Comments on: How to install a Thematic Child Theme?

By: Angel Tzara

Angel Tzara — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:16:47 +0000

Hi,

I have to say that I am a little bit of a noob when it comes to slightly more advanced themes. I read your post, and I went to used BT extended on my newest blog.
However, I keep getting some odd pop up always saying: “No content exists at page 1! Loading 1st page instead.”
So I am not sure if this is a BT extented error or the Framework. Also looking at the Thematic Options, I couldn’t figure out what “Index Insert Position” was for. Mine says 2.
It could simply be me, having missed something, but help or any idea would be greatly appreciated.

By: Thompson

Thompson — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:48:36 +0000

Or better yet, this automatically creates a body class for any custom post type. My coding may well be horrible, but I added this within the $c array, at the bottom, like so. See the very last line:
$c = array();
{
// Generic semantic classes for what type of content is displayed
is_front_page() ? $c[] = ‘home’ : null; // For the front page, if set
is_home() ? $c[] = ‘blog’ : null; // For the blog posts page, if set
is_archive() ? $c[] = ‘archive’ : null;
is_date() ? $c[] = ‘date’ : null;
is_search() ? $c[] = ‘search’ : null;
is_paged() ? $c[] = ‘paged’ : null;
is_attachment() ? $c[] = ‘attachment’ : null;
is_404() ? $c[] = ‘four04′ : null; // CSS does not allow a digit as first character
is_page() ? $c[] = ‘page’ : null;
if (!is_home()) { $c[] = get_post_type() ; } // Adds a custom post type body class
}

I had to add the extra if statement around it because !is_home() by itself wasn’t working.

By: Thompson

Thompson — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:52:14 +0000

I figured it out. I was able to over childtheme_override_body_class, copy over stuff I needed from dynamic-classes.php, and added this code for a video content type. For some reason it showed the custom post type name on the homepage too, where I aggregate all post types, but !is_home() got rid of it there:
get_post_type() == ‘video’ && !is_home() ? $c[] = ‘video’ : null;

By: Thompson

Thompson — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:36:35 +0000

Hi Chris,

Can you do a post showing all the current filters for body classes and post classes? Extending on your post here: http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-do-you-use-dynamically-generated-css-classes. I want to clean it up a bit.

I’ve posted in the Themeshaper forums a couple times but couldn’t get a response from any member who knew and guessing at filter names hasn’t worked all that well.

(p.s. It’d be cool to have a body class with the custom post type name– e.g. recipe, video. This seems to exist for post classes already, but not for body classes. Thanks!)

By: Thompson

Thompson — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:20:48 +0000

Dude. I just discovered the Thematic framework and have to tell you that you rock!

That is all.

By: Mia

Mia — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:17:08 +0000

Hi Chris, I just came across your site – and I must say : Your Theme looks awesome ! Milo has done a great job w/ the design aspect of it – however , I have always loved the grid structure of the Thematic Theme over any other framework out there . When users ask my opinion on a fast SEO friendly theme ( the first thing they usually throw at me is the Thesis Theme ) ; my response to them is : ” Why not consider the Thematic Theme instead ? its just as fast loading , and SEO optimized as any theme out there & its FREE ! helloooo ??? “ . It amazes me that most users are under the misguided notion that a Theme will make them SEO preferred in googles search engines and will gain them page rank ! So ridiculous . I had downloaded the Thematic framework some months ago , and my initial idea was to begin designing Skins for it . Unfortunately I became so busy w/ other projects – and I didnt have the opportunity to do so , but I am still harbouring the notion and at some point : I will do it ! When I do finally produce something worthy , I shall be dropping by again to give you a preview and hopefully get your approval . Thank you for building such a great Theme – as it will always be my favorite above all themes .
Wishing you much continued future success within all of your life & career endeavors .

Mia 

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