WordPress theme news: Updates coming up
May 27, 2008 – 4:36 am
It is a shame that I haven't updated my WordPress themes to include the new features in recent WordPress versions, it should have been done long ago! Anyway, I have finally got myself together and started rewriting the themes and adding missing features. The first theme to be updated will be the 1024px theme in which I have added support for the WordPress tag system (including a sidebar tag cloud by default), category descriptions on category archive pages, gravatars in the comments and general improvements based on recent updates of the original 1024px website template which the theme design is based on.
There are still a few details left to add, like the alternative style for moving the sidebar to the right side and the classic 800px modification that will make it possible to scale down the theme width so it works with lower screen widths. I may also include the alternative 1024px inverted style made by Jason Cole, and I need to learn more about the new shortcode feature and make sure that it works with the theme. And finally, I will make sure to rename the theme and make changes to the way i handle version numbers, in order to avoid the common mixups and misunderstandings that occur between the original website templates and the theme versions that share the same designs. I have a plan for that, which i will write more about later…
It will take a couple of days to get the last changes added since this is a very busy week for me. But if anyone would want to try the theme as it is right now, then you are very welcome to download the 1024px WordPress theme in its current shape. If you do, please report any errors or bugs you find and any feature you miss, and I will make sure to fix it for the final release. Since the official theme viewer isn't working at all right now, I will host my themes on my own WordPress themes page, on their own single theme pages similar to the single template pages that I added to the templates section recently.
Here is a screenshot of the updated 1024px theme showing the added tag cloud, the post tags and the moved comments link. Click on it to download the theme:
