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# Introducing Qawker For WordPress
- URL: https://www.skatter.com/introducing-qawker-for-wordpress/
- Published: 2011-02-14T21:48:12.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-09T23:16:19.000Z
- Description: Last week, Gawker Media launch a full-blown re-design to all their blogs including Lifehacker and Gizmodo. Rather than going for a traditional post-above-post blog layout, their designers tried to reinvent the wheel. Although the new layout has received plenty of criticism from readers, I actually f
- Author: Sahas Katta
- Tags: Hacks, open source, wordpress, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-03-10 07:31

Last week, Gawker Media launch a full-blown re-design to all their blogs including [Lifehacker](http://lifehacker.com/?ref=skatter.com#!5753509/hello-world-this-is-the-new-lifehacker) and [Gizmodo](http://gizmodo.com/?ref=skatter.com#!5752428/this-is-the-new-gizmodo). Rather than going for a traditional post-above-post blog layout, their designers tried to reinvent the wheel. Although the new layout has received plenty of criticism from readers, I actually found the revamp quite refreshing. A handful of bugs, some compatibility issues, and slow speeds are partially to blame, but I’m sure developers are working to make improvements quickly as possible.

I was a little bored and had some free time on my hand this weekend, so I decided to code an equivalent theme for WordPress users. Within about six hours and a few breaks, I had a nearly perfect replica without having to look at a line of their code. Like the original, my template features a two-pane interface with a full article on the left and a list of scrollable recent posts on the right. With a little jQuery magic, I managed to even get all the instant loading features working without having to force users to refresh pages. I also threw in support for comments and search.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/6b/476bc173-490d-4d77-8ad6-7dd5332b1ea7/content/images/files/2011/02/qawker-demo.jpg "Qawker Demo")

Although I scrapped most of the code together rather quickly, I managed to get it working with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari. Be warned about bugs since this is only my second venture into building a website aside from [designing Skatter Tech 3.0](https://www.skatter.com/behind-the-scenes-skatter-tech-3-0-in-the-making/) late last year. I released this WordPress template, which I appropriately named Qawker, into the official theme directory. My code is entirely open source, so feel free to make changes or improvements.

**Links: [Qawker Demo](http://qawker.linkbouncr.com/?ref=skatter.com)**  
**Download: [qawker.zip](http://skatter.com/files/2011/02/qawker.zip?ref=skatter.com) (v0.1.6)**

Notice: I submitted Qawker to the official WordPress Themes Directory and it is awaiting approval.