iKrumdy Wordpress MU home page theme
I just recently completed a mu theme project for a customer over at scriptlance. The brief was to utilize the sort of ‘newzy’ feel of le monde blogs but keep the theme extremely clean cut. The result of this highly functional wordpress mu home page theme can be viewed at the iKrumdy demo.
As always I work the project to the exact specification of the customer and this one was particularly happy with the end result. As designers we always want to push the boundaries and even though this theme is entirely written in valid XHTML (gravatar.com however won’t validate at this point in time) and CSS and tested to be compatible with Internet Explorer 7 & 8, Firefox 3, Safari (latest), Opera (latest) there is still a lot I’d like to do with this theme.
The back end needs a lot of work at the moment it’s using a range of different plugins to get it all working and each plugin has it’s own installation procedures, admin menu etc. So if this wordpress mu theme were to really become something I’d have to integrate all of the plugins under the theme function.php and then use php includes. This would also involve tweaking the back end so all of the menus fall under one main menu to edit the theme.
Some ideas I had for it were:
- Fancy header menu with sub page menus on mouse over
- CSS style choice in admin menu
- Optional display of blog avatars instead of links in the new and active blogs section.
- Need to beautify the search results a bit.
Wordpress Mu is still in desperate need of some great home page themes that can provide great functionality and news like results but still retain the “sign up now” type feel that is requested by many in this community. I’ll solidify a few more of my ideas and then sit down to see what I can come up with by way of releasing a dyasonhat mu theme.
–Dyasonhat