on wordpress themes

Learning to do a WordPress theme is a process. That process goes:

1. Create some nice markup. Looks good!
2. Split into WP theme files. Add WP specific markup. Looks ok!
3. Realize you missed some core WP functionality in your theme. Add hastily.
4. Realize your theme looks worse every day.
5. Go to Step 3. If your theme gets truly unbearable, jump to Step 6.
6. Reluctantly start over. Swear you’ll “do it right” this time.

Milk—my WordPress theme on milkandtang—was the first theme I’d ever created for WordPress. I’ve learned a lot, and it’s time to work up a better design that both reflects the name milkandtang, and reflects my design sensibilities better. If you take a look at my Portfolio, you’ll quickly see that this site looks nothing like my other work. That’s a problem.