Blueprint - WordPress Theme Review
Published by David Potter on Sep.11, 2007
Overall Grade: C+
Theme Name: Blueprint Version: 1.0 Theme URI: http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/09/05/blueprint-wordpress-theme/ Description: A simple WordPress theme based on the Blueprint CSS Framework. Author: Joshua Sowin Author URI: http://www.fireandknowledge.org/ Widget-aware: Yes Shows tagline: Yes Shows counts: Yes Hierarchical categories: Yes
Things I like:
- Very clean look.
- Good contrast.
- Posts are separated from one another by horizontal lines and large titles so the eye is naturally drawn to the boundaries of each post.
- Comments are displayed distinctly.
- Category and archive counts are displayed by default.
- Lists are displayed with markers properly.
- Blogroll links in subcategories are displayed in a separate list.
- Sidebar is always displayed.
- Links to pages are displayed at the top.
Problems:
- The sidebar is too narrow - the calendar widget has most of the right column displayed off the sidebar.
- Comments are not displayed on pages even if that option is enabled for a page.
- Smilies provided by the Smilies Themer plugin are displayed with too much margin on the bottom and the right.
Things I don’t like:
- The sidebar widget is too narrow - the Category Cloud Widget can’t display very many categories on a single line (often only one).
- Blockquotes are indented with large double quotation marks to the left.
September 15th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll take your suggestions into consideration. I didn’t test it with the “smilies themer plugin” so it’s not suprising it needs a little tweaking, but that should be easy through CSS.
In the next version I’ll fix the comments on pages.