Themes
The UI Problem of WordPress Plugins and Themes
Trent:
Our old theme options had WordPress like tabs, and check boxes galore. We then opted for making our theme options intuitive, and pretty. They look more like an iOS device then they do WordPress, and guess what? Our support requests dropped significantly, and we never have to link users to our documentation anymore.
17 WordPress Theme Frameworks Compared
- Buffet Framework
- Canvas
- Carrington
- Elemental
- Genesis
- Headway
- Hybrid Core
- Platform Pro
- Sandbox
- Standard
- Starkers
- Startbox
- Thematic
- Thesis
- Twenty Ten
- Whiteboard
- WP Framework
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Twenty Ten’s Front-End Code: 5 Things it Gets Right
Twenty Ten developers have done a great job:
- It’s HTML5 ready
- Proper use of the h1 tag
- Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset included
- Closing tags are commented to indicate IDs and classes
- CSS is commented more clearly