Written by Darryl February 26th, 2008
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You’ll notice that I’m currently running the “Default” theme for WordPress. There is a reason for that, and I guess that now is as good a time as any to tell you why….
So here’s the reason…
I haven’t had time to create a theme for this site yet. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have had time, but I wanted to do something a little different, or better yet, special for the rebirth of WordPress Mania.
So, what I’m going to do is show you step-by-step exactly how I create themes for WordPress. And at the end, we’ll have the new theme for WPMania.
So starting with the next post, and running as long as it needs to, we’re going to create our own theme.
I hope it’ll help you give it a try yourself.
Written by Darryl February 25th, 2008
There’s an interesting conversation going on over at Weblog Tools Collection in the comments regarding copyright infringement on WordPress Themes. It’s something that has been discussed quite a few times in the past and probably will be discussed many more times in the future.
The question, as I see it, is: Is it ok, or not, to create a theme based on the work of someone else?
Are there really that many *new* ideas for themes anymore?
A lot of them are coded virtually identical, with the exception of CSS differences.
*UPDATE*
Well it seems like the conversation is over….and the theme in question has once again had it’s links activated.
Written by Darryl February 24th, 2008
Last year I created Wordpress Mania because I really enjoy working with the software and I thought that I’d have something to contribute. As sometimes happens, I just didn’t have time to really work on the site and keep it updated. Not to mention that at the time, there were tons of people out there that had infinitely better design skills, coding skills, and working knowledge of WordPress.
So I decided that I would take down WPMania, and move it to the back burner while I worked on gaining the skills necessary to really make a go of the site. Not to mention the time aspect.
So welcome to the new and improved WordPress Mania. I hope to have a lot to offer the WordPress community in the future.
