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Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme – Part 3.2 "Conditional Navigation Menus"


The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated as well- just like the rest of the sites content, but is seldom the case. The reason is not the lack of technique, but rather the importance of effective navigation and its attribution to the success [...]


Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme – Part 3.1 "Navigation – Second Level Menu"


This tutorial is running longer than we initially anticipated, we will break section 3 further into sub-sections. In our ongoing exercise to learn the nuts and bolts of a magazine style WordPress theme, we examine what has become by far the most ignored part of a theme design, the navigation menu. As important as they [...]


  • Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme – Prelude

  • Let’s face it, WordPress is not just a Blogging ware like some might want you to believe, when used correctly, the full potential of the worlds best CMS can power sites big and small alike. The recent trend among high content-high traffic sites are the switch to magazine styled (mostly paid premium) themes to aid in maximizing content exposure. Most all new magazine styled themes worth your time is premium or paid, yet it requires customization and effort from the user to ensure the layout and content stays homogeneous. Is you already run a well established site with custom theme design and need to add functionalities similar to magazine styled premium themes without switching or paying for a new theme, you are at the right place.
    pressword theme screenshot

    How are magazine themes different from regular themes?

    Although structurally most themes have either 2 or 3 columns, the similarity ends there. Magazine styled themes are content centric and less bloggy, they offer a platform to easily manipulate data, simplify data access and presentation, and make navigation easy.

    What are we attempting to do?

    We will not attempt to (re)create a magazine styled theme out of your existing theme, however, we will dissect some magazine themes and learn all the aspects that you can easily add to improve your site’s features and enhance user experience. We will focus on the following three components of the theme.
    • Content Presentation – Featured, non-featured, category and asides posts
    • Sidebar – DOMtab and tabber JavaScript module
    • Navigation – CSS and JavaScript menu
    Some of this work will involve JavaScript usage/applications, not to fear, they are all relatively simple, free to download and use and easy to adopt into any theme.

    When will the guide be available?

    Over the next few days, we will present the “How To” guide in 3 (or more) parts, each focusing on one of the aforementioned components. So stay tuned.
  • 01.04.2008 - 9:54 pm - (20) - Design, How to, Techniques, Tips

How to Make your Codes "Friendly"


Have you found yourself wanting to display a piece of code in your blog post or a comment form that left you stripping off elements or re-pasting it over and over only to find that the code is actually being executed? I run in this issue a lot while replying to support questions, so I [...]



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