How the WordPress Artist Themes work
All the WordPress artist themes are built on the Parent theme David. You can read about parent – child themes on FAQ. You can purchase David alone or packaged with one of it’s child themes.
I like working with a parent theme because it makes it easy to update the code for all the themes just once. Bonus for me. The BONUS for you is that you get TWO themes, the parent and the child and can chose to activate either one.
David
The David Artist Theme for WordPress is a parent theme that acts as a framework to build other themes upon.
You can use David on it’s own or buy it packaged with anyone of the child themes below.
Real World sites using David
Blue Nude
Blue Nude features horizontal navigation at the top of the page. The theme comes with an extra page template; one with a sidebar and one without as seen in this screen shot. Also included standard with all themes is the showcase template. The background can be changed on this theme.
Blue Nude is a child theme for David, you get both themes in this package.
Cassatt
Cassatt shifts the sidebar over to the right and shows borders around the content.
Cassatt is a child theme for David. You get both themes in this package.
Claude
The Claude child theme features a background image that ghosts through the content area’s translucent png background image. The image of the clouds, that comes packaged with this theme, acts as a place holder that you can keep or change out to one of your own.
Claude is a child theme for David. You get both themes in this package.
Diego
The background image that comes packaged with Diego, acts as a place holder that you can keep or change to an image of your own.
Diego is a child theme for David. You get both themes in this package.
Huffman
Huffman is named after the amazing paper folding of Dr.David Huffman. The theme comes with an extra page template; one with a sidebar and one without as seen in this screen shot. Also included standard with all themes is the showcase template.
Lisa
Lisa has 2 widget areas in the right sidebar. One for pages and the other for the blog. The page widgets will appear on both the pages & blog but the blog widgets will only appear on the blog. The footer widget area that you see on the other themes actually appears across the top of the page on Lisa.
Lisa is a child theme for David, you get both themes in this package.
Pablo
Pablo features an outline around content areas. You can change the background colour on this theme and the content areas will remain on a white ground.
Pablo is a child theme for David. You get both themes in this package
Paige
The elegance of the paper graphic on the Paige theme make it one of the most popular themes. And you can use straight out of the box, but if you are so inclined you can change the surrounding background colour.
Paige is a child theme for David. You get both themes in this package
Studio
Studio features horizontal navigation at the top of the page. The theme comes with an extra page template; one with a sidebar and one without as seen in this screen shot. Also included standard with all themes is the showcase template. The background can be changed on this theme.
Studio is a child theme for David, you get both themes in this package.
How the WordPress Artist Themes got their names
Well if you’re an artist you’ve probably already figured that out. I decided to name the themes after famous works of art and artists. David, for example, is named after Michelangelo’s David. Cassatt after artist Mary Cassatt, and so on.