It’s been a good couple of years or so since I summed up themes for writers, and since I’m still a writer, I think it’s time to do it again. If you’re a writer, a publisher, or just someone with an idea for an online magazine, these themes could help make your site look a little more like ink on page.
Tag: wordpress
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Literally speaking: the best WordPress themes for the text obsessed
As a writer, I have this obsession with text and letters and sentences and words.
This happens possible because I do this whole writing thing day in – at work, where I write technology journalism at GadgetGuy.com.au – and day out – when I go home and write books and other pieces of nonsense that spill out of my head and onto the page.
This obsession with writing makes me want to have a webpage that speaks more in words than playful designs, so much that the big words become the playful designs.
A few years ago, I attempted this style with what is my current WordPress theme, a modification and severe customisation that I later called “Spontaneous Box.” This theme relies heavily on Ozh’s Random Words, a plugin that pulls various lines out of a file and shows them on specific parts of the page.
To date, there are well over 50 in the system, and I want this to still be a feature in my new site, in a redesign of my page.
In fact, an upcoming redesign is exactly why I’ve written this, to show some of the themes out there that point speak in text and showcase big shiny words that yell loud and clear to the reader.
So here we are, reader, with a list that might be helpful to you. If you’re a writer that wants a WordPress theme that says “hell yes, I’m a writer,” this list is for you.
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WordPress scheduling woes and an unlikely fix
Over the past week, I’ve noticed a problem with one of the WordPress sites I maintain.
Perhaps you’ve seen it: articles set to go live somehow miss the schedule.
You swear they should go live, and yet “Missed schedule” still manages to pop up in red screwing up your plans for a planned post.
When it started happening to me, I frantically checked the server time and found nothing wrong. I checked to see if there were any new plugins and nothing had been changed. And then, at last, I Googled, and the results I got were so different from what actually resolved my woes.
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WordPress: CityRail never looked so good…
Ok so after scabbing so many WordPress themes, I’m now going to try my hand at creating one of those nifty premium style themes.
It of course will be free, and probably poorly designed since I’m not a designer.
But here’s the first Photoshop piece of my first WordPress theme: “You Fool! You Crossed The Yellow Line!”
"You Fool! You Crossed The Yellow Line!" is technically the second CityRail theme I had planned… it's just the first to come out of my Photoshop session… There’s already a box under the two articles there that could essentially be used for a 4-5 square Flickr plugin and I’ll probably add a gum artwork or dirty ticket above the menu. The main section at the bottom should always be there according to this design, similar to how MNML works.
Some comments would be nice though, since I’m not a designer and this is my first real design.
In case anyone is wondering, the design of the station platform comes from how it looks at Bondi Junction (seriously, look down when you’re there) and while I took photos for inspiration, all of the textures and panels have been generated in Photoshop.
