Nominate
Nominate is a social voting theme for WordPress. Inspired by sites like Digg and Reddit, Nominate uses all the power of WordPress and Elemental combined to make a powerful flexible theme allowing your users to submit posts and then vote on them.
Nominate works great straight out of the box, ...
Elemental Comments Improvements
Recently I have spent some time focusing on the Elemental comments system. I wanted to simplify the design of the comments to make them easier to digest. I also wanted to make the accounts a little more useful or relevant to improve the feel of the community - in ...
Elemental Designer
Simplifying my themes, making it easier for people to customise them, I think this is really important.
Being a web designer I often have to remind myself that not everybody has the same skills as I do. What I find easy, isn't what everyone else will find easy. Because of this ...
Automatic Post Thumbnails
Did you know that Elemental has built in support for post thumbnails?
Most premium themes have post thumbnails these days but Elemental takes things to extremes. Everything I can think of to create a thumbnail has been added.
The full list of places the thumbnail can be taken from is:
Images inserted into ...Improved Elemental Comment Form
This is quite a small tweak, but one I am really pleased I included.
On WordPress websites the comments form is often just a text box, and I wanted to make it a bit more interactive to allow people to more easily create interesting comments. As such I thought it would ...
New Elemental Footer Options
Elemental has always been about flexibility, however one of the mistakes I made when initially developing the theme is assuming everyone would like the programmatic hooks and filters I had introduced to customise things.
Hooks and Filters are great for the more hardcore functionality, but simple things should still be simple ...
Custom Functions and Styles for Elemental Child Themes
One of the down sides of purchasing a WordPress framework with a child theme, is that it makes customising the themes, a lot harder.
For instance with a traditional child theme, if you want to make changes, you would need to edit the theme files directly. This makes future upgrades a ...
Theme Settings Import and Export
Currently there's a lot of talk online about owning your own data , and so creating a system for backing up your theme settings is something I have been quite keen to add.
The data isn't personal, but it's something you should have control over, and I think being able to ...
Custom Fonts, Courtesy of Google Font Directory
When Elemental was first released we included a few simple font stacks. Font stacks are a selection of fonts that look similar, which means the website looks roughly the same in all browsers on all operating systems.
This worked well enough, but it didn't have much flexibility. You were limited ...
Hello World!
This website here, Elemental Hub, is the new development blog for the WordPress theme, Elemental.
I plan to talk about the latest updates, improvements, and ideas that are being worked on. The goal is to make the development process more open - hopefully encouraging users to give their input and ...
