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Textpattern How To: Add Dynamic Body Classes to Your TXP Theme
04 Mar 08
Being able to dynamically generate and call data is one of the greatest things about building a site with a content management system. Why should the power of a CMS engine be limited to storing, retrieving and displaying content? Why not also use this engine to generate classes within your HTML that can also may your site’s design dynamic?
When I began working on designing a theme for Textpattern, I was heavily influenced by my previous work with the Sandbox WordPress theme. The dynamically generated semantic classes made things possible only using CSS that required editing the HTML/PHP template files before.
Inspired by a recent tutorial by Elliot Jay Stocks on how to add a dynamic body class or ID to WordPress themes and a comment made by Sam Brown, I thought I would share how a basic implementation of this can be added to Textpattern.
Making Textpattern add some Sandbox style
With the use of the TXP template tags and the built in conditional statements, I was able to add some basic dynamically generated classes to my site. Read More
Textpattern 4.0.6 Breaks Jon Hicks’ Beautiful TXP Admin Theme
09 Feb 08
I upgraded my TXP development environment to version 4.0.6 tonight to find that the newer version breaks Jon Hicks’ awesome Textpattern admin theme.
I was hoping it would work out of the box. No such luck. The latest version of TXP screws up the sub-section tabs.
TXP 4.0.5
TXP 4.0.6
I suppose I’ll have to see if I can fix the tab display. I’m not sure that I can go back to the default admin style…
xPattern - a Community Driven Textpattern Fork
31 Jan 08
xPattern - A Community Driven Textpattern Fork announced just a day before news of Textpattern 4.0.6.
via Manfre
IAMWW Winter 2008 Realignment
27 Jan 08
Those that have visited the site lately may have seen a large banner across the site recently letting you know that big changes were coming. Guess what. They’re finally here.
The new IAMWW
If you are reading this in your feed reader, come on over and check out the new site.
I have been working off and on trying to redesign the site. However, I ended up with far more designs that I hated than ones I liked. The good news is, some of those mock-ups will eventually be made available as public WordPress themes.
