zen-dreams

Well, You may have seen with my series of Extreme Makeover Wordpress Edition, I’ve been working a lot on my new theme here.

Now you can see the result !

First of all, I wanted a cleaner theme, lighter and with clear content. Yes, my purpose here was to give more focus on the content so that you stay and read the blog, not only go on the zdmultilang page to do some comments on what’s not working ;)

I also wanted to include some new features like threaded comments, more spread the love stuff, you will also see my twitter feed on the right sidebar.

The archive page has also been worked a lot on so that you can find your way inside the blog easily.

But more important than all the other reasons why you should like the new design is, I do LOVE it ! Now I want to blog more here simply because I’m not finding my own blog to be ugly and messy ;)

By the way, leave comments, I don’t eat people and actually, I’m quite a nice guy !

Technical details

So, for those who wants to hear more of the technical details, this theme is not using any wordpress framework appart from the 960 gs css grid. jQuery is used for all the visual effects, I chose to use jQuery as it’s probably the most powerfull javascript lib.

Here is a list of the files I’m overriding :

• 404.php
• archive.php
• archives.php
• comments.php
• comments-popup.php
• footer.php
• functions.php
• header.php
• index.php
• page.php
• search.php
• sidebar-archives.php
• sidebar-left.php
• sidebar-right.php
• single.php

The theme has also it’s own defined widget and functions. One of the most important one is the one I made to display the monthly archives.

[Photo credit] – Gaetan Lee