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I figured I would host all of my Wordpress experiments on another blog, Renovating Wordpress. I am going to be doing a lot with Wordpress in the next few months and I figured that while I won’t have enough content to post daily to the blog, the things I will be making available as downloads over there will bring enough traffic in it’s own right.
The first is this theme. Well, not this theme, but this theme to the max. It’s free and it has a link back to me, but only from the home page. All the other pages conserve link juice for you. A feature I wanted to see in a free Wordpress
theme and never found, so I added it to mine. You can also change the colors and fonts without editing the theme files. That way more people can use my theme and yet have sites that look completely different. This blog and the new blog are running basically the same theme. Both of these features help you, the Wordpress user and me, the designer. Hopefully more people will use my theme because of this and I will get more links back to me.
Enough talking. There are a lot of more features, a lot. But I have already written this spiel differently twice and I am tired of going over it. Check out my multiple widget theme.
Category: Blogging, Design, Wordpress | 
Tags: free wordpress theme, multiple widget theme, multiple widget wordpress theme | 
Stephan -
I LOVE WordPress! I’m still a beginner - so I’ll be checking out and recommending this site a lot!
Have a DYNAMITE day my friend!
Wes
I made the theme for a beginner, basically. The most complex thing you will have to do with it is use hexidecimal codes for colors, i.e #FFFFFF, but there are plenty of color pickers around and I would suggest the Adobe Kuler site to find some colors.
For me Wordpress is the best among others.Easy to navigate and lots of template available to use.So far,Wordpress doesn’t make any trouble to my blog.
With your help I now have a Wordpress photoblog or at least my interpretation of one. I would like to have all the background another color but I can’t figure out how to do it. All I get is a partial coverage and the photos look like they have busted out in some places. Any suggestions?
It was probably the size of the main column that caused your pictures to bust out. For a blog focused on photos, I would look at a one column theme or you will have to shrink your pictures.
But I am just assuming what I can’t see.
As far as changing the background goes, you have to delete the contents of the background image text box and then add your color value to the background color value box.
I love this theme, but have a question. I am not very fluent in PHP and was curious about what I might need to do to change the bar at the bottom of the head to display my pages on my site instead of just the site admin link I get when I’m logged in right now. If that is too much for you to look into, that’s cool. I’m still going to use these theme for my site from now on.
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I like the color scheme. I have a showcase post over at wp23 which I will be updating regularly. I will try to add yours and all others I can track down this weekend. To edit the navbar,
open header.php.
Find <?php wp_register(’<li>’,'</li>’); ?>
You can put any links after this to show on the bar.
I added these for mine:
<li><a href="http://www.stephanmiller.com/about/" rel="nofollow">About</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.stephanmiller.com/archives/" rel="nofollow">Archives</a></li>
Or just add this code to add all pages:
<?php wp_list_pages(’sort_column=id&depth=1&title_li=’); ?>
Thanks for the complement on the color scheme. The school I teach at has blue and gold for our colors, so I went with them and just choose the gray because it looked better than the white background.
I tried out putting in the code you listed but it did not work. It just made the navbar blank other than the search box.
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Sorry, I had the last part of the code commented out because I just copied and pasted and I had it commented out on my site. I changed it in the original comment.
Thanks for the help again. I tried adding in the code again and it gave me a syntax error in the header wouldn’t load the site. I wound up just adding in each page myself like you have done on your site.
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Hi Stephan!
Wonderful Theme. I am able to do everything that I need, except get a Picasa Widget to display in one of the side bars. (Would like it to be Upper middle, or if not main right sidebar.)
The plugin I have used on an other site is: (minus the htt://www.)
sandaru1.com/2007/07/11/picasa-widget-updated/
I would be grateful for your suggestions. I’d be happy to send you the site URL by private e-mail.
Thanks again
Peter
I will check out the Picasa Widget later. I’m not familiar with it. Just fill out the contact form via the link on the sidebar, just to remind me.
Nice idea for beginners, but like the Cutline theme, if it reaches a Gladwellian tipping point we could see thousands of essentially cloned blogs, which will get mildly frustrating very quickly. Bespoke has to be the way to go rather than off-the-peg once a blogger has gained some confidence with Wordpress.
db
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It’s my first one. What can I say.
But I know what you mean. This was created to get links. I added the customizations so that it would get a little more mileage, but it’s still limited. I have better ideas for the next one.
Very nice indeed I’ll probably download it. Thanks.
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i love to use WP code
so they have many great theme
thanks for your free theme
look very good
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this might be really old, but your previous theme looks better then this one
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Thanks for you great job. I am looking for a download link to this nice theme and I am unable to find it. Can you point where it is?
You have much experience - do you coach?
Thanks
Vladimir
It’s available at http://www.wp23.com
I have been asked if I coach before. It’s strange because I consider myself a student still. It may be something I do in the future, but for now, I don’t think I have the experience. My experience is unbalanced and has come to a lot of dead ends because I tend to be a loose cannon when it comes to any “standard” way of doing things. I will go ten miles out of my way just to avoid following in footprints or copycatting at times. Which, to me, would be a strange attitude for a coach to have. I tend to make leaping conclusions with only an implied connection to hold them together. Good for me. Bad for learning.
Wordpress is the best for blogging, hands down. Even those of us who are pretty clueless about coding can figure it out with a bit of tweaking.
I do have one question though concerning sidebars. I know each template is different but what’s the easiest way to go about changing the background color of the sidebar?
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I Love WordPress! I’m still a beginner I’ll be checking out and recommending this site a lot!
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Simple and sweet. I’m thinking of starting another blog or five pretty soon, and I’ll definitely consider this theme. Keep ‘em coming!
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I think I am out of theme design area for a while. Too much time involved. Maybe once things slow down.
Your theme looks nice and I’ve downloaded it. May be I can use it for my second blog later. Thanx a bunch!
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You’re welcome.
Thought I would let you know, the screenshot .jpg seems to be broken in my browser? I think I will download it anyway just to see it.
Long story, but it comes down to this: My blog was on another server that was hacked. I slacked a bit on backing up the local uploads folder, so they are gone.