Understanding the “Kubrick” theme of WordPress fame
Introduction
It is impossible to avoid. Thanks to the widespread success of the WordPress blogging engine, millions of people are now blogging. Ancillary to WP’s success is the prevalence of its default “theme”, “Kubrick” by Michael Heilmann.
As someone who’s recently re-crafted his theme based off of Kubrick, I decided it was worth trying to figure out exactly what’s going on in Kubrick so that I could learn how to proceed next time without the crutch of Heilmann’s achievement.
In this page I’ll guide you step-by-step through a process of understanding this well-put together theme.
Tools you’ll need
If you install either of those you’re going to need to re-start your browser, so I’ll see you in a second.
Got it? Good.
Making the dynamic static
Here I’m going to provide you two options:
- If you want to learn the technique I used to create a collection of files that could be used for this exercise, follow this link.
- Alternatively, I have created a file which contain all the files you need for the following exercises. You can install these files in your web server root and continue on (Tarfile of starting point for unraveling Kubrick theme for WordPress).
Getting started
Point your web browser to kubrick.html located in your web browser root. Activate the FireBug plugin with Tools/Firebug/Open Firebug. You should now have the split screen view.