The demo site for the Giornalismo WordPress Theme.
February 4, 2023
JM Breaking News
Yesterday I announced that I had submitted a breaking news banner plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. A few hours after that post went up, I got the news that JM Breaking News had been accepted into the plugin directory. The plugin uses a custom post type with three custom fields — link, target and time…
Read More about JM Breaking News Plugin Added to WordPress Plugin DirectoryJM Breaking News
After succeeding in getting a theme into the WordPress Theme Directory, I’m trying my hand at doing the same with plugins. Actually the move to write and submit a plugin comes quicker than I would have liked, all thanks to my plans for Giornalismo. In my initial creation of the theme I realized that themes…
Read More about Diving into the Realm of PluginsNuovo
Ten months after submitting it to the WordPress Theme Directory, my number one goal with Nuovo finally got checked off. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Nuovo was finally accepted into the WordPress Theme Directory and is available for anyone to download and use. It’s been an incredible relief to finally get this done…
Read More about Finally in the WordPress Theme DirectoryGiornalismo
So there’s not too much of an update with the themes this week. I’ve continued to re-code everything in the Giornalismo theme. Over the weekend I knocked out the header template, staying close to how things are to be done in HTML5 and what not. This week I’ve been working on the footer and homepage…
Read More about Continuing the Giornalismo RebuildGiornalismo
So the semester has ended for me and with it comes more time to do stuff. With the extra time, I started the re-coding for Giornalismo. The goal of the rewrite is to document things better and to make sure all of the code is up to the WordPress standard. Hopefully this results in a…
Read More about Rebooting GiornalismoNuovo
So last week the WordPress Theme Review Team made the decision that all themes hosted in the WordPress Theme Directory will have to use the Customizer to display theme options. The decision was expectedly met by resistance from many developers who had their own way of displaying theme options, which makes sense given how much…
Read More about Supporting the WordPress Customizer DecisionGiornalismo
So everything has been moving at a snail’s pace for Giornalismo, primarily due to my busy schedule, but Thursday things came to an interesting halt. The folks who run and maintain WordPress and the WordPress directory made it official that all themes will have the use the WordPress Customizer instead of creating separate theme options…
Read More about An Unforseen DiversionGiornalismo
So another week has gone by and there’s still no news for the Nuovo theme either being ready for the WordPress theme directory or needing more fixes. But in the meantime I’ve made the decision to go ahead with the re-write for Giornalismo. After taking looks at the current look of the theme on the…
Read More about Moving on to the Giornalismo RedesignNuovo
Another two weeks have gone by and still Nuovo isn’t into the WordPress Theme Directory yet. I believe almost all of the necessary changes have been made and I’m just waiting for the reviewer to reply with either the okay or more things that need to be changed. Of the things that have been changed…
Read More about Still Changes to be Made to NuovoNuovo
So it’s been a while since I gave an update for Nuovo, but here we go. Since the last update, the theme has gotten even closer to being included in the WordPress theme directory. It’s to the point that I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel for the theme, which…
Read More about Getting Closer to the End for Nuovo