WordPress Themes for Aug 20-23

Posted by Snap! on August 23rd, 2007

Minyx 2.0 Lite, Terra Blue and FTW are new releases featured on wpSnap!

Confidence Coffee is a fixed width, three-column layout in brown and white.

Bicycling is a fixed width 979px, three-column layout, tested in the newest version WordPress 2.2 and WordPress 2.2.2.

Words of Wisdom is a 2 column dark WordPress theme.

Simply Beautiful is a neat 2 Column, easily customizable WordPress theme.

Green Art is a clean green blue theme with Widgets support by Depi.

Paradise Philippines is a cool WordPress theme, ideal for travel, communication and transportation related blogs, or even a personal blog.

Shadow Green is a neatly organized two columns layout with a widget-ready sidebar and 3 columns in the footer. It is gray in color with nice green headings.

4u Hemingway Red is a red version of 4u Hemingway theme by Utombox.

Particles is a lightweight 4 Column Theme from Devlounge.

Symbiot is a neat widget-ready 3 column WordPress theme with right sidebars and a fluid width.

Summer Sky is a neat 2-column WordPress theme.

Lvive is a professional WordPress Theme with rounded edges.

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Posted by templatepanic on August 23rd, 2007

Confidence Coffee

Download this Confidence Coffee WordPress Theme. Fixed width, three-column layout, dominated by brown color. Valid XHTML and valid CSS. This theme has been tested in the newest version WordPress 2.2 and WordPress 2.2.2.

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WordPress Themes for Aug 20-23

Bicycling

Posted by templatepanic on August 21st, 2007

Bicycling

Download this sport theme for free: Bicycling WordPress Theme. Fixed width 979px, three-column layout, valid XHTML and CSS. Tested in the newest version WordPress 2.2 and WordPress 2.2.2.

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How to Easily Add or Change Sandbox Design

Posted by Snap! on August 20th, 2007

sandbox icon There are many new designs that came out of the Sandbox design competition and each design comes with instructions on how to install them. Not following my gut, I decided to instead follow the included instructions and I find out that it never worked for me. So I decided to write my own instructions for those who are planning on using the Sandbox based designs without having to deal with the hassles I faced. BTW, if you have not noticed it already, we started featuring Sandbox competition designs and hope to have more for you soon.

What the instructions say?

It is critical to read this to understand the base structure and why it probably never worked for me.

If you plan on using a Sandbox design, youâ€™ll need the Sandbox theme in the following folder with a file structure like:

/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css

This makes sense, Sandbox is a complete theme and when activated works as is.

The instruction also recommends the design file structure is set as below:

/wp-content/themes/some-design-name/style.css

(where some-design-name is the name of the design)

This is the part that does not work for me, mostly all designs are just that: a CSS file and some images, they do not have any template files like index.php and in almost every case result in a “Template is Missing” error when you go to Admin >> Presentation >> Theme.
Irrespective of the WP version you use, or even using the /wp-includes/themes.php patch for Sandbox results in this error, in short, using the instructions included with the design just does not work (again itâ€™s a personal experience, I might be screwing up some place).

So what did I do?

Instead of including the design folder under the main ‘themes’ folder, I placed it within the Sandbox theme folder like below:

/wp-content/themes/sandbox/some-design-name/style.css

I then opened the Sandbox themes stylesheet (/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css) and deleted all the styles below the comment /* Just some example content */

I then replaced the style import URL from