Themes

Jun 26, 2005 | Tags: theme, wordpress | Written by Administrator

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:

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

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 14 of 16)

140
John (author) :
Apr 19, 2007 1:30 am

Alex, that sounds like a problem with WordPress itself. You may find help over at wordpress.org
139
Alex :
Apr 18, 2007 11:37 am

When I go to make a post, I click on "publish" and I get a popup asking me if I want to "navigate away from this page". If I click yes, the entire content of the post (except the title) is lost. I get the same results if I attempt to edit a post.
138
John (author) :
Apr 17, 2007 6:48 am

Martin: Gravatar plugin is at http://site.gravatar.com/site/implement#section_2_2

Cheryl: What other plugins do you have running?
137
Gerry :
Apr 10, 2007 10:44 pm

Hi,

I got the left sidebar working okay. Just had to figure out how to write the code myself (not a real easy task for a challenged 70 year old) and forgot about the sidebar widget plug-in. Now I have to add a link section to the right sidebar.

One problem I notice. I have the Title and Tagline right justified and it seems great in firefox and netscape but IE adds an extra return (br?) between them. How do I fix this? Take a look at my blog http://www.noqualifyingnocredit.com to see what I mean.

A great theme! Thanks again for sharing it.

Gerry Marsh
136
Martin :
Apr 8, 2007 3:51 am

Hi,

This is a brilliant theme, but I am having trouble obtaining the gravatar plug, the link on this site just seems to take me to a gravatar image but no plugin, and when i go to the gravatar website, I'm not sure which plugin i need?..

Can anybody point me in the right direction for the correct plugin for this them. and thanks for such a great them

Many Thanks

Martin
135
Gerry :
Apr 7, 2007 8:33 pm

This is great! I'm just getting it set up on my blog - actually redoing my blog after months of inactivity. I want to use the 3-column layout with widgets but when I click on the Sidebar Widgets I get the following:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_deregister_script() in /home/noqualif/public_html/noqualblog/wp-content/plugins/widgets/widgets.php on line 204

I've re-uploaded both the widget plug-in and the theme but I still get the error.

Any idea what went wrong? If I can't get this working, I'll try to make my own left sidebar widgets but since I am very challenged when it comes to programming, I don't hold out much success in that area. I really appreciate folks like you that give so much to so many of us!

Thanks much!
Gerry Marsh
134
Cheryl :
Apr 6, 2007 8:47 am

Hi! What a fabulous theme! I adore it and I would like to use it....

However, I am having a problem with it and have my site currently set to another theme because of it. Basically, whenever, I click on any of the headings for posts to go to the posts page (ie. permalinks), I get a different article: not the one that I want. It is always the same article.

It is very strange. This doesn't happen with the Connections theme which is what I have set up at the moment.

Any thoughts on what is happening and how to fix it?

Thanks,

Cheryl
133
saina.it :
Mar 6, 2007 10:36 pm

I changed font type arial to courer in admin->presentation->logo. But it doesn't change. (giraffe2)
What should i do ?

thanks.
132
saina.it :
Mar 6, 2007 9:06 pm

Hey, it's a cool theme. thank you.

Please help, how do i change font of title? I mean another font which is not giraffe font. I did change on function giraffe_options() and "$g2_fonts = array" in "themes\giraffe2\admin\admin.php". But i didn't change. Where do i copy a font file to? What should i do ?

please help, and thank you
131
Pixy :
Feb 26, 2007 8:48 am

I cannot see anymore how many post there are in an catagorie, after installing this great Theme!