最近走訪不同的網頁和 blogs，目的是為了找一些 plugins 來修改自己的 blog 去迎合自己所需，無意中看到一個 blog UrbanGiraffe 內有關 WordPress theme 的教學文章，這個系列作者預算用四篇文章的篇幅來完成，到目前為止作者已經完成頭兩篇文章，而第三篇預計會講解 sidebar．
以下是 Part 1 的一些節錄．
Despite the availability of hundreds of themes, and the general goodness of the default Kubrick theme, sometimes you just want to give your blog that personal touch, and the only way to do this is by going under the hood and having a look around.
A month in to running a WordPress-based website and I find myself doing the very same thing. None of the themes were exactly what I was looking for, and after investigating the internals of WordPress I realised it was a lot more involved than it initially appeared. I could certainly imagine a beginner being overwhelmed by the mass of acronymns and incongruent technologies.
With this in mind I decided to write a guide that would help not only myself, but might also help others who have been put off trying to experiment with WordPress. I make no claims of being a style guru and will rely on common sense and basic design principles.
In writing this I will assume a rudimentary knowledge of HTML and CSS. I will attempt to annotate all the important parts. The guide will begin slowly, but should speed up once a level of comfort has been reached.
作者採用 WordPress 1.5 的預設 theme Kubrick 作為教學題材，講解 WordPress theme 的構造，再將它的 CSS style 完全刪除開始講起，一步一步加插需要的程式碼，同時講解加插後的效果，我覺得非常適合一些想修改 theme 及想製作個人化 theme 的人作參考．
這...對我來說難了點呢 ~_~ 雖然有興趣，但學了的話其後所耗的時間會更多，所以還是拿別人的來改好了 :p
現在還沒改好的是 blockquote 的樣式，想設成跟你這 theme 或是 blogger 我之前用那樣的，一個大引號在後面，效果比我現在那有色 left margin 好呢
又，你這 subscribe to comments 是新加的 plugins？
Madthiu：
對我來說都是修改現有的 theme 比較容易 :P ．
Subscribe to comments 是新加的 plugins，之前你看見的是舊的版本 Subscribe to Comments 1.5
現在是用新的版本 Subscribe To Comments 2.0 alpha 5
我覺得這個 plugin 非常有用，以我為例，很多時留言在某些 blog 內，根本不知道該 post 內有沒有新的留言，我要時常往那個 post 內看看檢查，很費時間和精力，但用了這個 plugin 後，留言者訂閱 followup comment 後，就不用擔心會漏看留言，因為當有 follow comment 時，blog 會自動發送提示電郵給訂閱者，增加 blog post 的互動性．
新版本比舊版本優勝很多，除了可以在 admin. panel 內更改顯示訊息，最重要的是可供訂閱者自行取消訂閱，免了一定經管理人這個步驟，雖然現在是 alpha version，但我為了新的功能急著要安裝新版 :P ．