I am looking around for a wordpress theme for another site, thinking it would be quicker to use a working one rather than redevelopeing my own.
Problem is it is hard to judge the quality of them without downloading and testing. And of course it takes time to find all the quirks. I also don’t like certain non-accessibility habits that some developers have: (eg: pale fonts you can hardly see, divs that break, hardcoded text, not picking up the data from the database for taglines etc).
So I though this post could be a log of little problems found to remind me why I did not go with a theme:
- andreas04: zipped file has images at top level, style expects images lower, i liked the two column sidebar, but: hardcoded text - the wait, what’s this thing, gallery does not fail gracefully if no images, tagline font too big and narrow, fixed title height - “breaks” if too much description.
- daisyraegemini: zipped file has images at top level, style expects images lower, hardcoded tagline and links, very pale text, cannot comment from main page
- treacle: breaks on single post in IE6 on XP home (will check Pro maybe ok there)
- default: pretty good but the tagline does not quite fit in the box in IE6, also no themeswitcher.