Just published an article over on Extralogical about adding custom hooks to WordPress themes, which might be of interest to the theme authors amongst you. It also offers a little preview of how the new hooks system in Tarski 1.5 will work.
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Tubetorial have a great little video up on how to find and install a WordPress theme for your website, and were kind enough to mention Tarski in their list of the best WP themes on the web.
We’ve just added a new, revised version of our original alternate styles tutorial. The new Alternate Styles page resides in its rightful place in the Docs & Help section, and has been substantially rewritten for greater clarity and to correct a couple of errors. The original article is now defunct, so if you have any links pointing there please update them.
The roadmap has been updated to give a more accurate and complete picture of what’s going to be in 1.2, but I thought I’d write up a brief summary of where things stand and where we go from here.
Firstly, I’ve rewritten a fair amount of the CSS, to make it more flexible and extensible. Content areas (such as entries, comments and so on) are now denoted by the content class, while the two columns are referred to by primary and secondary classes. This replaces a large and disparate set of classes and ids, making the code cleaner and easier to extend and modify. Additional stylesheets, for example, should now be much easier to write.
Secondly, Chris has been working on the Tarski Options page, cleaning it up and improving it substantially. We hope that the new version will be easier and more intuitive to use.
There are also the usual raft of tweaks and improvements, including the much-requested pagination and next/previous links, better trackback and language support, and a new and improved loop.php file which should make modifications based on the Tarski code much easier to implement.
1.2 beta test
Because there are such substantial alterations to the code, we want to run a small test before releasing it publicly. Sign up for the 1.2 beta on this forum thread.
Beta applications are now closed.
Tags: 1.2, beta test, customisability, features, forum, modifications, roadmap, theme hooks, themes, tweaks
Jim Whimpey’s Day Dream has apparently been influenced by Tarski (not detrimentally, we hope). It’s a clean single-column theme with a large header and a few nice touches—I particularly like the way the header switches with the colour changes. Happily, it looks like Jim agrees with us about the need for customisability. Worth checking out.
I’ve a bit of an open letter to theme designers up on my personal blog, so if there are any of you around, please do take a peek.