I have decided to release my first WordPress theme IAMWW w2. I originally modified the them to run on IAMWW.com. IAMWW w2 was built from the core of Upstart Blogger Minim by Robert Ellis.
Features:
- Horizontal top navigation.
- Right-hand sidebar.
- A JavaScript sliding drawer or shelf for browsing categories or popular posts.
- The ability to separate one of your asides or shorts category from your main content as a sideblog that is presented in the sidebar.
- An about me or about site blurb that is only displayed on the home page.
- A archives template page.
- Optimized CSS file.
- Compatible with WordPress 2.2.
- Left and right aligned images with wrapped text can be used by adding the class left and right respectively.
- Support for flickrRSS.
A preview of the theme:
You can try out the demo here.
Required plugins:
- Brian’s Latest Comments - Download and install per author’s instructions. No special configuration needed.
- flickrRSS - Download and install per author’s instructions. I used 5 square images and enter
<li>and</li>to the “Before / After” configuration boxes. - Popularity Contest - Download and install per author’s instructions. I used 5 related posts and enter
<li>and</li>to the “Before / After (Post Title)” configuration boxes. needed. - Related Posts - Download and install per author’s instructions. No special configuration needed.
- the_except Reloaded - Download and install per author’s instructions. No special configuration needed.
Inspirations
UPDATE: Head over to the IAMWW w2 theme page for full instructions, tweaks, and the download.
15 Comments
Hey, Will, very nice job! Better than the original, I think. I’m flattered.
Thanks Robert! I am pleased with it. Now I just have to try to keep up with Upstart Blogger Modio.
I found your temp and it is great but i say it is not widget ready so if i may ask can you make it widget ready ?
and also imculde Sociable and WP-PostRatings in your temp looks better and give more fucn and also because i am not so good whit php
Stil great work and keep it up
Dany
@Dany - Thanks for your comments and you’re right, the theme is not currently widget ready. That is just because I prefer not to use widgets. However, I can make the theme widget ready for the next release. I will add that to the list of things I would like to approve on the theme.
I am currently working on the design of another template. I will revisit the w2 theme once that one is complete.
hey,did you remember me a few days ago?
I asked you to release the theme and I told you I enjoyed it.
wow,I’m so surprised!
Thanks!
Yes,it’s not widget ready ,I also expect you can add it next released.
so great and come on!
Excuse,I don’t konw how to use the “recent shorts”,
so,in the “recent shorts” it’s nothing.
ww,tell me the solution ,Thanks.
@akuii - Yes, I remember you and am glad you enjoy the theme.
I found a couple of items that you need to change in the theme to have it working correctly.
First - Make sure you have edited the
index.phpfile to remove your shorts or asides category from your standard posts. Edit the number in line 4 to be the category id of your shorts or asides posts -<?php if (in_category('26')) continue; ?>. You can determine the category ID from WordPress Admin / Manage / Categories. The ID will be listed to the left of the category name. So, if your asides catergory is ID 12, change the 26 in the line of code to 12.Second - You need to edit the link in the about section of
sidebar.phpthat points to your about page. Your permalinks are set differently than mine were. The template is set to point to<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/about/" title="About IAMWW">. Yours needs to be set to<a href="http://www.in-art.cn/?page_id=2" title="About">.Third - While still editing the
sidebar.phpfile, edit the line<?php if (in_category('26')) continue; ?>to match your asides or shorts catgory id that you set in the first step above.Fourth - Still in the
sidebar.phpfile, edit the line<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=shorts&showposts=3'); ?>to reflect the name of your shorts or aside category. So if the category name you are going to show is asides, replace “shorts” in the line of code with “asides”.Let me know if you have any questions or run into other issues.
Ho…Thanks very much!
Just I did according to what you said,and it looks very well.you can see my blog and find some mistakes.(http://www.in-art.cn/)
There is anther isse.like your home page,the articles have no enters,I knonw you mean to show the shorts of articles,but I want to show full articles,including the paragaphs、fonts、colors etc.
Do you understand my meaning?hehe…My English is not good.
Thanks again!
@akuii - I am glad to see you got the asides working. The site looks really good with the w2 theme. One thing I noticed on your site is the tag line does not show in the upper left-hand corner. Do you have one set in WordPress admin?
On your most recent question, I set the theme to display only the excepts of the articles rather than the full article. This was built using the_excerpt Reloaded.
To change this you will need to replace the line
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(...); ?>with something like<?php the_content('Read more...'); ?>. The template will then display the full content of your post. This displays the content of the post and uses "Read more…" for the more link text when the<!--more-->Quicktag is used.This line of code is in the
index.php, thecategory.php, thearchive.phpfiles. You will just need to edit it where you want to see the full content.You can find more information on this in the WordPress Codex.
Wow, nice theme! I love this grid meme that’s floating around the web. It’s really lit a fire under my design work.
It’s not often design fads take us back to our roots and make us reexamine everything, is it?
Again, great work.
Thanks Ian. Again, I love the site you have built from Sandbox.
I definitely like the new back-to-the-basics moment that is flourishing through web designs.
Thanks.WW
It’s the category,not tag,I’m wondering your site can display many categories but I can’t.Can you tell me how to set in wordpress-admin?
Aboat the full article,I think no matter,and unnecessary to change it now,maybe in future I will.
akuii - I am not sure what you mean about the category. Where are you talking about my site displaying many categories - in the header or above the post titles?
Will，I expect your next version of W2 for Wordprss 2.2,and please e-mail to me when you finish it.
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