Remastering the MasterPlan’s Morning After WordPress Theme

It’s not often that I come across a WordPress theme that gets me excited. Most themes out there are nothing more than souped up versions of the default WP theme. Kubrick. While I have nothing against a simple layout, the fact of the matter is that most of the sites I run require far more versatility than Kubrick can provide. Enter The Morning After theme by The Master Plan. Not only does the theme have a metric ton of options to play with, but it’s got a nice, clean newspaper style home page layout to go along with it. It only took one look for me to realize that the main page layout was exactly what I wanted for my food blog… With a few tweaks, of course.

After uploading the Morning After to my WordPress sandbox, I was immediately greeted with an issue. The theme as I downloaded it wasn’t compatible with WordPress 2.3. Thankfully the Master Plan has dedicated support forums and that problem was quickly and easily remedied. Setting the theme up as instructed on the download page was also quite simple. As a matter of fact, if you’ve got even a little bit of design experience, everything about the Morning After theme is simple.

The theme is based on the Blueprint CSS Framework, and once you take a moment to understand the way the framework is designed, any changes you’d like to make to the Morning After is as simple as changing a little bit of css. Everything else is done for you. That simple.

As a side note, if you’re just jumping in to CSS design. (What kept you?), take a look at blueprint. this tool will save you hours of headaches once you’ve learned it.

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