My Favorite WordPress Theme
Among a whole bunch of benefits of using WordPress as a blogging platform, not least of which is that the base software itself is totally free, one of the majors is the huge collection of design “themes” available, making it very easy for the non-designing blogger to fancy the visuals up (not to mention change it at will) with just a few clicks of the mouse. And these themes are, again, for the most part free, created and provided by the huge comunity of WordPress users out there.
So, with all my experience futzing around with WordPress and its themes, one question I get asked often enough is: Which theme is my favorite?
That’s simple. It’s Kubrick. Which also happens to be the default WordPress theme design. Something which you have no doubt seen and used already.
Which is pretty much the reason why its tops for me: Its clean and simple and easy to read, and its design and layout is so straightforward and ubiquitous, when people get to your site, they already know how to use it.
It’s obviously very popular (no doubt helped more strongly along by its WordPress default-ness), which unfortunately is also what ruins it for a lot of us who want a somewhat special or “unique” look.
On the other hand, I use it a lot for my private “work” or administrative sites, or even my public sites that I don’t have much time (or desire) to fiddle around with. It’s that solid and reliable, and as close to a “worry-free” blog design as it can probably get.
Even a very strong design and graphic-oriented site like ImageKind, for example, uses it for its blog. So no reason wny you can’t. Just set up your blog, choose Kubrick, then leave it alone and work on your writing and content.
I would however “tweak” it a bit to “make it yours,” so to speak. Some things you could do:
Change the header color. By default, it’s a lightish blue. This is one tweak that is so very easy to do, you can do it yourself even if you have limited experience.
Add a custom header logo. Like what ImageKind did. Personalizes the site a lot. If you have to read tips on how to customize a blog theme design, you most probably need to hire a graphic designer to do this.
Left-justify the body text. Actually, you don’t have to do this. But I have to. I hate fully justified text blocks on the computer screen. Passionately. But don’t worry; I won’t hold it against you if you couldn’t care less like most folks and leave the body text as is.
And that’s pretty much it! Oh, here’s another: For some reason, single post pages are formatted in a single column (the navigation column disappears… and this is on purpose). I usually change the source code to have the single post pages show the navigation column again. If you guys want me to share that code with you, let me know.
What the heck, since we’re on the subject, I may as well teach you how to futz around and tweak some of the formatting of your theme’s designs. Safely. Even if you have very limited to no experience at this sort of thing. I’ll write another post…
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