I want to have three different wordpress themes made. These will be submitted to wordpress directories and available on a website so bloggers can use them at no cost. So, I want them to be good enough so people will decide to use them. The themes should have a good layout/look and feel, usability and room for ads.
Here's a list of what can help make a good theme:
1. Hooks for the wp plugins
[login to view URL] files:
[login to view URL]: the homepage template
[login to view URL]: the template for single posts
[login to view URL]: the template for pages
[login to view URL]: the template for category indexes
[login to view URL]: the author template, used when someone wants to find all posts by a certain author
[login to view URL]: the date template, used when someone tries to look at for instance a certain month of posts on your blog
[login to view URL]: this template is used when either
[login to view URL],
[login to view URL] or [login to view URL] isn't there.
[login to view URL]: used when someone searches on your blog, a very important template to look at if you're concerned about usability, and whether people are able to find posts on your blog.
[login to view URL]: Used when WordPress can't find a certain post or page, this is a very important template file to have!
3. Supports widgets in sidebars.
4. has a search box built in
5. works in all browsers
6. valid html code
7. handle pages
8. supports trackbacks
This may turn into a ongoing project depending on how succesful these three turn out.