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This work is a try to understand a bit more WordPress and to make me happier when I work with it.

I hesitated during a long time before starting my personal WordPress theme because I knew it would be a huge job and a long time investment. But I was tired to undo half of theme features that I would use and lose hours of development.

Thistle is a WordPress Parent Theme which cannot live alone. It needs a bit of love through a Child Theme to construct beautiful experiences.

Here are many reasons why Thistle can/should not be used as it is:

  • It doesn't provide any default design;
  • It doesn't offer critical features (e.g.: portfolio, project, etc);
  • Its template hierarchy is incomplete;
  • Its function.php is already wellfilled;
  • I myself decided on this first requirement.

With the help of Thistle, I tried to collect interesting things that I judge vital to work with WordPress and that I need the most :

Basic things:

  • Cleans <head> HTML element;
  • Translates the base for the author and the search permalink structure depending on the locale used;
  • Discourages search engines from indexing some pages (e.g.: paged/search results);
  • Adds custom post type counts in "Right now" Dashboard widget; 8bc363
  • Transforms the default version of dependencies to hide the WP version in URLs; 601cb1
  • Use the site information on login page; c66554
  • Disables the REST API except for the oEmebed endpoint; 8c04ed
  • …

Helpful things:

  • Adds a "Thumbnail" column for post types that support the thumbnail feature;
  • Moves the excerpt meta box above the editor permanently;
  • Renders the specific WordPress.com shortcodes for SoundCloud and SlideShare;
  • Allows users to see a live preview of embedded content within the visual editor;
  • Redirects the user to the current page or the home page on logout; c579eb
  • Offers the right behaviour to exclude_from_search; 18acb9
  • Adds a new role to WordPress for customers (Editor++); 67767b
  • …

Tricky things:

  • Retrieves permalink for attachment following an unique permalink structure media/%postame%;
  • Handles the output of embedded content to be responsive;
  • Constructs <meta> tags needed by Open Graph and Twitter Card;
  • Builds a new Gallery shortcode output to interact easily with PhotoSwipe;
  • Enqueues assets automaticaly following the template hierarchy behaviour; 05caf1
  • Autoloads TinyMCE templates for post types; d1bd7c
  • Allows to use only the post type archive page; 712b0a
  • …

Almost all the lines of code are commented so I let you look through Thistle to find other tips and features for your joy.

Please, note that Thistle is still under development.