A few months ago Kathy from the forums here (#Helgatheviking) or (https://twitter.com/#!/Kathy_Darling) helped me customize my child theme to cut down on some of the stuff we wouldn't be using.
We took out categories, tags, the author, borders and the header to make a very clean, minimalist looking theme. The final product is clean and can be adjusted quickly with images/colors to look very distinct. It's served us well and I wanted to make it available to you guys incase you wanted something similar. Of course, if you do use the code we'd love a link back to http://ANewBike.com , but it's not necessary. (We're using Thematic for a bike blog where we tell short bicycle stories.)
Anyway, here it is in Style.css and functions.php:
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Style.css text:
/*
Theme Name: anewbike
Description: A Child Theme of thematic
Template: thematic
*/
@import url(../thematic/style.css);
#access {
border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
height:5px;
font-size:13px;
overflow:visible;
z-index:100;
}
#primary { border: none;}
#footer {
border-top:1px solid #ccc;
margin-top:5px;
}
#blog-title {
font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
font-size:60px;
font-weight:medium;
line-height:60px;
}
.skip-link {
display:none;
}
#access {
border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
height:10px;
font-size:13px;
overflow:visible;
z-index:100;
}
/*** ESSENTIAL STYLES ***/
.sf-menu, .sf-menu * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
.sf-menu {
line-height: 0;
{
#branding {
padding:20px 0 20px 0;
}
#main
.entry-title {
font-family:Arial,sans-serif;
font-size:34px;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:26px;
padding:0 0 7px 0;
}
}
li.content-column {
float:left;
margin-right:15px;
width:100%;
}
#secondary {
font-size: 3em;
}
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Functions.php text:
<?php
//removes everything from the #header div
function kia_empty_header(){
remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_brandingopen',1);
remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_blogtitle',3);
remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_blogdescription',5);
remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_brandingclose',7);
remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_access',9);
}
add_action('init','kia_empty_header');
//removes author and meta-seperator from post meta
function childtheme_override_postheader_postmeta() {
$postmeta = '<div class="entry-meta">';
$postmeta .= thematic_postmeta_entrydate();
$postmeta .= thematic_postmeta_editlink();
$postmeta .= "</div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n";
return $postmeta;
}
//totally removes categories from the post footer
function childtheme_override_postfooter_postcategory(){
//sound of one hand clapping
}
//totally removes tags from the post footer
function childtheme_override_postfooter_posttags(){
//sound of one hand clapping
}
?>