Supreme WordPress Theme Development
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I’m currently working on a new WordPress theme that focuses on search engine optimization, multiple plugin support, flexibility, fluid width, monetization, and many other features. To me, it’s sort of like a super theme, hence, the name Supreme. Below is an unorganized outline of Supreme’s features:
- Easy to skin (change to a completely different look without touching the core files) , modify, add to, and / or take away from.
- Comes with extensive internal and external documentation.
- Style codes are coded and organized in a way that’s easy to understand and modify.
The goal of this theme is to allow its users to never touch the core files and never change to a different theme ever again. Once you’ve gotten tired of its design, all you have to do is look for a new skin on Wpdesigner and replace the style.css file.
My vision is to build a truthfully complete theme that is not boring, skinnable, and also covers all you’ll ever need, regardless of what features, ads, and plugins your blog might require; a theme that’s easy for other designers to understand; a theme that will get adopted community wide.
And in the future, it doesn’t matter which theme author you ask for support from, that author will understand what you’re asking about and be able to point out exactly what you should do or able to do with Supreme without directing you back to Wpdesigner. The only thing that will vary is the support from Supreme’s skin authors.
U mean, something like Sandbox or K2?
Isn’t Sandbox just a frame? It’s more along the lines of K2. As far as I know, K2 doesn’t take monetization into consideration.
Sounds awesome. Good luck - let me know if you want some alpha/beta feedback.
For sure Dean. Thanks.
hmm.. great.. when is it coming out ?
Sounds interesting. What are your plans to make it this way? Sounds a lot like K2. But with added optimization and monetization. Good luck SP.
I’ll take a look at K2 again. I haven’t used K2 for any project. But as far as my experience goes, K2 is hard for newbies to modify.
I doubt that Supreme will be K2 based.
This sounds like a great project. If you want some help beta testing the theme and getting some solid feedback please let me know.
well cant wait for it to come out, good luck with it man
That’s hawt. I can’t wait to see/use it.
sounds awesome.. can’t wait to check it out.. keep us posted (as I’m sure you will
cant wait too! goodluck with this..i’ll be happy to test it too once you have a working demo
Try wide 3C themes. How else can we as publishers use all the great plugins in WP and use Ads to keep our sites going??!! Thin themes are ridiculously useless for real publishers. The are difficult to read, look horrible on big screens, which many people have, and just dont make sense with all the shelf space you are wasting. Why on earth designers waste their talent on 2C and thin designs is beyond me. All the big blogging sites, check the top techonorati sites, and yahoo.com, nytimes.com, wsj.com, all use wide more than 2C layouts. Why are designers not understanding this??
great! if u need someone to test theme, let me know
JJ - Because 2 columns is a blog design trend and not all themes should be 3 columns :).
Sounds like quite a challenge this one! Good luck and I’ll check on your progress in the coming weeks!
Sounds interesting I would like a theme I can experiment with the css file to change the look
like the name, supreme
cant wait for it to come out, will you make a tut on how to make something like that later on?
SP,
A framework might actually work better for your purposes. Keep the core simple and let the skins do the work.