Awesome!

  • Jim Kennedy

    (@jim-kennedy)


    9 years ago

    We are using a sibling theme of Blogsonry on our tech blog: https://techblog.king.com which went live on March 10, 2016.

    We were searching for a theme that was simple, minimal, showed summaries of all posts on the front page, tiled effect, three column, mobile friendly. Blogsonry was easily the best one we tried. Easily. We were happy to see that 400+ others were using it, so it seemed stable and respected.

    Out-of-the box Blogsonry looked about 90% of the way towards where we wanted to go, so we cloned it (calling ours Twenty Thirteen Blogsonry King), since we can′t do grandchild themes. This decoupled us from Blogsonry but not from Twenty Thirteen. Anyway, I don′t know if that’s the correct thing to do, but it was the approach we took, in our innocence.

    We are really happy with it, love the way it looks now. Also, Mark, the theme creator, has been really quick to get back to us on issues and even pushed out a fix for a bug we reported inside 48 hours! Great service.

    In case you are interested, the things we changed were:
    – we have a King-mandated brand colour scheme
    – we got obsessive about responsive design and widths, since most of our people stare at phone screens all day
    – we changed all before/after/hover on links to remain the same colour
    – we removed as much of the footer as we could, making people beg for pixels if they wanted to include anything.

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  • Theme Author mrwweb

    (@mrwweb)

    Your new site looks great, @jim-kennedy. Nice work, and thanks for leaving such a great, detailed review.

    In response to this:

    …so we cloned it (calling ours Twenty Thirteen Blogsonry King), since we can′t do grandchild themes… I don′t know if that’s the correct thing to do, but it was the approach we took, in our innocence.

    If you needed to modify or add any PHP or JS theme files, then this was the correct way to handle it. I rarely would recommend this, but given the relatively few files Blogsonry adds to Twenty Thirteen, I think this is an ok change to make. I believe in the one update since your project began, you had no trouble pulling in a new author.php file.

    For people who only need to modify CSS, I’d recommend using a custom css plugin, like the module provided by Jetpack. In fact, that might even be the safest way to store CSS changes in your “sibling” theme.

    Thanks again for using the theme. I’m glad you like it.

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