…and, we’re back!
Ok, the template experimenting is over for now. I found a few previously undiscovered bugs in the template, so I reverted back to the old one. For the record, here’s what that template looked like:
Very plain, but it has several things I like, such as the ability to subscribe to a feed of comments on a per post basis, and the next/previous navigation links at the bottom of the page. You can see this theme, Barthelme, in greater detail on the ThemeViewer site.
The theme I’m leaning towards now is called Andy Blue. Here’s a screenshot of that:
It is a three-column theme, which I need. But for my purposes, it’ll need to be tweaked.
The thing I find amazing is that how relatively easy it is to tweak the WordPress themes. You don’t need to know PHP, you only need to know or learn how to recognize what PHP function is doing what.
And you learn that by looking at themes, and looking at the theme editor in the dashboard. Not a piece of cake, but not caster oil, either.
If you want to get some idea of the number of WordPress themes, the ThemeViewer site is a quick and easy visual way to do that.
Another excellent place to find themes is How to Blog’s list of 960+ WordPress themes. This woman has put a lot of work into collecting and updating her list of sites and it’s well worth checking out.
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July 16th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Hi Sabine,
You should have asked me about some of your issues with the theme. For example, you have the very first version of the theme. The third version, which has the missing next/previous links along with a number of other bugs, is already over a year old!
As for subscribe to comments for each post, that’s just one line! In comments.php in the theme directory add the following at line 60 (just before the “if open == post->comment_status” line):
<p><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>/feed" title="Subscribe to the latest comments on this post in RSS">Subscribe to comments with <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> 2.0</a></p>
The new version 2 theme which is still in beta, but in use by a number of people, has several more colour schemes, and is much easier to customise.
Hope this helps,
Mike
July 16th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Mike, it wasn’t your theme that I was having problems with — it was another one that I tried.
But I will scurry right over and get the version 2 and check it out.
And thanks for reminding me that there’s a great community of WordPress theme developers who are working hard, creating great themes, and generously sharing their expertize!