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SASS + Codekit + WordPress Theming

August 8, 2013 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

SASS + Codekit + WordPress Theming

Recently I decided to revisit my interest in using SASS as a component of my WordPress theme development skillset. I began this process by looking around at my WordPress starter theme options that utilized a CSS preprocessor as part of its workflow. I briefly considered using “Bones” before eventually settling on “Reverie” (which is actually a Framework not a starter theme.) I have a specific use case in mind for the themes I’m building and I concluded Reverie stood out for its simplicity and would play nice with Gravity Forms and mobile templates after some rudimentary testing…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: CodeKit, customizing WordPress themes, Foundation, SASS

Customizing the WordPress Admin : WPNYC Meetup Recap

February 22, 2013 By Chrisdigital 3 Comments

Customizing the WordPress Admin : WPNYC Meetup Recap

Last Tuesday, on a drizzly February night, several scores of intrepid WordPress fans came out to the latest WordPress NYC meetup, “Customizing the WordPress Admin” hosted at New Work City. I have been rather busy in recent months and I found this latest subject rather serendipitous. Why you ask?… well, you may recall that last Summer’s WordCamp New York Meetup was jam-packed with good information and as an attendee, I couldn’t experience all of it. Needless to say, choosing which seminars to attend seemed like a series of terrible sacrifices. But, I was happy to learn that Helen Hou-Sandí (Director of User Interface Engineering at 10up) was doing a reprise of her talk that I missed last June…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: #wpnyc, customizing WordPress themes, Recap, Using WordPress as CMS, WordPress CMS

Filtering WordPress categories using hooks

April 10, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Filtering WordPress categories using hooks

Ryan Marganti over at SoulSizzle.com runs through what WordPress hooks are, and how you might use them including some simple examples. He reviews WordPress filters, edits to your functions.php file, the get_terms hook, and where you might find out more references about hooks. This is a nice introduction for WordPress theme or plugin developer newbie. […]

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