Rustic Portrait
Latest Version: 1.01 Updated on: 2015/05/11 One of my popular themes, Photo Frame allows you to customize the photos in the middle frame. This time, I made a similar theme where you are not placing your photo in the standard frame. Instead, your photos/portraits are positioned inside an open torn paper with some depth. I used grey as the main color to make the photo stand out in this theme. Hope you like the Rustic Portrait theme 🙂 Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. Main Features – Rotating pictures in the frame – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Blog Title and Description By default, the blog title and description are using the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: – Open “header.php” – Remove this code <<?php echo $tmp;?> id="blogtitle"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></<?php echo $tmp;?>> <div id="subtitle"><?php bloginfo('description');?></div> – Save the file and upload to your server – Download this PSD zip file (including the font that I use, which is available free from dafont.com.) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop program – Add the title and description using your desired font – Save the image using this name: bg_header.gif – upload the image to your server in the /images folder to replace the old one Image Customization When you refresh the page, you’ll see different photos being displayed. Those images can be customized by following the instruction below: 1. Resize your images to W320 x H280 px. 2. Upload your images into the /custom/ folder. There are a few images currently in the folder. You can delete and upload your own one. 3. Only *.jpg and *.gif format are accepted. 4. The filenames should not contain “space”. 5. The uploaded images will show up in the hole. 6. If you upload more than 1 image, one of the images will show up in the hole randomly. User Showcase The followings are a few examples of nice modification of this theme from other users. You can view all the nice design in the forum theme showcase. View my other themes Change log 2009-03-19 v1.00 – Release 2009-05-11 v1.01 – Fix Tag Cloud widget display problem 2009-07-14 – Theme is compatible with WP...
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WordPress 2.7 introduces a lot of enhancements and one of the major improvements of this new version is the new comment functionality. In WordPress 2.7, comments can be paged, threaded, etc. All of these functionalities are built-in but your theme must support it. Before we proceed with the topic, it is important that you understand that enhanced comments are optional and its default is in the off mode, even after you have done the changes. In order to change the setting, you have to go to Settings –> Discussion panel to turn the feature on. Strictly speaking, the word “compatibility” is not an appropriate term. The old themes will still work in the new version. The only issue here is that you will need the theme to support the threading, paging and the javascript enhancements. This makes it important that your theme’s comments be compatible with WordPress 2.7. In order to unlock the potentials of WordPress 2.7’s comments, a couple of theme modifications are needed. The first step would be to save the file as legacy.comments.php in the theme directory. After this, you have to create a WordPress 2.7-only comments file and save it as comments.php. The procedure is to check the version of WordPress that has been installed. In the theme’s functions.php file, add the following code: This completes the entire...
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Latest Version: 1.02 Updated on: 2015/05/26 Last year, I asked for your suggestion about what you would like to see for my upcoming new themes. Some of you suggested themes that cover 4 seasons. I already had an autumn-style theme, Maple Leaf. This new one that I created is for the winter season. For the theme users residing in the Southern Hemisphere like Australia and New Zealand, the Winter Fun theme becomes suitable for you this time of the year. Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. Main Features – Nice background. Best viewed with a resolution of 1280px – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Blog Title and Description By default, the blog title and description are using the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: – Open “header.php” – Remove this code <div id=”blogtitle”><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></div> <div id=”subtitle”><?php bloginfo(’description’);?></div> – Save the file and upload to your server – Download this PSD zip file (including the font that I use, which is available free from dafont.com.) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop program – Add the title and description using your desired font – Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg – upload the image to your server in the /images folder to replace the old one User Showcase The followings are a few examples of nice modification of this theme from other users. You can view all the nice design in the forum theme showcase. View my other themes Change log 2009-03-10 v1.00 – Release 2009-05-11 v1.01 – Move javascript to seperate .js file, modify the javascript to fix the height of dynamic content. 2009-07-14 – Theme is compatible with WP 2.8 2010-03-26 – Fix JavaScript problem in...
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When you install my theme, you’ll notice that there is a php script in the footer that appears like this: <?php echo templatelite_show_links();?> In this post, I give a list of Q&A explaining what this footer script is all about. What is the function of the footer script? This footer script allows me to track the URLs that have installed my theme.  It also allows me to add links to the footer. Why do you want to include the script to the theme? There are two main reasons why I include the script: 1) I will be able to know which themes interest you more.  Thus, I’ll create more themes that suit your needs. For example, within a certain time frame, if theme #1 (travel related) has been used by 100 domains as compare to 200 domains using theme #2 (also travel related), it is clear that theme #2 is more popular. Hence, I’ll create more themes using the design style of theme #2. 2) I will be able to monetize from the themes by getting advertisers to sponsor my themes. Using this method, my advertisers know exactly which sites link to them so they get what they pay. Without regular income from my advertisers, I won’t be able to offer more quality themes for your free downloads. Can I remove the script? Yes and no. Yes if you pay $20. No if you want to use my themes for free. Is the script safe? Definitely! The function of the script is to get RSS and display. It is similar as normal RSS. My themes’ users are my lifeline and I won’t risk it. I have taken all necessary measures to make sure that you won’t get malicious content brought by the script. If you still don’t feel comfortable, you can study the code (it is not encrypted) and see how I made it. How many links will be displayed in the footer? I will only display a maximum of 4 advertisers’ links in the footer. Will the script slow down my blog? No. You’ll only query my server 4 times a day and each time last less than 10 seconds. The slowdown is negligible. If your link server is down, will it affect my blog? No! Your blog will function as per normal independent of my server. Continue to page 2 for the detail explanation of the script… …continue from page 1 The script is encrypted. However, I show you what is inside the script so you can confirm that it is safe to use. Now I’ll explain the structure of the script: Only your home page will check my server at an interval of about 6 hours. If time out (eg. our server is down), the checking will be extended after 6 hours. This means that the script will check my server maximum 4 times/day The script will send the 5 items below to my server and save them in my database. – blog home url – blog title – theme id – theme version – theme name I am using the WordPress inner function, fetch_rss() to retrieve and parse the RSS feed from my server. The script will calculate the number of text links being displayed and limit the number to maximum of 4 only. Script explanation (to ensure the script is safe): $post_variables = array(… ); Data passes to my server, you can see that it sends only blog url, title, the theme ID, ver and name. No other information are passed. $links=strip_tags($links,”<a>”); This is double confirm to make sure that only text and links are...
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