Skinning Wordpress

If you visit tonight or during the next couple of days, you may notice the layout of this blog changing  - radically. I'm writing below about skinning and am practicing with Thematic. During this process you will see the blog in customized Thematic one moment and in devart the next. Have fun, I am!

Skinning WordPress, or using Child Themes is something I've just discovered at work, although its been a hot topic for some time now. I've kept a suspicious eye on using blogs to build websites because I didn't want to have to learn how to make a WordPress theme myself to avoid endlessly re-uploading updates after new WordPress releases. In the past if you made customization to a theme, when you upgrade the theme you would lose your work. Or, you had to make sure to keep local copies and upload them after upgrading the theme so your customization would be in tact. WordPress Child Themes does away with that, and two products I've read about help you  Skin your WordPress blog... safely.

The first is called Mimbo Pro which carries a price, although Mimbo is a free version. The second is Ian Stewart's Thematic - a WordPress Theme Framework that makes it easy to implement WordPress Child Themes.

October 24th, 2009 in Blogging | tags:

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