Paul Lumsdaine

I’ve just been plain ol’ busy lately. Building sites, starting the business up and keeping myself going. Pushing each and every way I can to gain the momentum every good business needs to succeed. So I was working on this site lately and thought I’d give Thematic wordpress framework a try. It is definitely robust, and perhaps more than what is necessary for most of my applications. I found creating a child theme the best way to go about setting the site up, but still have to spend a good amount of time familiarizing myself with the way Thematic works.

So now Im pretty sure Im going to be using lots of hooks in my functions.php for the code snippets that I seldom change. It just makes the whole ordeal easier. I think I can do it a lot simpler than Thematic does and maybe even explain it better than their documentation… It was a feat navigating through the extensions library at times and modifying it for my own needs.

But hats off to the developer of Thematic for making a great framework that has given me a lot of insight into the world of real theme development.

Oh man. Can I say right now that I feel stupid? So I had this blank admin page problem in wordpress. I tried everything that everyone had recommended on the wordpress forums. I deactivated all plugins, scrubbed mysql clean, reinstalled MAMP (thats right, reinstalled) and changed the name of the theme I was working on.

So what was the solution? Well after three days of working on it, I decided I would just remove my functions.php from the theme directory. Bamn! It started working again. So I took a look at the file and what do you know? Two line breaks at the end. It was two little line breaks that caused all the problem.