Introducing Pixelmess

So for the last few weeks, I've been working on a Wordpress theme (which is why there has been quite a lack of articles lately; for which I apologize). Since I made a Drupal theme last time, I thought it would be appropriate to develop a Wordpress theme this time. And so, a few weeks later, you have Pixelmess the brain child of Designmess. This is the very first Wordpress theme I have ever built, so things may be a bit glitchly at first, but hopefully you guys can help point those out and help me fix them.

How do I get it?

Once again, I am extending the offer of giving away this theme completely free to anyone who follows us on Twitter. That's right, for a limited time only anyone who follows us will be automatically direct messaged the theme download link.

If you were already following us on Twitter and want the theme: Just either shoot us a message via an @reply or a direct message, and we'll send you the theme right away. If you can't seem to get a hold of us, you can always use the contact form.

The Looks

Pixelmess is dark theme with a colorful bubble background. To be honest, its a bit hard to describe, so how about just taking a look at some screenshots or just trying out the theme live.

The Comments

The jQuery enchanced Portfolio

A Sample Post

I'm not really sure what the intended look of Pixelmess was. I suppose I simply wanted to try my hand at creating a Wordpress theme, and out came this modern, dark theme.

Features!

When building Pixelmess, I tried to incorporate many of the popular features that people were looking for in Wordpress themes. Below is a list that should cover most of them.

Installation and Usage

To make some of the functions work, follow these instructions to make sure everything gets set up properly.

First, upzip all the folder into your site's wp-content/themes folder. Then, go into your Wordpress dashboard and activate the theme.

Using the Thumbnails

The thumbnails function depends on custom fields. To activate this, go and create a new post. Inside of the post, you will see a custom field box. Create a new custom field named "Image" (without the quotation marks) and save. To use this field, upload the image to your wordpress site, and paste the URL as the value. Images will be resized automatically.

Custom Home Page

To set up your home page, first create a page and title it "Home". Then, select the Home Page Template from the Attributes section.

Now go into Settings > Reading and change the front page from Your Latest Posts to Static Front Page and choose the page you just created.

Using the Portfolio

To use the portfolio and the Quicksand Plugin, just create a category named "portfolio" (without the quotation marks). Then start adding posts into this category and they will automatically be integrated with the plugin.

How do I get it?

Once again, I am extending the offer of giving away this theme completely free to anyone who follows us on Twitter. That's right, for a limited time only anyone who follows us will be automatically direct messaged the theme download link.

This offer ends June 1st, 2010.