Recommended WordPress Snippets Sources from the makers of Roots Theme – GitHub

For those wanting to track handy WordPress snippets, the makers of Roots Theme are keeping a nice little list of sources and favorite snippets at GitHub. Including:

  • CSS Tricks WordPress Snippets
  • Code Collective WordPress Snippets
  • Customize Login Page
  • Add an excerpt box for pages
  • Customize the Dashboard
  • Unregister WP Default Widgets
  • Easily display post titles with a custom length
  • Add a search form to a navigation menu

via Snippets – GitHub.

Roots WordPress Theme Customization: Hack the original or child theme it?

Roots WordPress Theme Customization: Hack the original or child theme it?

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The Roots WordPress Theme offers a number of nice benefits. Chief among them:

  1. integration of the HTML5 Boilerplate
  2. prettying up WordPress’s paths to images, RSS feeds, etc.

But here’s the catch: I’d like to modify a few things — particularly un-hook the CSS frameworks, so that I can strip the CSS down to my own preferred defaults.

To customize and cut down the CSS overhead in Roots Theme, it looks like the best approach is to hack the theme itself rather than try to child theme it.

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