I’ve forked the FavePersonal theme to release a few changes that I’ve made to it for my own site.
- An improved Gallery feature, including support for WordPress shortcode galleries. If you’re uploading photos directly to your gallery post, you can use drag and drop to set the order for them now.
- The Post Formats admin UI is now responsive and works great on mobile devices.
- Remove the Social plugin from the theme (requested by WP.org) – it can still be installed separately.
- Make tons of misc. code changes to match new coding standards vs. previous coding standards (and pass the theme check).
I was originally hoping to have the modified theme hosted on WordPress.org but after weeks of waiting for review, they responded that features of the theme like choosing colors and post formats should be done in separate plugins instead. This makes no sense to me as these are core features of the theme, but happily there are great places like GitHub that will host the project for us.
The Personal theme is quite assuredly mobile-friendly, which makes it a great fit for the importance Google’s is placing on mobile-friendly sites lately.
You can download from the releases page on GitHub or, for you technically minded, grab the reop with git. Just make sure to also grab the submodules.
git clone git@github.com:alexkingorg/wp-personal.git
cd wp-personal
git submodule update --init --recursive
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Personal WordPress Theme
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Boy, you really gave up easy in that review. The idea of a review is to both give and take.
The reviewer is not wrong about the meta boxes, because when releasing a theme to others, making things compatible is important too.
The colors thing fits the nature of a theme, certainly, but the objection there is to the specific plugin code you used, not the specific idea behind it.
Maybe you could take reviews as legitimate criticism and then consider the other side of the fence as well. Just a thought.
Seems like a broken and unnecessarily adversarial process to me!
It’s not supposed to be adversarial, it’s a review. You work with the reviewer to improve the code. It’s a process, not a judgment.
Excellent, its time for an update to Personal from Favepersonal. By the way, all my custom mods work well. Also when I install Social as suggested I get the white screen of death and I have to go through PHPmyadmin and update the appropriate DB fields and revert back to i.e.. the default theme and then delete Social via FTP and then Personal is back to normal.
I also tried to install a previous stable version of Social, the one Favepersonal 1.5 came bundled with and Personal stills give the white screen of death. Perhaps, I’m missing something silly, more than likely, but I thought I’d pass it on to you since I couldn’t figure out how to leave the comment on github. Cheers and thanks for the fork.
I like your theme. The only thing I don’t like is the font, I would go with a custom Google Font. But hey, that’t the purpose of forking, innit?