A little Structure for your WordPress Powered Blog
It’s not often that I come across a WordPress theme that I almost instantly fall in love with. It’s even less common when that theme claims to be a “Magazine Style” theme, but when I downloaded the Structure theme from Justin Tadlock, I was hooked from the get-go.
Let me say right off the bat that this is not a theme designed for people who just want a drag and drop experience. To get the full power of this theme working on your WordPress install, you’e going to have some theme tweaking to do. If you’re comfortable making some simple modifications to theme files, you’ll have little trouble getting this theme humming like no other you’ve ever seen.
The primary advantage of this theme is flexibility. Nearly every single aspect of layout can be modified to suit the site owner’s needs without any major modification. All three of the columns on the home page are widgetized, allowing for infinite layout possibilities either by hard coding or just by moving widgets around. Default theme sections are available as widgets as well, so no functionality is lost in the process.
The only downside to the theme that I can see is that it is not GPL’ed, though the license does allow for customizations and use on any type of site you can imagine. All the author asks is that the credit link remain intact.
If you’re looking for the future of WordPress theming, you’ll find it in Structure.
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I relaunched my blog this month and used the Structured theme as a starting point for the design. It is true that it takes some work, but the theme is excellent indeed!
Hahaha when i first started to do the coding i was looking a huge code of spaggeti…. :P But when i learned in the end after some while what every code was it was fun,and i started making a lot of changes for every site i had.My friend had a blog and wanted to do changes…Anyway it was fun and the finish was a dream coming true because i had something just the way i wanted it.
Is there a guide to installing this anywhere?
There’s a n installation guide at the theme’s host stie. Just follow the link in the post
With so many themes to choose from finding the right one is a problem, thanks for pointing me in the right direction