DE-BLOGGING a wordpress site?

Everyone is talking about deblogging a wordpress site to make it look more static. Has anyone heard of a theme that is already de-blogged?

 

Hi, It´s the first time I hear about that. De-Bloggin. Where did you get this information?
Just curious,..wordpress fan.

 

I'm using the gridlock theme (modified a little bit) at www.FadMarketing.com - It's meant to be "magazine-style" and I think they did a good job with it.

De-blogging another theme doesn't have to be too hard though. I did the home page (still slowly in development at http://dev.audioxposure.com without too much trouble, and I'm beyond clueless about php and wordpress themes lol). Can't remember that theme's name, but there's probably a link somewhere on it to the creator's page.

Goodluck if you give it a shot.

 

That does look more static, for sure. The blogroll and categories raise an eyebrow, but only because I run a couple blogs myself.

I like MistyLook 3.0, but it still looks "bloggish".

 

It wasn't called a blogroll in the original template. I changed that myself, b/c mine's meant to be a blog.

 

Ah gotcha, I'm so used to seeing it on the default wordpress templates

 

One of the "things to do" on my list is making a theme in a magazine style. I want to make it a bit like http://www.ausmag.de/ and hope to have it started this week.
I saw somewhere that the new release of wordpress is ideal for de-blogging but haven't tried it yet

 

Started with the layout of my deblogged theme. Will work on it futher tomorrow but thought I share my first layout

 

Its look really cool, am also favor of de-blogging. am always searching that type of wordpress themes which gives me a pleasure and many plugins.

 

Very nice, please keep us updated on how this one turns out.

 

I want to de-blog videogame-news.com too but I don't know where to start

Something like this http://www.ausmag.de/ (which I found in this thread!) would be great.

 

I use wordpress on all my sites and some of them are heavily deblogged

 

How do you do it?

Say I've designed a template, how do I make it work with wordpress?

 

Take a basic theme. Open up the files in notepad and look what is under the hood. Next slice up your design and make it a css and xhtml template. A way to do it is this http://www.duclaux.net/blog/how-to-...ecise-tutorial-with-illustrations/2006/02/08/
I do not use this as it positions everything absolute but it will give you an idea how to slice your phtoshop into xhtml and css. Next make sure to include the wordpress functions for content etc and use the style.css for a wordpress theme adjust the top part and insert your css and you are done.

An other good place to start is http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons#Designing_Your_WordPress_Site

 

Hitted enter to fast. Had an other resource for converting photoshop to css
http://joplan.com/digg/div_site/

 

Ok thanks. What about if my layout is in table format, can you still do it then?

 

Yes it is. What you need to do is make a simple style.css because that is the thing that wordpres looks for when calling a theme. Copy the top part of style.css from default theme and replace the name with your theme name.

Next what you need to do is insert the functions that call the content of wordpress at the places you want it to be. Like I said open the index.php file from your basic theme and look at what is going on there and copy the parts you want in your template.

 

Ok I thought it might be a case of copying the code from another theme.

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/626/untitledjs9.jpg

The plan is to have 3 categories for each of the columns on that page and pull the 5 most recent of each. So I will need to be using code from archive.php I guess?

 

Exactly what I was searching for. Deblogging means that the posts will not be like posts?

I want to build my sites with wordpress, de blogged. however, there is no way I can do this myself.

Do you know someone who is doing de-blogging Wordpress blogs?