May
27
Developing a WordPress Wireframe
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The WordPress Default theme can provide a jump start for developing a WordPress wireframe. Because it has a good selection of template tags already worked into the theme, a quickie clickable prototype blog theme is only a few simplifications away. After the first WordPress wireframe, creating alternative wireframes from the original is a [...]
May
23
The WordPress Default theme doesn’t include a sidebar in single post views. I don’t like the way Default does this, for three reasons.
Any page can be a landing page. A site should provide new users with whatever they may need in order to feel oriented. A few sidebar landmark links can do [...]
May
19
There are three ways to get a peek at how pre-existing content looks on a theme: use a theme changer or a theme previewer on the blog’s current location, or install a copy of the content’s database in an alternate location. For some projects, setting up a theme switcher or preview utility can [...]
May
12
From here on out until I’m satisfied I’ll be blogging through the process of revamping the WordPress Default theme into a new home for my blog.
WP Default has good bones and was based on Kubrick, another theme with good bones; it will provide a good foundation. If I keep to the same [...]