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…
Another Twitter Updater: Xmlrpc enabling Twitter
Is that possible?
I was testing many twitter plugins for wordpress. Every one has some in common: they didn’t work with weblog clients. There is some kind of technical problem-concept in WordPress. The only one plugin that I found working is the brilliant Alex King’s Twitter Tools. It will send a twitt when you do a new post, I don’t know if can be tweaked with actions send a Twitter msg when you edit a post.
So what’s the buzz around XMLRPC? What is all about it? If you read in previous post One Ring to Rule Them All – Part I and Part II the idea is to get some tools to help you control your blogs in a remote-fashion. Expand your vision and imagine you have many blogs to control(maybe is already your scenario). What kind of tools will you use in such situation? I’m open to suggestions so let me know what you think.
I have been working around this XMLRPC limitation and I finally I got a simpler (maybe not that simple) workaround. This research lead me to a new plugin that I built: Another Twitter Updater.
Xmlrpc-enabled means that you can work with any weblog client and you won’t have any problems, so that’s is the main reason I’m releasing Another Twitter Updater plugin. Go to the Download page page to test it.
One Ring to Rule Them All – Scribefire Custom Fields Plugin – Part II
The most annoying thing in Scribefire was its inabiltiy to make custom fields in WordPress.
To keep things short, that bugged to me sometime until I decided to build a little plugin to workaround this problem.
Actually I’m thinking that I could do the same using shortcodes but for the moment you can test and enjoy the Scribefire Custom Field Plugin. Access to the Download Page and tell me what you think.
