09.11.2008
Beach Holiday
Beach Holiday
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  • 2 Columns
  • Fixed Width
  • Left Sidebar
  • Widget Ready
  • Wordpress Themes

Immerse your visitors in a breathtaking Beach Holiday theme.

  • 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.

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  • Add a drop-down menu in the header links.
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30 Responses

1
drlovecat 
Friday, 19. September 2008

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

i need to go to the beach!

2
Andy 
Thursday, 25. September 2008

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 
Thursday, 25. September 2008

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 
Wednesday, 1. October 2008

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

5
Elizabeth Richardson 
Wednesday, 8. October 2008

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 
Wednesday, 8. October 2008

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 
Sunday, 12. October 2008

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 
Monday, 13. October 2008

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

9
Dave 
Thursday, 16. October 2008

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

10
Mike 
Wednesday, 29. October 2008

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 
Monday, 3. November 2008

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 
Tuesday, 11. November 2008

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

13
Gerrie 
Saturday, 15. November 2008

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 
Saturday, 15. November 2008

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

Gerrie

15
Brian 
Monday, 17. November 2008

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 
Monday, 17. November 2008

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 
Monday, 17. November 2008

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 
Monday, 17. November 2008

YES ! This is what i want !

Thank you very much for your GREAT support,

Gerrie

19
Gerrie 
Tuesday, 18. November 2008

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 
Tuesday, 18. November 2008

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 
Sunday, 23. November 2008

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 
Sunday, 23. November 2008

Hi again,

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

23
Brian 
Monday, 24. November 2008

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 
Monday, 24. November 2008

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 
Monday, 24. November 2008

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 
Wednesday, 26. November 2008

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

Thanks again

27
Tammy 
Monday, 8. December 2008

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 
Saturday, 13. December 2008

Tammy, may I take a look at your site?

29
Azmi 
Monday, 22. December 2008

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
Brian 
Friday, 2. January 2009

Azmi, I see that your tag cloud is working.

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