Customizing your Wordpress Theme - Part 1
You might have noticed the new design, it’s a hacked Statement theme from Blog Oh Blog. I was looking for a simple and clean design which can last me for a while, and I am pleased with the result. I am no guru, but will just like to share the resources which allowed me to achieve the various hacks, saving you hours searching the web.
Web Resources
- Doing more with Gravatars: Part 1
- Doing more with Gravatars: Part 2
- Template Tags/wp tag cloud
- All about floats
- Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
- 10 WordPress Hacks to Make your Life Easy
- How To Make Your Own Default Avatar in 5 Minutes
- Separating Trackbacks from Comments
- Wordpress: “Magazine style” Horizontal dropdown menu
- Compilation of WordPress Hacks
- WordPress Theme Hacks
- Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
- How to place a login form in the sidebar
Notable Plugins
- Daily Top 10 Posts – For the “Popular” and views count of the site
- Flickr Photo Album – For the Photo Album Page
- flickrRSS – Footer Images
The theme is still a work in progress, other than aesthetics changes, I am planning to implement a magazine style layout theme with a “featured post” and other popular categories using custom images, which is style gaining popularity recently. I will be grateful to anyone willing to show me the way……
If you have any queries as to how certain features are implemented, feel free to drop in the comments. Enjoy reading!
Update 03/10/08 - Part 2 is out.
Neowster is short for Noel's & Esther's Own World. This is a personal hobbyist site, maintained mainly for the purpose of honing my knowledge in WordPress, and sharing useful information or knowledge to make someone's life easier. To a smaller extend, I hope to propagate the ideology of Crowdsourcing, as I see it as the best mechanism in regulating our unregulated capitalistic world, overcoming humanity's trait of greed, self interest, and fear, in arriving at the best decision. 
September 10th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Noel hi there
Really like the hacks you’ve made, and thanks for the list of web resources, really useful.
I’m not hugely gifted when it comes to the tech, but I have started to play around with the PHP files and CSS. I really like your About box and the Twitter box. Any chance I could share the hacks (am also using Statement at http://www.alexlockwood.net)?
September 10th, 2008 at 5:04 am
It looks great!
Very clean and clearly laid out. Easy to get around, and it looks like you’ve made very nice edits. Well done!
And I’m glad you found some articles at my site helpful! Thanks for the links!
September 10th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
@alex
Sure, here’s the link to the login form tutorial, and here’s to adding author bio. I basically combined the two and applied styling to it.
For twitter, follow this link and it will generate the code necessary to display your twitter messages.
If you require further assistance, I can email you my sidebar.php for you to “dissect” it.
@Michael
Thanks for the compliment. I thoroughly enjoyed your site, and would love to see a future tutorial on how you achieve your homepage layout.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Noel,
That’s a good idea. I’ll have to do that someday!
September 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
thanks Noel, appreciated
September 16th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Hello there
I’m interested in you hacked statement theme.
I know u spend a lot of time to hack the theme but if u care to share or upload the files for the hacked theme, i will be totally happy.
I hope you consider my request to share this awesome hacked theme with others.
Thanks.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Nazu,
Great to know you’re interested in the theme. However I currently have no plans to release the theme as I am still in the process of “playing around” with it. Perhaps in the near future when I am done with all the customization, I might consider releasing it if there’s demand.
In the meantime, if you require any assistance in any features implemented, feel free to drop a message.