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This entry was posted on 30 December 2007 at 16:29 and filed under Linoluna: Magazine-style Theme for WordPress
30 December 07 at 16:29 in Wordpress and Themes # 294 CommentsBored of usual WordPress template? Well, magazine-style themes is now becoming a trend. With Linoluna, you will be brought to a new level of blogging. It is a simple and neat theme for a magazine-styled blog. The theme use the WordPress’ template tags quite extensively but still, it is very easy to use. Linoluna best suits a multi-author WordPress blog.
The CSS is lean and the design is very simple. Basically it is a grid-styled layout with green accents. The theme uses a tabbed navigation to show the most popular posts. There are four tabs avaiable and by default it is “Viewed”, “Commented”, “Top Rated”, and “Emailed”. There is a slideshow animation for the featured articles in the front page. It is a simple JavaScript from JQuery.com.
You can see the statistics of each page in a rectangular box inside every post. I include some fresh icons to make everything look better. The statistics includes the total comments, total views, author name, category, date, and the email and print function. For the best functionality, you should have the plugin WP-PostView, WP-PostRating, WP-Print, WP-Email installed. Those plugins are from LesterChan.net.
Installation
- Download and extract the zip file.
- Upload the theme file to your server at “/wp-content/themes/” folder.
- Activate the theme. (Admin Panel -> Presentation -> Themes)
Configuration
- Linoluna is built to support WP version 2.0 and up.
- The theme is sidebar widget-ready. By default, the sidebar is divided into four sections. Sidebar-Top, Sidebar-Left, Sidebar-Right, and Sidebar-Bottom. Each sidebar can be configured in the WP Admin Panel (Presentation -> Widgets). So it will be only clicks-and-drags.
- In the
index.phpfile you will find some PHP code like:
<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=10'); ?>
The$catvariable refers to the respective category_ID. You can see the category ID from the WP Admin Panel. (Manage -> Categories) The$showpostvariable refer to the number of posts you want to show. - Images across the theme can be configured using the Custom Fields. You should add a custom field called “Image” in every post and put the image filename within the custom field value. Each post is attached with several images (but the same filename) that will be shown according to its proper places. The “Banner” image will be shown at the top of every post (below the title), the “Slideshow” image will be shown in the slideshow, the “Asides” image will be shown in the “Aside” section, and the “Thumbnail” images will be shown in the archive and author pages. I repeat, all images should be named the same for each post. (e.g Custom field name:
Image; Custom field value:pool.jpg) - The layout will also work with different image sizes of your likings but I think it’ll be better if at first you try everything using the default sizes. The slideshow images are 400x300pixels, the Asides images are 200x130pixels, and the Thumbnails are 75x75pixels.
- There is a dedicated author page that show the author biography, his/her photo, and his/her publications. The author photos should be named after the author’s last name. And it must be a JPG file. (eg. Hutagalung.jpg)
- An ad banner (468x60px) is shown in the post pages between the post entry and the comments. An ad square banner (300x250px) is shown in the sidebar.
- This is the folder structure of the theme folders:
- Main folder (index.php, single.php, author.php, style.css, etc.)
- Images->Ads (put the advertisements here)
- Images->Banner (put the banner images here)
- Images->Asides (put the aside images here)
- Images->Slideshow (put the slideshow images here)
- Images->Thumbnail (put the thumbnails images here)
- Images->Author (put the author photos here)
Download the theme (ZIP File).
This file has been downloaded 39376 times.
Anyway this is the very first theme that I made and I really want to hear any of your comments and suggestions.
Changelog
V1.1 Some PHP code correction. Linoluna now works well for blogs that are not installed on the root folder. (e.g http://www.yourdomain.com/blog)
Please note that there is no support provided for Linoluna.
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HI,
I am new to WordPress and, of course, your Linoluna theme. I am using WordPress 2.7.1
So, I want to 1) Create an about page (can’t make it work) using the About link in the header (WordPress does not want to create the ‘about’ page), 2) Get the same look and feel as the Linoluna demo image.
How are the catagories related to the article titles?
Thanks,
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It’s the first time I comment here and I must say you provide us genuine, and quality information for other bloggers! Good job.
p.s. You have an awesome template . Where did you find it?
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