WordPress Twenty Fifteen Theme Wish List And Suggestions
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*I am not a good writer and I have a harder time turning my thoughts/ideas into text so expect errors and expect to be a bit confused by what I am trying to say sometimes, and please know that I am just giving positive suggestions for the future Twenty Fifteen theme, thank you. :)*
Hello,
I did not see any wish lists/suggestions/et cetera topics here at the WordPress.com forums for the future Twenty Fifteen theme (I did not do a tag search though ;) ), and so I am starting one; and anyone is welcome to share their wish list/suggestions/et cetera for the future WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme here as well.
I think that the annual default WordPress themes should always be general purpose/flexible/balanced/versatile/et cetera themes that a larger variety of people can use for various purposes instead of themes designed only for certain unique purposes like the Twenty Fourteen theme (a magazine theme I think), let the themes designed for certain unique purposes be made during the year like they normally are, but the annual default WordPress themes should be general purpose/flexible/balanced/versatile/et cetera in my opinion.
A theme can still fit these/those requirements and still be designed with some personality/uniqueness/et cetera for those who fear that such a theme would be too plain/boring.
Here is my Twenty Fifteen theme wish list/suggestions in no particular order (I will probably add more things to this list sometimes as I think of them in the future):
1. Please do not have the super small not very readable incorrect font bug/annoyance in the Visual Editor for the Twenty Fifteen theme, and please fix this problem in the current themes that have this problem.
A few examples of this bug/annoyance that I reported:
2. Please have proper responsiveness/image resizing for linked/hot-linked images and images in the Media Library in desktop, tablet, and mobile views so that images do not glitch and show up too wide or too narrow because most of the images that I use are linked images from Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons/Wikia/Flickr/et cetera and I rarely ever use/upload images to the Media Library.
An example of this bug/annoyance that I have reported:
3. Please have an option to show all meta(?) data (authors, tags, date, timestamps, categories, et cetera) for posts/pages/the home page/et cetera because too many themes are leaving out some of the meta(?) data such as the authors and timestamps; and I like to have all that data available and visible on the home page and directly on the posts/pages when possible.
4. Please make the body text font large enough and not too small, and please use a font with good readability for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
A few examples of a font size that is not too small and a font that is readable is the body text font and font size used for the official WordPress.com News blog/website and The Daily Post blog/website:
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/
5. Please have proper handling of longer links/URLs so that they do not glitch over/across the sidebar and theme.
An example of this bug that I reported:
6. Please do not use faded/foggy/light-colored/et cetera fonts and fading/fog/mist/whatever effects/affects for the Twenty Fifteen theme that/which makes things hard to see and read, and that make it seem like you are going blind and/or have an eye disease and/or that make it seem that your blog and/or text is turning into a ghost/spirit/mist/fog/whatever. :D
7. Please do not make the Title Headings font for posts/pages/et cetera too big for the Twenty Fifteen theme because people like me usually have long titles for my posts, and large Title Headings fonts make my titles waste a lot of space and it does not look very attractive in my opinion.
8. Please have a Blog Tagline option and have the Blog Tagline stay under/with the Blog Title even with a fixed header (which does not happen in the Twenty Fourteen theme), and please do not make the Blog Tagline font too small and too thin; and please do not put the Blog Title and Blog Tagline in the sidebar area(s) like in the Fictive theme.
9. Please do not make the Blog Title font too small or too big, and please have the Header sections on different lines so that the Blog Tagline, the Blog Title, the Header Image, the Menu, et cetera do not conflict/clash with each other because in the Twenty Thirteen theme the Blog Title and Blog Tagline conflicted/clashed with the Header Image area because they were on the same line; and maybe center them depending on how the theme is designed.
10. Please do not make the fonts for the other blog areas too small.
11. Please have proper handling of video embeds (YouTube, WordPress.tv, et cetera) so that double spacing is respected, and so that the embedded videos do not touch the body text.
An example of this bug that I reported:
12. Please do not make the main column width too narrow, which causes video embeds and images of certain sizes to show smaller than their normal size, and it creates more lines than necessary for people like me who often type longer sentences and titles.
An example of this annoyance that I reported:
13. Please have a no column, single column, two column option, and at least one footer option.
14. Please do not hide the widgets and/or menus like in the Tonal theme, and please have one or more sidebar options.
15. Please center the theme instead of having it left-aligned like the Twenty Fourteen theme.
A Twenty Fourteen theme review that mentions this and more:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-twentyfourteen-theme-a-flawed-beauty/
16. Please have some default Header Images available like previous default themes like Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven, but do not have them enabled on default so that people can decide if they want to use them or not.
17. Please do not make the widget areas too narrow like the Primary Sidebar on the Twenty Fourteen theme which is too narrow in my opinion, and please do not force a sidebar to be shown even when it is empty like on/with the Twenty Fourteen theme.
18. Please have an option for all the post/page formats, and templates (archives, contact form, blog roll/links, about page/Gravatar profile/authors page/whatever, et cetera).
19. Please have the Header Image area under the Blog Title and Blog Tagline but above the Menu, in Twenty Twelve the Header Image area was under the Menu, and that looked a bit strange to me and it somewhat clashed with the images that I put at the top of my posts/pages.
To be continued….
Thank you,
-John Jr
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Hello Pb2057,
You are welcome, and feel free to share your wish list and suggestions for the future Twenty Fifteen theme here. :)
Thank you for commenting.
-John Jr
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Please:
Keep offering option of slider post header for featured blog posts
Menu buttons that collapse should be an option. Many readers are not attuned to the visual icons to recognize it as a collapsible menu and to click on it to unfurl/open.Offer several free colour design options.
Kudos for suggestion on ensuring font is large enough ie. Hemingway, Syntax
Make sure the theme is free. Obvious but the number of free themes has drastically reduced with release of recent new themes.
A hazy film/finish over the photos is not desired. Not all readers understand to hover over the photos to “lift” the haze and see titles.
Please offer 2-3 font choice combinations. :)
Lest it is believed this will drain WP.com’s revenues: the more you democratize blogging, the more people will choose the add-in, fee-based enhancements if they want it. -
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Hello Maidiebike,
Thank you for sharing your suggestions for the future Twenty Fifteen theme, and for mentioning a few things that I forgot to add to my list ;) .
I agree with your suggestions, and I am glad that you shared them; and I hope that more people will join us in sharing their suggestions, and I hope that the WordPress theme developers see this topic. :)
-John Jr
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Hello Maidiebike,
No problem but I do think that your code is effecting/affecting how this topic looks, parts of this topic and my last post look messed up in my browser now, and so we will probably need a staff member to fix it/this for us. ;)
-John Jr
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Hello Maidiebike,
I added the modlook tag to this topic last night, and now the code problem has been fixed it seems.
I assume that someone fixed this for us and I assume that they wanted to remain anonymous since they did not post to let us know that it was fixed or that it was going to fixed or not, so I will respect their privacy, and I would like to thank the anonymous person or persons for fixing the code problem on this topic for us; and it would be nice to properly thank the person or persons if we knew who they were.
20. I think that it would be nice if at least one free color palette, background pattern, background, font (the default WordPress font, Open Sans(?)), font size adjustment within a certain range for all blog areas, snapshot, et cetera would be added to the Twenty Fifteen theme and all themes to encourage people to buy upgrades by giving us at least one free example of each thing available in the upgrades when possible.
-John Jr
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1. Multiple color palette choices on all themes would be a boon but I’m not requesting that. I could be wrong but I don’t believe that providing free color palette choices necessarily encourages all users too purchase a custom design upgrade. I think it may discourage some. I keep in mind the fact that the greatest source of income to WordPress.com flows from the purchase of upgrade subscriptions.
2. The size of the font on any site is irrelevant to me because I use keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease fonts on all sites in an instant. Unlike most older folks I don’t require BIG fonts at all and when I visit a blog with poster size fonts, which seem to be the new trend, I immediately decrease the size.
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Please do not hide the widgets and/or menus like in the Tonal theme, and please have one or more sidebar options.
It’s mobile use that’s exploding. I believe we can expect to see more responsive width themes, as well as, more themes with exactly those features, not fewer.
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Please have the Header Image area under the Blog Title and Blog Tagline but above the Menu, in Twenty Twelve the Header Image area was under the Menu, and that looked a bit strange to me and it somewhat clashed with the images that I put at the top of my posts/pages.
I disagree with that suggestion. I prefer the variety of menu location we have now and do not wish to see such standardization.
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7. Please do not make the Title Headings font for posts/pages/et cetera too big for the Twenty Fifteen theme because people like me usually have long titles for my posts, and large Title Headings fonts make my titles waste a lot of space and it does not look very attractive in my opinion.
8. Please have a Blog Tagline option and have the Blog Tagline stay under/with the Blog Title even with a fixed header (which does not happen in the Twenty Fourteen theme), and please do not make the Blog Tagline font too small and too thin; and please do not put the Blog Title and Blog Tagline in the sidebar area(s) like in the Fictive theme.
I agree with both of these suggestions.
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Hello Timethief,
1. To me the compromise is only one free item in each custom design area when possible which will be chosen by WordPress and not by the user because I know that more than that would probably hurt sales of upgrades for some people, but one free item in each chosen by WordPress when possible (for WordPress to decide) seems fair enough to me to give people a taste/example and to hopefully make them want to pay for more.
2. I think that a limited font size adjustment option should be available because I find fonts too small or too big in certain areas on certain themes too often, and being able to have limited control of the font size would be nice because I prefer a better balance instead of too big or too small; and the sizes available for free could be limited to encourage you to buy upgrades for more sizes.
3. I do not have a problem with responsive themes, I like them and think that all themes should be responsive, but I have a problem with not having an option to avoid hiding widget areas/sidebars; and I have a problem with Menu Buttons/Icons not having the option to show the name of each Button/Icon so that people know what the buttons are for because not everyone knows what each Icon/Button represents and most themes now do not have this option it seems.
4. I have no problem with having options for header image location, but I would not like having the header image forced into that only that location which is rarely used in most themes.
Thank you for joining this topic and for sharing some of your opinions Timethief, but I am also curious to know what you want to see in the future Twenty Fifteen theme? :)
-John Jr
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Page Layout Options
I’d like to see the option to change the layout of pages like what Genesis includes.
Any code for Twenty Fifteen yet?
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Hello Wpsitesdotnet,
Thank you for joining the topic, and for sharing that.
That is a good question, and I would like to know the current status of the future Twenty Fifteen theme as well; and it would be nice to hear about some features that will probably be included, and to see some concept images of what it might look like.
I have not heard anything about even a rough draft of it yet, and the only discussions of the future Twenty Fifteen theme that I have seen so far by some staff members on their blogs was from the end of last year and the beginning of this year; but I have not heard anything since then.
Here is one of them linked on the ThemeShaper blog:
Feel free to share any more things that you want to see and/or do not want to see in the future Twenty Fifteen theme. ;)
-John Jr
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