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[00goddess]

I am beating my head against the wall trying to find an appropriate WP theme for my personal site. The only reason I am not turning back to TP at this point is that I found it very difficult to deal with, and I couldn't even begin to figure it out

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Just throwing some stuff I found out there really quick

[foxfirefey]

Are there any blog oriented themes that have what you want? There are guides out there for tweaking WordPress themes into something more CMS. Another guide.

CMS tagged themes on WordPress Themes

Fold page list -- might help for the dynamic menu you wanted

Wordpress hacks for CMSing

How to get a rotating header image

Re: Just throwing some stuff I found out there really quick

[00goddess]

Not really, no. I want something that looks like a web page rather than a blog.

Both of those guides are outdated, unfortunately- WP now has a static front page option built in. The problem is that all of the themes out there essentially look like blogs. Pixelate comes closest to what I want, but after wrestling with it for a while I was overcome with annoyance and gave it up. It's just too unwieldy.

Thanks for the fold page list, that looks cool. :)

Re: Just throwing some stuff I found out there really quick

[foxfirefey]

What was the stuff wrong with Pixelate? Maybe it could be tweaked or fixed!

[branchandroot]

Have you considered making your own theme? I don't know how much experience you have with CSS, but I've found that using the default theme as a base, and tweaking the sidebar components, I can get pretty much any layout options I want. I'm a little too overloaded to offer to do the design work myself, but I can offer some tips if you decide to go that route.

[00goddess]

I have almost no experience with CSS. My only experience comes from small tweaks to the Hemingway Pearl theme, which I am using on one of my websites. CSS is still a foreign language to me :/

I would love to see the future of WP design become something like Canvas was: something essentially modular that you could arrange how you want.

I'm open to any tips you have to offer :)

[branchandroot]

*thoughtful* Well, CSS isn't all that hard, once you have the html code you want to style in place. I think what we would need to start with is your navigation system. Do you want to only have the pages linked, internally, to each other, or do you want to have some kind of top-bar or side-bar that's linked to a) everything or b) some indexes? From what you say, it sounds like maybe you want some index pages for different sub-sections of the site, and have the side/top-bar link to those? I think we can get what you want; it all depends on how you want your visitors to navigate the site.

[00goddess]

What I want is something similar to what a friend of mine has. Her site is http://opalcat.com/. I don't want it to look like hers, obviously, because that's her thing. But I would like it to have a blog, and a considerable amount of pages. I would like the front page to show an excerpt from the blog, but also be able to show an excerpt from the most recently added page, another selected page, space for photos and ads, etc.