• Supporting the WordPress customizer decision

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    So last week the WordPress Theme Review Team made the decision that all themes hosted in the WordPress Theme Directory will have to use the Customizer to display theme options. The decision was expectedly met by resistance from many developers who had their own way of displaying theme options, which makes sense given how much…

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    An unforseen diversion

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    So everything has been moving at a snail’s pace for Giornalismo, primarily due to my busy schedule, but Thursday things came to an interesting halt. The folks who run and maintain WordPress and the WordPress directory made it official that all themes will have the use the WordPress Customizer instead of creating separate theme options…

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    Moving on to the Giornalismo redesign

    So another week has gone by and there’s still no news for the Nuovo theme either being ready for the WordPress theme directory or needing more fixes. But in the meantime I’ve made the decision to go ahead with the re-write for Giornalismo.

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    Still changes to be made to Nuovo

    Another two weeks have gone by and still Nuovo isn’t into the WordPress Theme Directory yet. I believe almost all of the necessary changes have been made and I’m just waiting for the reviewer to reply with either the okay or more things that need to be changed.

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    Getting closer to the end for Nuovo

    So it’s been a while since I gave an update for Nuovo, but here we go. Since the last update, the theme has gotten even closer to being included in the WordPress theme directory. It’s to the point that I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel for the theme, which…

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    Almost done with the latest round of edits

    So it’s been a while since I’ve gotten around to writing an update for how the Nuovo theme edits are going, so here we go. As things stand now, things are actually moving along well. The edits are happening slower than I would like, but it’s steadily getting down, which is an accomplishment given my…

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    Another review, another set of changes needed

    So once again with Nuovo there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Nuovo underwent another review by one of the WordPress Theme reviewers last week and the reviewer did a very good and thorough job in review my mistakes. The bad news is that those mistakes, though not…

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    Giving the user a helping hand

    You never really know who might be using your theme. It could be a hard-core coder who knows all of the ins and outs of creating a spectacularly looking post, or it could be someone who only knows how to use a word processor. So with that in mind, one of the features I wanted…

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    Continuing through the boring stuff

    So thing have been chugging right along with work for the Giornalismo theme. The breaking news feature actually didn’t take that long to figure out. After figuring out how to get the current time from WordPress and then subtracting that from the time of the post to figure out how long it’s been published and…

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    Continuing the path toward finish Giornalismo

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    Another week gone by and another item checked off the list for the Giornalismo theme. This week I finished off the advertisement feature for the theme, which actually went much easier than I thought it would. After creating the advertisement custom post type last week, I was able to add spots to add advertisements in…

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