Make Money Online - Blue Theme
Posted by fwpt on May 2nd, 2008
Gorgeous blue WP theme with 2 Columns, AdSense & Widget Ready easy to use and install ! Famous theme about making money online is a stable template ! Supported by all WordPress versions, including the latest one. Thanks for the opportunity.
Tagged: 2 Column, Blogosphere, Blogroll, Blue, Blue Lounge, Blue Sands, Bluejet, Clean, Colors, Cool Buttons, Design, Design Inspiration, Earthy, Free Downloads, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, GPL, General, Google, Graphic Design, Inspiration, Layout, Lime Lover, Monetize, New WP Themes, Note WP, Ocean, Online Business, Open Source, Plugins, Pop Blue, Prima Web, Pro Blog 2.0, Raised, Resources, Royal Blue, Royale, SEO, Sea, Sea Anemone, Sea Star, Sea Turtle, Social Bookmarking, Solid WP Theme, Stars, Tech Blog, Tech World, Technology Blog, Template Panic, Theme Distribution, Theme Viewer, Themes, Tips, Tricks, Web 2.0-ish, Web Design, Web Tools, WordPreciousss, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, aquatica, business blog, e-themes, free, internet, make money online, personal blog, refreshing, submit your themes, temi-wordpress, terra blue
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GameLife - A perfect gaming theme
Posted by Francesc on April 18th, 2008
An amazing theme for gammers with red and dark colors, Widget Ready!
DEMO (select GameLife from the box)
Tagged: 2 Column, Black, New WP Themes, Theme Viewer, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, submit your themes
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Design Inspiration by Squid Fingers
Posted by Snap! on December 27th, 2007
These free patterns from Tennessee based designer Travis Beckham are a treat!
There are over 150 of these classic designs on his site Squid Fingers. Check em out.
Tagged: Design, Design Inspiration, Fractal, Free Downloads, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Resources, Graphic Designers, Graphics, Inspiration, Nature, Resources, Squid Finger, Travis Beckham, Web Design, Web Tools, free, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Wordpress-Theme 0816
Posted by Robert Hartl on October 24th, 2007
Live demo | Download | Theme URI
Tagged: 2 Column, Blue, Clean, Colors, Dot Dot Dot, GPL, Hearts, Hello Wiki, Inspiration, Keyboard Shortcuts, Layout, My2Gig-Butterfly, New WP Themes, Plugins, Pro Blog 2.0, Prosumer, RSS Feeds, Red, Selection, Social Bookmarking, Themes, Web 2.0-ish, Web Design, White, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, WordPress developers, free, submit your themes, suchmaschinen-optimierungen.info
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Refreshing
Posted by Luthien on October 15th, 2007
Very nice and unique theme with fresh green leaves. 2 columns, widget and Adsense ready.
Live demo | Download | Theme URL
Tagged: 2 Column, Dot Dot Dot, Green, Keyboard Shortcuts, My2Gig-Butterfly, Nature, New WP Themes, Plugins, Prosumer, Rock-kitty.net, Web 2.0-ish, Web Design, White, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, luthien, personal blog, refreshing, submit your themes
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Geekish
Posted by Benedikt on August 13th, 2007
Geekish is a clean 3 column WordPress theme by Benedikt. It’s not widget-ready yet.
Download | Demo not available | Theme URI
Tagged: 2.2.2, 3 Column, Benedikt, Blue, Colors, Deep Blue Sea, Dot Dot Dot, Geekish, Hearts, Layout, New WP Themes, Plugins, Prosumer, Selection, Themes, Web 2.0-ish, Web Design, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, submit your themes
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WordPress Designers
Posted by Snap! on August 9th, 2007
For those who are new to the WordPress Community, here’s a short list of the portfolios of a few experienced WordPress designers who do more than just WordPress themes. If you are a WordPress developer/WordPress designer with the experience of several customized WordPress projects and have a WordPress design portfolio page, send us the links to your portfolio and we’ll add them here (listed in alphabetical order).
Tagged: Bartelme, Brian Gardner, Cory Miller, Design Disease, Dizzain, Dot Dot Dot, Headsetoptions, Keyboard Shortcuts, Lilac Pixels, Lisa Sabin Wilson, PimpDaBlog, Pixelita Designs, Plugins, Red, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Jobs, WordPress Professionals, WordPress Themes, WordPress designers, WordPress developers, WordPress recruiters, wpsnap
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How to Widgetize a Theme in 3 Easy Steps!
Posted by Snap! on August 6th, 2007
We were contacted earlier by Karen, a user of wpSnap who was trying to widgetize a non-widget theme from a couple years ago. The theme in question was from the pre-sidebar widget days and there are many good themes on this site that fall in that category. So rather than providing a fix to each theme individually, we decided to write a short and easy tutorial for one and all.
Here’s what you might need in addition to access to your WP Admin panel, you need to have access to your server via FTP to add a functions.php file to your theme folder if it does not exist. So let’s get started:
1) If you open your sidebar.php file or any other file where your sidebar elements like categories, archives, blogroll or whatever else that people fancy reside, you will notice it is invariably in an unordered list format. Usually it will be as below:
<ul>
<li>
<h3>Categories</h3>
<ul class=”categories”>
<?php wp_list_cats(’sort_column=name&hide_empty=0′); ?>
</ul><h3>Archives</h3>
<ul class=”archives”>
<?php get_archives(’monthly’,”,”,’<li>’,'</li>’,”); ?>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Your default sidebar need not necessarily have this very code, it could be anything, it could even be a JavaScript as in the case with the Japanese Cherry Blossom theme that triggered this post. Also, it’s not a must to have h2 as the heading, although that is what the widget sidebar uses. We will fix that in the CSS so let’s not worry about it for now.
2) You need to just add two lines of code to this mark up, one at the top and one at the bottom of the list as shown below:
<ul>
<?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar() ) : else : ?>
<li>
<h3>Categories</h3>
<ul class=”categories”>
<?php wp_list_cats(’sort_column=name&hide_empty=0′); ?>
</ul><h3>Archives</h3>
<ul class=”archives”>
<?php get_archives(’monthly’,”,”,’<li>’,'</li>’,”); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
3) Open functions.php if you have one in the theme, if not, create a file, call it functions.php and add this line to it:
<?php
if (function_exists(’register_sidebars’)) register_sidebars(1, array(’before_widget’ => ”,’after_widget’ => ”));
?>
Note how I highlighted the 1 in the above code, it indicates the number of widget boxes in the whole theme. Since in the above example, we created only one dynamic sidebar, we will leave it at 1.
One last step that is seldom needed is in cases where h2 is not used in the default unordered list as heading. Say h3 was used as in our example, the easiest hack to address this would be to open style.css and look for styling for h3, copy and paste it right below (or above) the h3 styling and call it h2 instead. For example, say you find the following code for h3 in style.css:
h3{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.15em;
font-weight: normal;
}
Copy paste and make it h2 like below:
h2{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.15em;
font-weight: normal;
}h3{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.15em;
font-weight: normal;
}
That is pretty much it, the theme is now widget ready.
Additional Usage and Styling
Say you need 2 widget bars now, simply follow the same example as above, but when you create widgets, make sure it’s as below:
<?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
Unordered list
<?php endif; ?><?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?>
Another unordered list
<?php endif; ?>
then in the functions file, change the 1 to 2 as below:
<?php
if (function_exists(’register_sidebars’)) register_sidebars(2, array(’before_widget’ => ”,’after_widget’ => ”));
?>
You can take it one step further and add a specific styling before and after the widget as shown below (I’ve used <em> as an example where x is the number of widgetized sidebar lists):
<?php
if (function_exists(’register_sidebars’)) register_sidebars(x, array(’before_widget’ => ‘<em>‘,’after_widget’ => ‘</em>‘));
?>
Specific fix for Japanese Cherry Blossom Theme
Karen wanted the 3rd bottom column to be widgetized. We open sidebar.php and find this as the 3rd column/block elements:
<div class=”block”>
<h3>In Other News</h3>
<ul class=”counts”>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/krisandapril?extended;count=1″></script>
<noscript><a href=”http://del.icio.us/krisandapril”>my del.icio.us</a></noscript>
</div>
Right away I can tell there is an issue, the open unordered list <ul> is not closed with a </ul>, so we add it like below (although this step is unnecessary):
<div class=”block”>
<h3>In Other News</h3>
<ul class=”counts”>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/krisandapril?extended;count=1″></script>
<noscript><a href=”http://del.icio.us/krisandapril”>my del.icio.us</a></noscript>
</div>
</ul>
Next we gut out the del.icio.us Java, so we end with this:
<div class=”block”>
<h3>In Other News</h3>
<ul class=”counts”></ul>
Then we add the famous dynamic sidebar call like below:
<div class=”block”>
<h3>In Other News</h3>
<ul class=”counts”>
<?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar() ) : else : ?><?php endif; ?>
</ul>
and add the following code to the empty functions.php file that came with the theme.
<?php
if (function_exists(’register_sidebars’)) register_sidebars(1, array(’before_widget’ => ”,’after_widget’ => ”));
?>
The style.css for this theme shows that both h2 and h3 are styled alike, so all you will need then is the sidebar widget plugin and you are good to go.
Hope this helps!
Tagged: CMS, Copyrights and Licenses, Dark Helium, Dot Dot Dot, How to widgetize, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Tips, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tutorials, WordPress plugins, wpsnap
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Sandbox Design Competition Results
Posted by Snap! on August 6th, 2007
Early results are out, a round of applause for all the participants.
Although some of the results are surprising, rest assured, you will see many Sandbox based themes rolling into wpSnap shortly.
Tagged: Best of WordPress, DJFX, Design Competition, Dot Dot Dot, Keyboard Shortcuts, New Release, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Resources, Sandbox Theme, Selection, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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New WordPress Themes for August 6, 2007
Posted by Snap! on August 6th, 2007
Grungy Splatter designed by ChiQ Montes is a vibrant new WordPress theme.
Mimbo Magazine by Darrenhoyt is a new magazine-style Wordpress theme with no images and minimal CSS styling. Ideal for celebrity websites.
Blue Pro is a 2 column blue theme designed by Simnor.
Cherry Swirls designed by Depi.
HeartShaped designed by Limpit.
Allegory Kiss designed by ThemeArena is a two column Wordpress theme, with full widget support that has a right column and navigation links in the footer.
Brownie and MistyBlue distributed by Romow.
V2-WP by wordpressthemesbiz. (No links provided)
Lovely Pets and Trendy Cars by Mochtar Djoko. (No links provided)
Tagged: Allegory Kiss, Big Tech Blog, Blogging, Brownie, Celebrity WordPress Themes, Cherry Swirls, Dot Dot Dot, Heart Shaped, Mimbo Magazine, Misty Blue, New WP Themes, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prosumer, Web Design, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpsnap
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Sandbox Design Competition - and the Winner is…
Posted by Snap! on August 5th, 2007
It’s too early to call, but one thing is for sure, the 40 or so designers and enthusiasts who put in their time and effort deserve a big round of applause. With that said, without being too critical and hopefully the judges are not reading this, we picked a few we feel will have a significant impact on the results tomorrow and listed them here. At this point we feel the need to make sure you all know, we have no affiliation with this competition, so we are basing this list purely on the designers work and not who they are.
To demo all the themes, visit Sandbox Live Preview and use the dropdown box on the right top to jump between designs. We also have individual demo links below. You can even download the designs all at once or individually.
Listed alphabetically:
Blackbox: Hit and miss, if the site heading stayed in place in FF, this theme has a good chance of making a dent, the fact that we are mentioning it irrespective of the issue means we really dig this theme!
Blueberry: Dark, very well designed, Dean’s experience shows in every bit of detail presented.
Blueberry Dreams: If there is one theme that will end up getting a lot of usage for the simple reason that it is very straightforward and easy to use, it’s Blueberry Dreams, reminds me of the WP default template.
Chocolate Vanilla: A very simple and usable design, reminds me of the WP classic template.
CITYscape: A very generic styling, will appeal to many users and will get good usage.
Crystal Liberty: A very usable design, will definitely get a lot of attention and usage, must see.
Diurnal: Usable- you can change the “color changing as per time of day” header if you need to and you’ll get a great 3 column Sandbox theme.
Essay: Very usable, simple and ample room for all your content and sidebar elements.
Hourglass: Good usage of graphics, color and attention to details. Must see.
Promised Land and Walk in the Shadows: Adam should get the Most talented- Graphics usage award- unfortunately there is no such offered. It appears like a lot of work went into his work, two thumbs up for his two themes.
Milkia: Simple, minimal, will get good usage.
MIX: Left and right sidebar is a popular choice, will get usage for that very reason.
Moo-Point: This theme takes minimalism to the next level by making a Sandbox theme like the Sandbox theme itself! Very bold move, or should I say Moo.
Oranges: Orange, white and black work well with users, if there is a generic header alternative this theme will get good usage.
Oriole: Neat and simple.
Picnic: Experimental and creative, this theme sets itself apart from the rest, must see.
Sakeena: Arty- soothing colors, good site hierarchy.
SandPress: Web 2ish, generic so many users can and will use.
Shades of Gray: Good for users looking for a fluid, content centric, minimal theme.
Takimata: Out-of-the-box design, bold, it is search bot friendly, but is it user friendly too?
Tiffany Blue: Very usable theme, but watch out for long page names as it will run into the image in the sidebar as in the live preview.
Veracity: Dark minimal, very usable, no images, content centric, top notch.
Wrock It: Dark but soothing, very content centric and with a little tweak will fit most sites.
Tagged: DJFX, Design Competition, Design Inspiration, Dot Dot Dot, Free Downloads, Inspiration, Keyboard Shortcuts, New WP Themes, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prosumer, RSS Feeds, Red, Resources, Sandbox Theme, Social Bookmarking, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress designers, wpsnap
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Think Color
Posted by Snap! on August 3rd, 2007
We often find seasoned bloggers using clean templates with little or no color and hardly any imagery. Colors and graphics do make a theme visually appealing, however they do conflict with the content if not used carefully. All themes cannot be plain and generic though, so for those of you who love colors and are constantly looking for inspiration, here are a few resources (which some of you might be familiar with) to jazz up your themes!
COLOUR lovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends by providing not only color galleries, but a palette of the trendiest colors in the blogosphere based on a variety of genres. It would serve as a good reference guide for web design, architectural specifications, interiors, product design, ad campaigns, magazines, etc. You can also suggest a website of your choice for an add. It’s cool and contemporary, and one of the hottest sites for color resources.
Color Combos offers a variety of irresistible features such as:
Combo Tester: Extracts colors from websites, gives complimentary color options, gives text color options, and you can even try your own template with different header, sidebar, footer color and text options.
Color Library: For color combination ideas
Articles: On colors, color meaning and application.
Daily color scheme (Beta) provides you one inspirational and usable easy color scheme a day. If you do not want to use the colorpicker or the eyedropper tool, this site is for you. As of now, you cannot make a search to get instant color information of a site that is not listed in their archives. The enhanced search feature will definitely make it a steal.
The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day with 4 colors, along with its hexadecimal values. Each daily palette has the option to change your background from black to white and back again. Previous palettes are saved for one week.
Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Mix, match, darken, lighten, and add your own color combinations to the gallery.
Tagged: Artistic tools, Bittbox, Colors, Colour lovers, Design Inspiration, Dot Dot Dot, Graphics, Hearts, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Resources, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress Themes, color burn, color combos, color schemer studio, daily color schemes, wpsnap
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