Mention the Genesis theme framework to the web developers I know and you will always hear good reviews. The idea behind WordPress theme frameworks is that they make theme design simple. A parent theme loaded with easy to access features provides a canvass that can be molded into different designs. Those designs are built as child themes. Genesis is feature rich and very well written. There are hundreds of child themes for Genesis. StudioPress - the team behind Genesis - has 43 plus child themes of its own and a new one is released every month. Used with Dynamik - an overlay that opens … [Read more...]
Get Rid of BuddyPress Nested Commenting
BuddyPress nests replies to updates the same way WordPress nests comments. This forces comments to get narrower and narrower as more and more replies are replied to. It's bugging as hell. Why BuddyPress uses nested replies is beyond me. It can be fixed. Remove nested replies and reply-to-reply buttons with CSS: Login to your server. Browse to your theme directory. You should use a child theme when editing theme files. If a child theme isn't used these CSS edits will be lost when the theme is updated. Open the file style.css for editing. Add this CSS to the bottom of style.css: /* … [Read more...]