I am biased but for my money Manji is the coolest by far:)
Manji…? Can you elaborate more into this?
Trinidadhunni,
have you see this page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_List/One_Column
It’s pretty extensive and its in the WordPress Docs section.
No I have not seen this.
It does have one column but it still has the headers and what not. I am looking for a one column that can be used in iFrames you know something simple?
Pick a one column theme that you like and then in the header.php file remove this:
<div id="header">
<div id="headerimg">
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>
</div>
Just remove that from the header.php file and it should work fine.
There is no place to find iFrame capatible themes?
No. No serious designer is thinking about iframes, sorry.
Thousands of sites use iframes, and while it’s not my favorite technique, I doubt that no one is thinking about it. How would one know that anyway, mind-reader?
Lots of people put a 1-column iFrame as a method of showing a blog within your existing webpage. If you do what garryc said it won’t be too hard. Just take an existing 1-col theme and hack out any header/footer stuff that shows up.
Otherwise maybe a designer will see this thread and create a simple one. There was just a site in Your WordPress (section of this forum) a few days ago that was created like this. If I can think of the link I will repost it here. Someone did their site just that way. It was kind of a political site.
good luck with your site
*sigh* Well alright then. I had found one a year ago and well thy seemed to have closed down or something and I cannot find it again. And now it’s really really hard to find a theme/template that is iFrame based and such, as you said more and more people are basing thier site from WordPress and such. But I hope you do get the link and hopefully it will be helpful.
But thank you very much for both of your help.
There are tons of beautiful one column themes to choose from. and simply removing the header / footer info would work fine. I have to admit though, this can become confusing for search engines though. Where the pages that will get indexed are going to be pages that will get direct hit traffic direct from search engines… people won’t be able to navigate because there will be no references or a navigation menu.
Another option is, don’t use an iFrame and don’t display a theme at all — just write your WordPress blog, and use SpringWidgets to display the RSS feed of your WP blog on any HTML website,
http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/view/23
The springwidget is kind of like a 1-column, no header, no frills theme. But what it’s really like, is an RSS Reader or aggregator.
by the way this has nothin’ to do with wordpress widgets, just uses the same word ‘widget’ to mean a block that you can display on a webpage
The major problem with that is the widget is written in JavaScript and it is not machine readable, meaning search engines can not see it… so these HTML pages where he would display the widget would appear blank to search engines with zero content.
Good point garryconn, however his HTML pages will not appear blank to search engines.
I think what you meant to say is the search engines might not see the blog content in the SpringWidgets. They will still index the rest of the HTML, outside the SpringWidget, normally. For example let’s imagine he has a company website, and the website in HTML describes the company, the staff, the mission statement at the top of the page, and in the footer. Search engines already know about that site. In the middle he has the SpringWidgets showing “Recent News” (which is the blog). Only the Recent News is overlooked by search engines.
Yes you are right. I misunderstood. I thought it was being suggested to using with widget on a blank HTML page with no surrounding content.
<html>
<head>
<body>
<java widget>
and that was all..
If there is content on these html pages… then that content may get indexed. But the important part (the posts) will not.
Overall the best thing I think that could be done would be to remove the header and footer of a one column theme. At least then.. the posts could get crawled by bots.
Ultimately, Moshu is right… this whole thing is a bad idea. I am just trying to make the best case scenario out of it.
Even doing it the way I suggest will still confuse search engines.
Well, that will be up to the user whether they are concerned about search engines indexing the blog posts. Not everyone cares about that.
