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If you know anything about graphics and photography, you might be able to create your own images to use with a theme you design. Of course, you don’t need images to create a theme, but it helps. 🙂

It’s not like the Noah Grey theme, but for the record, one I don’t recommend deconstructing is Borderline Chaos. I just worked with it and got it how I want (I really love the colors), but it requires a bunch of editing, because while some files call the sidebar, others include code for the sidebar, so you have to cut that out and put in a call for the sidebar (unless you want to edit the sidebar code in every file, and any time you want to change it, you have to edit every file using that code, rather than just the one file you’d use by calling it with PHP). It’s not that it’s complicated, just tedious. However, if you decide you want to use that theme, and don’t want to “neaten up” the files, I’ll be happy to send you the ones I’ve “fixed,” and you can edit them as you wish.

Oh, one thing…whomever makes this site/these sites, I have a request: Please put something on the page to note newly-added themes. It would make it easier for me (and you don’t need to worry about pleasing anyone but me ;-D). This would just save me some time. Thanks!

A site with all the themes and plugins would be great, but doesn’t that require the cooperation of all theme- and plugin-makers? If someone put his/her themes only on her/her site, then you’d either have to search and find those themes and get permission to put them on your site, or hope that the person takes the time to submit them to you. Is there a way to ensure you get them all?

That’s all I need–I’ll spend all day at a themes site, just viewing them all, and listing and/or downloading what I like, LOL! 😀

Thanks, Jennibee, that worked! (By the way, I assume you’re a Jennifer…me, too! We rule the world!)

BACKUP your files before trying this (if you do)!!! After looking around a little more, I’m thinking you have to edit wp-includes/template-functions-general.php in the first function, that looks like this (similar to the code moshu gave you, only his [hers?] probably would do what you wanted, more specifically, calling the usual header, unless the specific page(s) were called, then it would show the other header, and failing that, it should call the default header):

function get_header() {
if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header.php') )
load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header.php');
else
load_template( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/default/header.php');
}

MAYBE you need to add another function like this:

function get_header2() {
if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header2.php') )
load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header2.php');
elseif( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header.php') )
load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/header.php');
else
load_template( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/default/header.php');
}

But to make that work, I think you’d need to call the function in your page, like this:

<?php get_header2(); ?>

I’m probably wrong, but it’s a guess. You might also be able to set some kind of case thing in that same file where it says function get_bloginfo($show=''), but I really can’t say.

Hopefully, someone who really knows can answer you for sure, but it’s something to try in the meantime.

I’m not sure (I’m not a coder, either), but I would think you couldn’t use TEMPLATEPATH for both style sheets, unless they’re in the same location. If you create a completely different theme (which, I’d assume, would have its own directory), I think you’d need to put in the path to the alternate theme. I think you could either put in the path, or create an alternate somewhere in the script that tells how TEMPLATEPATH is defined (meaning, you’d call it something else, i.e. TEMPLATEPATH2, with its own path set). I’m sorry if I confuse you here; I’m just guessing, and I’m always asking questions here when I work with WP myself. 🙂

I have a related question. I’m using the theme switcher, and I’ve found the length of the theme names can push the dropdown bar (which I chose to use) past the side bars, into the content area. I’m sure I can change the theme names somewhere, can’t I? I just want to shorten them, not actually change them (right now, it’s only one–“identification-band-triplet-centered-girlish”), just so they’ll fit. That wouldn’t violate anyone’s copyright or anything, would it? Can someone tell me how to do this?