I’ve made great progress with the new Blossom Theme for WordPress.

The tabbed sidebar module is actually three sidebars. You can leave them as they are, or you can change the tab text in the theme options panel and pop in your own choice of widgets. The block of six 125 X 125 blog ads is also configurable through the theme options panel – you can paste your ad code into the corresponding text box, or choose to hide the block of ads entirely. At the top right of the page you can change the introductory text or hide it.

For those who like “simple,” you can also show or hide the flower graphic at the top of the content column.

I highly recommend the tutorial and source file examples that Dan at Theme Forest puts together in a post called Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme. Thanks, Dan! I couldn’t have done it without you!

Just a few more bits to put together and Blossom will be submitted to the theme directory for approval. Stay tuned!

All of the Garden’s themes are now upgraded for WordPress 2.7 – that took me way too long, but I was like the keystone coder trying to get them ready. Little things kept going wrong – using the wrong screenshot, wrong tags, little style bugs (mostly in IE, damn it). I’m about to upload an update to Daisy Gray to fix the text widget styling. I need to slow down!

Still, I absolutely love making new WordPress themes. Right now I’m working on a very pretty (but not too girly) theme – look for a screenshot in about a week’s time. Famous last words…I’ll get it done before 2010, I promise!

Download your theme’s update from your WordPress backend or go here:

Coronado
Daisy Gray
Green Apples
Tickled Pink
Zeeb

Happy blogging!

WordPress.tv is a great place to learn WordPress! There are lots of videos on many topics, from beginning WordPress to advanced designer tutorials. I’ve embedded the Video “Writing and Publishing a Post” to give you an idea:

Thank you WordPress, for launching this site!

The Zeeb Theme for Wordpress has been released and is ready for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zeeb

I worked out a few bugs in the style and hopefully squashed them all but if you use Zeeb you may want to subscribe to my feed to get notifications of any changes or updates.

Happy blogging!

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I haven’t been visible around the Garden lately, but I’ve busy behind the scenes, readying and upgrading all my WordPress themes for 2.7, and working on a new, magazine style theme.

Daisy Gray has been released and can be downloaded at WordPress.org. This was submitted right before the 2.7 release, but will work with 2.7 if you don’t use threaded comments. If you do, wait for the 2.7 version (coming tonight or tomorrow).

I’ll also be releasing a very nice magazine-style theme very soon, with a dramatic black and white theme and plenty of ad real estate in the wide, tabbed sidebar. I’m working out the kinks now, and should be ready to release by the end of the week!

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