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Simplicity is a good place for me right now. It will be interesting to see how Twenty Fourteen builds on these last two. Thanks for the teaser.

Thanks for your comments Jose. Yes, I’ve seen Ian’s talk, and was quite inspired by I it. I guess the thing I’m starting to take away from this thread is that the code in the core themes is a good place to start on this next part in my learning process. I’m a little weary of the bouncing around, so, staying close to the core seems a good place to be. Not to mention I’ve been a bit reluctant to ask questions, probably because I haven’t been coming from a solid starting point. Your comments, especially as a theme reviewer, emphasize the advantage of developing my skills from the core out.

Thanks for your input leejosepho. Very much appreciated.

leejosepho – Just wanted to say thanks for pointing me toward Tiny Forge. It looks pretty impressive. Looks like good learning tool. I’m going to experiment with it and see what kind of help I get when I need to do things. Thanks again.

Anyone else who has suggestions, please let me know.

Maybe that’s one of my problems; I haven’t really asked a lot of questions in the forum, and I get a bit discouraged when searching, weeding through so many threads.

Do you have any thoughts on themes that stay active and up to date, ones like Twenty Twelve that are accessible to a beginner who wants to do some tweaks?

I like Twenty Twelve. I even added a left sidebar on a test sight, and find it reasonably logical to get around in. I guess I was thinking its getting dated, so dismissed it.

I’ll look at Tiny Forge and see if the Twenty Thirteen ‘add ons’ address this.

Thanks for those links. I’ll read up on Tiny forge.

Do you find there is good community support for Twenty Twelve?

stormkicker – Would you consider sharing your solution? Others may have need of the info too. I, for one, am curious. Thanks.

Sorry, can’t help on that one. Good luck.

Thanks leejosepho. I was actually thinking about twenty twelve since it is a minimalist theme out of the box. Have you found it to be a good learning tool?
What’s the difference with tiny forge. I don’t get it.

Thanks for the quick reply byankov. Much appreciated. I get the idea behind that; there’s lots of discussion about these themes that I can search and learn from.

I have tried using Responsive, however I find their front page set up confusing, and a lot of the questions in the forum deal with how to manipulate the particular layout.

I’m looking for a theme that’s a little more straight forward, or universal. I think that’s why I like the underscores approach.

Hadn’t really considered Twenty Thirteen, but I’m open to that, and its responsive too! I like that. I will give it another look. Is there any particular forum you like for Twenty Thirteen, beside this one, of course?

Thanks again.

Are you asking how to take off the protection from the single post, or keep the protection but remove the words on the screen? Did you accidentally protect it, or do you want it to be protected, but not say its protected?

Contact Form 7 allows you attach files and images. Good choice.

Looks fine to me too.

I don’t know if this will help but there’s a theme called Path that is designed for multiple authours.

Hey Delkaumi – Sounds to me like the TwentyTwelve default theme that comes with wordpress would work just fine. It has all the things you mentioned. You can

• add a header image
• it comes with a completely white background
• its simple and clean
• has the menus you need
• has a 70-30 layout, approx