Okay, everyone quit snickering…. I know this is the default theme. Rather than try to ‘fix’ my old theme and all of the custom code that I had put in there, I decided to scrap it altogether. So just put up with me for a while as I build my first theme for WordPress. I’m going to keep this ugly theme to motivate myself to get the theme done and out there quicker. I started on it last night!
Douglas Karr is the founder of the Martech Zone and recognized expert on digital transformation. Doug is a Keynote and Marketing Public Speaker. He's the VP and cofounder of Highbridge, a firm specializing in assisting enterprise companies to digitally transform and maximize their technology investment utilizing Salesforce technologies. He's developed digital marketing and product strategies for Dell Technologies, GoDaddy, Salesforce, Webtrends, and SmartFOCUS. Douglas is also the author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies and co-author of The Better Business Book.
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Good luck. Everything went well for me, but I was waiting for the crash. I’m always suspicious something is going to go horribly wrong when I update WordPress, but so far it never has.
It happens [or] I know what that’s like. Good luck and enjoy this opportunity to reinvent your look and feel.
Great post title 🙂 Image links were a bit buggy after my WordPress upgrade, but otherwise it’s pretty slick.
I trust your new theme will look slickmatic!
Good luck Doug. I’ve been putting off upgrading to WordPress 2.1 because I’m worried about suffering the same fate.
I’ve done quite a few WordPress themes in the past, so feel free to give me a shout if you need any help with it.
Hi Doug,
I think your “default” theme looks great! It doesn’t look as bad as you imagine. And I think you’ve just proven that even the “default” theme can look good with just some tweaking.
But, having a customized theme create an identity – that’s what blogging is about and we all need to have an unique looking blog that we can really show off to the world!
I look forward to seeing your new theme.
I assume you mean tobacco, I quit 30 years ago accept for an occassional cigar, but I do not inhale
Wow – awesome support. Thanks everyone! I do actually like the simplicity of this theme. I’m going to see if I can incorporate some of the simplicity into my theme – my last one was a wee bit busy!
Wow! This is one beautiful WordPress theme you have running!!! What is it called? 🙂
Oh snickering not smokings, I also quit snickers bars as well
I fully understand. I my new site I was ready to go until I broke my theme as well. A little tinkering made things worse. I had to rebuild it. All while my previous – non blogging – site was down. Basically, I was almost a month without a website. And I’m a web business developer.
Oh man! I was just punked by John Chow! Ouch!!!
I find this much cleaner than the old one. Hope you’re cooking something clean and elegant.