Here’s the first resurrected theme released on Theme Lab. Originally designed by Small Potato back in 2007, I ported it to the Thematic theme framework. It now includes features such as threaded comments as well as many features inherited from the parent theme, Thematic, such as new markup.

As always, remember how to install a WordPress child theme. You will need both Thematic and the Braintied child theme uploaded to your themes directory. Just activate Braintied.

There have been a lot of great WordPress themes released over the years. Not all themes are actively maintained and supported by their developers, and while they might have been very popular back in the day, that doesn’t stop them from slipping into obscurity.

These themes slowly become forgotten about, an afterthought, so what do you do to remedy that? It’s simple, bring them back to life, and here’s how I’m doing that:

• First, find some outdated (but previously popular) themes. I chose an old (GPL) theme from WPDesigner.
• Choose a popular, up-to-date theme framework. Preferably completely free and open source. I thought Thematic fit the bill nicely.
• Convert the outdated theme as a child theme of the previously chosen framework.

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If you’re not familiar with the WP-PageNavi WordPress plugin, it allows you to replace normal previous/next navigation with a more advanced, numbered paging navigation. This is a feature I’ve included on a number themes I’ve developed, including RS16, Blogwave, RS17, and Bright Spot.

In this tutorial, I’m going to go over how to:

• Install WP-PageNavi and properly integrate it in your theme.
• Two methods to disable and/or override default plugin styles.
• An overview of the HTML markup output by WP-PageNavi
• Finally, how to alter the look of your page navigation through CSS

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