WordPress Themes and ‘Categories’

Man, I thought that changing around a few pictures/text orientations would be easier.

But maybe it’s a good thing that it isn’t. I mean, at least the ‘theme’ consists of a bunch of php (!) and css files that you can hack about with - that’s power to the user, which is good.

But it means that you have to have

  1. Knowhow
  2. Time

Still, 50% there.

The other thing is this whole ‘categories’ thing. Stop me if I’m wrong, but gmail came out well over a year ago now. I know that there a lot of people who have missed the significance this rightly has on how we store and find things, but I can’t believe that this evolutionary cul-de-sac still has such prominence…

FILTERS, people.

Hopefully there’s a plug-in for it.

3 Responses to “WordPress Themes and ‘Categories’”

  1. yamahito Says:

    Hmm. at least you can assign multiple categories, it seems.

  2. Marcus Downing Says:

    I’ve skinned WordPress before, and it isn’t as hard as it seems. As long as you can write the page in html, making a theme out of it’s fairly straightforward. Mostly stuff goes in the head and tail files, and the css file.

    Just remember to keep a copy of the base skin you’re working from, and to alter your skin’s metadata correctly.

  3. yamahito Says:

    I want to play about with width flexibility, too.

    You got a link for the WP site you’ve skinned?

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