Here’s a practical example of converting a style from the Style Competition into a theme. Unzip Pink Lilies in your wp-content/themes directory. This will create a pink_lilies directory. In the pink_lilies directory, add the following to the top of style.css:
/*
Theme Name: Pink Lilies
Theme URI: http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/styles/pink_lilies.zip
Description: Pink Lilies
Version: 1.5
Author: Naoko M.
Author URI: http://blog.detlog.org/
Template: classic
*/
You now have a Pink Lilies theme. The Style Competition stylesheets were designed to work with the templates that are now part of the Classic theme so everything should get along nicely.
I can see where this is headed.
It is generally true that you can use the 1.x styles with Classic in 1.5, but with an important “but”.
Classic in 1.5 adds H2 tags around the section titles in the sidebar, so some styles (like Toni for example) break because of this.
hello folks, I see alex posted my a design I made, though for some reason it’s displaying two blockquotes overlapping each other and I don’t know why.
http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/themes/blog/index.php?wptheme=Meadow
It looks bad, and I think I know why it is. I add a blockquote div to the css because I like my quotes to have an open and close tag. Now it seems without the div within the quote in the post, it overlaps by producing two of the same.
Would getting rid of the blockquote div work? I may have to modify and resubmit – I know this is a hassle for Alex as well, but I’ve never used the default quote method for WP because I just don’t like it. So any suggestions on what to do here?
Thanks in advance
So I read…oh well, I not that bothered anymore, I’ll wait a week.
I added the theme switcher to my side bar and the site looks right but I only have the default and classic, how do I add the url for all the themes?
Also my dashboard is now screwy with this but site does not show error
arning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/cafe789/public_html/kyles_eyes/wp-content/plugins/themeswitcher.php:2) in /home/cafe789/public_html/kyles_eyes/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6
not sure on the error – the theme switcher automatically looks for other themes with the tag for switching, which all of the designs have on Alex’s site, so all alex does is activate the plugin and any theme with the switcher will display the switcher – all you do is add it and nothing more.
2. Look for whitespace
1. you have to have uploaded ALL the themes in the themes directory (in their own subdirectories) in order to be able to select them with the theme_switcher.
No I did not think that I had to upload all the themes to my server, I thought that you would add the url to Alex’ site and pull them from there. Yeah bandwidth might be a strain for poor Alex.
It looks like the competition has about 100 themes, can you just add 5 to keep it simple?
It looks like the competition has about 100 themes, can you just add 5 to keep it simple?
Actually, I count 19 as of today. 🙂
Here is an example of how this would be implemented into the sidebar.php page of the default (Kubrick) theme:
<?php if (function_exists(‘wp_theme_switcher’)) { ?>
- <h2><?php _e(‘Themes’); ?></h2>
<?php wp_theme_switcher(); ?>
<?php } ?>
This does not work for classic is there a different method to implement it for classic? I can change it to default but once changed the them switcher disappears so I have to deactivate the plug in to get back to normal
deleted because wp works again, double post
whats the name of the theme used on alexking.org?
No theme used there yet jst added it and I only have two themes, a tweaked classic and default.
