Cotton Framework

The Cotton Framework is a W3C Standards Compliant XHTML and CSS Framework. The framework allows WordPress Theme Designers to create cross-browser compliant web sites with complete flexibility and control. Included in the framework are plugins to help simplify the process of Search Engine Optimization and Web Site Optimization.

Features

  • Users can choose how their site validates: XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.1 DTD.
  • Print Friendly
  • 7 Standard Widget Areas and 14 Advanced Widget Areas
  • Front Page Category Specification, allowing users to specify a category to display on the front page
  • 4 Sidebar Options
  • Hide or Display links to Author profile pages
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Webmaster Tools Verification

Included Optional Plugins

  • Robots Generator – Improves framework for search engines with a robots file.
  • Sitemap Generator – Improves framework for search engines with a sitemap file.
  • Mobile Support – Enables support for Mobile Browsers.
  • Google Hosted AJAX Libraries – Register Google’s hosted AJAX Libraries with WordPress.

The Cotton Framework is published under the General Public License Version 2.0 on the WordPress Plugin Directory as a public beta for WordPress 3.0 and higher. The Cotton Framework is an open source project on Google Code.

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Google Hosted AJAX Libraries

The Google Hosted AJAX Libraries Plugin changes the internal WordPress script queues for the following AJAX Libraries: jQuery, jQuery UI, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, Yahoo! User Interface, Dojo, SWFObject, Ext-Core, Chrome Frame and WebFont Loader.

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Custom Field Authentication

A WordPress Plugin allowing author’s to require authentication on pages and posts using a Custom Field.

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Bloginfo Shortcode

A WordPress Plugin allowing author’s to display information about your blog in a page or post.

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