Clone Freemium – Child Theme for Thematic based on Freemium
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In my previous post I was commenting about how to convert a WordPress Theme into a Child theme. ‘Child’ sounds like underpowered to me but I think I have to see it more as ‘young’ because a child theme could be extremely powerful, something what I will try to demonstrate over the following posts.
This brand new Child Theme that I called Clone Freemium is based on Thematic and is derived from the Freemium Theme.
It will look exactly as Freemium, but is a Child Theme. The heavy lifting is done by the functions.php file where you can find all the code needed to custom the theme.
You can download this Child for Free at the download page. Drop me a line about your thoughts.
How To convert your WordPress Theme to a Framework Child Theme
Let’s face it: build a theme from scratch could be hard. Lucky of us, we have Theme Frameworks… and life will be really easy right?. Oh, well…sort of.
I think that build a theme inside a framework, any framework could be a headache. Well, for me it is.
Consider more variables and more options when designing a new theme isn’t help me at all. I have to divide the effort in two different ways, one for designing, one for taking care of the framework.
Also, If there is so many excellent themes and many of them (let’s say a discrete 99% of the total) are ‘framework-free’, why do you will design a theme with a framework in mind? Chances are that you’ll become crazy dealing with the extra-complexities and you’ll get with a so-so theme with framework functionality. That’s was bugging me for a while when I started using WordPress frameworks.
FINALLY! custom fields on Scribefire
You got me. After I did a plugin to solve this problem, Scribefire solve it after all. Eventually it would happen someday.
One good side: Scribefire get better & better, and I learned to make plugins after all.
The King is dead, long live to the King…
