Archive for category 'General'

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 17 2012

Coming up: Drupal and WordPress theme versions of the Inland CSS template

Drupal theme designer Nick Young, who have made the Drupal themes linked from this site, is reporting on Twitter that a Drupal theme version of the Inland CSS template is in progress and that it will be released soon. I can also reveal that I am working on a WordPress theme version, as well as on expanding the CSS template with a layout for mobile devices. Exciting news coming up soon, in other words. Stay tuned for updates!

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Mar 15 2012

Pinning images from this site on Pinterest

Screenshot of Pinterest.com

The online pinboard service Pinterest is a fast-growing site for pinning and sharing images and links of various kinds. In terms of popularity, it is a huge phenomenon that is used and appreciated by a large number of people worldwide. But Pinterest has also got a lot of criticism as the concept of pinning images can violate copyrights. This can make the seemingly innocent act of sharing a photo into a crime, as explained in this blog post from the Wall Street Journal. Since site owners have different views on copyright and pinning, I want to clarify my view regarding pinning images from andreasviklund.com:

Pinning content from andreasviklund.com on Pinterest is perfectly OK. I encourage it, and appreciate it as it helps others find my work. If you are inspired by the templates and themes that you find here, do not let scary blog posts like the one above stop you from using Pinterest – atleast not for images you find on this website.

I have added a “Pin it” button to the sidebar, and I am working on updating the layout of the template gallery and the single template pages to make it easier to share screenshots for those who want to. I will also be around myself, with a pinboard dedicated to design inspiration. More about that in future posts…

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