Digging Into WordPress updated for 3.0

Looks like a new chapter covering what’s new in WordPress3. Custom menus, custom post types, custom taxonomies and MultiSite to name a few. Get your free upgrade if you’ve already bought it, or buy it today. (affiliate link) I highly recommended it.

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WordPress Plugins and Themes: Functionally Distinct

A great post and discussion over at WPCandy. A sort of follow up to Yoast’s post from last week. A must read for the thinking plugin dev or theme author.

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Justin Tadlock on Frameworks and Parent vs. Child Themes

A great read with several interesting points:

On clarifying the difference between theme frameworks and parent themes:

Advanced parent themes are not frameworks

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One thing we should definitely not confuse are the terms “framework” and “parent theme.” These two are not interchangeable. That’s where a lot of the confusion stems from.

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Typekit + Adobe Fonts

New this week from Typekit: Fonts from Adobe.
It’s so nice to be able to drop

font-family: "cooper-black-std-1","cooper-black-std-2";

right into a stylesheet.

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“Commercial” or “Premium”?

Aaron Jorbin on themes:

Sorry, I really think that the phrase “Premium theme” devalues every other theme.

Agreed.

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