This is a teaser of the theme I’m currently working on. It will be called “Tribe” and like I mentioned a few posts ago it will be very similar to this site that I designed.

The purpose of the theme is to be as simplistic and lightweight as possible, while still adding colorful touches (it will have as many color-themes as Comet).

The theme will use an image in the header (like in the screenshot) that you can upload and crop yourself using the new smart function in WordPress. If you have been using the TwentyTen theme you know how it works.

This is obviously a work in progress so the end result might look nothing like this.

Although I had some qualms about the new theme review process before, now I think it’s just awesome. Once a theme gets approved all future updates to that theme gets higher priority. I like this.

Here are notes on the latest versions of Comet:

Comet 1.4.2

• No menu was displayed by default

Comet 1.4.1

• The theme did not function properly when using older version of WordPress

The long-awaited update for Comet is finally available.

Visit wordpress.org/extend/themes/comet to download Comet 1.4, with plenty of new features.

Update: please be aware the the theme options page has been completely redone, so it will wipe all the previous options when updating. This will usually not be much of a problem since it only takes a moment to set all the previous options, but if you have a lot of CSS code written in the “custom CSS” field or the “text to appear in the footer” field you might want to copy it and paste it once the update is done.