Carrington

Carrington Core 3.0

Alex King — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:15:55 +0000

We’ve released a new version of the Carrington Core – the engine that powers the Carrington framework. This version has a few moderate list changes, some of which are pretty interesting. In particular:

Added support for custom post types (WordPress 3.0)
Support for child themes (including adding templates and plugins in child themes that do not exist in the parent theme)
Allow custom functions to be filtered into the Single and Comment template selection process (already supported in General context selection)
home.php is now only used in is_home() situations, not is_front_page() (reverses feature requested and added in v. 2.5)

Other changes:

Make the posts_per_page setting work as intended (only on initial query)
Support for nesting templates inside sub-directories in misc/ and forms/
Removed use of deprecated function `get_the_author_ID`. Replaced with 2.8 `get_the_author_meta` (since 2.8.0). Users of versions of WordPress prior to 2.8.0 should be aware this change will cause problems for them.
Define required Carrington settings in a more forgiving way, making it easier to use just part of Carrington on a site when desired
Make gallery settings (implemented in CSS) specific to each gallery
Added changelog

Get the Carrington Core 3.0 release from the public SVN directory:

http://carrington.googlecode.com/svn/framework/tags/3.0

INK Design

showcaseuser — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:06:47 +0000

The concept for this site was to make a premium Wordpress powered theme to showcase the art and design work of Kamran Samimi in a slick, modern way. The site is made to handle many projects which can be filtered by type (categories, tags). Each project opens and closes in the same page seamlessly via ajax. A cool feature of this site is the full screen, randomized background images that change upon each refresh or page change.

Some of the inspiration from the site came from tylerwolff.com as well as the popular Cargo framework. The site makes use of many CSS3 techniques, jQuery, jQuery Masonry, jQuery Backstretch, and of course the Carrington Framework.

Child Theme Support for /plugins

Alex King — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:03:32 +0000

Plugins added to the /plugins directory in child themes will now be auto-loaded after the /plugins files in the parent theme. The revision, for those inclined to review it.

Child theme support is getting broader testing and is working well from what we’ve seen. An updated release of Carrington is probably due in the near future. If you’re seeing any issues with child themes with the latest Carrington core code, please open a ticket.

WordPress HelpCenter

showcaseuser — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:49:26 +0000

WordPress HelpCenter not only acts as a way to get immediate support questions answered, the website also serves as a hub for affiliates, theme and plugin developers, and provides detail on WordPress HelpCenter pricing.

The theme encompasses all the plugin and theme detail pages, including FAQs. It also drives the user / affiliate dashboards where plugin and theme details can be submitted to the WordPress HelpCenter.

Moving Resources

Alex King — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:12:41 +0000

We’ve struggled a little bit to figure out how best to organize and present information about the Carrington framework, themes, support and documentation. Having it all here is confusing to everyone, and that’s something we’re hoping to remedy with some of the changes we’ve made and some that we’re still working on.

Here is the (current) plan in a nutshell:

Done: Create separate community support forums for our three consumer Carrington themes (Blog, Text, Mobile). These are now live and hosted on the Crowd Favorite website.
Done: Create an additional community support forums for developers and designers to work together regarding the Carrington framework and Carrington JAM.
Done: Deprecate the Google Group. It gets SPA, it’s hard to find things in old threads and it’s confusing to have both end-user theme support and developer framework support in one place.
Planned: move all framework documentation, etc. from this site to carringtonframework.com. We’ve got some good plans for making that site a great developer resource, no idea on timeline at this point. Also, we want to add inline documentation to the code to support some of these efforts – patches welcome.

Sorry for the constant shuffling around of late. Hopefully in the near future everything will be settling into their more permanent locations.

Executive English Solutions

showcaseuser — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:06:11 +0000

Executive English Solutions is one of my favorite developments to date. Focus was placed on clean, sharp execution, with a smooth and engaging user experience.

This project was customization to the core! The bespoke 3D graphics, and striking yet tasteful executive appeal deserved an equally impressive code base.

The Carrington Framework worked perfectly for the re-imagining of this brand. The UI makes extensive use of jQuery and custom templates to afford the client a great deal of customization and flexibility. Every inch of this site makes use of this powerful framework provided by Crowd Favorite.

Post Type and Comment Meta Support

Alex King — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:18:46 +0000

Support for post types (available in WordPress 3.0) using a type- prefix and comment meta using our standard meta-{key}- and meta-{key}-{value}- prefixes has landed in the development version of Carrington core (/framework/trunk). Play around with it and let us know if you run into any issues.

Architect Partners

showcaseuser — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:50:26 +0000

Our main focus for AP was the M&A alerts, these custom posts required a print layout and easy navigation once a M&A Alert was in view. Navigation was our second focus, we provided custom page templates to provide a manageable secondary navigation throughout the site.

Sprout Venture

showcaseuser — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:49:06 +0000

I tried to push the limits with this theme.

The homepage is pretty standard except for the custom options I built into the theme to select the page that pulls in the about section and the category selection for the featured post.

The portfolio is where most of the action is. I modeled the cfct_action to pull posts based off category. The result is a portfolio that sorts through AJAX’d query posts.

The blog is just a category loop, creating cat-blog.php files for markup made me smile since I knew after creating those files I just needed to do some additional CSS and I’d be done — no fussing with custom filters.

There’s also some additional page templates that I customized in style and function. For example, the Testimonials pulls in comments from the projects category.

Dan Cameron

showcaseuser — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:48:10 +0000

It was a long overdue design refresh. I ended up focusing on the classic blog style with syndication from multiple social sites: my latest tweet is show at the head of the blog and my Google Shared articles are pulled and posted.

Carrington allowed me to create a ton specific markup for each type of post, on the homepage each type of post is not only styled different ( using post class ) but the markup is different. For example, my review articles have post-thumbnails and in the future I’ll be styling these reviews different based on media type.

I also ended up using typekit and some CSS3 techniques to round it out.