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How NOT to design a default theme

How NOT to design a default theme

Have fun thinking backwards while you learn about the design of the WordPress Twenty Twelve theme.

Drew Strojny

August 04, 2012
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  1. How NOT to design a default theme

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  2. Carl Jacobi

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  3. Invert, always invert
    (man muss immer umkehren)

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  4. Don’t sketch and share ideas

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  5. Ignore the work done before you

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  6. Don’t make WordPress look like a CMS

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  7. Don’t use a grid

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  8. Use lots of color and texture

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  9. Disregard the theme customizer

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  10. Forget about mobile devices

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  11. Create a mobile theme

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  12. Don’t use percentage
    based widths

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  13. Don’t use the rem (root em) unit

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  14. No CSS3 gradients

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  15. Don’t use web fonts

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  16. Choose a fancy font with a limited character set

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  17. Pre-processing is for wimps

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  18. Don’t get any help from the community

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  19. twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com

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