Further updates
So yeah, I found a few issues with the new theme design. Most notably is my idiotic mistake of forgetting to pull my stylesheets to run my example code and putting it into this theme. Whoops. So now I look like a dork, because all of my examples don’t function. I swear, people - they do. I just forgot to bring in the stylesheets that make them work when I put up this new theme. I’ll be doing that in a little bit so everything functions again!
In other news, a “bug” has bitten me. Over the last year (since i’ve released the “orange Crush” theme) I’ve had some serious fun customizing WordPress and creating unique designs for all kinds of clients. I’m also working on my business site’s new design (man, I hope to get that up soon!) but I’ve learned all kinds of cool tricks and neat things that make me want to do a new theme to release.
I know I’ve been saying one is coming soon, but I’m one of these “perfectionist” types. I have about seven of them that I’ve started, but at some point I’ve abandoned because I get stuck and can’t proceed on it, or I think of something else that would be awesome, but it doesn’t fit with what I’m working on. I guess I need to just stick with one and finish it up so I can stop teasing people with the prospect of one.
Plus, the newest release of WordPress (2.3) is being released today, so now I have to go through and make sure everything still works with that one!
Furthermore, the “cool stuff” I’ve been learning… well needless to say, I’ve been dabbling in plugins. I’ve created a few - none of which are release-ready, but they certainly show a lot of promise. I am, by no means, an expert PHP coder. I’m okay, and I can get some things accomplished (I can get some really cool things accomplished if I really put my mind to it), but I know I’m messy. But one of the more interesting things I’ve done is a custom query that will output posts by meta tag into a newsletter format. There’s still some kinks with it, but man, was it fun to figure out. Once I do figure it out, I think I may try to clean it up and release it as a newlsetter-type plugin.
Anyway, that’s all I can think of right now…if anyone has any “theme requests” though, pass ‘em along. My creative juices are flowing, and I love a good challenge!
Posted by admin
September 24th, 2007
