Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
Often in the rigours of theme development an important aspect gets overlooked: documentation. To remedy this I often publish recipes and encourage users to contribute documentation. One common request has always been, “What element should I be adding CSS for?” To address this I have put together a Markup and Hook Reference. The markup gives […]
The nagging voice at the back of my head always told me that the theme page for Suffusion was too plain. At various points of time I thought of revisiting the layout of the page, but somehow it didn’t make any sense to redesign it with a ton of PHP in a child theme. So […]
This is an easy one, thanks to the recently updated “Query Posts” widget. The “Query Posts” widget offers you a lot more in terms of what you can use it for, so be sure to play around with all the options there. Here is what you do: Do not include the standard “Recent Posts” widget […]
One question that gets frequently asked on the Suffusion Support Forum is: I am seeing this empty space to the left of my posts. I have tried everything, but I cannot get rid of it. This is really easy to solve and takes just about a minute. This “problem” occurs if both the following happen: […]
Gauging by trending questions on the Support Forum, I decided to start a series of simple “How To” solutions. Each addresses an oft answered yet frequently asked question on different support forums. Unlike the broader spectrum “Recipes”, this will require little to no coding. Here’s hoping that people will find the series useful. To hide […]
The much maligned 3.7.7 release had some rather bright spots that got buried under the chaos of bugs. And judging by the support requests and false positives reported as bugs on the forum, I believe one of these features needs some elucidation. How Many Sidebars? One question I have had to fend with previous releases […]
Update: This post has moved to a new location. In this post I highlight the short codes you get with Suffusion, in addition to providing an insight into how you can use short codes in general.
With effect from version 3.7.5 of Suffusion any reference to Blog Features below should be read as Back-end Settings. Thanks to Suffusion’s fairly complex back-end coding there are a few tips and tricks that will help you as a user use child themes effectively. When Should I Use Child Themes? The simplest use case I […]
Minutes after making my submission of version 3.5.1 I realized that there were some errors that had inadvertently crept in because I used the body_class() method. So I had to fix the errors and resubmit the theme, but as version 3.5.2. Now, I had already laid out plans for 3.5.3 before making these changes, so […]
In the release notes for version 3.5.0 of Suffusion I mentioned that native tabbed sidebar support was added. Since I am quite proud of the technique I used to get this effect, I decided to write a tutorial on how to do it. But first I would like to pay homage to the following that […]