The Conceditor WP Silver Theme is my second free theme for the WordPress Community to use as see fit. Modify it, change it, colorize it — do what you like, but keep the copyright information in the footer intact. Other than that — enjoy!
A Few Words About WP Silver
This theme utilizes the following plugins:
WP CSS Dropdown Menu by Isaac Rowntree
Social Bookmarking Reloaded by Valent
You do not have to use any of them, but not using WP CSS Dropdown Menu leaves you without the main menu.
Features
WP Silver is not just another WordPress theme — it´s more to it than meet the eye. Read here:
- Fully widgetized with three custom sidebars
- 100% CSS — easy to customize the look and feel to suite your needs
- Hybrid blog/magazine style
- 6 different front page category loops
- Three different custom page templates out of the box: blog, archives and links
- Three level CSS dropdown menu (need plugin) with heavily customized CSS by me
- Utilization of Custom Fields for neat image display on the front page
- Built in image transparency for linked images
- Customized excerpt loop for the front page
And more…
Installation
1. Get yourself a copy of WordPress 2.5.1 (or later) and install it.
2. Download the plugins WP CSS Dropdown Menu and Social Bookmarking Reloaded.
3. Activate WP CSS Dropdown Menu but do NOT copy the stylesheet content to the stylsheet that comes with WP Silver since it´s already taken care of (besides that I have heavily customized Isaacs code).
4. Activate Social Bookmarking Reloaded and make sure that you configure it via the administrative interface that comes with the plugin. Do not forget to set the plugin display option to “Display the plugin when a single post is viewed” — otherwise the front page layout of WP Silver will be rendered useless.
5. Open up the file index.php and set the following options:
- Set the six Features Module category boxes to reflect the categories of your choice. Find thye following lines of code and change the CAT-value and the INCLUDE-value to the categories of your choice. Repeat that for all the six feature boxes. The theme will look strange if you do not specify six feature categories and use them in your front page loop:
-
query_posts(’showposts=1&cat=10′);
wp_list_categories(’include=10&title_li=&style=none’); - Find the DIV with ID “rss-holder” and put the link to the page which uses the BLOG page template (the same URL as for the top menu BLOG page).
6. Create three pages from within your WordPress administration interface: Blog, Archives and Links (you may of course name them anything you like but you should keep the names as short as possible to not crap up the CSS top menu). Use the three different page templates for each of the pages. Use the dropdown menu in the Page Template option in the “Write Page” section of WordPress and pick your choice. Now your pages are set up.
7. Install whichever widgets you want and choose the prefered sidebar (right, left, middle) in the Widgets section in which you want to display your widgets.
You´re finished.
Using Custom Fields
For the front page loop images in the six featured sections (categories) WP Silver uses Custom Fields. The key should be set to “Image” (without the citation characters and with a capital “I”) and the value is simply the name of your image.
Like this: Key: Image and Value: name-of-image.jpg.
The pictures should be uploaded to the folder “featured” in the WP Silver template folder. If you want your images elsewhere you need to change the paths in each of the six featured boxes in the index.php file. Find this:
bloginfo(’template_url’); ?>/featured/
and change to whatever place you like on your server.
Different browsers
The WP Silver theme has been developed for Firefox. It should work just fine on Opera, Netscape and Safari. Explorer has some issues which I simply did not have time to fix. So, feel free to report bugs as well as solutions here. In fact, I would be happy if someone could hack the CSS to fit Explorer and then report back to me. Creds will go into the stylesheet file.
Good luck and enjoy!
Demo & Download
Download WP Silver here | Demo WP Silver here
Want this theme as a PREMIUM version?
The PREMIUM version is IE 8 savvy and has been tested on WP 2.7. The PREMIUM version also includes a FULL translation into SWEDISH or GERMAN and we support you via email until you have it up and running on your domain, as well as changing the header to include your logotype. Updates will be FREE forever and we will also hand over the Photoshop files where applicable.
The price? USD 99 for the full kit.
Drop a mail to support [at] conceditor.se and we’ll get back to you.
Changelog
May 16, 2008: Uploaded the WP Silver V1.0 theme to the server.
Bugs
June 11, 2008: RMX Themes fixed som XHTML issues in the index.php and footer.php. The fixes can be found here: http://www.rmxthemes.com/2008/wp-silver-xhtml-fixes/. Download the fix and just replace the index.php and footer.php with RMX Themes files.
Other Stuff
Please comment on all issues concerning WP Silver here: silver.wp-magazine.se.
If you choose to use the WP Silver theme in any shape or form, let me know and I´ll post a link to it on the WP Silver page.
Did you have a glance att my WP Gold theme?
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Great theme, man! Gonna use this one for sure! keep’em comin’!
By the way, forgot… How do I cahnge the opacity for the images?
Thank you. I am working on a new one.
Find this in the stylesheet:
img {
border: #cacaca 1px dotted;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=60);
-moz-opacity: 0.6;
}
img:hover {
border: cacaca 1px dotted;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1;
}
Just play around with it to achieve your prefered opacity.
There is an issue with Explorer. The frontpage does not render correctly. The middle column does not align with the left and right ones.
Patric, I know. Unfortunately I have no time right now to look into that. Anyone that does, feel free. Post me the solution and I´ll put it in the stylsheet cred part. Firefox, Opera, Netscape and Safari works fine though. I did not have time to test on Linux based brosers yet but as soon as I get Ubuntu up and running on my DELL laptop, I´ll test that.
Great theme! I´ll look into the Explorer bug.
Thanx! Just let me know and I´ll post the solution here.
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I was looking for a WP theme to use when writing for Nanowrimo and this one might work very well! Besides it looks more than fine in 800×600 screen resolutions: there are a lot of users that still use that resolution for a number of reasons. If I use it / tweak this theme, I will let you know. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this great theme!
Whaow, great theme. Exactly what I was looking for. I adapted a few months ago the Mimbo Theme to make it look a little bit like yours (you can check it here http://des-gens.net/en) but I can’t make it work with IE. I am gonna switch for yours asap !!! But is there a way to preview it somewhere ?
Thank you. You need to change some parts in the CSS to get your modified Mimbo work correctly in Explorer. The main DIV need some missing properties for one. But on the other hand… Why not go for WP Silver as you said yourself.
The preview link is above (or here: http://silver.wp-magazine.se/).
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Nice theme. Do you have a file copy in zip not rar?
WinZip, for instance, handles .rar files without problems as do most other Zip utilities.