Jose M Castaneda

Year: 2016

  • A new theme and a bit of a rant

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    I switched out my theme to the Poseidon theme by ThemeZee. I wanted to try something new and looked around at some of the recent themes available on the free repo. In my personal opinion there are very few themes that are well designed. There are several reasons for that and of course many of those being…

  • The quarrel for theme content

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    If you follow the theme review you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t let me give you brief glimpse of what I am going to talk about. For as long as I can remember being in the review team, there has been an issue of themes not being allowed to do certain things.…

  • My dealing with layouts

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    The other day I got a chance to rewrite a bit of code. It was fun. It dealt with changing from an object to an associative array. It may sound super easy for some but for my mind it took a little bit to figure out the right way of creating a good way of…

  • In search of a notice API

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    Yes, I’m writing about the admin notices. I know some are already up to their ears with that and I’m on that boat. The admin area is – and should be – for the user. Any notices that appear need to be informational. Not a nag. With that being said, I know there are some…

  • Some theme review videos

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    It’s been some time since I was last able to record some video on theme reviews. The last time I did it was a quick overview of my review process. Super simplistic overview of a theme review. Today I was able to record an overview of what an admin review can be. As you can see I…

  • Adding, removing fonts from a theme

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    One request I often see in the forums is how to add, remove, and change fonts in themes. There are quite a few ways of going about it but ultimately depends on how the theme is not only using but loading the fonts. Core themes use a standard practice of creating an array, returning a…

  • Theme Review tips, tricks, and take aways

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    WordPress theme reviews are: Fun Entertaining Demanding Awesome Time consuming There are more but those are the ones that came to mind first. The last one is the one I really want to focus on the most and there is a reason for it. Recently, the review team posted a call to tips on theme…

  • WordPress underscore template

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    The last few posts I’ve mentioned diving into creating an underscore theme. There is now one core ticket I’ve been keeping an eye on and will continue to do so until it is resolved. Since the last post I did install the REST API plugin so this now means I am one step closer to…

  • A few core changes

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    In the last post I mentioned I wanted to dive a little bit into using Backbone and Underscore for a theme. I still am pursuing that. I’ve made some progress on that front so that’s a good thing. There is one thing that does need to change a little bit. The libraries used in core.…