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Tutorials for Translating WordPress Themes

Zack — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:18:14 +0000

I was thinking about translating my themes to other languages, so that I started to search for some information. And I found it’s not that easy as I imagined. Some details need to be concerned.

I thought maybe I can write a tutorial for this, but later I decided it’s not necessary to reinvent the wheel. Here I will introduce you for some great tutorials on WordPress Themes Translation, wish may help you.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Official translating tutorial from WordPress.org codex, most of the concepts you need to know was introduced. But this is not just for translating themes, but about the whole WordPress translating. If you are new to this topic, this should be your first post.
Localizing WordPress Themes & Plugins
This is a great and detailed tutorial on how to make your themes and plugins translatable.
Translating WordPress Plugins & Themes
From the same author as the second tut, while the above one is about making your themes and plugins translatable, this tut is talking about translating themes and plugins in practice with poEdit and GNU Gettext.
Make Your WordPress Theme Ready For Translation
This is a tutorial I wrote before, as you can see in the title, it’s about making your theme translatable.
My Tutorials on Translating WordPress Theme (Chinese)
As there are not enough Chinese tutorials on translating WrodPress themes, I translated and wrote this series of translating tuts according to above 3 tuts.

If you have some information that I missed or better than these tuts, feel free to let me know.

Free Elegant Portfolio WordPress Themes

Zack — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:08:49 +0000

After my last post Top 10 Best Quality WordPress Themes Of 2009, we have found more great themes, today we are sharing some portfolio WordPress themes with you.

1. Irresistable

2. WP Coda

3. Vivee

4.Creative by Nature

5. Work-a-holic

6. Folio Elements

7. FotoFolio

8. WPESP Portfolio Theme

9. Sharpfolio

10. Viewport

11. The Unstandard

12. Gallery Theme

13. Fullscreen

14. Infinity

15. Linquist

[via: WPBeginner]

Top 10 Best Quality WordPress Themes of 2009

Zack — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:43:57 +0000

A lot of great WordPress themes were created in 2009, we collect top 10 high quality WordPress themes, please let me know if you got better ones.

Update: BlackNWhite Theme Update 05/November/2009

Zack — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:16:03 +0000

While updating Gray Lines theme, I also did the same modifications to BlackNWhite theme. Here is the change log:

05/Nov/2009:
Sidebar tabs added for Recent posts, popular posts and recent commentsSidebar tabs added for Recent posts, popular posts and recent comments
New Blockquote Design
Fix a missing “l” in a
of sidebar
Codes of blog title and description been changed, better code style, looks no difference

14/Aug/2009: Control panel added.

21/Jul/2009: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (Supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages)

The updated version have been uploaded to Theme Directory of wordpress.org, may be available in several days, you can now download it here:

Download: Black n White WordPress Themes

Let me know if you got some ideas about this theme.

Update: GrayLines Theme Updated 05/November/2009

Zack — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:59:51 +0000

I’ve done some modifications to GrayLines theme, here is the change log:
Chang Log:

05/Nov/2009:
Publish Date added to individual posts
New Blockquote Design
Fix a missing “l” in a
of sidebar
Codes of blog title and description been changed, better code style, looks no difference

14/Aug/2009: Control panel added.

21/Jul/2009: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (Supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages)

Because changes are very small, I am not going to upload it to Theme Directory of wordpress.org, you can download it here:

Download: Gray Line WordPress Themes

Let me know if you got some ideas about this theme.

Four WordPress Theme Frameworks

Zack — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:35:15 +0000

I found four WordPress theme frameworks which worth to try out.

Hybrid
Hybrid is a WordPress theme framework designed with content in mind. There is no other theme that will display your content in a meaningful way like this one does. It’s all about getting your information out there to the world. Without all the fuss. That’s what Hybrid does.
Thematic
This is more than just a WordPress theme: Thematic is a highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins and more. The coding, functionality and support rivals the best in “premium” themes. With one, important, difference—Thematic is completely free and open source.
WP Framework
WP Framework is a “blank” WordPress theme that empowers you to create awesome WordPress Themes in little to no time!
Sandbox
The Sandbox is a powerful tool available for WordPress theme designers and developers. The Sandbox can be easily designed just with CSS, so beginners will feel comfortable not bothering with PHP.

Experienced developers and designers can accomplish almost anything with minimal work, thanks to the rich, semantic markup and profusion of classes dynamically generated by the Sandbox.

My First WordPress Theme: Gray Lines (Updated:05/Nov/09)

Zack — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:49:07 +0000

Chang Log:

05/Nov/2009:
Publish Date added to individual posts
New Blockquote Design
Fix a missing “l” in a
of sidebar
Codes of blog title and description been changed, better code style, looks no difference

14/Aug/2009: Control panel added.

21/Jul/2009: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (Supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages)

Gray Lines is a two columns, widget ready simple design WordPress theme without any image. I separate different parts with gray lines, that’s why it is called Gray Lines. This is my first WordPress theme, thanks to Small Potato and his great tutorials.

If you find any bug, please let me know.

Free WordPress Theme: Gray Lines
Theme Author: Zack
Theme Version: 2.0.0
Theme Category: Two Column Themes
Theme Properties: 2 columns, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar, White

Gray Lines was accepted by WordPress.org, you can find the Demo and Download it from WordPress.org.

Download: Gray Lines WordPress Theme

Update:

14/Aug/2009: Control panel added.

21/Jul/2009: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (Supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages)

14/Aug/2009: Control panel added.

21/Jul/2009: Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 (Supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages)

Free WordPress Theme: Natural Power

Zack — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:57:39 +0000

Natural Power is a two column theme, widget ready, that comes with four different coloured header graphics that can easily be changed in the options panel included with the theme.

Also, the header text can easily be changed through the options page as well. You won’t find a crazy, unholy options page, but instead just two options relating to the colour and text for the header. Simple is always better in my opinion.

Free WordPress Theme: Natural Power
Theme Author: David Peralty & Color Light Studio
Theme Category: Two Column Themes
Theme Properties: 2 columns, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar

Demo & Download at BesTheme.com