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Merry Christmas Gilroy!
As my Christmas present to all of my blog reader(s) here at Gilroy Review I’ve decided to share my latest obsession: WordPress Themes. If you’re not a WordPress blogger then you can skip these (hopefully) weekly Thursday Themesday articles, or you can start a blog of your own It’s much easier than it first appears!

Since this is the very first Thursday Themesday and it’s Christmas Day I figured we’d go with something lighthearted. I found the Om Nom Monster WordPress Theme when I was looking for a kids’ theme for one of my blogs. I never did find quite what I was looking for but, as is usually the case, I found several intriguing themes for other blogs and for future projects as well.

Om Nom Monster Kids WordPress Theme-

It seems that Om Nom Monster wasn’t originally created with kids in mind, but it seems perfect to me. According to Lindsay Carruth of Sneakykitty-

So there i was, stumped. I was trying to come up with a new theme for my blog. I’d already done a few that i liked, but didn’t want to use. They were all missing a certain Something.

And then i got hungry. I felt the urge to devour a small village of orphaned meerkats. What else could slake my thirst, my voracious appetite for… oh fuggit OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM AHAHAHAHA NOM NOM NOM #@!)(%^*)#!D++NO CARRIER

I guess that pretty much sums up this lighthearted blog theme.  When I first installed the theme from the WordPress Theme Directory it did have a few problems, but they were easily fixed even by a low to intermediate deisgner such as myself.

First off the border around the main text area is a harsh red for some reason when the rest of the theme is all in soft pinks.  Opening up the CSS Style Sheet (Appearance > Editor in your WP admin panel) I merely changed the HTML color codes for border-top, border-right, and border-left in the #wrapperborder-bottom in the #content section.

I also changed the width in both the #wrapper and #content sections (from 450px & 440px to 488px & 478px) in order to better accommodate standard sized advertising banners within (and around) the posts.

Finally, in order to make the sidebars clash less, I changed-

.widget {
background: #ffffff;
margin-top: 10px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

to

.widget {
background: #ffc0c0;
a: #9D1961
margin-top: 10px;
}

The end result can be seen at Zaira’s Disney Pin Trading blog (pictured left).

It took me less than an hour to install and modify the theme and that includes the time to recustomize the Google Adsense ads and eBay listings to blend with the site.  Zaira and I both think it’s absolutely adorable, though and that’s what really matters.

What do you think of the Om Nom Monster WordPress blog theme?  Feedback is always appreciated!  And if you have a favorite theme you’d like to see reviewed in a future Thursday Themesday, just leave a note below.

Tags: blog themes, Lindsay Carruth, Om Nom Monster, series, Sneakykitty, theme, Thursday Themesday, WordPress, WordPress themes

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