Well, above is sneak peek of my upcoming WordPress theme which is currently in the process. If everything goes well, I will be probably releasing it by next coming week. Main intention is to replaced Diana, but since the color scheme is different from the Diana, I am not too sure whether I should release it as another new theme and continue improve Diana along side, or totally replace Diana with this.
Features of the theme
- Usage of WordPress’s custom field (for the image in featured posts which will be auto rotating)
- Two types of theme (one for using as CMS and another one for blog)
- Support for several plugins out-of-the-box (lifestream, cforms, related/recent/popular posts and twitter-tools)
- Widgets support
- Dynamic Menu Highlighting (Unlike current Diana, only top level categories and pages will be displayed on the navigation)
- Support for Version 2.7 (I will be doing the development on 2.7 and will do cross-testing with 2.6 as well)
- No support for IE6 and below
I have some problems validating this new theme of mine with W3C markup validator. So far there is nothing wrong with the markups or anything, and I have triple checked it again and found no problem at all. Yet the validator keeps saying that there is a problem at line 106. It is a code for search form which is using the default WordPress search form setup. It seems like when W3C’s validator crawl the site, WordPress responses with some kind of variable making the validator to output error for that certain line.
This is the first time I am getting this kind of unknown error and problem with validator. So far it is the only validation error that this them is having. Talking of the theme, this is my new theme and it may looks a bit different in IE 7 and below (I have tested with IE8 and it works alright) due to some of the CSS markups I use. It works best with FireFox, Safari and Opera.
I am planning to release this them to the public, but it may have to wait until I have lots of time to clear the theme files and make it widget friendly.