Firstly, a big thankyou to everyone who took part in my Wordpress Theme Survey, the results are in and look like they’re going to prove a really useful resource when developing new Wordpress themes in the future.
I’m afraid the results aren’t as nicely presented as the ones provided by PollDaddy, but I hope they are clear enough. Anyhow, here they are:
Section1. Please tell us a bit about the website you need a theme for
Q1. How would you describe the Wordpress site which requires a new theme?
50% A blog (using wp posts)
41% A static website with a blog/news section (using wp pages & posts)
7% A static website (using wp pages)
1% Other Option…(1 request for a blog & ecommerce solution)
Q2. Which Wordpress Plugins & Widgets do you use?
Some of the most common included:
Twitter feed, Recent Comments, Flickr, All in One SEO, nopingwait, subscribe to comments, event calendar, TinyMCE, Advanced wp-cache, wpSEO, lightbox, cformsII, WP Shopping Cart, wp_cache, wp-forecast, dean’s code highligter, feedburner feedsmith, creative commons license widget, Google Reader widget
Section2. Theme preferences
Q3. Which layout would you prefer?
56% 2 columns
24% Something a bit different, maybe a grid based layout
20% 3 columns
Q4. Is having a customisable colour scheme important to you?
80% Yes
20% No
Section3. Your web design experience
Q5. How comfortable are you with writing HTML?
39% Very, I could write it in my sleep
38% Fairly
12% A little
4% Not at all
Q6. How comfortable are you with writing CSS?
30% Very, I could write it in my sleep
39% Fairly
15% A little
15% Not at all
23rd April 2008 at 12:00 am
david says:
Hi Ed,
I use ocean mist template. Very nice. thanks. Wonder if you can identify the scenery location depicted. Also are you a joomla template designer? thanks dce
24th April 2008 at 12:12 pm
Austin says:
I am contacting you through this contact form as there was no email address available.
We would be interested in purchasing advertising on your site http://www.edmerritt.com.
Please get back to me using the email address I have entered if you would be interested in discussing this further.
25th April 2008 at 6:05 pm
Brian says:
I would like this template to display sub-pages of pages. WP has the functionality, but without it built into the template, all sub-pages just disappear.
26th April 2008 at 4:27 pm
Joerg says:
Hi, i was searching for an contact (email adress) from Ed Merrit, i want to ask for the cost of a comercial license for that wonderfull Blue Ocean Theme. Please contact me, sorry for that way, maybe im am to blind :-)
30th April 2008 at 6:30 pm
AvCheu says:
Switched over from Ocean to Autumn and like the green for my China blog. Some of the issues I had seen WP-specific so just have to pay attention to it and maybe the later version fixes it but will leave it as is for now. don’t want to screw it up before my trip.
One question, the RSS Feed doesn’t seem to work - do I need to install additional code?
Thanks for your help if you get to this. I’ll keep looking for answers.
-A
8th May 2008 at 4:47 pm
Eileen says:
Hi there, would you kindly identify the location of the “Ocean Mist” picture for me? People are asking me and I would like to be able to give them a response…thanks so much
8th May 2008 at 5:00 pm
Eileen says:
Hi, not to worry, I found the information I was looking for about location.