Written by Alex Denning, a Twitter fan who has finally got around to launching his own blog, Nometech.com!
Recently WordPress has had a huge popularity surge, with the rise of ‘magazine themes’. At the same time that WordPress’ popularity has soared, people have forgotten about what WP is all about: fundamentally, it is a blogging system. Trying to keep that in mind, I’m releasing my first WordPress theme, NomeBlog.
NomeBlog is as simple or as complicated as you’d like it to be; those of you who don’t have much experience coding or don’t want to edit your theme files, you can just install the theme and leave it at that. However, those of you who are into theme customization, you’re going to love NomeBlog! Why? I’ll run down some of the features:
- XHTML valid code
- Auto-image resizing
- Breadcrumbs
- Awesome jQuery navigation
- Widgetised sidebar
- Author info at the bottom of posts
- Related posts automatically displayed
- iPhone support
- ‘Login’ option displayed on the navbar to those logged in
- Customised default gravatar (+gravatar support)
- Support for WP-Pagenavi
- Sidebar blog
- Built in archive
- 125×125 ad ready
- Feedburner subscribe by email ready
- Homepage thumbnail support
NomeBlog prides itself in ease of use – I originally built the theme, or at least what I based NomeBlog on for one of my other sites, Nometet.com. Why did I build it? It was taking me too long just to post something on Nometet, resizing images, inserting custom fields; I needed something that did the hard work for me. The solution was to build the NomeBlog theme.
As I’ve already said, NomeBlog is as simple or as complicated as you’d like it to be, so I’ll quickly run through some of the more advanced features:
- phpthumb built in – the script that timthumb was built off, phpthumb is the image resizer to end all image resizers; it is great! Check out the getting started guide (link below) for details of how to use it in posts, alternatively, you can create the custom field ‘Image’ and on the homepage will be displayed a thumbnail of the image you’ve input.
- iPhone support – as I wrote here a short while ago, iPhone support is becoming increasingly a necessity. NomeBlog supports the iPhone through the use of the iWPhone plugin, which I’ve customized. You can download the customized version of the plugin (which looks great!) here.
- Customised default gravatar – fed up with random monsters and boring silhouettes being displayed next to Gravatar-less-comments? NomeBlog has built in support for your own customized Gravatar. Just upload your own image file (again, see the getting started guide) and you’re done.
It is hard to show off all the features briefly, so for the full, complete list of features and details on how to get started, check out my new blog, where there is a lengthy getting started guide. To keep updated, make sure you grab the Nometech RSS feed too!
And of course, you can view a live demo here or download the theme. It is free, but please keep the link back. Any comments would be appreciated.
Alex Denning
Alex Denning blogs about all things WordPress, including WordPress theme development and web design, over at WordPress Shout.
Nice, best post I found on the subject.
If you add code of a full page template using your code ...
best collection 
Does anyone have problem after updating? in my case, my Visitor map doesn't work well after updating >.< 
very nice theme, but what exactly means wp 2.7 ready? is it compatible with the newest version of wordpress? get ...
14 feature in theme looks quite interesting but yet have problem on SEO with some theme of Wordpress. 
Nicen themes, good work :) 
wow man this is an amazing themes. Thanks for sharing !!
Do you have a demo for a Beefed up version?
Cool theme.
I’m giving this theme a go. Thanks
@ViralWordPress – I think you’ve misunderstood what I was trying to say; it is all one theme, with all the features listed in the post available to you if you use it. I was trying to make the point the features are there if you want them, you’re just not obliged to use them. The demo is up at http://www.nometech.com/wp/
Seems good… Specially iPhone support..I love that
Not a bad looking theme, well done on the theme.
Nice theme….i`ll give it a try….
The theme looks nice,out of the box iphone support makes it even better.I feel all themes should support mobile versions out of the box.
Looks like an excellent theme – I’ll have to try it soon. Thanks for sharing!
I am also looking for a customizable theme. I will give it a try
Thanks for a great theme! This will be lots of fun to play with.
Wow, this theme is pretty cool. I have customized it for one of my sites and it was super easy to do. I especially love the iphone support. there are very few wordpress themes that provide this.
thanks!
Great theme I am going to give it a try