Archive for March, 2008

A New Default Theme Contest

Ian Stewart over at ThemeShaper is giving away 7 premium iThemes WordPress themes to the winner of their default theme contest. It’s a great idea to help come up with a new default theme, and I applaud his efforts.
I made a comment on the post that, after further reflection, I’d like to expand on [...]

Author Exposed Plugin

Igor from Color Light Studio has created a great plugin which he calls Author Exposed. From his site:
This plugin does the same thing as the_author() tag only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the layer pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus [...]

Black & Red Theme

Since I couldn’t think of a better name, here’s the Black & Red Theme that was created during the tutorial on Creating Your Own WordPress Theme. There are no restrictions on usage since it’s released under the GPL, but I would appreciate you keeping the link in the footer. Other than that, I [...]

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 5

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 4 we began adjusting the css to reflect what we want. In this part, we’ll wrap up this tutorial with a completed theme. There will probably be quite a few changes and this will be rather long. Hopefully we’ll have something a little unique when [...]

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 4

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 3 we managed to setup the basic layout. We’ll go ahead and pick up where we left off and see what we can get accomplished this evening.
Since I wasn’t happy with the link colors, I played around with various color combos for a couple of hours until [...]

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 3

It’s been about a week since my last update to this series due to me being incredibly busy with paying work, but never fear…Part 3 is here.

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 2 we finished up with a very basic theme with no styling. It works, but it’s ugly. Today we’re going to pick up right where we left off and get most of the layout…

Basic Theme For Creating Your Own WordPress Theme

For those of you who don’t want to go through all the steps included in Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 2, here are the base theme files that I use when creating a new theme.
Basic.zip