zy.sg personal.portfolio. » Freebies http://www.zy.sg Personal Website of Melvin Lee (zy) Tue, 04 May 2010 14:39:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Arras Theme 1.3.2 Now Available http://www.zy.sg/05/arras-theme-132-now-available-at-wordpress-themes-directory/ http://www.zy.sg/05/arras-theme-132-now-available-at-wordpress-themes-directory/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 19:20:25 +0000 zy http://www.zy.sg/arras-theme-132-now-available-at-wordpress-themes-directory/ It is truly my pleasure to announce the Arras Theme has been approved and is now available in the WordPress themes directory! Many thanks for those who have helped in the testing of this release, including the guy in charge of mantaining the directory and approving it.

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FireShot capture #3 - 'WordPress Development I Just another WordPress weblog' - localhost_wordpress_#

Here are some of the tweaks I’ve made from the original script:

  • Tweaks to the CSS, JS (uses jQuery instead)
  • Edited the database logging functions to work with WordPress’ database class
  • Appears only when the current user viewing has admin privileges (can be turned off)
  • Uses WordPress’ logging functions to maximize accuracy

I can’t guarantee its accuracy on this plugin though. If you wish to get really really accurate results I suggest you use other tools such as xDebug instead.

For more information about this plugin, check out the official page.

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Preview of Twitter Template

Basically, everything is been created from scratch, which means you can edit the background, sidebar, the text and almost everything (except the logo and the RSS feed icon).

Photoshop Layers

The layers have been named and organized into folders, mainly the two: editable and non-editable. The layers in the editable folder are the ones which Twitter allows you to change (sidebar borders, link text).

Download the psd file

You can download the PSD file here: Download

(I created this using Photoshop CS4, but I’m not sure whether this will work well on previous versions)

If you have created a twitter background using this template. Be sure to tweet about it to me (@zyml)!

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Now finally, after four months of research and work, I present to you the Buffet Framework,  a yet another WordPress theme framework. And yep, this site is running it (as well as the default design). It’s another one of my little experiments with WordPress theme development.

The idea behind the Buffet Framework is that it’s designed for news and magazine blogs, not only for the theme developers who will be using the theme actions and filters to create the child themes, but also for the end users who would be able to add and remove what they want.

Download the Buffet Framework

You can download the theme through here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/the-buffet-framework

I will try to post up the theme actions and filters reference soon. If you have encountered any bugs or have any suggestions about the framework, I would appreciate it if you could post it up at the project page. You can also svn checkout the trunk to keep up with the development of the theme (might be unstable).

I hope this framework can be useful for others!

More Information

http://www.zy.sg/the-buffet-framework/

]]> http://www.zy.sg/04/announcing-the-buffet-framework/feed/ 0 Presenting SteamPress – Free WP Theme http://www.zy.sg/12/presenting-steampress-free-wp-theme/ http://www.zy.sg/12/presenting-steampress-free-wp-theme/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:03:55 +0000 zy http://zy.sg/?p=170 Here’s a gift to everyone for Christmas! Presenting to you is SteamPress, a free WordPress theme that is based on the Steam interface.

SteamPress currently has with three widget-ready sidebars on the right, and takes advantage of the enhanced comments display (with threading and paging) on WordPress 2.7+. It is developed to W3C XHTML and CSS standards and works on IE6+, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

SteamPress is released under the Creative Commons license, and is free as long as you leave the footer links intact. It is in beta and I will include more features in future releases.

Hope everyone could enjoy this theme and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me or post it right here.

Live Preview (widgets not placed properly ~_~) | Download (0.9.1 BETA)

Edit (10 April, 2009): This theme is not supported anymore. If you are looking for more WordPress themes check them out here.

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