After a little over a month with the free Typebased theme from WooThemes here on Manic Mouse, I finally switched to something more my style. It’s not that I didn’t like Typebased, it just felt like I was struggling to make it work for my content.
Neutica+ was designed by Allan Cole and is a child theme of the Thematic WordPress framework. Though I’ve never done anything with Thematic (or any other theme framework) before, the first iteration of this site (which never went live) was actually a child theme of the WordPress default theme. I really liked the concept of child themes, but didn’t want to get stuck in a “perfectionist death spiral” of personal theme design and development, so I just found a free one.
Neutica+ cost me $15. So far the only modification I’ve made is adding the “Grab the Short Link” element on post listings. I’m not an expert in PHP, so I’m not certain that I’ve done this properly, but here’s the code I’ve added to my functions.php file to do it.
global $post;
$shortLink = rtrim(get_bloginfo('url'), '/') . '/?p=' . $post->ID;
printf(__('<span class="meta-utility entry-permalink">Grab the <a title="Short Link to %2$s" rev="canonical" href="%1$s">Short Link</a>.</span>',
'thematic'),
$shortLink,
wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 'double') );
If you have a better idea or more efficient method for doing this, please let me know. You can just DM me on Twitter.
I have no problem supporting a great theme with a little cash, especially if it helps me get my thoughts online and available for discussion. However, I am a web guy, so eventually I plan on making a custom theme for Manic Mouse. This monumental task will have to wait until my second child is born, any day now. Until then, Neutica+ it is!
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After a little over a month with the free Typebased theme from WooThemes here on Manic Mouse, I finally switched to something more my style. It’s not that I didn’t like Typebased, it just felt like I was struggling to make it work for my content.
Neutica+ was designed by Allan Cole and is a child theme of the Thematic WordPress framework. Though I’ve never done anything with Thematic (or any other theme framework) before, the first iteration of this site (which never went live) was actually a child theme of the WordPress default theme. I really liked the concept of child themes, but didn’t want to get stuck in a “perfectionist death spiral” of personal theme design and development, so I just found a free one.
Neutica+ cost me $15. So far the only modification I’ve made is adding the “Grab the Short Link” element on post listings. I’m not an expert in PHP, so I’m not certain that I’ve done this properly, but here’s the code I’ve added to my functions.php file to do it.
global $post; $shortLink = rtrim(get_bloginfo('url'), '/') . '/?p=' . $post->ID; printf(__('<span class="meta-utility entry-permalink">Grab the <a title="Short Link to %2$s" rev="canonical" href="%1$s">Short Link</a>.</span>', 'thematic'), $shortLink, wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 'double') );If you have a better idea or more efficient method for doing this, please let me know. You can just DM me on Twitter.
I have no problem supporting a great theme with a little cash, especially if it helps me get my thoughts online and available for discussion. However, I am a web guy, so eventually I plan on making a custom theme for Manic Mouse. This monumental task will have to wait until my second child is born, any day now. Until then, Neutica+ it is!