I am a regular visitor to the WordPress forum and there are a lot of questions about editing the WordPress Twenty Ten theme, it looks like a lot of privateers or novice developers are editing the core theme files.
Should it be handshakes all around, and a pat on the back as that has solved the problem, or has it just caused a bigger problem for later?
To much information and still finding it a bit scary, lets us make it very easy, this quick guide is all the code changes except the styling, there are only three code block to do honest, first we need to find the header.jpg in the images folder, and write down the width and height, download the files below and lets get going.
We cannot say how easy it is working with child themes, however we understand that some will prefer editing the original themes, so we are following the child tutorials with a simple two file upgrade and a set of options to add the new features to existing Artisteer 2.3 and 2.4 themes as and when they might be needed.
In part two we added three Menu Locations, and said we will be using the other two later in the series, for our third menu we are going to add the Vertical Menu Widget, this will be a single instance vertical menu and will inherit the styles and collapse functions of the Artisteer widget.
In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in WordPress version 3 for menu functions, in part three another nice little function is the new backgrounds, WordPress has a lot more header support and applying these changes from the admin panel in part four and part five we extended the header section, part six was the second horizontal navigation in this last part we are adding a vertical widget.
In part two we added three Menu Locations, and said we will be using the other two later in the series, for our second menu we are going to add a second horizontal menu bar, this will be a single level text menu and in our example it will sit just under the main menu, you could place it anywhere before or after the main header.
In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in WordPress version 3 for menu functions, in part three another nice little function is the new backgrounds, WordPress has a lot more header support and applying these changes from the admin panel in part four and part five we extended the header section.
WordPress have done a lot of the work for us in version 3.00, and have created a function for selecting the default header, all we have to do is offer the option to our theme users, so lets add support for the new select default header feature.
In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in WordPress version 3 for menu functions, in part three another nice little function is the new backgrounds, WordPress has a lot more header support and applying these changes from the admin panel in part four, now we will extend the header section.
WordPress have done a lot of the work for us in version 3.00, and have created the setting of headers for posts and pages, all we have to do is offer the option to our theme users, so lets add support for the new headers feature.
In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in WordPress version 3 for menu functions, in part three another nice little function is the new backgrounds, WordPress has a lot more header support and applying these changes from the admin panel.
WordPress have done all the work for us in version 3.00, and have created new calls to getting the background settings, all we have to do is offer the option to our theme users, and we can do this in four lines, two function lines and two comment lines, so lets add support for the new background feature.
In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in WordPress version 3 for menu functions, another nice little function is the new backgrounds, WordPress now has the ability to change the background and apply these changes from the admin panel, changin the background (body) image or color is now so very easy.
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WordPress have addressed the menus limitations in the latest version, but in doing so have created new calls to getting the menu items and have restructured these, so out the box the new features are not supported in legacy themes. lets add support for the new horizontal menus.
In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, one of the major changes in WordPress version 3 is the menu functions, with WordPress now having the ability to create different menu structures and apply these, the requests for moving menu items and adding links to external pages can be found in all the WordPress forums.
While waiting for Artisteer to release the next version which will have some support for WordPress Version 3, we thought about all the themes that have been created and modified where the authors will not be able just to reopen the template in Artisteer and just export and upload.
The new Twenty Ten theme has many new features, most of these will not be required for existing templates, but we may want to bring our themes up to date and add a bit of support for version WordPress 3.