Ideas for my next WordPress Theme

• Posted: April 13, 2007
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• Author: Chris Murphy
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I’ve scrapped three ideas so far for WP themes. Every time I start a new design it seems to go well for the first little bit but then it looses it’s lustre after a couple of days. Don’t get me wrong, I love this current theme and judging by the sheer volume of downloads I’m seeing, I’m thinking there are a lot of others who like it as well. So why change themes? Call it a designer’s singular flaw (well one of many). I design for me, keeps its integrity for only so long before I start thinking about something new. One thing that I have absolutely come to love about this LemonLime WP theme is the color scheme. I think that may be one design element I will keep — any maybe perhaps some of the patterns and such. Also, I have been looking into JQuery and exploring ideas on adding a bit of interactivity to the UI. This time around I want to avoid relying on WP hacks (like the ones I did to the core files). One thing that I would have really loved to see in WP is support for WP core methods that accept custom markup with tokens (which get replaced with actual content when parsed). I think there are a few methods in WP that support that, but globally, it’s kind of hit or miss.

In any case, I would very much love to see some examples of some great use of JQuery if anyone out there has any. I’ve trolled through countless blogs and WP themes, but they all started looking the same to me. Oh, and if you’ve successfully integrated my Lemon Lime theme into your site, or modded it — let me know! I am eager to see what the community has done with it.

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