The CMS Theme Framework for WordPress
Carrington is a CMS theme framework for WordPress that makes it easy to create unique looks for different categories, posts and comments just by creating custom templates.
Just another dumping ground on the internet. Topics range from the interesting in WordPress, PHP and Photography to the mundane in what I had for lunch or what piece of electronic equipment has decided to torture me that day.
Not suitable for all ages.
For the fourth iteration of American singer-songwriter Vienna Teng’s official site, we used WordPress as our primary CMS.
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The Carrington web site is the home for the Carrington CMS theme framework for WordPress.
The site contains a blog, theme downloads, developer information, and a showcase of sites built on the Carrington framework.
We’ve introduced a new feature here, the Showcase.
This is an opportunity for designers and developers that use the Carrington framework to display the great sites they are building with Carrington. The Showcase allows you to include a write-up of the site and site features, a logo and bio for you or your company, and how using Carrington made building this site easier.
Have you built a site using Carrington? Add it to the showcase!
Posted in Announcements.
– June 30, 2009
At WordCamp SF Steve Souders gave a great talk about how to optimize your web site for better performance. He used a standard WordPress installation with Carrington Blog 1.3 for the demonstration.
In his presentation, Steve outlined a number of things that could be changed with the Carrington Blog theme to improve site load time. It’s unfortunate that Steve was using version 1.3 of this theme as most of the changes he recommends were already addressed in Carrington Blog 2.0, however there were a few things that we’ve been able to improve based on his notes.
We’ll have these enhancements included in a maintenance release of Carrington Blog in the near future (or grab them from the public SVN anytime).
Posted in Carrington Blog.
– June 29, 2009
I’ve seen a few posts/questions asking why code from Theme X doesn’t work in a Carrington based theme. In some cases, the answer is fairly simple – the code is relying on global variables that aren’t available in the Carrington template being referenced.
The Carrington framework loads in template files within function calls, so if you need to access a global variable, you need to declare it as global first.
For example:
echo $post->post_author;
might not work in a certain template, but this should:
global $post;
echo $post->post_author;
Posted in Dev Tips.
– June 29, 2009
A new version of Carrington Mobile is now available, fixing an errant image reference and adding Palm Pre support. The preview has been updated accordingly.
Please download from the Themes page, or grab the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin to use this theme for your mobile visitors alongside your normal site theme.
Posted in Announcements, Carrington Mobile.
– June 6, 2009
Carrington Text has been updated to version 1.1. This release primarily addresses several IE6 incompatibilities that found their way into version 1.0.
Give it a test drive, and download from the themes page.
Posted in Announcements, Carrington Text.
– May 27, 2009
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