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Coding, WordPress development

Trying to create my own wordpress theme

As the title says, I’m gonna try to create my own theme for WordPress 🙂 And I almost broke it the first thing… Oh well hopefully I won’t break it anymore then.

I’m not messing with a live blog, I’m experimenting locally, on a test installation of the latest version: 2.7 RC1.

If the theme comes out decent, I might share it with anyone interested.

I do this mainly for two reasons:

  1. I want a new look on this blog but just couldn’t find a theme I like better then the one I have now. There’s a lot very nice themes out there, all just seemed to have something to them that didn’t really appeal to me when I was looking around the other day. Often it was just a very small part of the theme. I could of course have used one of them and just tweaked it, but chose not to.
  2. I figured it would be nice to learn how WordPress is built up. And for sure one way of doing it is messing with it in some way. Themes seem to be a good and rather safe place to start. 🙂

The only problem with this is that I kind of suck at creating graphics… But I guess I’ll learn that as well, if that is possible 😀

General

Right now I hate snow

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There’s been some snow falling down lately…

More or less all day yesterday while I was at work, wet snow came falling as the temperature was just around freezing point. Temp varied between -1 and +2 degrees Celsius. When I went for home they hadn’t done a very good job ploughing the roads so they were a bit slippery 🙁 Over all though I got good winter tyres on my car so it wasn’t too bad, though speed was a bit under the limit for part of the road.

The snow kept coming during the night as well, and has done so this morning as well. So today I got a bit of snow to shovel 🙁

Had it been the light “dry” kind it would have been fairly easy though, but of course it is the heavy wet kind of snow. I’ve so far done half our drive way, I had to take a small break and get me something to drink. Now this might sound as though I’m a bit lazy, and well maybe I am, but we got a rather large drive way. I think we can fit eight or even nine cars on our drive way, though all can’t get out without others moving first…

I was gonna take a pic but the battery in the camera was dead, might post a pic of Swedish winter later on 🙂