http://www.themeplayground.com WordPress Tips from WordPress Users Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:22:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An interesting read over at ThemeShaper. I wasn’t even aware of child themes and this sort of use. Awesome. http://www.themeplayground.com/ian-stewart-on-child-themes-and-frameworks On the way home last night I was browsing through unread feeds and saw someone talking about installing the new WordPress app on their iPhone. I jumped straight into the App Store and downloaded it for free (look for it under "Utilities"). The download was quick (even on an Edge ... http://www.themeplayground.com/review-of-wordpress-for-iphone There are a few names which stick out in WordPress developer/designer circles. One of those names is, curiously enough, a made up name: Small Potato. Small Potato ran a very popular website devoted to WordPress called WPDesigner. Since some time last year Small Potato has disappeared and hasn't (as far as ... http://www.themeplayground.com/interview-with-wordpress-theme-designer-small-potato I had the opportunity some time ago to interview someone who is very much interested in WordPress development: Leonid Mamchencov. He's the blogger over at WPBits, and makes a point of explaining that his blog is not a blog about blogging. I think I like him already. Full text of interview ... http://www.themeplayground.com/interview-with-wordpress-wpbits-blogger-leonid-mamchencov Thanks to the ongoing pestering from me, Scott Andreas has thankfully released Bloglet, his stylish minimalist theme. He uses it himself, so you know he has put some care into it. http://www.themeplayground.com/bloglet-stylish-minimalist-blogging Tumblelogs are a popular form of blogging, whether they take the traditional minimalistic form or not. When the amount of information is available the way it is online via blogs, strong and simple messages are all the more valuable. The popularity of Jason Kottke's kottke.org and John Gruber's Daring Fireball ... http://www.themeplayground.com/10-impressive-tumblelog-wordpress-theme-reviewed Adam Brown has a nice little post detailing how to (with simple PHP) add a class to the first post on your blog page. Thanks, Adam. http://www.themeplayground.com/adding-a-class-to-the-first-post What I'm calling Theme Playground On WordPress (Live) — real original, right — will be an hour long discussion, from 9pm to 10pm EDT tonight at Ustream.tv. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQU_7MopNBk[/youtube] The link to bookmark is: http://ustream.tv/channel/theme-playground-on-wordpress Tonight's discussion will last for one hour, as most nights, and be on the following topics: Chris Pirillo's WordPress theme ... http://www.themeplayground.com/announcing-theme-playground-wordpress-discussion-live-on-ustream Chris Pearson has put together a nice tutorial all about creating a user-functions.php file in your WordPress installation. Do you enjoy your widget-ized sidebars? Then you have functions.php to thank. Theme developers can also use functions.php to add extra functionality to their themes. Just recently I customized a functions.php file in ... http://www.themeplayground.com/chris-pearson-and-user-functionsphp This morning I received a notice from Vladimir Prelovac that he has just released his newest theme which he is calling Amazing Grace. Since he was nice enough to send me a note about it, I thought I could be nice enough to review it. Quick Links for Amazing Grace Visit the ... http://www.themeplayground.com/theme-review-amazing-grace