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This entry was posted on 30 December 2007 at 16:29 and filed under Linoluna: Magazine-style Theme for Wordpress
30.12.07 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 400×300pixels, the Asides images are 200×130pixels, and the Thumbnails are 75×75pixels.
- 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 (468×60px) is shown in the post pages between the post entry and the comments. An ad square banner (300×250px) 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 33795 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)
If you have any problem using the theme and want to ask for support, please use the forum instead.
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Hi Michael, this is a good looking theme. i using it now with my localhost before i used it live in my next blog. great job. thanks
Hi Michael,
May I know how can I add alt text to the images that are reflected in the Slideshows, Asides and Thumbnails?
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Hi Michael,
Its really a wonderful theme, I just uploaded it last night, and now facing some little problems. PS: I am not a geek, and don’t understand anything about php.
1. How to put the RSS feed to my url at the RSS link shown at the right top of the page?
2. I am not able to get the photos of my posts as thumbnails in the preview, where to get the images folder?
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Thanks! This is a great theme pal. I am certain to use it for my blog
.. Thanks for sharing
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thx for the themes. i have already download it. but i have problem with image.
i was fill the custom field. but the image doesn’t show. is it something mistaked?
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I’ll try it first
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Howdy.
Pretty theme. I am psyched to use it. But I have a question about images:
I’ve read the doc above, scanned the forum. And it seems that the only way to get images to show up is to 1) use the ‘Image’ custom field and 2) upload various versions of the image, MANUALLY, via ftp, to the to the # Ads, Banner, Asides, Slideshow, and Thumbnail directories.
I have no problem using a custom field. But having to manually crop images using Photoshop and then and upload each one, one by one, using ftp, seems crazy to me. My clients don’t anything at all about Photoshop or ftp. They are used to using the Wordpress admin panel which automatically crops and uploads images for you.
Am I missing something here? Any help much appreciated.