Making a blog with one of the default installed themes would be a bit too simple and just not done for me. Not that I dislike the default themes, and not that I am a web design specialist, I’m more into the applications behind the look & feel, just found that I needed some kind of personalized theme on this blog. On the other hand, don’t have the time to make a theme from scratch.
So I went to find out a theme in the wordpress themes directory. Still didn’t find what would please me. So I looked a little further by googling. Like a real dummy, I would search for ‘best WordPress themes'; thought this would bring me to some commercial web offering… Anyway I came to – you name it – Best WordPress Themes, a pretty useful site. So I found the 45 Degrees theme. That should be the theme for this blog.
45 Degrees template
Looked ok, simple enough for some customizations; after trying a couple of other themes that didn’t work out well.
So far so good. Only this wordpress theme dates back from October 2007 and the wordpress version 2.7 is not well supported.
So found this doc on the wordpress site explaining the impact on themes from this new wordpress version.
Did some tweaks to the 45 Degrees theme to let it work a little better under 2.7:
- Updated the footer.php to include <?php wp_footer(); ?> before the </body> tag.
- Took a copy of the comments.php from the default theme.
This looks already better, but I guess I need to adapt more; and there a good change I may have to fork away from this theme.