Tag Archives: Thematic

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 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also 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 | Posted 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 | Published: October 25, 2008 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 119 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 [...]
By | Published: September 19, 2008 | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

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 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also 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 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 33 Comments

Before I go on vacation, more Thematic madness!

I’ve mentioned in my previous post about Thematic that I want to implement a static web-page using WordPress and Thematic as a CMS, so here’s a sneak  peek: www.cozmoslabs.com/projects/kraft2 . It doesn’t have a lot of content yet, I still have to install a form builder, a photo gallery, create some more pages and perhaps [...]
By | Published: August 15, 2008 | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 7 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 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design | Also tagged , | 17 Comments