Ported my old geek blog’s theme to Wordpress
If you read this blog on the web, you may have noticed that the whole site looks different. I’ve never been too fond of the default Wordpress theme, and didn’t like any of the other Wordpress themes that I’ve seen, enough to use them.
I did always like the theme I had on my old Blogger geek blog, but that theme was not available for Wordpress. The theme is called “Rounders 3″, originally designed by Douglas Bowman.
So, I hacked apart a page from my old geek blog, and did some reading about Wordpress theme development (see links section below), and worked on building a Wordpress theme based my old geek blog’s theme. Today, I decided to go ahead and switch this blog to use that newly-ported theme.
Here are two screenshots, for comparison:
![spugbrap’s blog (old theme - default wordpress) [small]](http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/spugbrap_blog_theme_default.png)
![spugbrap’s blog (new theme - ported from Blogger to Wordpress) [small]](http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/spugbrap_blog_theme_blogger.png)
Useful Links:
Theme Development « WordPress Codex
How-To: Create a Wordpress Theme in 5 minutes
Feedback:
What do you think of the new look? Please feel free to leave a reply, below! Also, if you run across any broken links, unreadable fonts, missing images, alignment problems, etc., please let me know. Thanks!
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September 25th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I don’t really have one, except that the sidebar seems to have gratuitous use of underlining EVERY link.. and also, as I type this comment, my typing extends into the sidebar and I can’t see everything I type….
September 26th, 2007 at 9:29 am
ClintJCL:
Thanks for pointing out the comment textarea problem. I’ve fixed that, now.
As for the underlined links, the original “Rounders 3″ template was like that, as well, but I agree that it’s kind of excessive. I will look into changing the link styles in the near future.
I also reduced the number of Recent Posts and Recent Comments in the sidebar, removed a redundant “About Me” link, and condensed the Categories and Archives sidebar sections into select boxes, since they were both taking up WAY too much space.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I like this look, it’s clean, yet colorful. I do agree with Clint that removing the underlines from the links would look nicer. It’s an easy addition to your CSS for A tags:
text-decoration:none;
Should do it. : )
December 1st, 2007 at 1:30 am
@Ryan Somma:
Thanks for the tip, Ryan. I made an initial attempt at removing the underline from the sidebar links, after reading your comment a few weeks ago. I never got around to finishing it. If you look at the sidebar, though, you can see that the bottom sections are no longer underlined. I think the top ones needed a little more effort, because they are displayed in a totally different manner behind the scenes.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I’m interested in porting my blogspot blog over to WP and I would love to get a copy of the template you hacked together… contact me and if the price is right I would be willing to BUY it.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:20 am
David, please help me to implement this design for my blog, which is the more I like and so far only found it here … Would you tell me how to use this design or template in my Wordpress Blog? Can you help me? Thank you. Greetings from Mexico.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Hello! You have no idea how hard I have been looking for a theme with rounded boxes like this. I’m new to WordPress, but I just love the clean style this has.
I was wondering if you would be willing to make the theme available if I promise fervently to fully credit and link you? :) Of course I’ll change the colors, header, and other bits … but the little rounded parts make me happy. :) Many thanks!
October 27th, 2008 at 10:40 am
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