August 11, 2008 | Also posted in Theme Design | Tagged , , | 17 Comments