Over the last 6 or so years of using WordPress, I’ve gone through the ever frustrating process of building a custom theme – about 4 to 5 a year! Here is one more shot at that elusive, satisfying theme.
Being the impatient person that I am, this theme is live about a month before its time. I couldn’t wait to get it live and stare at the layout for a while and make changes accordingly.
If you see any weird bits, shoot me a note. Chances are, I might have seen it already and am working on it.
With this theme, I really want to capture a magazine feel. There are a lot of magazine themes out there but what they really mean is – newspaper. I want a simple, clean, magazine.
The home page – yet has some work, but you can see, it has the beginnings of a magazine cover. The main story and then the other highlighted stories at the bottom. I need to finish this off yet.
Once you click into the story page, the featured image bleeds onto the second page. The header is simple and floats to the right of the featured image and the body of the story is below.
Each page – for now uses the same template but that will change. It would be nice I could get slightly different layouts with each story as well – a la Jason Santa Maria.
With that, it is off to fix structural issues before I can begin the visual enhancement of the theme.
Feedback is welcome.