WordPress Themes
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@athhe404
WOAH! I most certainly did not intend that to feel like a slap it was said with a WINK ;) Sheesh! You misunderstood me completely. :( I apologize for any offense because none was intended, at all, at all. -
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@atthe404
I hope that means I’m back in your good graces because I was really confounded by your reaction. I meant no offense.@atthe404 and matteblack
If you want to dialog on themes and css all day and all night long, and even for days on end in this support thread – go for it!P.S. Maybe devblog, wank and sunburntkamel will join in too. ;)
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Didn’t mean to get off topic. I’m still just trying to grasp the lay of the land here. And navel gazing is always a hazard on the web. I’ll put some duct tape on it :)
What about widgets? When I read the promo page that sucked me in, I got this idea that I could choose from a gaggle of google-type gadgets. Was kinda disappointed to see a rather limited set of approved widgets. Are there plans to open it up and allow widget developers to get them approved easily? (If this is too off-thread, ignore me :)
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Did you know that we have a widget forum?
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum.php?id=5&pageThe widgets available to you are found here -> Presentation -> Themes
Did you also know that we have an off-topic forum for er… chat? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum.php?id=4&page
Lastly, did you know that the bloggers, volunteers and moderator here have no prior notice of which new widgets, gadgets, feature upgrades, etc. will be introduced next?
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@matteblack
You’re welcome :)@thesacredpath
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@tsp
Not to rub it in but I just went out into the glorious sunshine and drank a cuppa. :) -
Sounds great. I can’t complain about the weather. We’ve had a week of Indian Summer and it was great. We need the moisture.
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OT: I hear you on the moisture – I live on a forested island. But my bones and muscles wish I lived somewhere much hotter and drier. ;)
Enjoy your evening tsp. :) -
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I wonder how often casual bloggers want to tweak their CSS?
It depends on a number of variables; what they’re blogging about, how important their blog is to them, and how easy the site is to customise. As blog hosts go, wordpress.com is fairly restrictive in charging for CSS editing and giving no HTML access at all. As a result, it simply doesn’t occur to many new bloggers to wish for more customisation features: they haven’t been on any other hosts and they’re not aware it could even be possible to do more than change their header image or colour.
For what it’s worth, I think wordpress.com have deliberately kept such features to a minimum; partly to minimise the pressure on support but mainly in order to avoid the kind of horrors you see on myspace. They want clean, generic-looking blogs with clean, generic-sounding content. They may make a few dollars on the side from custom CSS but it’s never been pushed anything like as hard as something like domain mapping, because they really don’t want people to personalise their blogs too heavily. The same goes for the restrictions on widgets: they could add more, but some people don’t know when to stop piling stuff in their sidebars and that taints your brand. People do request widgets for popular sites like Last.fm and Twitter, but they are pushed in the direction of displaying RSS feeds from those sites instead. It’s less pressure on support (new widgets rarely display correctly in all themes) and it makes for a more tasteful sidebar.
This policy of not trusting your users to make their own aesthetic decisions works pretty well when it comes to attracting new users, because they are impressed by the site’s aura of professionalism and how smart all the blogs look. But I’d never keep a personal blog here because it’s sort of soulless. Yes, myspace is 90% hideous but at least their users are expressing themselves through their layouts, and I kind of like that.
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Someone here commented about switching to wordpress.org on your own domain. I have absolutely zero technical savvy. How hard is it to accomplish this task? Secondly, when you transition to your own domain, can you maintain your content and widgets when you do this?
thanks,
J.
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@jmorrow50
Please stop posting the same question into multiple threads. I typed my fingers off answering you in the first one. -
I answered your off-topic post in an no adsense advertising thread. This thread is about themes. Neither of the two threads you posted to pertain in the subject matter that you are posting about. Please go here and read my answer https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17352&page&replies=24#post-146588
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when I saw “100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes” first time
from http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes/
I sayed COOOOLLLLLLL :) and began to search topics about thems and this topic was most FULL clear THANKS!!!!!!!! why this topic not in FAQ?
after reading this I sayed cool :(
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