I just went to load up a new blog via Fantastico and noticed that it is now at Version 2.7. This means that the theme I was intending to use was not going to be totally compatible. So my quick 5 min job of setting up a new blog now meant an hour or so looking around for a WordPress 2.7 compatible theme.
To my delight, I found that Revolution themes which are by far the most professional Premium WordPress themes around has now gone open source and they have all been updated to be compatible with WordPress 2.7. What a find. Thanks Brian Gardner.
I downloaded the Revolution Lifestyle Theme to play with and was warned before hand that there was a lot of coding required to bring the theme up to speed. After just randomly investigating the options and code, I found that most of it was very obvious and quite easy to tweak.
You do need to use some simple graphic programs to tweak images to make 70×70 thumbnails, the header image, etc. But they provide a blank header image file which you then write over with text in MS Paint. That was the quickest way I thought of doing it. If you have GIMP, you could use that too but a bit overkill.
I got stuck when all the images in the Featured post was the same, when the demo site showed lots of different images. I then found this extremely useful blog post that detailed all the steps in tweaking this theme. Alternatively you can sign up for support at the RevolutionTwo site to get access to the forums for support on all their themes.
Now that I have done one, I am going to try out a few of their other themes for other sites. You can check out their open source wordpress themes here.
Thanks for linking to my post… I am looking forward to trying out wordpress 2.7.