The “Frameworks” Discussion

Chris Coyier — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:20:12 +0000

I’ve never been a big fan of “theme frameworks.” I quite like hacking up WordPress myself and making it do the things I want it to do. I feel like most theme frameworks have a ton of custom functions for you to “help” in doing that kind of stuff. For example, adding a block of text to the sidebar, adjusting the layout, or building a custom menu.

So because frameworks have all these helper functions, they are targeted at people who don’t want to learn how to do all that stuff themselves, but still harness all that power. In other words, non-nerds. These helper functions are used by hand-altering theme files, which is inherently nerdy. So frameworks are for non-nerds, but the only people that know about them (and especially how to use them), are nerds.

Or am I full of crap?

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Chris Coyier — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:43:51 +0000

Going the self publishing route with our book meant that we didn’t have a big fancy book editor going over our text. We of course strive to be the best writers we can be, but we are clearly better WordPress wranglers than we are wordsmiths. If you find any typos or any other kind of mistake in the book, you can submit them here in our new Errata section. We’ll be incorporating all fixes into subsequent releases of the book (which as book buyers, you get for free!). Much appreciated!

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