The Standard Theme Preview – Sign Up for BETA!
There she is. (Note, pretty much everything you see is customizable via admin panel).
Or, at least a look at the single post page. Like I said in a previous post about the Standard Theme, it would never win a beauty contest…!
But, that’s not the point.
I’ve spent 90% of my time over the last 3 months strictly on making it the best coded Wordpress Theme that you’ll ever use. You see, my goal was to create an amazing platform of code that could be taken complete advantage of when you start designing around it.
In addition, this theme has been a labor of intense study and research of what makes blogs “successful” in the industry (you’ll hear more about this when it releases). In other words, it’s built with industry standards in mind.
Finally, the focus has always been content and this theme maintains that core interest in mind. The “style” can always come later!
It’s CSS/XHTML validated, cross-browser tested, uses many of the the fantastic and new Wordpress 2.9.1 codebase/features/functionalities, and has an amazing (yet simple) Admin Panel that’ll add features like Retweet buttons, SEO-rich breadcrumbs (besides some serious SEO-optimized coding built-in, see screenshot below), a host of social networking options, the new asynchronous Google Analytics code built-in, and a number of strategic widgetized options.
100% semantic code and development techniques with clean, readable, and consistent syntax (seriously, how many themes are a mess when it comes to how their code looks…!).
That’s not even mentioning all the fine-tuning and small tweaks that make this theme really run like a Ferrari; minified CSS for maximum speed and load (but with a template for customizing your theme easily – custom.css), cookie-based comments that pull automatically the visitors gravatar when they return (makes commenting super easy!), threaded comments, built-in pagination (no plugins required!), and more.
And, finally, I’ve commented nearly every piece of code (that you’d actually care about, like above). In addition to my hopes of creating a neat community around it, we’ll help you customize it even more and add your own styles to build something a little more “pretty” on top of the amazing platform of code.
I honestly couldn’t be more excited; I’ve never put this much time, effort, and research into a theme, and I’m excited for people to start trying it out.
If you’re interested, we’ll be sending out copies of the BETA in 10 days. If you’re interested, you can sign up here.
More info to certainly follow. I’m pumped.
Looks great so far John. I look forward to playing with it and looking at the code when it's released.
How will theming work? Like child themes?
For right now it'll be using a custom.css file.
John
awaiting beta invite
I have asked to be signed up, lets see. If I am lucky I will give the beta a go – I am still learning (funny how that never stops)
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Does The Standard Theme feature function hooks to allow for customization beyond custom.css?
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not for the first release, but we can create them easily. My hope is that this theme is dead-simple to use and manipulate for the MAJORITY of the population. This could be a great theme for power users to start and let them build on top, of course.
Looking forward to it !
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I really like the look of this John…once you release it I may use it on http://TheCreativePenguin.com. It has a very nice look that I think would be great for the site.
Sure! You might need to add some style on top of it…
BTW, love what you're doing on your blog!
Thanks John! I think it would look great – could I add a custom background image?
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of course, you could customize a lot of it.
I'm getting kinda tired of WooThemes Premium News – so I'm excited for this release! The advertising space is a great touch.
Looks great John!
Congrats, John. It looks amazing.
Without a doubt, my blog theme will be switching very soon.
Thanks John
Lookin good! The concepts remind me of the Swift Theme (The one my site uses)
I signed up for beta, I'm always open to something new!
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I'm digging it as well. Thanks for the update.
sure!
Definitely like its looks and would like to give it a spin to consider it for use in my own blog, which is need of a new look–what're we talking in terms of price come public launch?
Still thinking about the pricing but it'll probably be cheaper then many other options out there.
I like it–would love to give it a test run and would consider it for my blog, which needs a new look.
Hey John, I like the nice clean look. I am stoked to try it out in beta! — David
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Ugh, sorry for the double post–wasn't sure my first went through because I fat-fingered the backspace key accidentally.
Wow, looks great, John. I'm excited to try it out.
I think it looks great. I would've signed up for the beta but my commentary would look something like….
yep, it's awesome!
Does it support child theming?
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Just signed up to beta test. I can’t wait to see what this theme can do!
Love hearing about new frameworks to build off of. Quality is key, hoping that this is something that we can add to our base themes that we build from.
You're my wordpress hero…!
(looks great..! I remember when you woke up at like 3 in the morning and worked on the code for this when you were staying at my house!!! #Geek )