2008-09-11 posted in Wordpress Themes
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Immerse your visitors in a breathtaking Beach Holiday theme.

Latest Version: 1.10
Updated on: 2008/12/21

Beach Holiday Wordpress Theme

Features

  • Nice graphics in the header and footer.
  • Best viewed with a resolution of 1280px. Viewed with 1600px resolution is also nice.


Change log
2008-09-20 V1.00 - Release
2008-11-04 V1.01 - Fixed several bugs like reversed page menu order and image overlapping problem.
2008-12-21 V1.10 - - Comment section support paging and threading (Wordpress 2.7 feature)
- Exclude the pages in menu if you set it in widgets.

Upcoming change

  • Add a drop-down menu in the header links.
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72 Responses
  1. drlovecat says:

    really nice bg.
    wow…. it makes me feel relax.

    i need to go to the beach!

  2. Andy says:

    Love the theme - BUT just one problem - the top menu displays the items in REVERSE page ID order! Tried to edit the header file but can’t for the life of me see how its doing it!

  3. Brian says:

    Andy, you can edit header.php, find

    <div id="menu"><ul><? echo menu_separator(wp_list_pages(’echo=0&sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=desc&depth=1&title_li=’)); ?></ul></div>

    and replace with

    <div id="menu"><ul><? echo menu_separator(wp_list_pages("echo=0&sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=desc&depth=1&title_li=")); ?></ul></div>

    just add “&sort_order=desc” into it.

  4. Andy says:

    Yes, figured that out myself too after a crash course in PHP! Thanks again, love the theme and it suits my site perfectly!

  5. This theme is perfect for a new website I’m constructing, but I’d like to alter the header to make it more location specific.

    Is there a way I can change the image easily - (do you have a photoshop layout available?).

    Appreciate the excellent quality themes you have available. I’ve used the ‘photo frame’ one already!

    Elizabeth

  6. Brian says:

    You can get the photoshop file at a cost of $30. Please send the payment to my Paypal via wpsubmit (at) templatelite (dot) com

  7. Brendon says:

    I’m having trouble installing this theme. I recently installed Wordpress 2.6.2. I unzipped the file to wp-content/themes. In the design tab of wordpress, I chose the Beach Holiday theme (the screenshot image was not displaying correctly). I then activated the Beach Theme theme and when previewing it… it looks like its not finding the stylesheet (or images) correctly… just plain html. Any ideas? Thanks!

  8. Brian says:

    Brendon, I see that you have got Beach Holiday installed successfully :)

  9. Dave says:

    Nice looking theme! I like the message in the bottle look.

  10. Mike says:

    I am having the same problem Brendon is having with this theme. I installed Wordpress 2.6.3, copied the “beach-holiday” folder over to my server in the theme folder. Logged in and tried to activate it. The theme thumbnail is showing along with the name and info. But when I click on it, it pops up a blank window with “Activate at top…” I clicked on that and everything went blank. Nothing worked so I had to reinstall WP again.

    Odd thing is, your “photo-frame” theme does work. I am wondering if your beach theme is incompatible with wp 2.6.2…??? I wish Brendon would post what he did to get this to work.

    Any ideas? Thanks!

  11. Brian says:

    Mike, I’ll release a new version 1.01 in the next 2 days to resolve this issue. Please check back this site again.

  12. Mike says:

    Brian, Thanks for the updated version of this theme. Everything works great!

  13. Gerrie says:

    I like the theme but i came to one issue:
    When i search for a word (in the bottle) the results do not contain the ‘more…’ option. So you have to click on the header of the resulting message to display the whole message. Seems a problem with the “the_excerpt()” function ?? in the “index.php”. I do not have much php knowledge so please help me. i am using the 2008-09-20 V1.00 version of the theme.

    When you start the preview on the top of this actual page (beach holiday) you see what i mean.

    Great theme !

    Gerrie (Netherlands)

  14. Gerrie says:

    eeeh.. i ment that i am using the V1.01 version !

    Gerrie

  15. Brian says:

    Gerrie, your problem is similar to one of our other theme users. Please refer to this post for details:
    http://www.templatelite.com/maple-leaf-free-wordpress-theme/#comment-128

  16. Gerrie says:

    Thanks Brian,

    For the time beeing this is fine, but what i wanted was a short description from the message (a few rules) and then a ‘read more…’ permalink to the whole message. Now the whole message appears in the search results. In the default template form WP you can see what i mean.

    But i really like to thank you for this answer because my visitors are not that smart to click on the header ;-)

    Gerrie

  17. Brian says:

    Gerrie, you can try this:

    <div class="entry">
    	<?php if (is_search()){
    		the_excerpt();
    	?>
    		<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read <?php the_title(); ?>">read more ...</a>
    	<?php
    		}else{
    			the_content('more...');
    		}
    	?>
    </div>
    

    But remember, all the search results will show “read more” no matter how long it is. Hope this is what you want :D

  18. Gerrie says:

    YES ! This is what i want !

    Thank you very much for your GREAT support,

    Gerrie

  19. Gerrie says:

    hmmm, new challenge:

    I want to display my comments in reverse order (Latest comment first, oldest last) so i installed & activated the http://www.zyblog.de/wordpress-plugins/reverse-order-comments/ plugin and edited the single.php. Unfortunately nothings happens…

    Greetings,

    Gerrie

  20. Gerrie says:

    Update:
    When i use the Maple Leaf theme the comments appear in reverse order. So i guess a mistake in in the single.php of the Beach theme.

    Gerrie

  21. Maurice says:

    Hi,

    I loved this theme for my new Cayman Islands blog but have encountered a problem when viewing in the latest version of IE the post text has shrunk and is virtually unreadable. It’s fine in Firefox and I’ve not made any CSS changes.

    I’m using the latest version of both WP and the theme.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

    Maurice

  22. Maurice says:

    Hi again,

    Sorry, I have resolved my problem which was traced to a widget. All appears OK on IE now.

  23. Brian says:

    Gerrie, the comment structure for the Beach Holiday and Maple Leaf theme are the same. Since it works in Maple Leaf, please check if you have changed any coding for the Beach Holiday.

    If you can’t make it work, I would suggest you wait for the next Wordpress release 2.7 because that version will add a special feature in the comment section.

  24. Brice says:

    Hi Brian,

    It’s brice again. I was waiting an answer from you after I posted a comment almost 2 weeks ago, that hasn’t even been approved. I don’t question that.. I don’t expect you to show the comment but would it be possible to just have an answer to my question please? I would appreciate if you could even tell me via email.

    as you apparently had a look at my blog today… I was wondering if it is possible to have different font sizes for pages and posts, or to modify the post/page header image to have a larger text to fit in it?
    I’m sorry if I bothered you or if my question is inappropriate, I just wanna know.. thanks

    Congratulations again for the theme by the way, it’s awesome!

  25. Brian says:

    Brice, sorry, maybe your previous comment was filtered by spam filter, I just clicked delete all without checking…. :(

    Ok. Here’s a simple way to change the page title font size.

    Edit page.php, find

    <span class="posttitle">

    Change to

    <span class="posttitle" style="font-size:25px;">

    Then, change the font-size in style.css for posttitle to 17px, and the font size for the post title and page title will be different.

  26. Brice says:

    Thank you for your great support Brian! that’s exactly what I was looking for…

    Thanks again

  27. Tammy says:

    I’m using the Beach Holiday theme with wordpress 2.6.5. Everything is great except it can’t find the pages I have created. Any suggestions?

  28. Brian says:

    Tammy, may I take a look at your site?

  29. Azmi says:

    I was interested to Beach Holiday theme. But i have problem in the tag cloud, why it doesn’t function? I use wordpress 2.7, there are no options for this widget.

    My site http://dbpraktis.site88.net/

  30. BigELK176 says:

    The AWSOM News Announcement plugin is work under this theme? I installed the plugin and found it NOT displayed the News Announcement above my posts on the index page. Can you help to check the problem?

    • Brian says:

      I haven’t checked if the Awsom News plugin works on this theme but it should have no problem since the coding of this theme is very basic.

      Please check the installation guide at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/awsom-news-announcement/installation/

      • BigELK176 says:

        I found after the plug installed the news displayed in “Most Viewed” widget top instead.
        I try to install another similar plugin “Genki Announcement”, and have the same problem.

        If I change to wordpress default theme, these 2 plugins works correctly. Hope you can take a look into this problem.

        • BigELK176 says:

          It is “Recently Posts” widget, not “Most Viewed” , update.

        • Brian says:

          Hi BigELK176,

          Having studied the “AWSOM News Announcement” and “Genki Announcement” plugin, I found out that they include the wordpress hook “loop_start”. The problem with this code is that the plugin will be placed in the wrong position if the sidebar (in which “recent posts” or any widgets that are using the loop function) is called before the content, e.g. left sidebar.

          So to use this kind of plugin, it is advisable that you insert the code into index.php manually.

          1. For AWSOM News Announcement, change to NO for “Enable News Announcement On Index Page above Posts …?”
          Then insert the code below into index.php, before if (have_posts()) :

          < ?php if (function_exists('display_my_news_announcement')) { display_my_news_announcement(0); } ?>

          2. For Genki Announcement, you should select the “Show where I insert the < ?php if(function_exists('genki_announcement')) { genki_announcement(); } ?> template function”
          Then insert the code below into index.php, before if (have_posts()) :
          < ?php if(function_exists('genki_announcement')) { genki_announcement(); } ?>

          Hope this helps.

  31. BigELK176 says:

    Hi, Brain,
    Thanks for you explanation, the problem is solved!

    BTW, it seems to insert the code below into index.php, should before ” < ?php if (have_posts()) ” , instead of “if (have_posts())” , right?

  32. Sarah says:

    oh, this one is definately my favorite! I absolutely LOVE the star fish bullets!! hahah. So fun and playful!
    I just changed my layout (just days ago infact) I think I’m going to download this, and wait til closer to summer to lay it out. ;) Thank you for your time and effort put into these great layouts!

  33. Hi, thank you for the awesome rockin’ theme! I am using it in my blog right now and it’s very refreshing and appropriate - the header image looks like the beaches here in Dubai!

    I encountered a problem, though. I see that the theme supports paging of the comments but when I click the other pages of the comments, it displays and error! Kindly check out my post with more than 100 comments..
    http://www.sandierpastures.com/giveaway/giveaway-shi-shu-style.html

  34. Gerd says:

    Hi,
    Thanks for this beautifull theme. I was searching everywhere for something tropical and found it here! Well done.

  35. Lynn says:

    Hi,
    I love your theme! I need help adjusting the main body width on a page. I have an Amazon astore that I am plugging in. The store has three columns (can’t change it). Only 2 1/2 columns show on my page. I tried chaning the width to ‘auto’ but that didn’t work. Can you please advise? Thanks so much

  36. Rob says:

    I am using this theme on http://www.condosinfocenter.com. How do I get the left nav to work? Thanks,

    • Brian says:

      Hi Rob,

      I found that all your links are dead that is not caused by the theme.

      Please go to wp-admin and display all plugins to see.

      If the links still do not work, please check your .htaccess and see if there are any problems.

  37. Albania says:

    hello! Can you help me how to install this template in the blogger?
    Thank you!

  38. francesco says:

    Great Theme! I ‘d like to change the theme in my website focused about an endurance’s mountain Bike contest in Sicily.
    So I ‘d prefer a header like Sicilian’s landscapes. I read that another friend had the same problem and you replied that you’d sent “Pothoshop files…” please could you explain how to use? It needs for dimensions and cutting of new file I could insert ad header? Please tellme more so I purchase this very nice theme!

    • Brian says:

      Hi, you can purchase the PSD file of this theme at $50 (http://www.templatelite.com/donations/). Then you can modify the header of the PSD file to the design you like. When it is done, you need to cut the header into two portions and save them.
      header1.jpg (960×184px)
      header2.jpg (960×266px)

  39. Dorrina says:

    Thank you for creating such an awesome theme! I just have one question…when I create a sub-category under a parent, it shows up as a parent category. Is there a fix for this? For example, I may have the main category as “Pizza” and a sub-category as “Pepperoni”, I would want to see it as this:

    Pizza
    - Pepperoni

    Thanks again so much! I truly love this theme. :)

  40. Tami says:

    Hi,
    I love this theme! I however can’t seem to get comments to appear on pages although in my wordpress 2.7.1 I have enable comments clicked on for pages. The comments work fine for my posts just not my pages. Can you help? Thank you :)

  41. Lauren says:

    I want to remove the search box and rss image - can you let me know how this can be done please.
    Thanks

    • Brian says:

      The search box and the RSS image are combined with the background. The only way to remove it is to change the background (better modify using the PSD file) and modify some code.

  42. Lauren says:

    Hi Brian,

    Please advise how I can get hold of the PSD file. Thankyou

  43. Lauren says:

    Hi Brian,

    Payment sent, look forward to receiving the PSD file.

    Thanks

  44. Dorrina says:

    Hello…I seem to be having a display issue with Internet Explorer 7. The articles show up fine and everything appears to work in the Firefox browser. However in IE, you can see the categories and when you go to click on the article, it shows the title and nothing else. Some of the other articles that do show up have this thing going on. All of these issues appear randomly and seem to have no common theme to them. Thank you in advance.

  45. Traci says:

    Hi! Great theme. I really like it. I can’t get anything but the calendar to show in the left sidebar though. I’d love to get the starfish bullets to show along with the recent post list and blogroll. Any suggestions? Thx!

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