Are table based themes possible?

  • I’ve been looking around and all the themes I find use CSS layouts. I realize this is the future and whatnot, but at the moment I am more comfortable using good old tables.

    So basically, my question is, can I make a WP theme using tables, or is it not possible? How would I do it?

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  • Hi,

    I am working on one currently, intend to straighten it out to the point of being simple and as compliant as possible and will release it then, precisely because there are no good tabled themes out there.

    There are many quite valid reasons for needing a tabled theme, but no one so far catered to those needs. WP ought to stock at least 2-3 good tabled themes for such situations.

    Thread Starter cmannw

    (@cmannw)

    yeah, its weird that there aren’t many. there are pros and cons, but the fact is simply that i like tables better. regardless of any argument against them.

    ‘how would I do it?’

    you just ‘do it’. the same as any other design. except you might find you need to put more things into one file, or start and end the table in different files, etc.

    for instance:

    header.php starts mega table, first row is header, spanning however many columns you’d have (lets say two). then opens a new row.

    index.php is wrapped in a td as one big cell (but could also then embed a table inside the cell, with each post as a row, etc.), and closes it before including the sidebar.

    sidebar.php is wrapped in a cell as well, the second column of the row.

    footer.php closes the ‘content and sidebar’ row, makes another row for the footer, and then closes up the table.

    -d

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