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Just recently I ran a competition with the aim of getting suggestions for a soon to be released WordPress theme. There was not much interest in the competition but the deadline has now come, and as promised, I have to decide on a winner. And the winner is…
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I do not know if you have noticed the archives page on this site. I have attempted to provide some meaningful content on this page. I would appreciate some feedback on just how successful I was in reaching this goal.
Continue reading Dare to be different

You will notice that this blog has a new look. The theme used has no name, but if you look at the colors used you should be in no doubt about what the blog is all about.
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I do not often rant and rave about anything but today is an exception. As a developer of new website themes and templates, I am finding myself more and more frustrated. I find myself spending hours and hours coding and checking various things that will eventually have very little effect on the final product. Today I draw the line and in future all templates (both static as well as blogs) I produce, will no longer follow the so-called norm for development.
Continue reading Enough is enough

You will notice that I have stopped using the threaded comments plugin that I had activated on this blog. The reason for this is the forthcoming changes with regards to comments that are included in WordPress 2.7. The threaded bits used by the mentioned plugin will not work in the new version of WordPress and therefore I have de-activated it. For now some of the comments might appear a little out of place but as new comments are made the situation will rectify itself.
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I have decided that releasing a new free WordPress theme every couple of months is not the way to go. Instead of this I am going to release a good general purpose theme. This theme I will keep updating as user needs change. The theme will also be updated with every new version of WordPress should it be necessary. The problem now is, just what features should this general purpose theme include?
Continue reading It’s competition time

There are more and more WordPress themes, both free and premium, available out there these days. This is a good thing. For a while I have been doing research on numerous themes to try and determine the trends which I should include in the theme I am currently planning.

There are many themes out there that in my opinion, are not getting things quite right, and hence this list of the 10 things that irritate me on many WordPress themes.
Continue reading 10 Irritating things on many WP themes

We have just about reached the end of this short series on developing your own WordPress theme. All that is left to do at this stage is to add a few finishing touches to the theme.
Continue reading Developing your own WP theme - part 5