WordPress Theme Contest

Hey everyone! I’ve been trying to put together a more official site for my web design services, but I don’t have a whole lot of sites I can show off right now. I am officially doing work part time for the time being, so it’s hard to me to do as much marketing as I really want. The plan is to start off real slow and ramp it up from there. I figured a great way to help out with this problem is to start doing some pro-bono work to get the ball rolling and show off my skills at the same time. I decided to turn to all of my friends on Plurk as the Plurk community is very good at helping each other out and giving back, unlike some other places *cough*Twitter*cough*.

So here are the rules:

• You must be on Plurk.
• It will be a WordPress theme. I can do just about anything, but for various reasons, I want to limit it to WordPress.
• The winner does not have to even keep a link back to me in the theme, but I would absolutely love it if you would.

I will keep the form for entry active for at least the next few days, so make sure you enter right away.

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Disclaimers: I am a pretty busy guy so it will take a little while for me, but I want you to have a completely custom theme. We will work together to make sure you have something you think is absolutely great.

CSS Techniques: Using Sliding Doors with Wordpress Navigation

Hack WordPress has a fantastic tutorial about how to implement the Sliding Doors technique with WordPress. It is one of those little things that can really breathe some life and a more organic feel to your blog.

CSS Techniques: Using Sliding Doors with Wordpress Navigation

New Look for BLM Coming Soon

Well, I’ve just have some testing to do later tonight on it, but hopefully by tomorrow I will have the new design for the site up. I did it completely from scratch, and I am sort of using it as a holdover theme. I have a really sweet design I have been sketching out but I don’t feel like starting on it quite yet, so I will let this other design be used for a while as I design the new one.

WordPress Theme Viewer (Finally) Updated

After what’s been months, the WordPress Theme Viewer has been updated to look and work just like the rest of WordPress.org. When I get some free time, I will go back and edit a few small things on my themes as they changed the guidelines for acceptance a little bit. Once the themes are ready, I will add mine to the viewer.

Excellent WordPress Starter Theme

WPCandy has a fantastic starter them available for download. If you are just starting, it’s much leaner so you can really see what WordPress is doing a little easier.

The WordPress Starter Theme Project

New Theme Release: Greybar Beta

I just released the beta for my new theme, Greybar. This one is very simple and very light. Once again, you can download it at the Themes page or at the bottom of this post. You can also take a look at the theme at the Theme Viewer.

Greybar

Theme Demo Site Live

I just put up a subsite where you can demo all of the themes I have for download here at blackleafmedia. There may still be a few bugs lying around, if you find any, just shoot me a message.

Scratcher Theme Updated!

I updated Scratcher to version 1. I added a top menu for your pages and a few other small changes.
Please let me know how you like it!

Scratcher

New Theme Release: Scratcher (Beta Release)

Here is a beta release of my newest theme: Scratcher. I still plan to work on this more but it is still in a very clean state right now, so it is easy to modify for your own use. These theme is released as is, and you may use in any way you see fit.

Scratcher

Upcoming Tutorials

There is plenty going on behind the scenes here at blackleafmedia.com. I’ve worked up some more WordPress tutorials, I just need to go back and edit them a little bit.

One tutorial I am really excited about is where I show you my workflow for working on WordPress themes. I am interested in seeing how other people go about it. I am pretty particular in my setup of my software, etc. There is always room to streamline any sort of workflow.