Themes
So here's my little foray into WordPress themes. From here you can download any themes I've produced, or read a guide to creating your own.
Guides to creating your own themes
If you want to try customizing your own theme, then have a look at my WordPress Theme Dissection - a set of guides dissecting a WordPress theme and hopefully demonstrating how to begin customizing your own.
You may also find it useful to read another guide I wrote on installing WordPress on a local computer. It makes the whole theme customization process a lot faster and easier, and protects you from accidentally messing-up your live website.
Themes for download
Currently standing at a grand total of two themes:
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Giraffe2 - WordPress 2.0 only version of the Giraffe theme. Has everything that Giraffe 1.23 contains, with the addition of configurable columns, WordPress Widget support, live preview options, customizable colour schemes, and a logo manager. Latest edition is 2.6.1, last updated August 13, 2007 |
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Giraffe - Fully customizable and localized fluid or fixed width theme. Posts are split into lead, recent, and older posts. Has a working print CSS, along with pre-defined colour schemes, and is configured via an administration interface. Latest version 1.23, last updated November 25, 2005 |
Support & Bugs
Support for themes is provided through the support forums. Registration is required but brings with it several advantages (namely plugin newsletters and personal bug tracking). Questions asked anywhere else on this site may not be answered and may even be deleted.
All bug reports should be submitted into the issue tracker. You do not need to register to submit bug reports but if you do then you'll be able to receive email notifications once they have been fixed.
Comments (page 15 of 15)
Jul 19, 2007 11:29 am
Hey John,
I was using the Recent Posts widget but with two columns. I deleted it and everything seems to be working fine now. Thanks again for your help and a really nice looking theme!
Gerry
Jul 19, 2007 4:53 am
Gerry, are you using the Recent Posts widget and have three columns? Certain widgets, when used in the left column, greatly leave WordPress in a very confused state.
Jul 16, 2007 6:16 pm
John -
Further to my previous. The titles show up correctly but the body of the post always shows anti-aging nutrition which was the first post on this blog.
Strange??????
Gerry
Jul 16, 2007 6:09 pm
Hi John,
Finally got around to installing 2.5 on a site and I love it! Except - Ah, you knew there was an except, right? When I click on the title of a post, either on the main page or in the side bar, it takes me to my original post - not the one I clicked on. The same thing happens when I am on the "manage" page and click "view". When I click to edit, the correct post comes up.
I obviously have something set wrong. Any ideas?
Thanks much for your time and input!
Gerry
May 21, 2007 8:57 pm
Hi Gerry, version 2.5 should do the trick.
Cheryl, I tried installing AdSense Manager with the Giraffe theme but everything worked just fine! Are you using it to insert something into the left column of the sidebar? If you are then the easiest fix is to move the advert over to the right column. This is caused by the order in which WordPress displays things
May 16, 2007 1:56 pm
Hi John. I am still having problems when my blog (http://www.noqualifyingnocredit.com/) is viewed with IE. In firefox and netscape it's okay. The title tagline does not display right and the title of the last post (most recent)drops down and covers the date and key words. What am I missing here? Should I give up on IE? Your suggestions would be most appreciated! Thanks!
Gerry Marsh
May 7, 2007 3:06 pm
Hi there John. Well you are correct. It appears that the plugin at issue is the AdSense Manager. I've decided to deactivate that plugin for now to get to use the theme as I like it so much, but would greatly appreciate it if you could look into the issues with it or recommend another similar plugin(as I really do need to use Adsense). Thanks!
May 3, 2007 4:26 am
Alex, are you using the Giraffe2 theme and not Giraffe1? There should be no way for the theme to interfere with the administration interface. Can you save the HTML from one of your edit pages and mail it to me?
Cheryl, I suspect that one of those plugins is somehow interacting badly with the Giraffe theme. You could try disabling the plugins to see if it helps at all. If you know which plugin is causing the problem I can then try and fix it.
Apr 24, 2007 11:52 am
Hi John. Sorry I didn't respond earlier...
I have the following installed: Adsense manager, Akismet, Bad behaviour, del.icio.us widget, Sidebar widgets, WP-Sticky plus a few others that are installed but not activated.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Apr 23, 2007 12:23 pm
Not that I can tell. If I switch to the default theme, there is no problem. Enabling the giraffe theme causes the error to return.
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