Tag Archives: thematic

Creating a thumbnail index page from child pages

By ElShaddai | Published: March 6, 2010
One of the features of my latest project, Contempora Corner, was the creation of a custom page template that is used as an visual index page for a specific category of content. These are essentially landing pages with links to all of the respective child pages. I try to organize sites to not use these [...]

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Rebuilding Thematic Feature Site with the_post_thumbnail

By ElShaddai | Published: February 3, 2010
Anyone who’s stopped by this site more than once in the past year knows that it’s been in a constant state of change as I try out new functions, plugins or other functionality. That said, I’m really hoping to stabilize things on the back end and move most of my scratchpad work to a test [...]

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Add the_post_thumbnail to post excerpts

By ElShaddai | Published: January 20, 2010
Wordpress 2.9 has a new post thumbnail feature that I’ve been exploring as part of this site’s layout in preparation for updates to some client sites. Adding the code below to your child theme’s functions.php file will activate the post thumbnail feature in WP2.9, then change the default content display on the home page or [...]

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Remove sidebar

By ElShaddai | Published: January 20, 2010
Add this function to functions.php to remove the sidebar from a Thematic child theme (either globally or conditionally): // Remove sidebars from feature template function remove_sidebar() { // We test if we are on the page template 'Feature' if (is_page_template('feature.php')) { // Yes, we are .. now we switch off the sidebar return FALSE; } else { // we are not .. we [...]

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Adding Mega Menus to Wordpress

By ElShaddai | Published: November 27, 2009
What does it take to replace the jQuery dropdown menus in the popular Wordpress framework, Thematic, with a multi-category, multi-column "mega menu" structure? Part 1 of this topic examines a possible jQuery-based solution and outlines some basic integration choices.

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