i spent a few hours this weekend modifying the blogtxt wordpress theme to mimic my old bonq-v2 theme. i still really have issues w/ sidebars, they just don’t do it for me. as far as the blogtxt theme goes, i really haven’t had to modify anything other than the style.css to make all the changes i want.

kudos to scott/plaintxt.org for such a well-rounded theme that’s easy to modify.

i don’t think i’ll ever get used to using em vs px for defining sizes though. i’m going to poke around a little more w/ blogtxt, but i also should see what other themes are out there. there’s apparently been monster growth for the wordpress theming community though. a google search for wordpress+themes now generates 6,870,000 hits.

here’s the top few that looked like they had some useful themes.

• http://themes.wordpress.net/
• http://www.wpthemesfree.com/
• http://topwpthemes.com/
• http://www.themelab.com/
• http://www.solostream.com/
• http://www.wpthemespot.com/
  

and yeah. i just really wanted to post that picture.

wow, that took almost no time at all. all you need is an existing style.css and a few lines in a index.php and tada, theme recreated and widgetized. the simplest wordpress theme is nothing more than an index.php and style.css pair. from there you can build upon anything, and there’s a whole lot of reading i need to do.

wordpress notes:

1. wordpress.codex: stepping into templates
2. wordpress.codex: the loop
3. wordpress.codex: templates
4. wordpress.codex: widgets
5. del.icio.us: /flipp/wordpress