So, I just logged in to my Twitter account via the web interface and saw a notice mentioning a new “Lists” feature that Twitter have just launched. The notice read:
Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet!”
Right. We’re in part 03 of our “Theming for Magento” tutorial collection. Time to get down to some theming.
Magento, like many other content management systems, likes to follow conventions. Adopting these conventions when designing your theme, as well as during the theming process, can greatly minimize the amount of code required by your theme. As mentioned on Part 02, Magento has a “fall back” feature where it looks for required files, when not in your theme, within all other themes in the current interface until it finds the file it requires. This essentially allows users to keep a copy of the default theme in the interface in which they are coding their theme (either the “default” or a custom interface) and to only modify the files that require customisation. Continue reading
I’ve been rolling the idea around in my head for a while now to create a WordPress theme, packed with all the features I find myself repeating on each project, as well as some new, useful features… and maybe a few whacky ones as well.
Yesterday, I jotted down a list of features I’d like to potentially include in this theme… some useful, some for repetitive tasks and some just weird and whacky. My question to you all is, what features would you like to see?
They can be any of the above- minimise repetitive tasks, new and useful or just plain weird and whacky. Lets have it guys. What features would you like to see in a WordPress theme?
