http://jorge.fbarr.net/2009/06/16/changing-themes/ The life of a geek, father and husband Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jorge.fbarr.net/2009/06/16/changing-themes/comment-page-1/#comment-1792 EasyTarget Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:18:36 +0000 http://jorge.fbarr.net/?p=679#comment-1792 I got caught the same way a while back, theme author decided not to update his older themes for WP2.7+, I actually found it a helpful thing since it forced me to sort things out :-) I just wanted to mention that the theme I now use, Atahualpa, is very good as a basis for customisation because it's theme options screen(s) allow quick customising of pretty much everything. 1, 2 or 3 columns? it's a dropdown box! It has dialogs for adding custom HTML to headers, footers, etc.. There are text inputs allowing you to add stylesheet overrides to most standard elements, + lots more. Basically I was expecting to have to do a lot of work with the theme editor, but I have not needed to; everything I need has been covered in the theme options screens instead. Greatly simplifying upgrades ;-) I got caught the same way a while back, theme author decided not to update his older themes for WP2.7+, I actually found it a helpful thing since it forced me to sort things out :-)
I just wanted to mention that the theme I now use, Atahualpa, is very good as a basis for customisation because it’s theme options screen(s) allow quick customising of pretty much everything. 1, 2 or 3 columns? it’s a dropdown box! It has dialogs for adding custom HTML to headers, footers, etc.. There are text inputs allowing you to add stylesheet overrides to most standard elements, + lots more. Basically I was expecting to have to do a lot of work with the theme editor, but I have not needed to; everything I need has been covered in the theme options screens instead. Greatly simplifying upgrades ;-)

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