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The idea was simple enough
I started out four days or so ago on developing the theme “Bare” with a simple idea: make a theme that look decent without having too many elements that would subtract from the main purpose of a blog: the blog. But if I were to be technical on when the very concept of came into being,I’d have to say that it’s been a few months coming.
Too many times I’d find myself downloading a Wordpress theme and having to edit it so much that it wouldn’t even be the original theme - it would be a brand new creation. I’d say to myself, “Why do people insist on putting … in their themes?” or “Why is there so much of this stuff here? Why not here or somewhere else?”
Erin would always tell me, “You should just create your own theme.”
Current development
Version 1.1 is the current available download; and what you are viewing now will become Version 2.0 (along with whatever other things I can think of adding). I am putting a lot of time and head ache into this theme, and the general response has been nothing but positive - so I at least have that to thank. At least it’s not all negative!
Ideas
Do you have anything you’d like to see in Version 2.0? Let me know! I’ve already incorporated the first post being “unfurled” as opposed to the rest of the posts and made the transition effect for the drop-down posts smooth. But there is so much more that can be added and upgraded - and who better to tell me than the person who is going to use it?
So don’t be shy - no idea is stupid. Just let me know what you think would make a good addition to the theme and I’ll add it to the list of possibilities.
Thank you.
As always, thank you, my viewer, for reading this and thank you for your participation in what is becoming not only a learning experience, but a very enjoyable project as well!
January 27th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Love the theme! I’m considering using it for my main site (not the blog I linked here), but I have a couple of questions:
1) is it possible to make all posts minimized on the main page? Or is the latest post always open for view?
2) Do you plan on supporting WordPress 2.1? Or is support already baked in?
January 28th, 2007 at 11:25 am
1) Yes.
<div id=”<?php the_title(); ?>top” <?php if(!is_single() && $post==$posts[0]) echo ”; else echo ’style=”display: none;”‘;?> div align=”left”> is the code that makes the first post unfurled. change this to <div id=”<?php the_title(); ?>top” style=”display: none;” div align=”left”> (it’s in the <index code> section.
2) It was developed under 2.1, so … it should be “baked” in ^^