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  1523 readers Here’s the first resurrected theme released on Theme Lab. Originally designed by Small Potato back in 2007, I ported it to the Thematic theme framework. It now includes features such as threaded comments as well as many features inherited from the parent theme, Thematic, such as new markup. As always, remember how to install

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  Dissecting Astatic – Thematic Child Theme Tutorial

  2006 readers Last weekend I released a free Thematic child theme called Astatic. It was probably the most “advanced” Thematic theme I’ve ever made as I made use of several theme filters, as well as CSS styling to make certain pages look differently using the same HTML markup. In this tutorial, I’ll go over: The very basics of

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  WordPress: How to easily create a Thematic child theme

  7809 readersAre Theme Frameworks the future of WordPress Themes? In this article, I'm going to show you how to easily create a child theme for the popular Thematic WordPress Theme framework.Like CatsWhoCode? If yes, don't hesitate to check my other blog CatsWhoBlog: It's all about blogging!WordPress: How to easily create a Thematic child theme

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  Monochromatic – A Thematic Child Theme

  72 readers This is a first here at Theme Lab, a free WordPress child theme, or themelet. After receiving some very nice feedback over at my personal blog, I have decided to release it here. All this child theme consists of is a directory with a single stylesheet in it. This stylesheet overrides a

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  Gallery WordPress Theme Review

  85 readers Gallery is a Thematic child theme, designed by Chris Wallace. Yes, that’s right – a child theme. Okay, gallery-style WordPress themes aren’t exactly a new concept, but when I first saw this theme, I was simply amazed. In this review post, I’ll go step-by-step with my experience with using this theme, including how to

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  WordPress Child Themes – Remove Widget Areas

  3502 readersIn a WordPress Framework or Basic-Theme are one or several Widget Areas (Sidebars) defined. But how can you remove the widget areas if you don't need them and just confuse other backend users. The line unregister_sidebar('my-sidebar'); in functions.php of Child-Themes doesn't do anything. Why? WordPress loads first the function.php of Child-Themes and then of the

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  Should Child Themes Be Listed on WordPress.org?

  711 readers There has been some discussion recently on child theme inclusion in the official theme repository. Child themes are WordPress themes that latch onto a parent theme to do something a little extra, whether it be adding additional styles or functionality. There are a lot of great child themes out there that do some amazing things

• Why I created a WordPress theme framework

  104 readersFirst, I should give a shout-out to Ian Stewart for pointing the concept of theme frameworks out to me. If it wasn’t for him, I’m not exactly sure what I’d be doing in terms of WordPress right now. Although The Sandbox was probably the first real use of this idea (at least that I know

• Twenty Twelve Moved to 3.5

  7206 readersTwenty Twelve, the next great WordPress default theme, has unfortunately been removed from the 3.4 development cycle and pushed back to 3.5. There is no specific reason given for the change, but it seems likely that the team would rather focus on the core functions as WordPress 3.4 draws closer to its inevitable April release. If

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  Customize Your WordPress Dashboard

  9150 readersThere are many ways to customize the WordPress Dashboard. Over the years, the Dashboard has evolved into a highly flexible information portal, enabling an overall, big-picture view of the main components of your site, while also providing granular data on everything from recent comments and plugin updates to incoming links and WordPress news. And that’s