Title: First WordPress theme
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# First WordPress theme

 *  [pylorns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pylorns/)
 * (@pylorns)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-wordpress-theme/)
 * What do you think of this: [http://www.settlement2hoa.org](http://www.settlement2hoa.org)

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 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-wordpress-theme/#post-602997)
 * Good job. Some feedback, suggestions now. I really like the graphical horizontal
   nav with the mouseover that colors the button on hover. The footer seems unfinished(
   just small text in a big box).
 * There are some default-ish wordpressy things that I think are totally unnecessary(
   clutter) for a business type of site where the users care about the company/site/
   info and probably do not care about the “blog-looking” stuff: the “meta” section
   in the sidebar, I always remove and change that. People don’t know what meta 
   means, and the various links under it seem like an odd collection to me, that
   I think most users ignore. Move the WP credit to your footer, and put a better-
   looking link or RSS graphic for your primary RSS link — higher in the sidebar
   if you think your users will use it, or just remove it if they won’t (or if you
   want them to use the Yahoo widget instead). I doubt anyone needs the Comments
   RSS so remove that.
 * On your single-post and category archives, there is this:
    “Filed under: Uncategorized—
   admin @ 10:11 pm” Just delete that whole line, it’s useless, assuming no one 
   cares what hour:minute it was posted — either change it to the day/date, or remove
   it. Where it says “admin” is useless unless you have many authors and need to
   credit the by-line of each article, if they are all just “admin” then just remove
   the clutter. “Uncategorized” is a useless category, you could make up a category
   name, or just remove the display of this if categories aren’t the way you want
   people to navigate your site. I get the impression that your top-nav (the horizontal)
   is plenty of nav for users to find all your content/articles/posts.
 * Delete the word “Navigation” in your sidebar, because the true main navigation
   is the horizontal bar above that, and besides: navigation is something that should
   be self-indicative (yours is) and doesn’t need a headline.
 * At the bottom of your posts, I see “No Comments
    No comments yet. RSS feed for
   comments on this post. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.” If you
   are going to have no-commenting across the site, then I suggest removing the 
   comment area from your theme — again, it’s just bloggish clutter often not needed
   for this type of site, and gives the wrong impression that feedback is unwanted/
   closed. You can provide another method of Contact / Feedback without the comment
   form, such as a contact form.
 * Good luck with your site
 *  Thread Starter [pylorns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pylorns/)
 * (@pylorns)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-wordpress-theme/#post-603137)
 * great feedback, I appreciate the thoughts, I’ve just got to find some of those
   areas to remove.
 *  [dougeby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougeby/)
 * (@dougeby)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-wordpress-theme/#post-603139)
 * I like the layout. The eyes follow it smoothly. The footer could be nicer to 
   the eyes.
 *  [flusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flusher/)
 * (@flusher)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-wordpress-theme/#post-603165)
 * The header image (green) and the background color (brown) doesn’t fit together
   in my opinion. But the layout is nice.

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