Category Archives: Thematic

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 [...]
By Gabriel | Also posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Create an “About the author” area for Thematic

By default, Thematic comes with a simple and useful representation for the Author Archives template. While this might be enough for the majority of users, there are times when we need more detailed information about the author. This is particularly useful on multi-author blogs, where readers might want to read more posts from a particular writer! [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Thematic | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Early Morning Child Theme

This elegant Wordpress theme was inspired by the colors of the early morning as I see them from my window. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising. This theme doesn’t scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets the user read. Please don’t spoil it by putting ads on it!
By Cristian | Also posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 82 Comments

Add “Featured Posts” to your Thematic child theme

Featured posts are common in Wordpress magazine themes. They let you promote hot topics and bring your best articles right in front of your users. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct changes to Thematic. The featured posts will be inserted on the home page [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 23 Comments

Street Wordpress Theme

Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn’t thought out nor planed. It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect free [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design | Tagged , , , , | 57 Comments

Commune Child Theme – Update

I’ve updated Commune Child Theme to version 0.2. This is just a bug fix release, most of them css related. Thanks to everyone that submitted bugs through the comment form on the original Commune page.
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design | 8 Comments

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 changes [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 32 Comments

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