RSSThe Design Itch: Educed
When I switched to WordPress from Movable Type a few years back I was intimidated by WP’s use of PHP and the thought of learning a new set of template tags. Fortunately, there are some really great WordPress themes out there—and I should know because I’ve been bouncing around the most popular of them for the last two years.
My needs and aesthetics have changed and morphed; recently my eyes have been catching on minimalist themes. I started thinking about what I really wanted and how it should look. So I learned some PHP and WordPress template tags are now among my list of friends. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but I think I’m a few feet over the novice line.
I call this theme Educed, mostly because it’s taken the kindness and sharing of others in the WP community to make it happen. WPDesigner’s tutorial, So you want to create a WordPress theme, huh?, really helped explain the code.
It’s a good foundation for me as I’ll be able to add any features I may come to want and, at the very least, makes for a fun playground.
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Great look! I feel honored that I got to see this theme in the offline stages, while it was still being developed.
You always make a crisp and clean interface. So where can we download this theme if we wanted to make it our own?
Oh, partner, you’ll always get to see my designs first.
I haven’t decided to release this theme to the public yet. I’d have to make some changes first (like adding the option for a [widgetized] sidebar for one) and add a bunch of comments to the code. If I get personal inquiries, though, I’ll get to work on it.
Argh. I can’t get your feed in my bloglines account since you updated the design. I thought you’d dropped off the face of the map for a month, then I see you’ve been updating regularly.
Lauren, the feed problem would be my fault, not the design’s. I had signed up for my feed to be managed via Feedburner and I lost access to the account! so I had to create a new one. You can resubscribe to my feed and bloglines should reach educeme2 as the feed name. Sorry about that!
And, I’m not sure if I’d describe my update pattern as “regular”!