More Blogging Please!
One day you are happily blogging away and then suddenly it hits you…an idea…the big idea… and it goes something like this…
“Hey I cant find a WordPress theme that does just what I want…you know what.. I think I’ll design my own!”
and then after you’ve finished creating your theme you get the second brilliant idea… and it goes something like this…
“Wow my WordPress theme is pretty cool now, and seeing as everyone is asking to get their hands on it, I’ll release it to the world!”
For many WordPress Theme designers this is the kiss of death for their actual blogging. The writing gets put on hold while theme designing grows into a magnificent obsession. I have not been immune to this. Alas and alack, I too have been caught up in the cloistered codexed world of theme-ing and diminished my word output!
No more I say… time to start blogging again. So having given my blog a freshen up with my latest Heatmap Child Theme we’re off again into the realm where only words can take us… until at least the time comes when I get obsessed with the next theme update again. 
HeatMap Ads Theme – 10 Days later
I have to confess something. I have an obsessive compulsive checking problem. I have to check everything. Especially locks. I like them to be locked. All of them. It’s quite annoying. Disaster usually occurs if I don’t check things (especially blog posts). For some reason typos seem to bypass my checking filter. No matter how much I look I don’t always seem to see. I believe it has something to do with seeing what I expect to see rather than what’s really there. Imagination is a wonderful thing.
Fortunately when it comes to HeatMap Theme, this checking compulsion does seem to be working though, and working rather well. The quality control department in my brain is giving itself a pat on the back of the synapses. I do check new HeatMap Theme stuff on a least three different blogs before I release it to you, dear HeatMapster (yes I now have invented a new word for HeatMap Theme users).
Read more dear HeatMapster…
What madness makes an Ads Theme?
What madness drives a person to create a WordPress Adsense Theme? To create a new one totally from scratch for public release is an undertaking not for the faint hearted or the time poor. I guess thats why out of the multi-millions of WP users there are only (at the time of writing) 900 free GPL themes on the directory. That may sound like a lot, but when you go looking for ‘just the right blog theme’ you soon find that there isn’t quite the amount of choice that you imagined.
Yes, in most cases themes need to be prodded, poked and modded into something that resembles the thing you were imagining in the first place.
Enough already with the prodding…find out more…
12 hours in the life of an Ads Theme
Like a cat our the proverbial Harry Houdini bag, HeatMap Ads Theme 2.1 was released onto the WP Theme directory. At the time of writing around 340 WP’ers have downloaded it, and from my referrer stats I can see lots of you have actually installed it, and some of you are even giving it a bit of a makeover with your own logos. Looking good people!
Find out more about the first few hours of HeatMap Theme’s life…
