From the beginnings, Basics is build to be used with a Child theme. Since the former version, Basics comes with Beyond Basics. After some tests, I planned many enhancements in order to make the Parent theme and the Child theme more complementary. Globally, I decreased the number of files included in Basics by moving some specific files to Beyond Basics. Continue reading
In this new version 0.2.7.1 of WordPress Basics, I’ve focused on optimizations and consistencies, starting with the functions.php file, that I decomposed in many specialized files, like functions-setup.php, functions-display.php, functions-filter-action.php and functions-comment.php, for now. I’ve change the way the logo is marked up in the header.php in a HTML5 way, putting into practice the advices of the article Using .ir class and make the replaced image “clickable”. Continue reading
I began to sleep on the version 0.2.5 of my theme WordPress Basics when the new HTML5 Boilerplate 2 raised in the middle of August. This new version of HTML5 Boilerplate brings many changes. The most important is maybe the replacement of the CSS reset by a “simple” redefinition of HTML tags with normalize.css created first by Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal. Continue reading