Comments on: Thematic: the final word in WordPress themes

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:58:46 +0000

Thanks, Alex — great article! Good work with the Irresistible theme; I’ve used it myself for my wife’s web site.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:28:42 +0000

This is an article about Thematic’s main features, and about how I used it to design my blog theme
http://www.vibesphere.com/2010/11/how-i-used-the-thematic-framework-on-my-blog/ – I hope it helps you decide if Thematic works for you

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:46:49 +0000

@ari: Its just a modified version of the Irresistible theme, available for free download here: http://www.woothemes.com/2009/02/irresistible/

By: ari

ari — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:05:02 +0000

the surabhisaraf.net theme is excellent. will you release it as a download?

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:50:17 +0000

@danny: Actually we did two initial drafts using Thematic. In the end, we went with Irresistible because modifying it to get what Surabhi wanted was easier than building a Thematic child theme.

By: danny

danny — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:04:40 +0000

Interesting, I just insalled thematic and am playing about. Definitley a different way to approach theming! Can I ask what made you go with the Irresistible theme for surabhisaraf in the end?

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:48:52 +0000

@Ciobi: I think you'll find a lot more help on the Thematic forums. If I read correctly, it seems to me that you should be able to do this kind of organization by just using hierarchical categories. Then for each category, you can provide a custom page template. In general, what you have done should be upgrade safe -- if you look at the page.php in thematic, it is mostly comprised of library calls. Thematic has extensive actions and hook filters that you can leverage in your own page templates.

By: Ciobi

Ciobi — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:38:48 +0000

I started playing with Thematic a couple of day ago. Looks like a great tool.

I’m not sure however about how to approach my WordPress implementation, while maintaining compatibility of future Thematic update.
I need to create a hierarchal Page based navigation which is essential composed of 3 layers: Top of the hierarchy – Domain pages (the navigation menu is composed of this), second level – Projects, third level – Project subsections. The project pages and project subsections pages require to contain a Subsection navigation within that project.

Now, in order to accomplish this I created two custom page templates for each type of page (project and subsection) and put them in the child theme directory. Within them I added the php code required to create the project navigation.
Is this right? Won’t this kinda destroy the idea of upgrade compatibility (if the page.php file – on which the custom templates are based – changes in thematic future upgrades)? Should I have done this differently? (maybe using the child theme function.php file – dunno how however).

By: Willma

Willma — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:31 +0000

Your information help me a lot. Thanks!

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:37:09 +0000

Thematic is great, I really like it and I’m using it for a couple of websites. Its much easier to edit that other themes but it does require a bit of a learning curve. Especially if you aren’t experienced with themes or xhtml and css. I like how you’ve shaped this theme so far, the header image fits perfectly with the clean layout. It’d be interesting to see how else you decide to customize it.

BTW, surabhisaraf is looking great nice design.