Digital Raindrops

The Digital Raindrops Plasticity 2010 theme,  is a work in progress and will be available from the downloads page in early August 2010. Each page will have options for menu colour, layout sidebars and our content columns, choose a header title and color, add wide or content slideshows, change the content colours block title and block text, add one, two [...]

To much information and still finding it a bit scary, lets us make it very easy, this quick guide is all the code changes except the styling, there are only three code block to do honest, first we need to find the header.jpg in the images folder, and write down the width and height, download the files below and lets [...]

We cannot say how easy it is working with child themes, however we understand that some will prefer editing the original themes, so we are following the child tutorials with a simple two file upgrade and a set of options to add the new features to existing Artisteer 2.3 and 2.4 themes as and when they might be needed. 

In part two we added three Menu Locations, and said we will be using the other two later in the series, for our third menu we are going to add the Vertical Menu Widget, this will be a single instance vertical menu and will inherit the styles and collapse functions of the  Artisteer widget. In part one we looked at [...]

In part two we added three Menu Locations, and said we will be using the other two later in the series, for our second menu we are going to add a second horizontal menu bar, this will be a single level text menu and in our example it will sit just under the main menu, [...]

WordPress have done a lot of the work for us in version 3.00, and have created a function for selecting the default header,  all we have to do is offer the option to our theme users, so lets add support for the new select default header feature. In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in [...]

WordPress have done a lot of the work for us in version 3.00, and have created the setting of headers for posts and pages,  all we have to do is offer the option to our theme users, so lets add support for the new headers feature. In part one we looked at creating a child theme for an existing Artisteer theme, in part two we added the changes in [...]

WordPress have done all the work for us in version 3.00, and have created new calls to getting the background settings,  all we have to do is offer the option to our theme users, and we can do this in four lines, two function lines and two comment lines, so lets add support for the new background feature. In part one we looked [...]

WordPress have addressed the menus limitations in the latest version, but in doing so have created new calls to getting the menu items and have restructured these, so out the box the new features are not supported in legacy themes. lets add support for the new horizontal menus. In part one we looked at creating a child [...]

While waiting for Artisteer to release the next version which will have some support for WordPress Version 3, we thought about all the themes that have been created and modified where the authors will not be able just to reopen the template in Artisteer and just export and upload. The new Twenty Ten theme has [...]