Category Archive for ‘How To’ 
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.
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.
Elemental Tip: Remove the Pro Theme Design Footer Link
By default Elemental (and it’s child themes such as The Local) come with a link to Pro Theme Design in the footer. Obviously we’d love it if you kept this in place, but it’s by no means a requirement at all.
Modifying Mimbo Pro 1: Custom Skins
Mimbo Pro has been out for a couple of months now and we have been seeing some common modification requests pop up in support and on the forum. So, I thought I’d write a few posts on modifying Mimbo Pro. Custom Skins Custom Skins are the colour schemes you get with the theme. The default [...]
How to develop a theme offline
When you’re working on your website it is often best to test locally and then upload to your website. Either that or you should have a test site of some sort. Working on your website whilst it’s live is just asking for problems (as I’ve found out a number of times… I’ll learn eventually). To [...]
Elemental is a clean & powerful blog framework for WordPress packed with options for customizable layouts, typography, navigation, widgets, page templates and more.
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