Okay, I am making some significant improvements to Ashford as a WordPress Theme framework. In my next release 0.1.5:
- Subthemes (a.k.a. child themes) are added using the little discussed “Template:” setting in style.css. Special thanks to Op111.net
- Sandbox “class-generating function” combined with 960 Grid System to make Ashford a killer WordPress framework for developers
In this process, I studied a couple WordPress frameworks namely Sandbox and Thematic. In doing so I used some of their code which had been encoded as UTF-8 which is cool, but these files also included Byte-Order Mark (BOM).
The code is awesome but PHP does not like BOM. This issue showed as an unwanted line break at the top of my page. Thinking that I messed up the CSS, I lost a few hours going through my CSS and loading previous releases of Ashford and doing countless Diffs.
Then I ran it through the HTML validator and it logged at error in my DOCTYPE saying that Content “” is not allowed in prolog.
After much frustration, I learned that my new function.php file was including two PHP files that were saved including Byte-Order Mark. So the headers where messed up causing the unwanted line break at the top of the page.
I use Notepadd++ and turned of BOM and resaved the files. Unfortunately, this does not kill BOM. I had to open Dreamweaver save the code as text files then change them to PHP then delete the files from the server and re-upload.
However, it is all worth it. The next release will have killer improvements.
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