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Jul 03, 2011

Customizing Nominate Article Fields

A Nominate user recently contacted me asking how to modify the theme so that they could have custom fields in the post submission process. Initially I was skeptical but after some thought I realized this could be quite a powerful addition to the arsenal and so I worked out how to add a filter to [...]

Mar 24, 2011

How to Customise the Nominate Theme Homepage

Nominate is a theme that get’s a lot of loving here at Pro Theme Design. The latest update introduced the ability to modify the homepage layout. Since not many people know about the feature I thought I would create a quick video showing it in action. Besides this Nominate has also had a number of [...]

Dec 14, 2010

Customising Pro Theme Design Child Themes

The biggest problems with WordPress child themes is that you can’t create children of them. This makes customising them more difficult. This post will explain how I solved this issue with the Elemental WordPress Theme Framework. Unfortunately I can’t control all themes, but for those I can control I have built in a simple system [...]

Jan 21, 2010

Customizing Mimbo Pro’s Category Summary Display

One of the most frequent questions we get asked is how to customize the order of the homepage category summaries on Mimbo Pro. With the power of child themes and hooks this is actually incredibly straight forward. It takes just 5 lines of code to change your homepage order.

Dec 21, 2009

Creating Custom WordPress Widgets

With each new version of WordPress, the argument whether or not it qualifies as a CMS gets a little quieter. In the WordPress core we have widgets, custom fields, custom taxonomies, and with version 2.9, an expansion of get_post_type. Add a few plugins and all sorts of post-types and custom write panels become a reality.