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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Need theme suggestions for “website only” environment.Actually, the you can use almost any theme to do what you are describing. Use the control panel “Settings->Reading” control pane to make your home page a static page. Then use a plugin (WP Hide Post, for example) or WP 3 custom menu to hide the blog page.
Some themes may have control of which pages appear on your menu, but if you use a WP 3 compatible theme, you also have complete control over what is on the menu.
As a suggestion, you could try my theme: Twenty Ten Weaver, which is based on the default Twenty Ten theme, and lets you do lots of customization of colors, sidebars, fonts, and much more. But since it is WP 3 compatible, you can customize the menus a much as you like.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Anyone to recommend af beatyfull wordpress CMS themeTry my Twenty Ten child theme: Twenty Ten Weaver
While it is based on Twenty Ten, it comes with 15 predefined alternative themes, ready to use as is, or to customize. You are able to tweak colors, sidebars, fonts, and much more, all without knowing any CSS.
If you know CSS, then you can do almost anything you can imagine.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Starting from scratch or editing the default theme?Twenty Ten was designed in many ways to serve as a good starting point. You could start with the idea of completely modifying it, or you could also build a child theme based on it.
A child theme approach allows you to leave what you like alone, and only fiddle with what you want to change. The simplest child theme could simply consist of modifying the CSS rules in a child style.css.
Or you can modify header.php if you want to change the header, and so on. It really is a good way to start to build your own theme.
I built a child theme based on Twenty Ten that lets you tweak a lot of the attributes of Twenty Ten called Twenty Ten Weaver. I also built a very simple child theme that is intended to serve as a core for really building a child theme complete with theme admin panel. It includes a basic tutorial for building a child theme – available at the same site.
I built a couple of themes in the past, and building a child theme is much easier. Highly recommended.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Twenty Ten Theme adjustmentTry my Twenty Ten child theme, Twenty Ten Weaver. You can do some of what you want with just a few clicks. You can also completely replace the default header with a totally custom header with a few lines of HTML, and perhaps some CSS. But you can do a lot without fiddling at the level of detail.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: twentyten different background/image each pageIt is a two step process. First, you have to pick the “Set featured image” link usually found on the bottom right of the Edit Page / Edit Post page. That brings up the Media Library menu. You then select an image from there (think it needs to correspond to the theme image size, e.g. 940×180 for Twenty Ten). Then when you pick the “Show” option for an image, one of the options at the bottom of the image info pane is: “Use as Featured Image”. Pick that, and that image will be used for the page/post. Kind of non-obvious path, I think.
Don’t know about changing the background for each page, however.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 default theme editingThere are some CSS tweaks to do that described at the Thirty Ten site.
But my Twenty Ten child theme, Twenty Ten Weaver, lets you do that with a single check on the options menu, as well as tons of other tweaks to the Twenty Ten defaults. My solution is a bit different than the Thirty Ten in that it actually changes where the menu is generated, and doesn’t use CSS rules. Same for eiiminating the header image.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Twenty Ten menu on rightUse the WP 3 custom menu feature, and manually reverse the order.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Twenty Ten – no Header imageYou could also try my new Twenty Ten child theme, Twenty Ten Weaver. It lets you do that from a menu setting, and tweak lots of other stuff as well.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: wordpress 3 – custom menusAdding support for the new WP 3 menu takes very minimal effort for a theme developer – about 3 lines of code are involved, and perhaps a few CSS fixes.
Suggest you write to the theme developer and ask them to add support for WP 3 custom menus.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 change body from white to gray?I don’t think that is what Custom Background does, unless I really missed something. That just changes the outer background, and not the content area, which is what I think Lloyd was really asking.
You can easily change the main content background and text color using my new Twenty Ten child theme, Twenty Ten Weaver, while keeping the look of Twenty Ten if you want. It also has over a dozen other predefined sub-themes, and lets you tweak lots of other stuff with Twenty Ten.
That stuff is pretty hardwired into Twenty Ten. You can hide the title by editing the style.css, but making the image clickable would require building a child theme and editing header.php.
My new Twenty Ten child theme, Twenty Ten Weaver, lets you hide the title, but the current version doesn’t make the image clickable. Perhaps I can add that feature for the next version.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Directory of 3.0 themesIf you look at the list of new themes on WordPress.org, nothing has been added since WP 3 was released. Many of the old themes work OK with WP 3, but so far Twenty Ten seems to be the only one actually released on WordPress.org.
I have released a child theme of Twenty Ten called Twenty Ten Weaver that lets you tweak a lot about Twenty Ten, and includes over a dozen predefined new sub-themes ready to use or modify. I’ve submitted this new theme, but I suspect it will take a bit of time for it to be reviewed.
Meanwhile, you can check out the full list of features and download it at WPWeaver.info.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Twenty Ten Remove Header ImageI just released my child theme Twenty Ten Weaver, and this one was fairly difficult to solve. The only way I could figure out how to do it “right” was to change the header.php code. You can also do it with a filter and set the image height to 0, but that is kind of ugly, and still requires a child theme.
But the header is included in the #branding section, and can’t be removed with just CSS.
While I was mucking with the header.php anyway, I added the ability to completely replace the Twenty Ten header with your own by adding some code to the header div via a theme control panel.
And just another plug – if you don’t want to build your own child theme (it is now pretty easy to do that with Twenty Ten), my theme Twenty Ten Weaver lets you change a bunch else with Twenty Ten, as well as insert your own CSS or HTML into the header, <HEAD>, and footer, all pretty painlessly. You can save what you’ve done in an external file for sharing or restoring across upgrades. And if you really need some specialty PHP stuff, you can modify one PHP file to do pretty much whatever you want. I used that capability to replace the header with a sliding photo menu instead.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Twenty Ten widget support?Your old widgets will have been saved in the “Inactive Widgets” block on the Widgets control panel. See this post.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Switching Themes Turns off All Widgets!This is a problem, but there is a somewhat painless workaround – but it is not perfect.
Whenever you change themes (well – a lot of the times, seems a bit unpredictable when you lose your widgets), the widgets that were being used in the previous theme are saved in the “Inactive Widgets” area of the Widgets control panel.
So the thing to do is to note the order you have your widgets in the sidebar, clear out the “Inactive Widgets” area, then change themes. Your old widgets should now be in the “Inactive Widgets” space ready to drag back into the appropriate sidebar of your new theme.