I have been itching to put together a few of my own WordPress themes for release to the general public for quite some time now. It’s a project that I have been working on pretty steadily but personal projects often take the back burner to client work, so it’s been a slow process to say the least.
Overall the process has been and exciting challenge. Not having to work under any constraints, adding new features here and there. just kind of putting something together for myself. If you like it, you like it. If you don’t you don’t kind of thing. Needless to say it has been more about polishing my WordPress skills than anything else.
The first two the I have been working on are pretty clean and simple as I am trying to get back to the basics and focus more on a traditional blog framework. As you probably notice my own personal style tends to be pretty minimalistic, but not to worry, those of you that are looking for a bit more along the way frilly bits, I have more ideas and plans for the future. What you are about to look at are the early stages, more of a rough draft but none the less I needed to share.
The Block and Blue theme is actually adapted from on of my old blogs (with quite a few improvements in the making). The second one is just something I really wanted to do. I have always been inspired by the clean black on white design that’s more about layout and typography than anything else, so that’s what I’m hoping to accomplish here.
As you can see there is still quite a bit of work to do on the front end and the back end additions have only just begun. I am expecting to finish these off mid January, schedule permitting and will be writing quite a bit more about the process as I get nearer that time. So if you are thinking you might like to scoop one up and play around with it just sign up for RSS or Email delivery over on the right side there and you’ll get every update you need.
Enjoy and feel free to leave your thoughts below.
Both the layouts look very impressive and user-friendly. I would love to see the end product when it is finished.
@Jerry – Thanks a lot for the compliment, it is much appreciated. This project got set back a month or two from what I had originally hoped. However, in that time I have been able to improve the backend options of each while working through various client projects, so it may have been a blessing in disguise. There is a planned two week period of personal projects and admin duties coming up so expect to see something by the end of March.