What to remember when making a WP theme April 29, 2008

Some categories: Uncategorized. Some tags: . And exactly 4 rambling responses.

I’ve created many many WordPress themes during my times on the internet. I create them because I have old unused templates, and sometimes specifically to gain popularity (like everyone else I claim it’s “for the community” though). However, I always miss something. In particular, there are three things I missed on this blog. Anyway, here’s a list I threw together:

  1. Archives pages & category pages. It’s just too easy to create an index.php to fit all of these, but customized pages make a theme more developed and interesting, experimenting with layout on each page always helps too - this is one of the things I missed here, and still haven’t finished (working on it)
  2. Comments. So easy to forget or neglect. I completely forgot to add them here, linked to the comments, but with no way to add a comment ><. It’s one of the things which most themers will leave till last, and possibly forget. And not only should you include them, they have to be nicely styled too (mine aren’t - yet)
  3. Feed link. As you can see in my navigation, the feed ling is simply text. This is because I forgot to add it until today, oops! The benefits of having a feed are numerous, and not allowing visitors to view your feed is simply stupid. Personally, I don’t use feeds, and I’m sure quite a few people don’t, but that link is oh-so important. A real image link shall be arriving here soon.
  4. Archives themselves. Every blog needs an actual archives page, again, something I forgot to add here. In a rush to finish, I didn’t bother, and this lazy attitude has meant I still haven’t bothered. Much like the feed link, an archives page is taken for granted, and it’s a requirement.

I hope the list is helpful, and I’m sorry about the lack of updates, I fried my Windows machine and I’m stuck on a laptop, and all my precious internet time is taken planning a new dos rig.

p.s: Pointless Ramblings now works in IE7 and Firefox, for all those who care…

4 Responses to “What to remember when making a WP theme”

  1. What to remember when making a WP theme April 29, 2008 Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

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  2. Josh Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    You need to add a feed link tag into your head section as well.

  3. Political Monster Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    @Josh: Thanks for the heads up, I’ll add it :)

  4. Daniel Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    I read similar article also named What to remember…, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me

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