Digital Raindrops

Live CSS Stylesheet Editing

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:32:58 +0000

Sometimes we may have a small style change we want to try for our live website, it would be nice if this could be done without editing the stylesheet, saving, adjusting, saving again, and forgetting what the values were before we started. … Continue reading →

WordPress Post Class

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:59:06 +0000

There are many themes that offer magazine style layouts for the WordPress platform, we thought it would be fun to create a twenty eleven child theme with some different layouts, we have also created a child theme download so you … Continue reading →

One Click WordPress Child Theme

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:05:58 +0000

Over on the WordPress forums a lot of users starting out with theme development or just wanting to tweak a theme, post topics on changing a theme, these theme changes range from changing a color or padding to creating a … Continue reading →

Twenty Eleven and the Pluggable functions

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:41:02 +0000

In the early releases of the WordPress twenty eleven theme, the ‘twenty_eleven_content_nav’ function was not pluggable, so we raised a WordPress trac ticket and politely asked the developers to make the function pluggable for the WordPress child theme developers. This … Continue reading →

Twenty Eleven Header Logo

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:44:37 +0000

The question often comes up about adding a logo to the header in the WordPress default twenty eleven theme, in this post we will look at one way we can achieve this. In the twenty eleven theme there is no … Continue reading →

WordPress Prezi Presentation

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:08:46 +0000

Prezi is an online and offline presentation package that came to our notice while watching the BBC television programme click online. Before we joined and created our first presentation, we searched the WordPress Plugin directory for a way to embed … Continue reading →

Understanding WordPress Excerpts

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:29:51 +0000

A number of WordPress users find themselves over on the WordPress Forum looking for a code solutions to show excerpts and not full posts on the home page of their website, there are many different theme, and some have options … Continue reading →

Woo Themes Flex Slider

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:52:35 +0000

The Flex Slider we have been working with has changed ownership to Woo Themes, this does not affect us using the Flex Slider in our own themes, we have created a child theme with two sliders as a proof of … Continue reading →

Mobile Twenty Eleven Option

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:26:14 +0000

We were talking before the WordPress London meet-up and the subject of how twenty eleven looks on a mobile, as the WordPress twenty eleven theme is responsive the images all resize, and the content stacks. One of the main issues … Continue reading →

WordPress Categories Extended Twenty Eleven

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:55:25 +0000

This is our third and last post on enhancing the categories in our twenty eleven child theme, so we now have three different solutions, this one is extended as it is more rich in features. We wanted to be able … Continue reading →