Very interesting post about little known feature of WordPress, child themes. How to extend any theme and replace styles only, leaving the templates unchanged. Post has many interesting resources that can be useful for theme development.
Posts Tagged: theme
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Dec 09
Charisma Magazine, Premium WordPress Theme
Yesterday I posted about Magnolia theme, and here is from the same author premium theme called Charisma. This one is not free, but has much more features than Magnolia, including more color schemes, 7 additional widgets, login form that is really neatly designed and functional, threaded comments, detailed options panel and much more.
You can purchase single ($59) or developer ($139) license.
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Nov 09
How to Create a Minimalist and Typographic Blog Layout
This is a great tutorial on creating a simple and clean WordPress theme. In the end you will get the theme for download, and preview how it looks like.
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Nov 09
Advanced Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
As usual, great article from Smashing Magazine, this time on theme development, and some not well known or hidden gems. Many interesting tips in this post.
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Nov 09
FreebiesDock: FREEmium WP Theme
And, yet another excellent free theme with clean design, XHTML compliant, with several ad ready sections for different sizes of ads, jQuery powered menus, flickerRSS support and much more.
