All of my PRO themes use the great open source TimThumb image resizer script, by famous WordPress developer Darren Hoyt, to automaticly crop and scale images to fit into their position on the homepage, the archives (e.g the category archive) and the additional 3-column page [...]
Tutorials
Using optional excerpts for more content control
In another article I already wrote about using individual excerpt lengths in BranfordMagazine. This brief tutorial shows you how to use individual excerpts for every post in order to get more control over your content. I use this in the leadarticle of my BranfordMagazine demosite.
Individual Excerpt lengths in BranfordMagazine
BranfordMagazine and also my other themes use the excerpt template tag for auto-shortening texts on the homepage and in other areas. This is nothing spectacular since many themes do it like that. But BranfordMagazine uses the power of WordPress 2.9x to provide a function for [...]
Using images on the homepage of BranfordMagazine and other PRiNZ Pro Themes
UPDATE – 18.07.2011: The use of images in PRiNZ Pro Themes is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Just write your article, upload an image, publish it and you´re done. You don´t even need to insert the image inside the article. You just need to [...]
How to find the category IDs in WordPress
If you setup BranfordMagazine for the first time you need the category IDs to define which categories are displayed e.g on the homepage. This is not very obvious since WordPress version 2.5 anymore. This tutorial shows two simple ways how th figure out the IDs.
The widget areas of BranfordMagazine and WyntonMagazine
BranfordMagazine and WyntonMagazine have a very nice “intelligent” sidebar displaying different stuff depending where you are on the site. But in terms of sidebars – or better: widgetized areas – it has much more to provide. Both themes come along with six widgetized areas which [...]
Changing the Logo of Branford and Wynton
Both themes, BranfordMagazine and WyntonMagazine have a graphical Logo by default. Nomaly you have to change that to meet your sites requirements and branding. I was often asked how to do that so this tutorial shows you how. This tutorial is only for themes versions [...]
How to use the “Featured Page” page template
This theme comes with some additional templates for static WordPress pages. One is the “Featured Page” template. Its purpose is to build a page that has some featured content on top that comes along with an image of the same size like the homepage image [...]