Thematic

Thematic is a great wordpress framework, highly extensible, build with both experienced and beginners in mind. If you need to create a SEO-ready theme, in short time, having valid code, this might be the start place for you.

There are many ways to install this framework, but I’m going to download it from the main website (http://themeshaper.com/thematic/).

For those of you, who have the add theme option in wordpress, you can just search it by the name of “Thematic” and it will pop-up for installation. Since I’m on a developer workstation, this option is disabled for me, thus will proceed as I told.

Creating the child theme.

You should be able to start creating themes in no time. All we have to do now is, drag the thematicsamplechildtheme from the Thematic folder onto the main themes directory and rename it.

Now we open style.css, from our newly created folder, and at the top of the document we see the theme header, change the values to your needs (leaving the Template variable as it is).

If you created wordpress themes in the past you should know what you have to do.

/*
Theme Name: FeralGaming Romania Theme
Theme URI: http://feralgaming.com
Description: This is the default Feral Gaming theme.
Author: Claudiu T.
Author URI: http://rubynize.net/
Template: thematic
Version: 1.0
Tags: Thematic
.
Thematic is © Ian Stewart http://themeshaper.com/
.
*/

If everything went alright, you should see you theme in the selection menu.

Many first-time users ask “Why not just edit, Thematic directly?”. The answer is simple, this is because.

• a) You can’t use Thematic features to the maximum.
• b) You lose the ability to update the theme.

This concludes our lesson for today, if you have any questions, please ask.