This is a first here at Theme Lab, a free WordPress child theme, or themelet. After receiving some very nice feedback over at my personal blog, I have decided to release it here. All this child theme consists of is a directory with a single stylesheet in it. This stylesheet overrides a few lines of CSS in the parent theme to alter the color scheme, as well as change up the header a bit. Everything else is handled by Thematic, so you’ll need this theme uploaded to your WordPress theme directory as well.

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By: Leland on Aug. 30

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Comment by Anto Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-30 10:44:23

Nice and clean, build of Thematic theme =D

Im not liking the nav is all, the rest is nice and clean.

 
Comment by Ian Stewart Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-30 10:59:18

Very cool, Leland!

How did you find styling/working-with Thematic?

 
Comment by Leland
2008-08-30 11:03:48

@Anto: Fair enough. How do you think the nav can be improved?

@Ian: It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be, once I got the hang of it.

 
Comment by Steve
2008-08-30 11:09:46

Have to agree with Anto…

It’s a nice minimalistic theme, but perhaps too much so. I’m not saying I could do better, but it’s just stripped down to the point where it’s harsh on the eyes.

Comment by Leland
2008-09-03 19:26:26

Sorry Steve it took so long to approve your comment, it got flagged as spam by Akismet for some reason (I unmarked it). Anyway, I appreciate the feedback.

 
 
Comment by Pangeran Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-30 23:28:54

Yeah, it’s like writing a plugin.
Just use hook and add_action or filter.

But, we still need a good parent theme to start with.

 
Comment by IndieLab Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-31 10:06:28

Nice job Leland. Child themes are starting to become known more and more and I think you’ll do well to start releasing them first (or one of the first anyway;).

This begs the question…who’s going to be first to try and release a “premium” child theme???

 
Comment by Leland
2008-08-31 10:14:44

Thanks Adam.

There are a couple of premium child themes of Thematic already: Travailler and Acamas.

There’s also a “Theme Club” based around child themes over at Theme Hybrid, created by Justin Tadlock.

 
Comment by IndieLab Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-31 10:17:28

Duly noted, thanks for the info:)

 
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