Custom WordPress Theme Design

In one of the more interesting WordPress jobs that I’ve even been involved in we created a custom WordPress theme for Inga for her new blog about “dress up games” - (Thinking) About Dress Up Games.

I had no idea that these little web games are so popular but there are hundreds ( thousands? ) of these games out there and Inga has had her other dress up games sites for a decade.

This project was a sucsess for a number of reasons, but first and for most Inga was very happy with the process and the final result.

This is just a heads up for anyone who might develop a WordPress theme - lets say that you have an excellent new WordPress theme and every one loves it and the client is happy and everything is fantastic, however the comments are not working.

You make sure that the installation of WP is not the trouble, you try the theme on a different domain, get the default copy of comments.php, a version of index.php that works, and nothing is fixing the problem.

The problem is that when someone tries to submit a comment they get a 404 page and the url is a big long string of variables, paths, etc.

Well, if you ever experience this problem, you probably have a form above the comments form that is not closed.

If you have this problem and find this blog post then you will probably solve your problem an hour faster then I solved mine. Lessoned learned? When something is not working, validate….

Hey Now, just a quick post to say that Bryan over at Keep Green Going has gone live with the custom WordPress theme that I created for him. Bryan is a terrific guy and this looks like it is going to be a kick ass site - great to see people like Bryan using WordPress for such a good cause.

If you would like to discuss having me create a custom WordPress theme for you, just click on over to the contact page and let me know what you are thinking about.