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Microblue WordPress Theme

Jun 09

JasonTheme blue, custom header, custom widgets, fixed width, microblue, Theme, two columns, widgets, WordPress 3 Comments

This is my first fully custom, from the ground up worldpress theme — I give you; Microblue.

As of this posting, its the theme I’m using and I plan to release it to the wild once it’s fully working. I also will be releasing the PSD that I used to create it so you can take it one step farther if you like.

For icons I’m using either using famfamfam.com silk icons or taking those icons and modifying them in some way.

The theme uses widgets exclusively to add stuff to the various bars. I plan to make a fallback for them, but haven’t done that yet.

Update:

• I have created two custom widgets that add functionality to the theme:
  1. One allows you to use pages as tabs as in the top bar “Info, About, Resume..etc.”
  2. And the other allows you to add blog roll like functionality to the bar bars as a multi-widget and allows you to specify which parts of your links you mean to use. This one needs some polish.
• children of the current category will be displayed beyond 1 level in the left nav — I plan to make the current category icon yellow or something, but haven’t done that yet..

TODO:
1. Fix next/previous links
2. Fix “Pages” links within a single long post
3. Use JS to set the min-height of #page to either 600 or #rightmenu height !!
4. Get search working
5. Go through and tag all posts in order to make tag cloud useful
6. If not logged in make comment form display correctly
7. make child of child list items appear correctly
8. Add CSS changes for opera to fix the little stuff

More as I get to it.