My first free WordPress theme
This is a features list for a new blog theme I'm designing for public
release. I'm writing it here so I remember to include all the features. For this project I'm returning to the idea that WordPress is all about
the blogging. While I believe it is an excellent CMS, this particular
theme design is a blog, not a content management system.
Where possible I'm using built-in WordPress functionality. In the
interest of saving time and money when I roll this out to a paying
client, I'm also going to use a bunch of stable plugins to achieve
certain effects.
I'm going to be using the Hybrid framework for these designs because it
is a very versatile blog framework (I don't think it is suitable for CMS
theming). It also has a very helpful support forum and a developer who
actually responds!
Features:
1. Control the pages displayed in the main navigation system of the
blog, editable via the dashboard.
2. Control the order of pages displayed in the main navigation system.
2. Allow multiple instances of widgets in sidebars AND footers.
3. Allow snippets of code to be added via a widget to strategic points
around the container.
4. Allow dashboard insertion of a Feedburner URL and Google Analytics
ID.
5. Display excerpts and thumbnails in posts and pages, creating archive
pages.
6. Modify meta tags on a post/page.
7. Use the WordPress 2.8 threaded comments functionality.
8. Display a Twitter stream.
9. Use a tabbed navigation system in sidebars.
10. Display and control banner ads in sidebars.
11. Include an XML sitemap.
12. Build a customizable XHTML sitemap.
