My very first wordpress theme

09 August 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Its finally here! After almost a month of hardwork (because of procrastinating), I am launching my very own first wordpress theme! I know many of you have been anticipating this monumental release and your wait is finally over!

I like to describe this theme as the bastard son of ReadWriteWeb and Chris Coyier’s site. If you have noticed the genes for the header, sidebar and footer part came from Chris’ site while the genes for the content part came from ReadWriteWeb. Did you see the resemblance?

Here are some of the things I want to highlight:

Moz-border-radius for the sidebars

I’m aware that only a few browsers support this CSS property but I just thought it would be cool to show that you can create rounded corners without using any background images. Below is the CSS rules for the sidebar widgets:

-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;

Custom Google Search

I used Google as my search tool because of only one reason: You can make money from it by participating in Google’s Adsense Program! hehehe.

Custom Fields for thumbnails in homepage

With custom fields you can really make your theme unique. Creating thumbnails in your homepage is one of the techniques you can apply when developing your theme. I’m still searching and learning on other ways in which you can apply custom fields to your theme so if you have any ideas on using custom fields please feel free to share it.

Developing this theme was a lot of fun and had a great experience from it. I learned a lot and it also enabled me to woodshed on my XHTML, CSS and Photoshop interface designing and now I’m ready to work on my secret project!

Thank you for reading and please I would really love to hear your good and not so good comments about my theme.

7 Responses to “My very first wordpress theme”

  1. Noel Nuguid 13 August 2008 at 10:12 am Permalink

    Nice work on your Theme! but the google search doesnt seem to be working? or is it just me?

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  2. raymondselda 13 August 2008 at 10:21 am Permalink

    Thank you for reporting that Noel! I can’t believe I missed that! I could have sworn it was working. hehehe. Anyway thanks again. Gonna fix it as soon as I get home from work.

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  3. Kin 16 August 2008 at 9:53 pm Permalink

    tsk… tsk… re-launching a site w/o overseeing any other stuff… bad juju… hehehe

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  4. Glen Allsopp 24 August 2008 at 4:16 pm Permalink

    Congratulations on getting this released and out there raymond.

    I hope a lot of backlinks and traffic come your way ;)

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  5. anthony 8 September 2008 at 1:07 am Permalink

    nice theme raymond, is it available for download?

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  6. raymondselda 8 September 2008 at 9:22 am Permalink

    @ anthony: Right now its not available for download because I haven’t finish writing some of the parts(really buggy) but I will release a free worpdress theme that will be much better than the first theme I created. hehehe

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  7. BloggerDude 9 October 2009 at 8:21 am Permalink

    I don’t know If I said it already but …I’m so glad I found this site…Keep up the good work I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog. Thanks, :)

    A definite great read….

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