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My Own Customized WP Theme Progress – Part III

June 12th, 2007 | View Comments

Further adjustments made:

  • smaller RSS feed section (OK, Tim, I admit: it was too big),
  • most popular tags added in right sidebar (using the UTW plugin),
  • WordPress Calendar, archive dropdown menu, categories and blogroll added in left sidebar.

First, I was thinking about fixing the position of the left sidebar so that it stays in view while scrolling. But it has become too large now, and there also occured some problems with Firefox now or then, so I will leave it “unfixed”.

I guess the main index template is finished – take a sneak look at it here.

But there are still a few things left, like the single page template (including the comments template), the archives template etc. pp.

PS:
Special thanks to Jutta Kemperle for providing some helpful information about styling the WordPress Calendar with CSS!

[Update from 2007-06-13]

I just finished the “archive.php” which was really easy.

[Update from 2007-06-17]

“page.php” finished – very easy again.
“single.php” and “comments.php” should be next.
FAlbum causes trouble with my template, so I deactivated it – see this post.

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  • http://blogosquare.com Hans

    I can help you with your theme mods if you want. I’m myself a theme developer. I see that you’re doing your design to match your own mood and taste but if the codes misbehave, I’ll be glad to get them on track. There are also lots of nifty features that you could incorporate, like providing your blogging age, quick shooting stats (no of posts, comments, categories in your sidebar), making the theme make people feel more at ease, etc, etc.

    Do tell me and I’ll be glad to send the links in your way. I thought not putting it here since my comment would surely end up as spam then lol :)

  • http://www.saphod.net Marco

    Thanks, Hans, your will to help is very much appreciated – but I see developing a theme of my own a challenge and therefore I am trying to do this all by myself.

    Nonetheless, if I ever feel in need of someone taking a look at the code, I now know whom to write to the first. ;-)

  • http://blogosquare.com Hans

    Sure Marco. I think that’s the fun part in using WordPress and themes.. But do let me give you some links that might show helpful in times. I don’t know whether you know about these:

    http://www.wpdesigner.com
    themeplayground.com

    They sure have great handy resources. :) Have fun modding and tweaking.

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