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Carrington Blog

An elegant, end-user customizable blog theme.

v2.2 — Preview | Download

Carrington Text

No graphics, no frills, just a showcase for your content.

v1.3 — Preview | Download

Carrington Mobile

Optimized for advanced mobile browsers and basic phones/PDAs.

v1.1 — Preview | Download

Framework

WordPress CMS Theming Made Easy

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.

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Tyler Wolff

This site is my personal portfolio and blog website. It features a blog which has a fluid, auto-aligned format where post excerpts are expanded to full posts via ajax. In addition to the blog, the site features some of my latest web projects and an information section. Overall, it is a simple yet functional site.

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Child Theme Support

Child theme support has landed in the Carrington core framework. We’d love to get some additional real-world testing on this before we tag the next core version.

You can grab the latest from SVN on Google Code. Then simply replace the carrington-core directory in your theme with new version you have checked out from:

http://carrington.googlecode.com/svn/framework/trunk

and that should do it.

Note that the way child theme support is implemented, your child theme can add new templates to your theme as well as overriding existing templates. I think this is necessary for Carrington – it allows you to create custom templates for your specific site and have them upgrade cleanly via the child theme.

Feedback welcome.

UPDATE:

The steps to test if you want to make a child theme for a Carrington theme (before this support is rolled out in new releases):

  1. Download the framework from SVN using the URL above and replace the carrington-core directory in your parent theme.
  2. Create your child theme (which can include new Carrington templates).

That’s it.

Posted in Announcements, Development.

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By Alex King – January 9, 2010

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Domino’s New Pizza

Domino’s listened to their critics and announced that it is changing its core pizza recipe. Advertising produced by creative agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky includes documentary-style videos and a WordPress blog to showcase them. The new pizza site includes video posts and reactions from individuals on Twitter.

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Carrington Blog bbPress Theme

Nate has created a Carrington Blog bbPress theme from the Carrington Blog WordPress theme. Very cool!

Check out the preview.

Posted in In The Wild.

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By Alex King – December 16, 2009

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VW TDI Truth & Dare

TDI’s newest website, built by Crowd Favorite on WordPress MU and BuddyPress, was imagined and designed by the clever folks at Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

While the main part of VW’s TankWars site is powered by WordPress MU, the most interesting aspect of the site is its use of BuddyPress. Each driver’s profile (see the “Leaderboard“) contains their best mileage score and rankings. Users can upload photos, vote on profiles, and leave comments.

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yourSABBATICAL

yourSABBATICAL partners with businesses to implement customized sabbatical programs that attract, retain, and accelerate top talent through personal and professional enrichment. Their website serves as a resource for both employees and employers.

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LiveMocks

“Wisdom of the crowd meets mock draft.” LiveMocks is a WordPress and bbPress-powered site that has unique pages and forums for each potential draftee in the NFL and NBA drafts. The wisdom of the crowd, through online voting, may accurately determine who is drafted in each round.

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Comedy.com

Comedy.com came to us looking to consolidate all their niche comedy blogs into one, cohesive blog network. In addition to being a hugely popular website, Comedy.com uses WordPress MU to pull the content from all of its various blogs onto the site’s homepage for visitors to quickly find funny content.

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Carrington Google Group

The forums have been taken offline for the time being, and we’ve created a Google Group for community discussion and support.

If you need help or customizations and don’t get what you need in the Google Group, the WordPress HelpCenter provides support for all of our Carrington themes.

Posted in General.

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By Alex King – October 11, 2009