Wordpress Sandbox Theme

Posted by Cotton Rohrscheib on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 · Comments

For the past week or so I have been working on developing my own custom wordpress theme so I could get my mind around how the template system works in Wordpress. My partner Greg and I also setup an installation of wordpress on one of our sandbox servers for testing purposes, I have installed the theme there for previewing: Pleth / Wordpress Sandbox (this theme will likely go away as I design other themes later on). This is a real basic theme, clean, and not a whole lot of bells and whistles so I can use it to test a lot of the Plugins that are out there. Here’s a screenshot:

(Keep in mind that my intention for this theme was to keep it really basic and to get up to speed with creating wordpress themes as I went along.)

You can click on the screenshot to download the theme to use on your wordpress blog or you can access it from this link: http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/downloads/wordpress-sandbox.zip

I learned a whole lot putting together this theme, most of my time was actually spent in the CSS portion of the site and getting all of the colors matched up for links, p content, etc.. I found a couple of good resources online that helped me get up to speed, here are some links:

During this little self-imposed project I also had an opportunity to get up to speed with TopStyle, Layout Master, and Microsoft Expression. (which is something I was needing to do anyway)

I know that this is a really, really, really, basic theme but I sort of intended it to be this way on my first project. I have at least two or three more themes that are just about ready to launch and test over the next couple of weeks as time allows in between projects.