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Custom WordPress Hooks Article

Ben Eastaugh — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:36:17 +0000

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.

Images, Inserts and More

Ben Eastaugh — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:31:17 +0000

Over the last few weeks I’ve substantially revised some of our documentation, creating a new Styling Content section which includes two detailed tutorials. One of them is the existing image classes one; the other is a new one on insert classes. Hopefully they (and the quick reference list on the main Styling Content page) will be useful. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our users!

Jinkies’ Gallery

Ben Eastaugh — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:35:01 +0000

Forumgoer Jinkies has made a clever Tarski-based gallery, with a tiny bit of help from the support forum. Well worth checking out.

Tubetorial on Scoring a Theme

Ben Eastaugh — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:43:48 +0000

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.

New Alternate Styles Tutorial

Ben Eastaugh — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:04:24 +0000

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.

Alternate Styles with Tarski

Chris Sternal-Johnson — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:50:49 +0000

This tutorial has been superceded by the Alternate Styles tutorial. Please follow the instructions there, which have been rewritten and improved.

Ben and I keep an eye on Technorati for new Tarski installs, and one thing I’m noticing is that many people seem to be editing their Tarski style.css file to make colour scheme changes and other tweaks.

While this works, with Tarski 1.1 we offer a much nicer way of doing it - alternate styles. Creating an alternate style instead of editing style.css ensures that your changes are preserved when you next upgrade Tarski.

Doing this is really quite simple - just upload your custom CSS file to the wp-content/themes/tarski/styles/ directory. For example, on my personal blog, I’ve uploaded a file called “ceejayoz.css” with a few tweaks.

Once this is done, all you need to do to activate the alternate style is to go to the Tarski Options page and select the name of your CSS file in the “Alternate Styles” option.

What if I wanted to use (for example) the polar.css alternate style that comes with Tarski 1.1, as well as having personal tweaks? This is also easy - just create a custom style, as already discussed, and put the following code at the top:

@import url(polar.css);

Body classes

When you use a custom stylesheet with Tarski, the theme will automatically apply a class to the body element. So, if you load polar.css from the Tarski options page, you’ll get a line of code like this: .

This allows you to easily override the style rules in style.css, the theme’s main stylesheet. So, for example, if you were using a custom stylesheet called example.css and you wanted to change the colour of the h3 element, you might have a rule like this:

body.example h3 { color: #bf6060; }

A good way to change things is to open up one of the included styles, such as classic.css, and examine how it modifies the basic stylesheet. If you want to make more substantial changes, just look in style.css to see what rules control the presentation of the theme.

Fun With Plugins

Chris Sternal-Johnson — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:53:28 +0000

If you’re experimenting with Tarski’s new theme hooks, I’ve written up a quickie tutorial on using them to implement plugins - in this case, flickrRSS.