My forced time offline has not been a total waste. I’ve actually gotten some work done which benefits you my faithful readers. All seven of you :p
Introducing my best work yet. I’ve really been challenging myself to improve my skills and in turn create better templates. This template is a two column fluid template with a very special feature. Variable, widgetized sidebars!
What does this mean exactly? It means that the template has the capability of having a different sidebar for each of the pageviews (index, single and page) and since all of the sidebars are widgetized, you can have different widgets display on those different sidebars. You can see an example of variable sidebars right here on Webernet Architect. If you notice on my index page I have the sidebar set up a certain way but on the single page views I have different options. (just fyi, WebArch’s template is not widgetized only because I created it before I got involved with widgets).
It as created for WordPress 2.1 and comes in two different color schemes.
Special Note: Since I am no longer active on the internet, there is no support for these themes. They can be viewed and downloaded at the WordPress Theme Viewer.
Be sure to read the ReadMe.txt file as there are special instructions for the included archives page. As usual, feedback is welcomed and encouraged. And watch Engtech as I’ve been honored with the opportunity to teach you how to customize your WordPress theme to include variable widgetize sidebars via a guest blog on his blog in the coming weeks. Yay!
7 Comments
March 24, 2007 at 1:25 pm
[...] new theme with a slightly laura ashley feel and some nice tricks to enable variable content on the sidebar between the homepage, articles and [...]
March 24, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Loving the silver one, the black one reminds me of a reverso version of some scene from Supermans home planet, in a slightly scary way.
March 24, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Thank you so much and also for the plug. I really appreciate it. The silver one turned out much better than I thought it would. The black one does look like some kind of photo inversion doesn’t it
March 26, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I love the Blue and Silver one. Nice work!
March 27, 2007 at 11:34 am
Thanks Anthony. I appreciate that
November 21, 2007 at 10:56 am
Thanks so much for this lovely template. I’m using the silver version at technomom.com, and I think I’ve gotten all but one little thing working.
I use the Silas Partners/Joe Tan Flickr Photo Album plugin (http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/ ). I followed the included directions to customize the plugin’s templates for this theme, and ended up with only one problem: the sidebar is just weird.
If you look at http://technomom.com/photos/ , you’ll see that the sidebar doesn’t start ’til after the main content is done. That’s what happens when I place the call to sidebar.php just above the call for the footer.
If I move the call to sidebar.php so that it’s just below the call for header.php, the sidebar displays properly, but the main section’s contents are stretched way out to be as long as the sidebar.
I don’t truly grok php, so I’m stuck. Nobody has responded to posts in the plugin’s support forum, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask you if you’ve seen this before and have any clues.
Oh! Is there a way to use a specific sidebar just for a particular directory? Or specify different sidebars for different directories? That might work. Sorta. Not elegantly, but I could change the amount of information in the sidebar for the photo section so that it’s really minimal.
Finally, I also have Now Reading working with this theme. Do you want a copy of the template files for NR, so that you can include them with the theme? The author of that plugin asks that those using it who customize it for particular themes approach the theme author about doing so
Thanks again!
Namaste,
Cyn
December 21, 2007 at 12:22 am
I just wanted to mention that I switched to the Slickr Gallery plugin, and was able to customize its files for use with Experimental Silver with no trouble at all.
Thanks again for the theme!
Namaste,
Cyn