I’m so pleased with how well my XMark theme has been recieved and want to thank everyone for their great feedback (and some of you for your very generous donations!).
I finished writing the WordPress for Dummies book in April. I’ve just recently entered into what my authors refer to as the “Final Author Review” - which is where they give me the entire book back, edited and formatted, and allow me the opportunity to revise the text I’ve written to reflect any changes, updates and upgrades to the WordPress software that has happened since I finished in April.
Whoa! Yea - you’re telling me - - that’s a LOT! It really is - the WordPress folks have been busy bees over in the WordPress factory and have surely been keeping me on my toes with my writing! I’m super excited, though, as it’s nearing completion and this project is coming to an end….and coming to a bookshelf near you!
The WordPress for Dummies book has been a huge project for me - both professionally and personally. I, of course, have had to put many things on hold during the course of writing it because they were cracking the whip pretty harsh on the deadlines I had to meet.
On of my projects that got put on the side burner is this XMark theme. I’ve gotten so much great feedback and requests for new features, and I want to be able to accomodate all your requests - - plus a few of my own!
So - that being said.. consider this an open thread for your thoughts and ideas. Leave ‘em here in the comments, and I”ll keep a running tally of what you’d like to see for the XMark theme.
A few things I have in mind:
- Updating the theme so that it works with WordPress MU. Currently, the Theme Toolkit I’m using to power the functions an options is not compatible with MU.. so I need to fix that
- Several CSS fixes and a large amount of clean up (yes, yes - The display of the RSS Widget headers is planned!)
- Inclusion of several popular WordPress plugins (threaded comments is just one I have in mind)
- Ability to easily change header graphics and color schemes for the overall theme
What about you? Thoughts?
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Hi Lisa,
Thanks for all your ongoing work on X-Mark. I would agree anything RSS-wise in evolution wold be superb. The only other thing I’m having issues with - the header area, the grpahic I’ve inserted is knocked off-centre on smaller monitors etc i.e. my logo will sit over the top of the page titles etc. Any ideas on how this could be remedied?
Thanks again
Lowell
Hi Lisa,
I can’t wait for your book to come out. I was in desparate need of help so I made the deadful and expensive mistake of buying a WP book written by another author. August can’t come soon enough!
I would like to suggest making the option of having the 3 columns split so that the blogs are centered and in-house ads can easily be added to the top right column. If there is a way to do this now, please advise.
Thanks for all your work!
Nathalie
Option on page, to keep the 2 right small columns, only one, or none!
Option on post, to add any post (or not) on the top navigator tab
Option to add any page or not, on that page navigation tab
Option to add external links to this very same navigation tab
One notch moe, if sub pages are present, option on mouse over of any tab navigator bar, to display them (java or either)
Not very a la mode anymore, but maybe option to change the header graphic very easily, upload button dimension very specific, and voila!
I just downloaded the template so if I am missing something…!!!!!
Roger