It’s Called Web Design

Here is a really great theme from regis that you can download from the new WP Theme repository.

I really liked the simple clean design, but I was upset to find that the author hard-coded an “About my blog” mini-post with a picture (of the author) into the themes sidebar. I thought it would be much better if the author would have pulled some text from the default WP “About” page.

<?php
    query_posts('pagename=about');
    if (have_posts()) :  while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
        <li class="widget">
       <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
       <p><?php the_content('<p><b>Continue Reading &amp;amp;raquo;</b>< p>'); ?></p>
        </li>
<?php
    endwhile; else : ?><?php endif;
?>

All you have to do is replace the authors hard-coded “about the blog” post with the above code. Of course, it would be better if the theme came shipped this way–as it such a great theme that many none-coders would use. But I do understand why the author would want to keep their own personal touch.

You can download the theme from the authors site: http://wnw.blogwarhammer.net/themes/disciple/
Or, from the WP Theme repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/disciple

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