A new custom wordpress theme - from start to finish in 3 hours
I created this new theme for my blog today. It took me a little over 3 hours work so there may be a few things left to fix.
Its nice when you have a few hours free on the weekend to get down to sorting out a few jobs that have been around waiting for me to sort for a while. Thanks to Dave who commented on the theme during the development - I am afraid that as its my own personal blog I don’t bother with the professional thing of making a duplicate blog and testing it before live.
Dave also spotted that I have made a few changes to the way the link juice flows through the site, I will probably do a few more posts on that as it settles in and I tweak it to make best use of where the inbounds head now. Not that anyone should take my advice on SEO - the clues in the name after all 
I have also made a few adjustments to the way I handle the links outbound from comments and links in comments. If you comment on a regular basis then your links will now be Followed. One note of caution look carefully at any dofollow plugins you install, I checked the code on one or two and at least one of them was calling home with the urls of each post with followed links on. Crafty stuff that, just a little embarrassed I didn’t think of it as I could have built up a nice little target list of pages to spam!
Let me know what you think of the new theme, all built from scratch ….
P.s. Remember I do create custom wordpress themes for anyone who wants them over on my business site
Addition:
Just been looking at the way the site now loads too and its far far faster than before
December 9th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Oh dude, it’s so bland! It looks like one of your grey adsense template
Also, for some reason, I don’t like the sidebar being on the left. Much prefer it on the right.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:55 am
LOL thanks…. It is a little bland yes but if it works as well as the crappy grey template I will be a very very happy man!
I quite like the sidebar being where it is now, kinda feels more site like and a bit different to most blogs you see but if I get enough hassle for it then I may move it back over.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Good stuff!
December 10th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I like it!
December 10th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Dont mind the sidebar there
December 11th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Thanks All!
December 11th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Dropping you a note to let you know the on your tag pages are giving errors
December 15th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Hey Chris - thanks for letting me know - for some reason the seo title tags plugin had forgotten where the database table was…. i have reminded it….
December 19th, 2007 at 3:52 am
paul:
Can I use the theme? I swear i won’t remove your links at the footer !
thanks,
CY
December 19th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Id be happy to do you one for a low low price or even adjust this one to suit… ?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Haha! Guess I’m the only one who doesn’t like it
April 11th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Actually, I was searching on Yahoo for “how to design a wordpress theme” and this is how I landed up here but was pretty sad to see that this is just a personal blog but no info for me to design a WP theme. However, misleading title on top saying “How to design a custom wordpress theme in 3 hours”.
Sorry, but I’m not a happy camper.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I design themes and can help, misleading? not in my opinion….