I think that although related to appearance, favicon support should not be part of a WordPress theme. You’ll probably want to take your favicon with you, no matter which theme you use. Conclusion: favicons are plugin territory.
Agree? Disagree? Why?
State of the (WordPress) Themes
In this session, Ryan Imel of WPCandy talks briefly about how WordPress themes have changed over the past several years, including free themes, premium themes, default themes, theme frameworks and of course, theme options! As you might know I’m obsessed with theme options, and I even started a blog about them, which was supposed to showcase both great and “not so great”...
Redesigned
I don’t often work on designs. In fact, until today, this blog had only three different themes. The first one was a blue-ish theme from the .org repo, the second one was made by me (my worst first ever WordPress theme), and had an opening <? php tag on the top left. The third one was one I temporarily called Publish, which you see in the screenshot on the left. Today’s...
Introducing Underscores.me
Underscores.me — The Best Way To Get Started With The _s Theme on ThemeShaper. It’s a project Hugo Baeta and I have been working of in the past few days. Make sure you check it out and come back with some feedback. If you’d like your face to appear in the list of contributors, make sure you contribute at least one patch (or pull request) to the underscores project on Github. Have fun!
Twenty Twelve is Back in the Game
Twenty Twelve is back in trunk now and looking pretty amazing, aiming for 3.5. The theme options code is one of my favorite parts, showing off the 3.4 customizer and the Settings API. One thing I absolutely love about default themes in WordPress, is the fact that they show you how to make things right. I think studying a default theme is way more valuable, than reading a whole pile of WordPress...
Default Post Thumbnails in WordPress
Justin Tadlock wrote about the right ways to add default post thumbnails to your WordPress themes. One method is to filter on post_thumbnail_html, and the second method is to simply use else with has_post_thumbnail. The second method is easier to understand, straightforward and future-proof. The filter in the first method would only work well when we need to change the markup of the thumbnail...
On WordPress Theme Frameworks
I’m in a bad mood today, so I’m gonna do a little whining about WordPress theme frameworks, okay? Don’t be surprised if I delete this post in a day or two ;) I was reading this post on WPBeginner, where Syed writes that you can edit your theme’s header.php file, and add a stylesheet for a Google Font in your theme. Then he writes about “the right way” to do it...
Best Practices for WordPress Theming
Great session from WordCamp Singapore by my friend and co-worker Philip Arthur Moore, who talks about essential things to WordPress theme development, including a set of awesome plugins that can help. You can find the slides on SlideShare.
I started a blog about Theme Options
I started a blog about Theme Options, where I post screenshots and thoughts about options panels in free and premium WordPress themes. My ultimate goal is to get a collection of good and bad practices when dealing with theme options. Thanks for subscribing and feel free to submit your screenshots and thoughts!