A redesign for my blog was long overdue. I’ll continually be making tweaks and improvements but I am really pleased with how it came out. This design is a child theme for the Genesis Framework. I tried to add some flavor by incorporating some jQuery effects, CSS3 styles, the Google Font API, and some Genesis [...]
Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes – Review
This book was on my Amazon wish list for a few months before I bought it from Barnes & Noble last Saturday. I literally just got done reading it and honestly, I would have finished it sooner but life got in the way. It’s a fairly short read, less than 200 pages with some full [...]
November 30, 2010
Free Genesis Child Themes
The Genesis Framework by StudioPress is quickly becoming one of the most popular Theme Frameworks for WordPress. StudioPress currently offers 30+ turn-key designs that may be purchased individually or you can get the Pro Plus All-Themes package which gets you all updates and future themes. If that’s not enough, you can take advantage of these [...]
November 26, 2010
Ternary Operators Anyone?
While reading through the WordPress Coding Standards, I read some good advice to follow when using ternary operators. To keep things from getting confusing when using ternary operators, always have the statements test for true instead of false. // (if statement is true) ? (do this) : (if false, do this); $basketballteam = ( ‘lakers’ [...]
November 14, 2010
Genesis Framework: List of Theme and Location Constants
Here is a partial list of Theme Name/Version Constants, Directory Location Constants, and URL Location Constants that are defined by the Genesis Framework by StudioPress. This list should be useful for child theme developers and can be used by simply echoing the constant, e.g. <?php echo CHILD_URL; ?> would output http://www.joshstauffer.com/wp-content/themes/prose. For a complete list [...]
November 8, 2010