Derek Powazek is one of those household names for the internet generation. So when he releases a wordpress theme, people sit up and take notice. Especially when it's based on such beautiful typography and a solid grid. But for users, the first thing noticeably missing was widgets.
so, I took the time to widgetify it, including widgets for the about blurp, books, and quotes. The books and quotes can now be edited inside the "theme editor" page in the dashboard, in the books-quotes.php file. I also fixed the dependency on flickrrss.
it still needs a lot of work, IMO (i18n, non-hard-coded "About" link, etc.), but that's an exercise for another day.
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This is just what I was looking for, thanks for adding the widget capabilities. As a WP newbie, I’m wondering…how would I go about adding the Flickr feature back–as in the original?
If you install the flickrrss plugin, the flickr images will show up there automatically.
nice work. have you considered widgetizing the foot like the NinjaMonkeys team did to Hemingway, though? Their contextual menu the WP backend offers three blocks for three columns; you could similarly set up 5 blocks for the five columns of Depo..
(just sayin. I can’t code, so its def. easier to criticise. still, nice work!)
Mitchell –
The footer is widgetized – are you having difficulty with it?
No, my version is “widetizing”, for sure. What I mean, though, is that that the guy who mod’ed up Hemingway (Vaughn Dickson, at ninjamonkey.co.za) put three widget containers on his Presentation->Themes->Widget screen, one for each of the three columns that Hemingway provides in its footer for widgets.
I was wondering if you thought of coding it up like that, as well, to help organize the placement of widgets when we throw them down. But like I said before, Im not great at code, so I’m just happy you did this in the first place.
I have encountered one problem, though. I am only getting 4 columns instead of 5 when I load up your version of Depo. Is that a coding issue?
Again, great job.
Thank You! This saved me a tremendous amount of time and work, and it’s seamless. I really appreciate you posting it for others to use. Cheers!
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