Author: David Lockie

Tree-hugging, technology-loving, CEO of Pragmatic, music lover, husband, step dad.

WordPress 3 Custom Menu Support in Thematic

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More thematic child theme functions goodness 🙂 Having read the comments on this page: http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-menu-tricks/ I couldn’t find a definitive copy and paste guide – looks like the HTML and PHP tags were being stripped out. So, leaning heavily on Tony L‘s work (thanks Tony!), here is a copy-paste-edit example. Simply add this to your […]

Product Review: SEC AnyWhere Lights

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Solar-powered LED lights. Yawn. Seen them everywhere: home improvement stores, fuelling stations, supermarkets, pound stores and don’t even talk to me about eBay (3,200 listings when I checked). Background In theory, solar-powered LED lights make a lot of sense. LEDs consume very little power so even a small solar panel can keep enough charge in […]

Easy Thematic Favicons

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Continuing with my modest efforts to post some useful Thematic/WordPress snippets, here’s some code to provide favicons for WordPress sites using Thematic child themes. Simply add this code to your child theme’s functions.php page: // Add favicons to the child theme function childFavicons() { ?> <link rel=”icon” type=”image/png” href=”/wp-content/themes/childtheme/images/favicon_16x16.png” /> <link rel=”icon” type=”image/png” href=”/wp-content/themes/childtheme/images/favicon_32x32.png” /> […]

Cufón for Thematic with no plugins

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UPDATE: a new, improved version of this post is available here: https://www.divydovy.com/2011/07/cufon-for-thematic-with-no-plugins-improved/ I like Cufón. As long as the page loads and the JavaScript executes quickly, it’s a really slick solution to using any font you want (and have a license for) on your website. I haven’t really used it for body text, but I […]