Developer Jason Bobich:
Why should you be limited to whatever features the theme author has stuffed in that may or may not be relevant to you? You should be able to choose your own SEO plugin to accomplish what you want.
Chris Wallace at UpThemes has generously offered up 10 copies of his Typecase Pro plugin (usually $19) for giveaway, in addition to one grand prize of a year’s developer club membership at UpThemes (usually $99) and an UpThemes t-shirt.
To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post or tweet at @wpcandy and @upthemes on Twitter and tell us your favorite font — bonus points for linking to an example of the font in use in a cool way. We’ll randomly select the winners from those who comment and tweet.
We’ll be collecting entries for the next week, and announcing the winner next Wednesday on the blog.
It’s been a while since we did a giveaway here, so this should be fun! Have at it in the comments.
WP App Store, the project aiming to make plugin and theme purchases easy within the WordPress dashboard — and which we previewed a couple of months ago — quietly launched yesterday (complete with slick intro video). Their plugin is downloadable on their website, which once installed will give you a new top-level menu item for browsing commercial themes and plugins recently added to their system.
Seventeen theme and plugin partners are in place at launch, a few more than announced when the original teaser page went up. Brad Touesnard, the developer behind WP App Store, said that a couple of the vendors that originally showed interest haven’t been responsive, while others just aren’t in the store yet. Developers interested in bringing their own theme or plugin products to WP App Store can request an invite.
Touesnard’s certainly not on his own with this project. In addition to the vendors partnering with WP App Store, his advisors include prominent WordPress business owners Adii Pienaar, Carl Hancock, and Jason Cohen.
Mark Jaquith wrote an awesome blog post describing how he went about building a website called Have Baby. Need Stuff! He used _s from Automattic, Bootstrap, Posts 2 Posts, and a handful of other goodies to pull the site together.
This episode of Aftertaste immediately follows this week’s Weekly Theme Show and sees the crew casually discussing WordPress hosting choices, going back and forth with the chatroom, and choosing the episode title.
On this week’s episode of The Weekly Theme Show, we discuss buying themes via a plugin like WP App Store, the results of the ThemeThrift project, and all sorts of options and dashboard notification fun stuff. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?
This episode is sponsored by the upcoming WordPress service Raft.io and the Typecase plugin by UpThemes.
Episode #32 of the WPCandy Podcast sees Brian Krogsgard and I (yeah, seriously!) running down the most important WordPress news of the week in just about 30 minutes. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it here again: if the other podcasts we produce here overwhelm you, the WPCandy Podcast proper is likely the show for you. Very little discussion, but quite a bit news and links.
If you only listen to one WordPress podcast this week, make it this one.
This episode is sponsored by the Typecase plugin by UpThemes and the upcoming WordPress service Raft.io.
There are a lot of themes out there. And a ton of them are not including javascript files properly. So theme developers, please pay attention: this is how to include scripts in your themes properly. And guess what? It’s really easy.
Let’s lay some groundwork:
In this example, I’m registering four scripts, and enqueuing two. I’ll explain it afterward.
<?php/* * WordPress Sample function and action * for loading scripts in themes */ // Let's hook in our function with the javascript files with the wp_enqueue_scripts hook
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpcandy_load_javascript_files' );
// Register some javascript files, because we love javascript files. Enqueue a couple as well
function wpcandy_load_javascript_files() {
wp_register_script( 'info-caroufredsel', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.carouFredSel-5.5.0-packed.js', array('jquery'), '5.5.0', true ); wp_register_script( 'info-carousel-instance', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/info-carousel-instance.js', array('info-caroufredsel'), '1.0', true );
wp_register_script( 'jquery.flexslider', get_template_directory_uri().'/js/jquery.flexslider-min.js', array('jquery'), '1.7', true ); wp_register_script( 'home-page-main-flex-slider', get_template_directory_uri().'/js/home-page-main-flex-slider.js', array('jquery.flexslider'), '1.0', true );
wp_enqueue_script( 'info-carousel-instance' ); if ( is_front_page() ) { wp_enqueue_script('home-page-main-flex-slider'); }
}?>
On Tuesday evening the countdown clock on ThemeThrift counted down to zero, and the week-long experiment that theme developer Jake Caputo began on a whim came to a close. For seven days his theme Modest was available via a pay-what-you-want model, with options ranging from $0 to $50. By the time the clock ticked to zero the theme had seen downloads from 272 people, 8% of which opted to pay something for the theme.
When I spoke to Caputo this week he said he expected to see a bit of activity on ThemeThrift when he launched it last Monday. I asked him to clarify, thinking he meant to say he hadn’t expected that. But he said he did expect some attention, since the idea was a bit off the beaten path and, well, risky.
Just in case you hadn’t had your fill of yesterday’s panel on WordPress themes and the ThemeForest marketplace, this episode of Aftertaste directly followed the panel discussion. Mike McAlister had to step away, but Chris Molitor and Jake Caputo discuss a few more topics before the chat room and the mic were switched off.
