I’m currently wrapping up production on version 2.0 of the Cutline Mod theme. That being my first public theme release, I’ve learned a lot; namely that what you do with your theme and what everyone else does are completely different. That small fact brought out a lot of style issues in the theme.
While I owe my inspiration for that theme to Chris Pearson and his Cutline Theme, I’m completely revamping the new version from the ground up. I think everyone is really going to like this one, and I’ve really spared nothing in the process of ensuring that every single line of code functions flawlessly not only across browsers, but also regardless of how you use it.
Every little detail of this theme is going to be well planned and executed. I’ve even thrown in a bit of javascript here and there to spice things up a bit, but I’ve also made sure that the theme functions properly whether the user has javascript enabled or not. I’ve really gone into some depths that aren’t even explored in the Wordpress developer docs for this thing and have had to reverse engineer certain portions of Wordpress to figure out how to accomplish some of the features I thought this theme should have.
Seeing as how it’s going to be related to its older brother in appearance only, I’m thinking it’s time to break from the Cutline naming convention. Any ideas on the new name? Of course I guess you’d have to see it first.
Expect the release within a month.
4 responses so far ↓
1 James // May 26, 2008 at 9:59 am
This is a great looking template. When do you think version 2.0 will be ready?
2 Bolano // Jun 27, 2008 at 3:19 am
I like the random header images, but what if I want some pages to display a specific image? I’ve been hacking the code without any luck.
3 Graeme Sutherland // Aug 1, 2008 at 9:54 am
Bring it on John…
Loving the look and feel - very web 2.0 :o)
But completion will be… when?!
4 John Crenshaw // Aug 28, 2008 at 1:42 am
Hey Graeme,
The new version is out, check out http://wordpresshacker.com/themes/ …I’ve renamed it This Just In!
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