Comments on: BLANK WordPress Theme

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:28:46 +0000

Do you use any sort of dummy content file for starting a site? It would be nice to grow this blank theme into a complete starter package and include some other things like this… or as complete as is useful without becoming bloated. Thanks, Dude.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:45:25 +0000

Great theme.

Is a translatable version available?

Cheers!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:52:22 +0000

I did want to add that I’ve looked around and found that it is suggested that you add “initLightbox();” to initialize lightbox after the new content gets loaded, but I have no idea how to do that…suggestions? I’d be willing to throw a little money at help if that’s a carrot?

Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:21:36 +0000

I’m trying to use lightbox for a gallery inside of the ajax target window (http://www.test.ensors.us/#/test-gallery-page/); not working too well, though (at all!). The dev page is at http://aims.muohio.edu/aimsdev/portfolio/, but I’m just trying to get the vanilla working before I move onto the good stuff.

I don’t know JS/AJAX well enough to what’s failing, but it seems that it is either not adding the rel[lightbox] appropriately or a script is failing to load b/c it is only loading part of the page.

I’m on day two of trying to figure this out…surely it’s got to be something minor (right?!).

Thanks for your great contributions to the community!

By: Michael Delucchi

Michael Delucchi — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:27:08 +0000

Nice work on the Diggin In ‘ book Chris. Cheers for all the knowledge. I’m currently prototyping some new ideas w/ incorporating my flash widgets into custom WP themes. Would love to see more flash incorporated into WP sites. So many possibilities there…

By: Stellaz

Stellaz — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:15:57 +0000

Hi, I am new to wordpress but loving it. I want to learn how to create themes from scratch and so far every thing I have googled about wordpress has turned up your advice. So from a newbie, thanks your work is inspirational and thanks for the vids, sites and web help…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:37:50 +0000

Hey Chris,

If not on GitHub you could at least add it to WordPressWiki.com and keep it updated there. You could also add the download for it there. Would be great to have you and your blank theme, as well as your book. Thanks for your great contributions!

By: jmb

jmb — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:58:43 +0000

Hello Chris:
First, thanks both for this blank theme, and all that you offer on CSS-Tricks. I am trying to build a new theme using this as the starting point, and all was going beautifully until I tried to get the nav.php include to work; it either doesn’t show up, or it doesn’t link. I’m not that well versed in php or WP to completely troubleshoot it; but I see in the nav.php file that there is no anchor tag. How do I tell it to link to previous and/or next posts? And why can’t I get something to show up? The html shows up but it’s just a blank; when I changed the next_posts_link to next_post_link (singular rather than plural posts) something did show up; but I’m not convinced this is the right solution.

Thanks for any help anyone can give – or send me to the right forum to get help!

By: Tom Hermans

Tom Hermans — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:14:33 +0000

Been using my own mocked up thingie with bluetrip, gonna try to merge this with the BLANK theme, seems like it will speed things up some more.

Thanx Chris.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:42:51 +0000

There really isn’t any reason to use BLANK as a parent theme that I can see, I’d just go ahead and alter it directly. Then if you need child themes, make them from your own alteration.