WordPress & Genesis Theme Development
First half of this post is a recap of my WordCamp Presentation…. but follows up with resources…
First, if you want to make sense of the resources, you need to get Genesis… help a girl out and pick it up via this link StudioPress Themes for WordPress – or the one over there in the right hand column of the page… there’s a good chap! then, when you’ve got it installed, come back here…
…s’ok… I can wait…
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Thanks 🙂
Now, here’s where you go to learn all about it…
Dang, don’t you hate it when you get a panicked phone call from a client advising their site’s been hacked? Yeah, me too. It TOTALLY blows… especially when you’ve got way more important things to do than sift through an install to find the offending code… As you may have gathered I got one such… [Read More]
I was presented at the Sydney WordPress meetup last night on choosing WordPress Themes and then, having procured said themes, creating child themes.
Here’s the basic gist of the first message. I’ll post the child theming post tomorrow
Choose your themes wisely.
For me, the imperatives when choosing themes are:
I’ve been spending a bit of time using the popular Genesis WordPress framework (produced by Studiopress) building a couple of sites on it lately, one somewhat more complex than the other. Genesis makes the basic deployment of new sites really, really easy but the learning curve to get used to how to manage things can prove a bit challenging.
As mentioned on the portfolio page, the development of the private social network for the Upper Room church community was particularly interesting. I’m documenting the process and some of the pitfalls we came across in the hope they may prove useful for other users.
The Problem:
One person held all the information about all community members and was responsible for keeping everyone up to date with contact details and event plans and information. As the physical community grew, keeping abreast of that information and fielding calls and emails to share it was becoming increasingly difficult so a solution to make that information more accessible was required.
For quite some time now, my byline on twitter has outed me as a Movable Type enthusiast, and quite frankly, I would still call myself that. It’s a great, solid platform and I’ve used it happily since I first hosted my own blog back in 2005. So it may be surprising to some that when the time came to consolidate that self hosted blog with the original hosted blog and update my theme that I made a decision to make the switch to WordPress.
I’ve been getting some work lately from designers who are wholly familiar with the world of print design but who, being less familiar with the constraints of web designing and development are leaping into the web pool with mixed results. It seemed as though it might be useful to outline a couple of the differences… [Read More]
So, it’s late in the evening and I get it into my thick head that I need to get on with that project that’s been banging around in my head for a while… installing MT 4.24 on my business server. I’ve been messing around with it personally for a while… but now that I need… [Read More]
