Custom WordPress Theme Design

That’s right, I am overbooked again, and now I am booked up for quite a while. I won’t be starting any new projects for at least 30 days. If you have a project that needs to get started before then, and I haven’t already spoken to you about it, it would probably be best to look somewhere else for your WordPress development needs.

One of my new clients is Charlie Malouf, that might interest some readers of this blog.

I recently created this custom WordPress theme for a great guy across the pond named Mike who is in to tech and firefighting. One of the unique things about this theme is that we wanted to differentiate the tech and fire related posts so I created a different “post heading” depending on which category a post was in.

Mike and I are very happy with the results.

Although the majority of my time is spent creating new, original, custom WordPress themes that is not the only WordPress related work that I do. One service that I have been providing more and more often is what I like to call WordPress theme rescue.

Steve Kudela, who makes kick ass handmade bass guitars contracted another company to create him a WordPress theme, and it would be generous to say that they dropped the ball. They left him with a half finished theme full of mis-spellings and content that he didn’t want, a WordPress installation that he couldn’t access, and a overall bad taste in his mouth for web developers and WordPress.

That’s where I came in. I transfered his domain to my server, got his previous web-dev company to send me the files that they had of his, and I proceeded to rescue his failed WordPress project.

Keep in mind that I did not design this site, I just took it from a non-functional state that he was very un-happy with to a site that he is very pleased with. If you have a WP site that is in need of rescue I can do the same for you, just bounce on over to my contact page and tell me how I can help.

Over the past few years I have done literally hundreds of WordPress setups and installations, it’s one of the only things in life that I am positive that I am truly competent in…

So it should be no surprise that I provide it as a professional service - I can set up your WordPress installation for you for $99. I’ll get WP and the database setup, install a theme, setup the permalinks, and install what I consider the most appropriate plugins.

Turnkey WP installations done right for $99. For $45 more I’ll host your domain for a year.

Just a heads up - I am not starting any new custom Wordpress theme design projects for 30 days. I have unintentionally overbooked myself a little and the turn around time just increases…

So if you want a custom WordPress theme and and can wait 30 days, feel free to contact me. If you want to co-brand a creative commons Wordpress theme by all means get in touch.

But if you need a new theme by Tuesday, need Wordpress consulting right this minute, or any other service that puts my current time-line in jeopardy I’ll have to pass this time.

P.S. all baby gerts are lost…

Hey Now, if you are a current or potential custom WordPress theme client and you can’t get me on the phone it is because my damn palm treo has died! I am doing my best to get this cleared up, but until then feel free to call 229.299.4420 during normal east coast business hours.

That number is my skype line at the office and I’ll be happy to speak to you.

Update: cell phone is back in working condition - so feel free to call either number or head on over to the contact page.

The Smile Guy from over at Time for a Smile recently hired me to create him a fun, green, WordPress theme, and this was the result. I really like the way it turned out and so did Paul:

Thanks it is very nice and web 2.0ish. I like it a lot, you have been great to work with. I hope you enjoyed the project!

I did enjoy it Smile Guy, and you were great to work with as well.

If you find yourself working on a WordPress theme and come to the conclusion that you want to only show a WordPress page’s subpages ( a very CMS type of thing to do ) here is a little code that I wanted to share with you:

<?php

$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');

if ($children) { ?>

<ul>

<?php echo $children; ?>

</ul>

<?php } ?>

Cameron has taken has one of my free themes as modded it to suit his needs and he did the right thing - he credited me for the original design and he released his version to the public

Was: JTk - Right Sidebar Mod is a modified version of the Was: JTk theme by JTk and Doc5. The theme has been modified to have the sidebar on the right instead of the left. It is my first publicly available theme modification.

You can get the the original here - and if you are interested there will be a 1.5 version of this theme release later this month.

I’ve made a couple of slight improvements to the Independence Day WordPress theme and have decided to call it version 1.5.