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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

Platform

WordPress CMS Theming Made Easy


Carrington is a CMS theme platform for WordPress that makes it easy to create unique looks for different categories, post types and comments just by creating custom templates.

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Executive English Solutions

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

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.

Posted in Development.


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Architect Partners

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.


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Sprout Venture

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.


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Dan Cameron

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.


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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.


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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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.


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.