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 8 of 16)
Jan 28, 2006 8:21 pm
The header color is actually a small gradient image called 'titlegradient.png'. If you change the colour of that then you should see a change in your header. If you've already found that one, then changing the header colour is in the CSS style:
#header
{
background: white url(blue/titlegradient.png) repeat-x top left;
}
You can change 'white' to any colour, or even remove the gradient entirely.
Jan 28, 2006 11:53 am
John:
I have just started to tinker with your theme and have discovered that I am, apparently, a complete moron. I've tried to change the header color within the stylesheet but when I hit "update file" in theme editor, nothing happens. I've even deleted the color code entirey and again, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Jan 27, 2006 1:35 am
Andre: You're right, there does seem a problem there. I'll have to tackle it in the next version of Giraffe
Jan 18, 2006 2:46 am
My Giraffe look at your theme
Jan 16, 2006 1:44 pm
No page numbers that I can see.
see http://ccgi.andre02.plus.com/wordpress/?m=200510 for example.
Jan 14, 2006 3:12 am
Dana - The image shows up in IE for me. What version are you using?
Jan 14, 2006 3:10 am
There should be page numbers at the top and bottom of the page, instead of next and previous.
Jan 13, 2006 7:36 am
I have not noticed this before as I have not had enough posts on it until now. If I select a month to look at or a topic area the new window opens but only a certain amount of posts are shown. There are no navigation buttons to go to the next page. For instance in October I should have posts back to the 6th yet the page for october only goes back to 20th. There is no next page button.
Jan 12, 2006 2:53 am
Ok, thank Billy
Jan 11, 2006 1:00 pm
It worked for me in IE but it tried to kickoff the QuickTime viewer. It asked if I wanted to accept the mime types it wanted to change, I said no, and it opened the little icon you posted in the middle of the IE window (FF shows it in the upper-left). Check your file associations. G/L.
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