Tag Archives: child theme

Cozy Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It’s a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.
By | Published: February 22, 2011 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , | 1 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.
By | Published: June 4, 2010 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 15 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 [...]
By | Published: February 10, 2010 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 10 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 | Published: July 20, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 171 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 [...]
By | Published: June 26, 2009 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 28 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 [...]
By | Published: June 2, 2009 | Posted in Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , , , | 88 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 [...]
By | Published: April 15, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also 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 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 283 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 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 14 Comments