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 7 of 16)
Jan 11, 2006 10:01 am
and here is a link to the image: http://cocoalounge.org/blog/wp-content/themes/giraffe/brown/external.png
Jan 11, 2006 9:59 am
external.png does not show up on IE browsers.... not even ig you change it to a gif file.
Jan 9, 2006 12:28 pm
I use FF, sorry again Dana. What image are you talking about though? Gotta link to it?
Jan 5, 2006 3:00 pm
Also, has anyone noticed that the external link png image doesn't show up on Internet Explorer?
Jan 5, 2006 2:22 pm
standard XP Home sp2 (up to date), just like 90+% of the people out there, can't wait bud! I can't take all the k2 updates lol.
sorry Dana, I don't have it loaded right now...
Jan 5, 2006 6:42 am
I downloaded the theme and loved it.I am using the Brown color scheme.However, I cannot seem to change the red text color for the outbound links to save my life.Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Thank you
Jan 4, 2006 12:50 pm
Thank you for the great theme!
Jan 4, 2006 2:43 am
I've got the Giraffe theme working under 2.0 with no problems, although I'm sure they may be some 'quirks' with some environments. A fully 2.0 compatible version will be arriving some day soon.
Dec 30, 2005 8:30 am
Is it just me or does Giraffe not work with WP 2.0? I was fine before the update but the last 2 times I activated Giraffe, the Presentation screen went white, after unloading it, I was fine again; did I skip a step while installing it this time or am I not the only one. TIA. P.S. I see now why I loved my Giraffe so much.
Dec 29, 2005 9:19 pm
Thank you for your tutorials on wordpress and CSS, it was a special effort you made that has proven exquisitely useful and relevant.
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