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Dec 12, 2009

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.

Jun 10, 2008

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 [...]

Feb 26, 2008

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 [...]

Nov 17, 2007

Designing a theme isn’t easy

Lot’s of people have created WordPress themes, thousands of people in fact. However only some of them have become popular themes and I believe this is for two reasons. Bad promotion Bad design Bad Promotion How do you get people to download and use your theme? Promoting a theme, especially at the moment since there [...]