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 GabrielPosted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also 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 CristianPosted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also 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 CristianPosted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also 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 CristianPosted in Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , , , | 57 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 CristianPosted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 32 Comments

Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!

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 hasn’t hurt anyone (or has it? ). So without further ado I here by present you Commune Child Theme based on Thematic! As far as I know it’s the first magazine like [...]
By CristianPosted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 230 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 Child Themes Adding your [...]
By CristianPosted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 14 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 CristianPosted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 75 Comments

WP Greet Box, my Design and Thematic – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Photo by StevenM_61 First of all the reason: most of my trafic comes from StumbleUpon. With that in mind I decided that it would be a really good way to promote my blog by nicely asking visitors that came from Stumble to give me a thumb up if they like the article (the all “ask and [...]
By CristianPosted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment
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