I came across Martín Fernández’s website a while back, and noticed it was using a modified version of the Lightweight theme. Check out what he did with it below.

As you can see, it’s still a light theme with a slightly different color scheme. It really works great to showcase his graphics work.

I got in touch with Martín and he agreed to let me release his modified WordPress theme here on Theme Lab. I converted it to a child theme, so the only things in the file are a stylesheet and a screeenshot. Download it here. Check out the demo here.

Make sure you know how to install a child theme, so you’ll need the Lightweight theme uploaded as well as the Ligher child theme. Activate “Lighter” in your WordPress admin.

Another couple weeks have gone by, so here’s another set of WordPress weekend resources.

How to disable scripts and styles – In this post, Justin Tadlock goes over how to disable scripts and styles added to your WordPress sites by plugins. This has a number of uses, for example if you don’t want the Contact Form 7 stylesheet to load on other pages besides your “Contact” page.

10 Most Wanted Category Hacks and Plugins for WordPress – This post over at WPBeginner goes over several useful hacks related to WordPress categories. Learn how to use category icons, exclude certain categories from your menus, and more.

Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow – This post by Brad Williams over at WPTavern goes over a number of useful WordPress security tips, such as not using the admin account. Some people in the comments mention that some of these methods are “security through obscurity” although the tips are useful nonetheless.

WLTC Contest WordPress Plugins – This is a list of plugins submit to the Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition of 2009. Some very interesting plugins are included such as the One Time Password plugin, and a bunch of Twitter-related plugins. All of them are up for download.

Thanks for reading. If you know of any other recently published WordPress resources, let me know.

Custom Theme is a project I’ve been working on for about a month now. Basically, I’m going to offer an affordable custom WordPress theme development service.

I’ve received a number of inquiries through Theme Lab asking if I offered custom theme design services. I’ve had to turn down these requests because, to put it simply, I don’t design.

I do code though, so when I came across the opportunity to acquire this perfect domain name, I decided to partner with a designer and offer a service like this.

The designer is Peter Mark of Hive Designs. You may know him as the designer of the Theme Lab theme (the one I’m currently using) as well as a few free themes here.

So, at these prices I’m expecting to get a lot of orders. If you want a custom WordPress theme, be sure to check out the site and make your order soon.