My first update of my first WordPress Theme

calendar.jpgHere is the first update of “Rusty”. It’s not a big deal, but it fix some eye-annoying things like the calendar representation and some odd looking list items in the sidebar which gets smaller and smaller when they are put one into another … But this ugly stuff is already in the past. I want to thank Jonathan Dewar for the feedback. Thank you Jonathan. Also many thanks to the people whose comments helping me improve my work. Thank you people.

If you find this so-called WordPress theme attractive you can download it from here. I’ll be grateful if you draw my attention to things that I’m missing or getting wrong.

Please, excuse my English. It’s not in a good shape.

01
March 6th, 2006 01:09:59

Hi

A really good work. Do you improve it realizing a custom page for archives?

02
Jonathan
March 6th, 2006 01:14:04

Awesome! This theme is now perfect.

Keep up the good work. :)

03
March 6th, 2006 14:54:29

Hi, Matteo,

I can’t clearly understand your question, because I’m a beginner in WP theme design. Can you be more descriptive about that custom page for archives and I’ll try to do my best to implement it.

04
March 6th, 2006 14:59:40

Thanks, Jonathan for helping me out.

05
March 6th, 2006 15:33:21

Здравей :)

A great theme, currently useing in my blog. I haven’t enough time to design a theme , so your one is perfectly fit for my taste :)

Продължавай все така, ако имаш нужда от дизайн или някаква друга помощ - казвай!

06
March 6th, 2006 21:59:16

OK!

I was speaking thinking at the wordpress 2.0 standard template.
If you take a look under \themes\default you can find the file archives.php.
If you create a page from wordpress using this template, you can realize a page that contains your archives without fill the sidebar.

Best Regards and congratulation for the good work!

07
March 7th, 2006 00:44:48

OK i try to explain it better. (i’m italian and my english is poor..)

If you take a look at the wordpress 2 standard theme located at \wp-content\themes\default you find a file with name archives.php. This file is the archives template. If you wanna create a page you can choose it as a archive template.
I tried to use it with kubrick and the “output” is a page without posts and only your monthly archives. I was speaking about it.

Best Regards, Matteo

08
March 7th, 2006 10:26:32

Приятно съм изненадан да срещна коментар от сънародник. Благодаря ти за предложението за помощ и за това, че използваш темата.

09
March 7th, 2006 10:38:34

Hi, Matteo,

In my opinion your English is clearly comprehensible(in comparison with mine:)).

Thank you for the detailed help. I haven’t realize until now where in the WP template “archives.php” is used. I’ll try these days to correct this negligence of mine. Thanks again.

Between, I’m a bulgarian. Nice to meet you.

10
March 9th, 2006 01:10:18

I really like your theme — great work!

11
March 9th, 2006 11:32:13

Thanks for your kind comment.

12
March 9th, 2006 16:30:27

This is one of the best themes I’ve seen, both in terms of looks and plugin compatibility. You can see this theme in action here: http://www.withgoodreason.com
I hope you will continue to make themes.

13
March 9th, 2006 19:00:47

Thanks a lot, Cynapse. I want to assure you that I’m just starting to make WP(and not only) themes:)

14
March 10th, 2006 00:43:14

Nice to meet you too! :)

I just finished porting a theme for hobby. Do you wanna take a look? You can find it at http://www.italiasw.com/?page_id=72
.

Best Regards, Matteo

15
March 11th, 2006 20:16:20

Hey man, thanks for the theme. It looks awesome and I’m getting lots of compliments about it on my site.

Thanks again.

16
March 13th, 2006 00:28:30

Wonderful theme! I’m using it on my site billeberly.com right now (with a bit of modification)

17
March 13th, 2006 12:56:32

Hi, Matteo,

This is very nice and clear theme you ported. I like the transparent menu. It’s a petty that only Firefox supports this feature.

18
March 13th, 2006 13:03:14

Thanks for your comment, Jeff. I’m really glad to know that people like you appreciate my work.

19
March 13th, 2006 13:12:43

Hi, Bill,

Thanks for your estimate.

I found your idea with the vertical menu really cool. Maybe you have met big difficulties, modifying the theme, because the CSS inside is a real mess. I’ll try to find time these days to improve a little bit the design and the CSS file itself …

20
March 14th, 2006 13:50:27

Martin,

Thanks for such a wonderful theme. :)

21
Gordon
March 14th, 2006 13:57:54

Hey Bill,

Having difficulty displaying yours in IE based browsers. All OK in Firefox though.

MArtin.

IS this something you might address if (and when) you have a look at the CSS ?

22
March 14th, 2006 19:52:50

Hi, Nick,

Thanks for the comment.

23
March 14th, 2006 19:59:12

Gordon,

I can correct this directly into Bills’ “header.php” and “style.css” files. But if it’s not possible to have these two files, I’ll update soon the theme with few improvements and a horizontal menu example commented in the “header.php”. I hope that will help.

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Вилиан
March 17th, 2006 09:22:56

Браво, Мартине. Страхотна работа си свършил, това е най-добрата тема, която съм виждал.

25
March 17th, 2006 11:35:55

Много ти благодаря за коментара, Вилиане.

26
April 11th, 2006 10:06:01

Wow. You say this is your first go at WP theme development? Let me just say that you are a truly amazing developer thus far and I can only dream of where you’ll find yourself if you continue this way.

This is probably one of the most beautiful themes I have seen to date. Not only is it pleasing to the eye, but places tremendous emphasis on the content as well.

I am currently using this theme @ http://www.cmayes.net/dragonya

Keep up the fantastic work.

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