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  • mentalelf

    (@mentalelf)


    I’ve just created a new theme for my site, & was wondering if there are any guides anywhere on comprehensively testing it?

    I’ve done some sample posts with everything I can think of, headers, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, tables, media, lists, & so on, but as it’s my first (re)theme I can’t help but wonder if I’ve missed anything that’s built in to the standard wordpress build. It’s self-hosted, so I’ve tested the styling of the plugins I’ve installed.

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    you are aware of the wordpress checklist for themes?

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist

    and the sample test file?

    http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/test-data.2008-12-22.xml

    Thread Starter mentalelf

    (@mentalelf)

    Ah, no & no, thankyou, I’d looked around for theme testing for a while but had just found a few hundred mentions of the theme testing plugin & practically no other useful information. I suppose I wasn’t asking google the right questions…

    Will run through both of those later, I’ve been theming the damn thing all day & am starting to see vi windows when I shut my eyes.

    You obviously know this a lot better than me. Are there any other similar resources that are useful to someone who’s new to WordPress theming & re-theming? Or any basic template themes that are a good place to start with re-theming rather than just finding a free one that may or may not be great to start with?

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