By Jeffro on December 20, 2011
It was announced yesterday that Matt Mullenweg will be the one to oversee the development of Twenty Twelve, the new default theme for WordPress 3.4. Here is a list of things that the WordPress core team would like to see make it into Twenty Twelve:
- single post/permalink view with post formats is needed
- variable height header image
- mobile version
- default to static front page (will need a function in core to auto-choose)
- editor styles the same as front end.
- avoid clever things that aren’t super-useful (like ephemera widget)
- start with 2011 as base for code (or 2010, which has gotten more updates and had more eyes on it)
- no featured image in header
- by default – no header image
If anything, it looks like Twenty Twelve will be simpler than Twenty Eleven. I wonder if the theme will be blue with rounded corners, just for old times sake?
Posted in Themes | Tagged 2012, default, matt, Themes |
By Jeffro on December 14, 2011
DevPress, a team of highly skilled WordPress developers has announced that Tung Do has become to the sole owner of the business. The quote being published all over the place by Tung Do sums up the situation the best:
After months of inconsistent collaboration, DevPress is left with one remaining co-founder, me — Tung Do. Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly, and Ptah Dunbar are going to pursue personal projects.
No one man to lead the charge with all individuals having an equal share and no personal responsibility for anything were some of the causes listed for this major change in direction.
It’s too bad really. With the talent that DevPress possessed, (Tung Do, Ptah Dunbar, Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly) they could have turned so many of their cool ideas into awesome parts of the business. However, all of this translates into a second chance for Tung Do as he now holds the reigns of DevPress. I remember when Small Potato (Tung Do) was one of the first to launch a WordPress theme club shortly before the sale of WPDesigner.com. According to him, the DevPress club will continue and not surprisingly, will focus on just themes for the time being. This shouldn’t bother users in the least considering the designing talent that Tung has. Out of all the WordPress designs/themes that I’ve seen in the past few years, Tung Do still has that something extra that makes his designs/themes stand above the rest.
I’m personally wishing you the best of luck Tung Do and hope you take serious advantage of this second chance.
Justin Tadlock has since published his thoughts on his personal site.
Posted in News | Tagged devpress, small potato, Themes |
By Jeffro on December 7, 2011
Michael Fields, one of the many theme wranglers for Automattic has published his wishlist of items he’d like to see implemented into the WordPress media manager. Of the things he mentioned, The ability for a theme to define multiple types of images like Logo, Custom Header, Body Background, Content Background, etc. We have two of these already, but IMHO it would be awesome if themes could define more than these two sounds like a really cool idea. What’s on your wishlist? ∞
Posted in WordPress | Tagged features, media, Themes, wishlist |
By Jeffro on November 22, 2011
You know that annoying problem of when you switch to a theme and then switch back to the original, you lose your widget configuration? It looks like that problem has been solved but the WordPress team needs your help on deciding how long your widget configurations should be saved. Amongst the choices provided, I chose to go with Other. When thinking about it, I figure that if Widget configurations can be stored as revisions, then all of the other time periods need not apply. So far, Indefinitely is leading the way but if you use the revisions technique, that seems like indefinite to me just as long as you don’t reset or flush out the revisions. The comments following the poll make for interesting reading. ∞
Posted in WordPress | Tagged Polls, survey, Themes, widgets |
By Jeffro on November 8, 2011
The following is a presentation by Chip Bennett at WordCamp Kansas City 2011. In this video, Chip Bennett explains the entire process of what it takes to get a theme hosted on the WordPress.org Theme Repository. Pretty awesome to see Chip go from being a vocal member on WPTavern within the past year or so to really getting involved with the WordPress community overall. Not only has he stepped up and has volunteered his time for the WordPress Theme Review Team but now he has a couple of WordCamp visits/Presentations under his belt. The only thing missing from Chip now is some sort of book!
Here are the slides that go with this presentation via Slideshare.
Posted in Video | Tagged repository, review, Themes, Video, wordcamp
By Jeffro on November 2, 2011
Well this is interesting. The team behind DevPress are planning to launch a plugin/theme review service. During the first phase of the launch, efforts will focus on theme reviews only. Justin Tadlock mentions that one of the driving factors behind the decision to launch the service is to fill the voids that exist with the theme repository review process.
Another driving factor behind this decision is that WordPress.org has an official theme review system, but it only applies to people who upload their themes to the repository. There’s no place for freelancers, non-repository hosted theme authors, and plugin developers to get an experienced team of professionals to look over their code.
So far, it looks like the process will involve a ticketing system where the theme author will have direct contact with the DevPress team during the review process. These reviews will not be free but will come with a cost. Currently, the price has been undetermined and they are currently reviewing feedback from commenters on what they think the price should be.
So one of the sticking points regarding this service is whether or not the theme reviews will carry any weight. DevPress is currently made up of Ptah Dunbar, Justin Tadlock and Tung Do all of whom are exceptional developers. If a plugin or theme is reviewed by Mark Jaquith as a paid audit, people sit up and take notice because of Mark’s reputation when it comes to WordPress security. I’m not sure if the same level of attention will be given to themes or plugins reviewed by the DevPress team although I don’t see why not, considering all three individual backgrounds. While I don’t have any information as to how much Mark charges for his time, something tells me that whatever price the DevPress team decides on will probably be under it.
That’s the end user side of the equation. For the developer, this could be a good deal considering who will be doing the reviewing. As Justin mentions, the more eyes that review your code, the better. Not just any eyes though. Experienced, talented developers that have proven their worth in the WordPress community that are fully concentrating on your code.
In my opinion, the market is definitely there for the taking with a service like this. But not just anyone can pull this off. Anyone could launch a review service but it’s the people behind it which make the difference. If anyone were going to pull this off successfully, I’d be willing to put money on the DevPress team.
Definitely read through the comments that have been published already as they provide food for thought.
Posted in News | Tagged devpress, Reviews, service, Themes |
By Jeffro on October 26, 2011
Chip Bennett is currently in the middle of creating an updated version of the template hierarchy diagram which shows the structure of how a page is displayed. The new diagram is a bit more detailed than the old one. These diagrams are an excellent way to learn about Template Tags in WordPress as well as visually see the process for determining which page is displayed.
Old Template Diagram
New Template Diagram
Chip Bennett is looking for feedback on his version of the template diagram. You can either comment on this article with your feedback or give him a shout out on twitter via @Chip_Bennett.
Posted in Themes | Tagged diagram, tags, templates, Themes |
By Jeffro on October 26, 2011
Alex King has made available code that creates an admin UI for using Post Formats. While working on their upcoming new theme, FavePersonal, the CrowdFavorite team created an admin interface for post formats that takes advantage of custom fields and replaces the built-in radio button post format selector with tabs across the top of the post editor. Judging by the comments and tweets, it looks like a lot of people would like to see this end up in the core of WordPress. ∞
Posted in Plugins | Tagged code, Plugins, post formats, Themes |
By Jeffro on October 25, 2011
I stumbled across this theme the other day called Tachyon by RocketTheme and noticed that is has 70 widget positions. That is insane. I can’t imagine how much of a burden or a nightmare it would be to manage something like that from the back-end of WordPress as just having 15 or so widgets can become cumbersome. This link will show you all of the various widget spots complete with there variations. Check out the following image which shows a blueprint of where all of the widget spots are located.
Posted in Themes | Tagged design, rockettheme, Themes, widgets |
By Jeffro on October 24, 2011
Great checklist created by WPBeginner of things to do before switching to a different theme. Out of everything they presented, number three hit home for me. After using a new theme for a few months, I decided to look at my Google Analytics and discovered that no stats were being saved from the date I switched my theme to the present. I obviously forgot to add the tracking code to the new theme. OOPS. ∞
Posted in Themes | Tagged checklist, resources, Themes, wpbeginner |
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