The Sandbox theme recently added to WordPress is pleasant enough but the original themes developed by Scott Wallick from plaintxt.org are absolutely superb. Clean, white, minimalist, striking, understated and refreshingly different from the thousands of themes out there.
Maybe a fraction too late for Doug Burns (whose Blogger blog has been recently hijacked) but WordPress have just announced the availability of XML import/export utilities, primarily for switching between self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs but may also be useful for backing up your blog and facilitating other platform migrations. Tempting, very tempting
My mailbox is bulging with letters from recent and occasional visitors worried that they may have missed some WordPress themes in the recent blitzkrieg of posts during the ongoing and exciting Theme rotation policy. Worry ye not. I am meticulously capturing screen dumps of each theme in a Flickr photoset so the poll will be absolutely fair and equitable (and Regulus will win). The current theme is Banana Smoothie. I wonder if coffee enthusiast and cocktail maker, Jon Emmons, might be voting for this one.
WordPress has a total of 37 themes. I have recently fallen out with my long standing favourite and top scorer, Regulus 2.1.3, after he blatantly deceived me over the state of his CSS injury. Consequently, I will be implementing a rotation policy (with immediate effect) to give each squad member a fair and equitable chance to stake his claim (hand in glove). Then I will conduct a poll of all my loyal readers (both of them) to determine the winner. ...
Maybe Doug’s right. Perhaps WordPress isn’t a suitable blogging platform for serious technical Web journals (with 473 lines of 10046 trace) after all. The latest theme (Solipsus 1.5) announced for WordPress is described thus: Black & Brown design, inspired by Adult Swim of Cartoon Network. That’s all folks !