Having MUCH too much fun with theme rotation…

Actually though, I think every theme developer should play around with something like this. Because I’m starting to develop some very strong preferences for basic setups, such as:

1. always package up your theme in a directory so when I unzip it, it keeps everything tidy in it’s own directory, ‘k?
2. don’t make your sidebars (or other .php files) so weird I can’t drop in copies of my already tweaked sidebars in! (I found one theme that closed off a div before starting the sidebar div — which meant it didn’t play well with anyone else!)
3. make sure they use the right hooks and such…I found some that didn’t incorporate some of my auto-plugins (ones that didn’t need stuff added to files in the theme directories) — those went buh-bye though I liked them…

Note that the only mods I did to these themes was to ensure that they all had a theme handler in the side bar so that no one gets stuck in a theme with no exit. But in the longer run, I want to set them all up with soft links to the same sidebar.php file. I’ll also need to tweak some a bit for the category/technorati tags to come out right and such. But this is fun…

Okay, enough lunch time play…back to work!