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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke

New look

September 13, 2012 by Jon

I’ve been playing around with adding support for different color styles to the Genesis Treacle theme. This is in anticipation of changing up the design of The Pedestal Group site. The Pedestal Group is using an older version of the theme I use on this site. The older version is not based on Genesis and so I wanted to see if it would be fairly easy to modify Genesis Treacle to visually match the design of The Pedestal Group. This process caused me to update the images used in Genesis Treacle and create PSD templates that make it easy to generate color variations of the base theme. This version is based on the colors used to paint the old CITO office which will serve as the new home of Instructional Technology and I’ve called it Plum.

I’m making use of genesis-style-selector introduced in version 1.8 of Genesis. One simply has to add
add_theme_support( 'genesis-style-selector', array( 'treacle-plum' => 'Plum' ) );


to functions.php. Then you add .treacle-plum <selector> to the style.css file for each selector that needs to have its color altered. It really took no time at all to do this part. Most of the time is spent in redoing all the graphic elements.

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