ADS * PLUGINS * THEMES
Here are the screenshots after temporarily installing the “birdsite” theme with photos on the three most recent photos. The thumbnails are automatically displayed on the index top page by pointing to an uploaded image as a featured image.
Homepage:
Single post page:
Conclusion: We quite like the theme for its simplicity. The theme can be used as a base for further customization.
Since about 9 nine months or so, we have ventured into testing WordPress-specific themes and plugins. Most of our testings have been focused on self-hosted WordPress installs.
Some of our friends with blogs hosted by WordPress.com have requested if we can extend the same tests to their sites. Because we are very nice, ehem, 
, we created blogs at WordPress.com and here are some of them:
Working and WordPress-ing – Tutorials and other goodies
When on the road – Quick and dirty notes from a mobile phone
WORKPAPERS – Focused on accounting and business
One distinct advantage of using a standard blogging platform like WordPress is its facility to re-skin and change the looks of your site.
You can change the theme of your site without touching your database. In addition to making changes to the theme’s graphics and typography, all you need is to transfer or copy across your codes eg, analytics and other codes to call your plugins to the relevant templates.
Today, we did a quick re-skinning of our site. The free Excellent WordPress theme by BlogOhBlog was a natural choice for us. It took us about 2 hours to complete the job.
To avail of Excellence’s layout, we were able to install a new plugin to display 125×125 ads (more on this in our future updates) still making our site with its previous clutter-free look.
As usual, our friends at Compucentric had to make sure that our site documents checked out as XHTML valid by reviewing and modifying the theme’s framework codes.
We hope you enjoy our new theme.
Our friends at TEMPLATEROW.COM have called to let us know that they have completed first phase of their current work.
TEMPLATEROW.COM features some of the best (and free) WordPress themes around. Some have been XHTML validated with links to operational websites using the themes.
Some of the themes featured include Compositio, Copyblogger, Fervens, Blak Magik as well as those featured in the WordPress.org Extension directory.
