Carrington
A Theme Framework for WordPress
Alex King

Agenda
• Introduction • Abstractions
• Use Cases • Demo/Code Examples
• Carrington Principles • Resources
• WordPress Stack • Q &A

Introduction
• Personal Background
• Crowd Favorite
• Carrington’s Purpose

Use Cases
• Guest Columnists
• Article Types (magazine sites)
• Asides / Link Stories
• Registered Commenters

Carrington Principles
• Convention over code
• Developer-friendly abstraction levels
• Structure for rules hierarchy
• Multiple templates instead of conditionals

WordPress Stack
1. Request comes in
2. .htaccess rules applied
3. No file match = hand off to WordPress
4. Load code (including plugins and theme)
5. Prep data (plugins applied)
6. Hand off to theme

Theme Load
Posts
Content/
Post Loop
Header Sidebar Footer
Excerpt
Comments
Page

Directory Structure
WP Default Carrington Blog

General Templates
Header, Sidebar, Footer
• • author-{username}.php
{dir}-default.php
• • role-{role}.php
home.php
• • cat-{slug}.php
search.php
• • tag-{slug}.php
single.php
• • single-{content}.php
page.php
(cat, tag, author, meta, etc.)

Content Templates
Content, Excerpt
• • role-{role}.php
{dir}-default.php
• • cat-{slug}.php
home.php
• • tag-{slug}.php
search.php
• • meta-{key}.php
single.php
• • meta-{key}-{value}.php
page.php
• • parent-{slug}.php
author-{username}.php

Comment Templates
• comment-default.php
• user-{username}.php
• ping.php
• role-{role}.php
• author.php

Demo/Code Examples
• General (Header / Footer / Sidebar)
• Content
• Comments

Resources
• Carrington Home
http://carringtontheme.com
• SVN
http://code.google.com/p/carrington
• Documentation
http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/carrington

WordCamp Denver
• February 28, 2009
• Denver Art Museum
• $20 for all day event,
includes t-shirt
• http://denver.wordcamp.org

Q &A
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