Freedom 2 Design

Industrial Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:48:06 +0000

Industrial is a clean theme with a natural look. The background can be removed for cleaner lines and the colors interchanged if needed. I tried to be a little more corporate with this theme, but can’t stop erring on the creative side. As with all themes, nothing is set in stone. This one allows you [...]

Legacy Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:49:00 +0000

Legacy was furthering the use of color, this time using the WordPress menu system with custom CSS, again converting a Photoshop PSD navigation image for use in this theme. This one is bright and artful, and incorporates more functions from Studiopress (those guys are awesome by the way). I played with gradients on the submit [...]

O’Blue Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:42:40 +0000

Oblue was an endeavor in color, and also in using non-Wordpress menus. I wanted to see how to incorporate menus in the functions.php outside of the normal navigation, and it worked. I also wanted to see if I could take a Photoshop PSD navigation mock up and turn it into the real deal, CSS and [...]

Notebook Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:59:14 +0000

Notebook started out looking like a notebook, but as you can see it took a swing over to something a little more colorful. I haven’t changed the name (yet), but I think this is now complete. There were some challenges with transparency, and I’m sure the transparency won’t translate that well in pre IE9 browsers. [...]

Corporation Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:36:54 +0000

Corporation started out as an attempt to build a corporate style website, but I guess my creative side takes over every time. As you can see, it has a smoother feel but still has a slightly artsy feel, and I’m happy with it that way. I know I still have to fix the responsive design [...]

15 Grammar Mistakes That Can Trip You Up

Steve Shead — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:04:21 +0000

Courtesy of Copyblogger, this info graphic outlines the 15 most common grammatical errors for bloggers. If you like it feel free to reblog it – I did! Like this infographic? Get more copywriting tips from Copyblogger.

Genesis: Customize post_meta

Steve Shead — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:32:38 +0000

I wanted to edit the post_meta to not only add some flavor, but also change “tagged with” to “tags:”. It took a while to find the right extended short code, here it is. *For all the highlighted code below remove the space just after each square brace. WordPress interprets the code and I haven’t worked [...]

Genesis: Using Custom Navigation

Steve Shead — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:54:29 +0000

Here is a way to use your own menus by using wp_nav_menu. This can come in handy if you’ve used a third party CSS menu generator, and negates the need for a custom CSS plugin. If nothing else this lets you call out the custom CSS class and ID for your navigation. For this example [...]

Sandbox Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:54:23 +0000

Sandbox is a smooth, extensible Genesis child theme with some creative fonts and imagery. It’s an SEO friendly WordPress theme with a smooth look, using neutral colors to keep it simple yet colorful. This is a two column, widget ready theme that gives you more control over the content and customization. Built on the robust [...]

Grayscale Genesis Child Theme

Steve Shead — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:27:11 +0000

Grayscale is a smooth, extensible Genesis child theme. It’s an SEO friendly WordPress theme with a smooth look, using neutral colors to keep it simple yet punchy. This is a two column, widget ready theme that gives you more control over the content and customization. Built on the robust Genesis framework it leaves it open [...]