About ThemeShaper and Ian Stewart

Welcome to ThemeShaper—a blog that helps your blog communicate it’s best.

After almost a year of blogging and tweaking my blog and others, a year that saw me making first runner-up in a theme design competition—with two of the judges choosing my theme for their personal blogs—and several notices on other blogs for the design of my personal blog, a year that had me hanging out more and more at theme-tweaking blogs and the WordPress codex, I finally thought, hey! why don’t I just go and start my own theme blog? And why don’t I just try and make it a valuable resource for bloggers and designers looking for great themes? And—wait, why am I talking to myself? Um, excuse me, I shouldn’t have revealed that last question. Anyway, thus was born, ThemeShaper!

Like I said above, I hope ThemeShaper will be a valuable resource for the WordPress community—and possibly beyond. We’ll get to that beyond business eventually, trust me. I’m thinking the beyond business will look something like, “Drupal from a design perspective.” But right now, it’s home to my WordPress Themes and some great articles on creativity and graphic design. Whatever I got, it goes here. And more.

About Ian Stewart

The me in question, in case you’re wondering, is Ian Stewart. I’m a self-taught graphic artist with about 10 years of professional experience. I try and bring that experience here, to ThemeShaper. You could even call me a WordPress enthusiast if you like. Besides that, I’m a husband and a dad. I don’t play sports but I can juggle and play harmonica. At the same time. That should count for something. I also read a lot of books and sometimes write about it. Like a somewhat surprising number of other designers on the web I can also be found praying in public on occasion.

Want to connect further? You can find me on StumbleUpon and Twitter where I’m firing off links to all the cool WordPress and Drupal links I come across. Or send me an email through my contact page.

Want to write for ThemeShaper?

Great! Send me off a post. I have almost no rules or requirements except that your post has to be somewhat related to theming and be really good. I get to decide what good is, of course, but I don’t think I’m too picky. I can’t wait to read your stuff and put it out there.

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The ThemeShaper Commenting Policy

I love hearing your comments on ThemeShaper, that’s my policy. Keep ‘em coming. What I don’t like is rotten language; poor grammar, spelling mistakes, attacks on other commentators—debate is fine, same with attacks on me—and cursing. I will often correct comments for spelling mistakes and cursing, so watch out for that. And be forewarned: I am prepared to replace the worst curse words with things like “unicorn” and “kitten” and “rainbow”. You don’t want that to happen.

Attacking fellow commentators will be met with severe editing, and possible deletion. If you’re really worked up about what someone says, write a blog post and link to the comment permalink. Just don’t be mean here on my blog.

That harsh bit of business out of the way, please don’t be afraid to comment! Really. I’m sure you’re very nice.

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Thanks for reading ThemeShaper!