Working with WordPress themes – continuing with SLA23Things
Posted on August 3, 2008
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I’ve spent several days “trying on” different WordPress themes for this blog, personalizing them a bit, and then seeing what they look like on the screen, abandoning the ones I don’t like. I now have something that’s workable, after changing colours for the header (which I discovered was in several pieces), removing elements that I don’t like from the header, changing fonts here and there, adding in more widgets, and moving things around a bit. This goes beyond the necessary for the Facilitating Online Communities course, but fits in well with SLA’s 23 Things program. It’s a great learning experience and has moved me forward with my understanding of technology – I’ve always been a bit of a tinkerer and this web2.0 stuff feeds into that.
I haven’t been able to identify yet where I can change the text on the right side of the black header bar. I’ve been through every file associated with this theme, as well as examining the page source. Another mystery to solve along the way.
Here’s the comparison of the original theme and my current version. I’ve made quite a few changes, as you can see:
original modernpaper theme
reworked modernpaper theme (first version)
What I still want to do, at a minimum:
- replace the blue header box with an image – I need to go through my photos and find a suitable landscape (probably a Vancouver beach scene, but I’m still pondering this)
- replace the heavy black bar under the blue
- fix the search box header – it’s inconsistent with the other headers
- add tags under the posting date, along with the categories
- find a Tag Cloud widget and replace the list
- find a Flickr widget that shows a randow selection of photos from the site
I’ll just keep tweaking away until I have something I’m happy with – it’s what I do best.
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