WordPress was developed to be extremely user friendly on both the front-end and the back-end, but also allow for some complex functions and features to be implemented for the more advanced and code knowledge of us. FS-2009 (the name of the theme released to FS at the start of the 2009 year) takes advantage of the many functions that WP has to offer, so I've created a screencast that covers all the PHP involved with creating this theme.
Corrections:
- When I'm talking about the category highlighting, I didn't notice that I had accidentally transitioned off my localhost onto the main site. But my explanation afterwords is still correct.
are the thumbnails auto generated, or do you manually resize each image and create a custom field for the image? i love the theme, and want to implement something similar for my articles and am looking for a faster way to do it than custom fields if one exists?
Thanks for any tips!
@Jeremiah The thumbnails are determined by a custom field and the size is just set in the HTML. It's entirely possible though to set thumbnails based on post criteria (ex: Category, tags, etc...). I'll write up an article on it for Wednesday :) .
Cool, I look forward to that article as well! I didn't ask the other part of the question clearly I think, I'll try again - did you upload a square sized thumbnail to use or did you upload a regular image and use a plugin or something to crop to square?
I set them to a certain size, I don't auto scale. The screencast will be up tomorrow at 8:30.