Tag Archives: themes

Behind the Websites: WordPress Theme Elements

September 26, 2011

When producing a theme, we try not to limit the website owner’s options within the WordPress Dashboard. The owner may wish to enable an option down the track and be disappointed to find they can’t.

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Quick Notes: Big Red Framework on WordPress.org

August 26, 2011

Big Red, the Soupgiant WordPress framework, has been added to the WordPress.org theme repository.

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Quick Notes: Big Red Framework

April 28, 2011

We’ve updated the base WordPress theme we use at Soupgiant for WordPress 3.1+ and to make more use of the WordPress API. Along with the standard features you would expect in a WordPress framework, it includes templates for the Theme My Login plugin, custom default code for Formidable / Formidable Pro plugins, custom html output […]

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Quick Notes: Soupgiant WordPress themes on Github

December 14, 2010

The Soupgiant base WordPress themes are now available on GitHub. There’s no documentation at this stage, I’ll write up a blog post with details in the coming week.

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Behind the Websites: JavaScript Localisation in WordPress

September 2, 2010

I was asked on Twitter recently if it’s possible to pass WordPress data to JavaScript, wp_localize_script() is the tool to do it with.

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Behind the Websites: Thesis V WordPress, Pearson V Mullenweg

July 15, 2010

Mullenweg believes that, because WordPress is released under the GPLv2 license, all themes and plugins developed for WordPress must also be released under the same license. Pearson disagrees. I believe that Mullenweg is wrong. WordPress themes can operate on other blogging platforms with minimal changes.

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Behind the Websites: Charging for themes? Do the right thing!

November 12, 2009

Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.

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