I know this is getting a bit out of hand, but there’s a new theme for the site. The last theme was a bit graphics heavy, and took too long to load. This theme should load much faster. I’ve also changed the homepage to show just the excerpts from the first six posts.
For those of you interested in WordPress themes, here’s the basic layout of my theme:
- A custom “home.php” that uses the excerpt() instead of the the_content() in the WordPress loop.
- “home.php” uses some simple PHP code to alternate the class of each post so that I can use CSS to align the post to the right or the left as needed.
- The homepage also incorporates two sidebars, each displaying one widget – currently my most popular posts and most recent comments.
- Other pages on the site incorporate the more traditional WordPress sidebar, with the Blogroll, Archives, etc.
I have a couple of things that I want to add to the layout, the main one being a link that displays the usual WordPress homepage. I’ve been messing around with page templates, but haven’t had much joy. It’s looking like I may have to use a second stylesheet, along with a custom “header.php”. I’ll write up another post when I figure it out.