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Looking for a Killer WordPress Theme?

by Rick on August 29, 2008

No secret that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of WordPress themes available for download. You got your 1-column themes, your 2-column themes, and your ample-sidebarred 3-column themes. There are themes with large fonts, small fonts, serif fonts, sans-serif fonts.

There are themes with a comments thread for support requests, and there are themes with no obvious means of getting support.

Frankly, the options are overwhelming.

If you’re looking for a theme that is both clean + typographically superior (read: easy on the eyes), a theme that is 1 column… 2 columns… or even 3 columns at the flip of a switch, a theme with a variety of font choices, customizable navigation menu, a multimedia box for displaying pictures, videos, or advertisements…

If you’re looking for a theme with one of the best, most responsive support communities in the WordPress universe…

Then you are looking for Thesis, by DIY Themes.

Out of the box, Thesis provides you so much that is so rarely — if ever — found in other themes:

  • Optimized HTML and CSS.
  • Search engine optimized structure.
  • A design panel for choosing between 1, 2, or 3 columns, the widths of said columns, and the font faces and sizes for the entire layout or just portions thereof.
  • An options panel for customizing the nav menu, the multimedia box, the structure of your pages’ title, and more.
  • “Subscribe to Comments” plugin style optimization.
  • Two (or one, if you so desire) widgetized sidebars.
  • Special classes for adding flair to your posts.

Not Just Thesis… COSMO!

If you purchase Thesis prior to midnight, August 31, 2008, (PST), you’ll get another premium theme absolutely free: Cosmo, a magazine style theme that is so cutting-edge, it doesn’t yet exist. You’ll have access to it as soon as Chris releases it. The existing community is very excited about Cosmo’s release; you’re not going to want to miss it!

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A Widget for Brian’s Latest Comments

by Rick on August 1, 2008

Just a short note to fellow WordPress bloggers who may be using Brian’s Latest Comments to display the most recent conversation on their blog: I put together a widget for Brian’s Latest Comments which will allow anyone using sidebar widgets to more easily work Brian’s Latest Comments into their sidebar content.

The code is posted on the Thesis support forums, but it should work with any theme; put the code into your theme’s functions.php file, and you’re all set. Visit the widgets manager to find a full-featured widget with all the options you should need.

This is the product of late-night coding, and I’m not going to claim that there aren’t bugs. I just wanted to put it out there and see who finds it useful. (And yes, it is what is displaying the “Conversation” section in my sidebar here.)

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ESV Plugin for WordPress

by Rick on July 5, 2008

Christian bloggers who make use of a self-hosted WordPress installation (read: not WordPress.com) may find this plugin interesting: ESV by Chris Roberts. The plugin makes it ridiculously simple to link or share text from today’s best Bible translation: the English Standard Version.

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NeoBox Demo Site

by Rick on June 7, 2008

The official NeoBox demo site is online now! (Download NeoBox here.)

If you’ve been itching for an ultra-semantic, simplistic, easy-to-use theme for your WordPress blog, check out NeoBox. I’m very happy with how it has turned out, even if it is a Frankenstein’s Monster combination of varied parts.

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Building a Better WordPress Theme: NeoBox

by Rick on May 25, 2008

I’m working on a WordPress theme called NeoBox which you are welcome to download via my Freebies page; it’s nowhere near completion, and stylistically it’s still just like the theme I’m using here — Neoclassical. The download page tells more about it.

However, I’m posting this in the hopes of getting any useful feedback for making NeoBox as good as possible. So, a few questions that I want as many people to answer as possible; it doesn’t matter when you post, I’ll keep monitoring the comments on this page for as long as NeoBox is being maintained, which will be quite a while, I hope!

  • What complaints do you have about most WordPress themes? What is missing that should be added or is there that has no use?
  • What plugins do you use which output into the theme? In an effort to make NeoBox as easy as possible, I’m going to go all out with plugin integration provided that it doesn’t become a performance bottleneck.
  • What else can be done to make NeoBox — which will, as previously said, look a lot like Neoclassical, the theme in use here — stand heads & shoulders above other available themes?

I very much want NeoBox to be something special. It isn’t anywhere near that point yet as I’ve not been able to devote a great deal of time to its development, but I do have big hopes for it. If you run a WordPress blog, check out NeoBox, and let me know what else it should have, do, or be!

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