I had a need to build some search engine optimized breadcrumbs for a project I’m working on right now. I didn’t want to just use Yoast’s breadcrumbs, because I’m using Twitter Bootstrap, and I wanted to make use of the built-in breadcrumbs support, so I did a Google, found something, tweaked it and am using… Continue reading Search Engine Optimized breadcrumbs
Tag: WordPress theme development
I said a long time ago that I would never use another theme framework now that I have Museum Core. Well, unfortunately for me, WordCamp SLC — particularly the presentations of Jake Spurlock, George Ortiz and Patrick Cox, as well as working on the theme which was based on _s — changed my mind on that. I now think that the best solution for jumpstarting a new theme project is a combination of Twitter Bootstrap and _s.
But this post isn’t about what makes those two frameworks awesome (you can read about that on their respective sites, or just Google _s and Twitter Bootstrap for awesomesause). I just wanted to share a quick Alfred extension I made that will setup a WordPress theme based on the _s theme framework that also loads Twitter Bootstrap assets into your theme’s directory. Note: this doesn’t enqueue any of the styles or javascript. I may add that later. For now, this just sets up the directories and pulls the latest versions of each framework from their GitHub repositories. It will also initialize a Git repo if you want to use Git for version control for your theme. (Note for the uninitiated: Alfred Extensions require the Powerpack.)
Building plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes: to be, or not to be?
There’s been a lot of talk in the WordPress world about whether or not theme developers should build plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes. After my presentation at WordCamp SLC 2012, it was actually something I was asked about. Seeing how it was a topic of discussion on wpmail.me via ManageWP, I thought I’d throw my 2… Continue reading Building plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes: to be, or not to be?
Making theme options modular
Today I submitted version 1.1 of Museum Core to the WordPress theme repository for review. Originally this was going to just be a simple update with some bugfixes, but I had thought of a way to make it easier to build child themes that include some options settings from the parent theme (Museum Core) without… (read more)
Museum Themes is one year old
Funny how time creeps up on you. It wasn’t until I was preparing my presentation for this year’s upcoming WordCamp SLC that I realized that it was this time last year that we launched Museum Themes! In our first year, we have released 14 WordPress themes (7 free themes and 7 Museum Themes), one display… (read more)