{"id":1521,"date":"2011-05-01T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2011-05-01T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T20:12:06","slug":"theme-hybrid-is-a-better-wordpress-theme-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/theme-hybrid-is-a-better-wordpress-theme-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Hybrid is a better WordPress theme framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a chance to work on a number of WordPress related projects and I was\u00a0pleasantly\u00a0surprised as the platform had matured in every possible way since the early 2.x releases.<\/p>\n<p>Today I just wanted to post a brief note to people who are still using random WordPress templates to base their derived templates on: please don&#8217;t do that to yourself. Most of the free themes are old, don&#8217;t have good customization options and are badly structured.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1522\" title=\"screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sublime-Text-2ScreenSnapz001-550x304.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sublime-Text-2ScreenSnapz001-550x304.png 550w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sublime-Text-2ScreenSnapz001.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be much better off if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read about Child themes &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Child_Themes<\/li>\n<li>Invest into a customizable theme &#8211; my\u00a0preferred\u00a0choice is <a href=\"http:\/\/themehybrid.com\/\">Theme Hybrid<\/a> but there are a number of other options. It costs 25USD\/year to get access to support forums and tutorials that have saved me many hours of Googling.<\/li>\n<li>Read their docs about how to override theme with custom style.css and functions.php<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This means that you&#8217;ll often be able to make really great custom child theme with just a few lines of css and <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Plugin_API#Filters\">a few filters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a chance to work on a number of WordPress related projects and I was\u00a0pleasantly\u00a0surprised as the platform had matured in every possible way since the early 2.x releases. Today I just wanted to post a brief note to people who are still using random WordPress templates to base their derived templates on: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[918,92],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-themes","tag-wordpress"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}