Comments on: 3-column, Widget-ready Pressrow

By: billbennettnz

billbennettnz — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:28:59 +0000

Funny, I’ve spent the last few days struggling with very similar problems. There is a self-hosted version of the wordpress.com theme I use, but the theme doesn’t allow certain features I consider essential. And the widgets that are supposed to fill the gaps don’t work as advertised.

Diving into to the CSS and .php code is do-able in theory, but is much too time consuming. I lost most of the week-end learning the tools all over again. I was determined to do it myself, at least this time, so I know what I’m talking about when I get someone else to do the job later. But there are other time pressures, so… who knows.

But it’s so good to hear I’m not the only person going through this.

By: freelanceunbound

freelanceunbound — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:18:28 +0000

Hmm: “Adapt the CSS”. You say that as if it would be easy…

Yes – it’s a bit of a toss-up. But I would have to do a lot of CSS work to get an existing three-column theme to look right. This way has been more challenging but less actual work. Also, I want to learn PHP – so this is a good project to get into it.

By: Soilman

Soilman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:12:25 +0000

Simon, why not just get yourself an oven-ready theme that does work in WP 2.8 (I assume you’re working in that now) and then adapt the CSS and replace some of the elements?

A lot easier than playing around with code…