Actually I could have taken it, but that’s another story… anyway, as you can see that I’ve dressed up the new Revolution wireframe theme that I’ll soon be releasing with a little holiday blue. Yes, I know it’s nothing special in terms of design, but I’ve been trying to keep things simple in my life these days, so the design you see here is yet another example of simplicity.

You’ll notice that this design isn’t much different than the original screenshots I posted - just a little blue, a narrower content area and a few other little things here and there. At some point I plan to add a custom homepage to this theme as well, so watch out for that.

In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak of another page template that will be included in the new Revolution theme. It will pull in posts that are designated in a “video” category.

Here’s the screenshot… (click to enlarge)

As I wrote a few days ago, I am in the process of developing a new wireframe for my Revolution themes. Even though I have a test site up for it, I figured that applying the theme to my personal blog here would make for a fun way to make or break the theme. Not to mention, I just love that WordPress has included the ability to have threaded comments now, and couldn’t wait to have that here.

Another reason was that I have been asked, and will soon oblige, to release the theme that I previously had on my site to the public. So yes, that theme will soon be making it’s way over to the Revolution Two.

More than anything, going back to the WordPress 2.7 thing, I wanted to use it on my personal site, and knew that a great way to test a new wireframe would be to turn it loose live somewhere, and figured this was the best place to do it. So please, if you find any bugs or weird things going in here, please leave me a comment and let me know!

So for the time being, don’t bash me since I did it again - help me test out this theme - in the meantime, there might be some spots where I haven’t added content, that will soon come.

I’ll actually be restyling the theme for my site here, but for now - come on, hit me with it…

You might be wondering what this means - well, it means I am in the process of developing a new theme that will be released on the Revolution Two site. But more than that, this is going to be fully coded for WordPress 2.7, and include a number of different code/style changes than previous Revolution themes have had.

I’m taking this time to explore new and better ways of doing things, to make customizing the theme(s) a lot easier on the user. I am also developing a number of page templates that have been requested over the past year.

Here is the current list of page templates that will be included:

• Archive Page
• Author Page
• Blog Page
• Featured Page
• Full Width Page
• Product Page
• Video Page

That list might change, so don’t hold me to it - but I’m hoping to include all of them, if not more with the next theme release.

I will also be using this theme I am working on as the foundation of all future themes that I develop. I’ve spent the better part of the past two weeks doing a lot of research on WP 2.7, new code, and better ways to get things accomplished. (Special thanks goes out to Nathan for a few 911 chats!)

So hopefully this means a much better experience with Revolution moving forward. And before I forget, you can see a screenshot of the theme I’m working on below. This is only a sample single page, but you can see the general style that the theme will have.

Here’s the screenshot… (click to enlarge)

I have spent the past night or so playing around with this, and have a working demo of what the threaded comments will look like. This style will ultimately be applied to all of the Revolution themes that I develop - mainly because it’s universal code that will be able to be copied and pasted into your existing theme files.

Click to see how the Revolution threaded comments will be styled

And I have also coded the themes to revert back to the original comments if a site is running WP 2.6.3 or older - this way the theme will be compatible with the latest version, but won’t break when someone applies it to an older version of WordPress.

Click to see how the Revolution basic comments will be styled

I wanted to get a jump on this, to make sure that when WordPress comes out with version 2.7, some of the ground work will be done for theme updates.

Let me know what you think!

Here’s a sneak preview of the single page: (click to enlarge)

And here’s a preview of the colors that the theme will be available in: