Apr 19 2012

Two new templates: Inland Earth and Inland Wood

Two new free website templates have been released: Inland Earth and Inland Wood. Both are based on the popular Inland CSS template, with additions such as background images and CSS3 effects that change their visual appearance. As with Inland, the design has been in focus – while simple and effective code has been a top priority. Both templates include the NivoSlider image slideshow plugin, and a set of beautiful photos by Thomas Wallström have been included to bring more colors into the designs. This is what the new templates look like:

Screenshots of the new Inland Earth and Inland Wood HTML/CSS templates

You can read more about Inland Earth and Inland Wood and see live demos on their respective template pages, or download them directly from here:

Inland Earth: inland-earth.zip (1.4 Mb .zip)
Inland Wood: inland-wood.zip (1.5 Mb .zip)

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Apr 18 2012

Theme test site upgraded to WordPress 3.4 (beta 2)

The theme demo site where you can preview the WordPress themes from this site, has been upgraded to the new beta version of the upcoming WordPress 3.4. I’ll be reviewing all themes and make sure that they are fully functional with WordPress 3.4 once it is released, but I would still like to ask for your help. If you spot any bug or error when you browse the demo site, or if you download one of my themes and use it with the 3.4 beta and run into problems, please let me know about it.

Screenshot of the new theme customization feature in WordPress 3.4 (beta 2)

WordPress 3.4 will introduce some new features which I will look closer at soon, including a new theme customizer which seems both interesting and useful. With version 3.4, it will also become possible to install child themes hosted at the official WordPress theme directory, from inside the administration area of your site. Both those features are highly relevant for me to support, so I will write more about these features once I have experimented with including support for them in the themes.

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Apr 10 2012

Enhance your WordPress theme with code snippets

As much as I love building themes for WordPress, I am much more of a CSS designer than a coder. In order to make theme development easier, I started to build a library of useful code snippets that I could re-use in future projects. Seeing how useful it was, I started looking around for sites with more snippets that I could use. Today, WordPress Tavern published a post with a link that is well worth passing on to anyone who could find short code snippets for WP-theme development useful…

WPfunction.me contains a collection of snippets which you can copy and paste into the functions.php file of your theme to add new features to it. Using a simple interface, you can sort snippets by category and then select the features you want to add. After selecting, you click a “Get my code” button to get all the code you need. Paste the code into your functions.php file, and you are all ready to go.

It is not the largest collection of WordPress-related code snippets I have seen, but the way that features are selected and the code is customized according to the selections that are made, is simply beautiful. Check it out, and if you want more code examples to choose from, move on to the excellent list of code snippets compiled by CatsWhoCode.

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Apr 3 2012

Moving into the world of Creative Commons

Starting today, all future free HTML/CSS templates (both new designs and updates of previous releases) will be released under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. It will not mean any difference in terms of how the templates can be used, modified and redistributed, as the templates will remain free to download, free to use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes and free to modify and redistribute. The only difference in practice will be that attribution must be given when the templates are used or redistributed. By using an established license, there will be no more confusion about copyrights, limitations and the legal status of the designs.

To learn more about Creative Commons, I suggest watching this video presentation.

(Note: The WordPress themes will still be GPL)

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Mar 21 2012

New Drupal theme: Inland

The Inland CSS template has now been ported into a theme for Drupal and added to the Drupal themes page. The Inland theme for Drupal was created by Nick Young, and the theme includes support for the Nivo Slider header image slideshow. The project is under active development, and Nick is planning to add support for all layout features included in the template. If you use Drupal and you are looking for a new look for your site, check it out!

Screenshot of the Inland theme for Drupal 7.x (click to go to the Inland project page on Drupal.org)

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