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WordPress Italy » Archivio Blog » Tema WordPress e CMS: Semiologic — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:39:31 +0000

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By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:39:19 +0000

Yep, I looked at it earler, after you left a comment on my blog. That theme (and several others I saw on other blogs) is quite inspiring. I’ll definitly need to hire someone to rework my template in the upcoming weeks. I wish I had more time to take care of it.

By: Andreas Viklund

Andreas Viklund — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:11:20 +0000

Just a few more notes: My theme also has a front page with non-blog-standard behaivour. The top half is a Page, which is independent from the main template, and the second half is the blog (which only shows entries from the category “news”). The sidebar of the front page consists of another Page, and a menu which changes depending on which section of the site you visit (is_home(), is_page(“contact”, is_single() and so on). Each section of the site (archives, contact, blog, file archive, shopping cart and others), have their own single page tied into the sidebar – and I mix 2-column and 3-column layouts depending on what kind of content the section is showing.

I guess you could say that WordPress theme design has moved to a new step: Functionality and feature design! Soon, any theme will have inline editing and non-bloggish functionality inside the templates. Exciting!

By: Andreas Viklund

Andreas Viklund — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:47:09 +0000

This is interesting. But I would still say that the Blix theme by Sebastian Schmieg is closer to what I would call CMS functionality, atleast with the modifications I have made for my site. Take a look at it, you may find it interesting. Each text field is a separate page, which makes it easy to re-use pages with common content (like “latest news”) on several other pages. I have no plans on releasing it as a theme (I made it since it was what I needed, and Blix was a great starting point). But popular demand will probably make me change my mind! =)

By: Denis de Bernardy

Denis de Bernardy — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:20:55 +0000

Thanks a lot for the review. I would add that to make the best of the theme, you’ll want my upcoming smart autolinking plugin (in beta), my smart referral plugin and my post cluster plugin — still not sure of the name for the last two.

The three combined should obsolete pingbacks and trackbacks, and turn WordPress into an enhanced Wiki.