WordPress Theme Download and Tidbits

First, we set up a plan on how we want our theme to look then we went ahead and created the style.css, this week I realized that it would take forever to get through this and decided to offer up the theme in it’s entirety as well as some code tidbits and such!

I can not guarantee that it will work perfectly or display perfectly for YOU on YOUR server, however it works fine for me, worked fine for a friend… so hopefully that’s good enough! Feel free to leave any questions you have on this entry pertaining to the theme. The Cufon javascript and font are all hardcoded into the theme and the files are included as well so you should be able to just upload, install, and activate the theme and be good to go.

Both the sidebar and footer are widgetized. The footer is 3-column so I suggest using only 3 widgets in that area.

Onto the Tidbits

Asked by BabyDickey:

For the personalized headings on the sidebar, I highly suggest the WP-Cufon plugin. Install it and activate it. You take the font, (check out DaFont for a ton of free fonts!), you want to use, pop on over to the Cufon Generator which creates a javascript file out of the font to be processed by the plugin. You will upload the font file to wp-content/plugins/fonts (you may need to create the fonts folder). Then in your WP dashboard go to appearance -> cufon. Once there it has directions on how to use it! If you have any further issues or it doesn’t work properly for you, just let me know and I will try to help anyone with issues!

For a new widget area, and I do this ALL the time when I do a 3-column footer, is edit your functions.php file in the theme you are using and add the following to it:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'footer sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div class="floatleft">', // Removes <li>
'after_widget' => '</div>', // Removes </li>
'before_title' => '<h3>', // Replaces <h2>
'after_title' => '</h3>', // Replaces </h2>
));

Bam! Go to your widgets page in the dashboard and you will now see a new “sidebar” area! Now in your footer.php or sidebar.php file, add this bit of code to where you want the widgets to appear:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') ||
 !dynamic_sidebar('footer sidebar') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Again, if you have any errors, questions, etc, just let me know!

Hopefully everyone enjoys the theme or at the very least learns something from it (by going over all the files and such) and the wee code bits!

Wordless Wednesday: Strawberry and Baby

Recently…

Any excuse for me to post my photos right!

We’ve been working on the house lately. The kitchen is painted although the color is WAY too pale so I’m not exactly pleased with it although it is far superior to what was there. Keith cut down all the bushes (some had large bushes of poison ivy!) that have been here since his father built the house. Slowly but surely we are fixing the yard of doom!

Family wise things are of course, awesome. Tristan is teething like mad crazy but you wouldn’t know it because he is SO HAPPY almost all of the time. He actually just got his eye teeth (vampire teeth lol) so he has 4 teeth on top, 2 on the bottom. Baby teeth are SO adorable! He also pulls himself to standing quite a bit, makes me wonder if he is going to walk earlier than his big brother did.

Daniel is growing like my tomato plant (as in quickly and very tall!). His vocabulary has improved SO much in the past year, I get such a kick out of it! He and I redid the bookcase in the bedroom so he was able (with the help of dad) to organize his book collection by type (coloring books, history books, star wars books, reading books, etc).

Keith and I are doing very well, I still marvel at how lucky I am! I have to admit too, it’s AWESOME having a handy boyfriend. If I need something built, repaired, heavy duty yard work, car stuff… anything really, he is able to do it. Plus he changes 99% of all the diapers and does 100% of the diaper laundry! A sensitive man’s man if you will!

It is so weird sometimes to be in a healthy relationship. I was reading my old journals, as I have them going back to February of 1999, and the physical abuse from my ex-fiance is insane. I had documented EVERYTHING apparently. I was even a bit psychic too, in one entry I mentioned (mind you this is two YEARS before Dan was even conceived!) how I just had a feeling that he would be a deadbeat father, that if he couldn’t be responsible for himself, there was no way he would be there for his child, sadly, I was right.

The other night I went through and unfollowed a ton of people from twitter. Nothing personal. REALLY! I was just so overwhelmed at following close to 400 people, most of whom I never sent a tweet to OR ever got a tweet from. I was starting to worry that people were only following me in hopes that I would follow them back to boost their numbers and I was sadly correct in that assumption. After getting to under 200 people to follow, I immediately lost 15 followers. Makes me a bit sad actually. I did it so that I can try and form a connection with those I follow instead of hoping to make my “follower” number appear to be impressive.

Anyway, to brighten things up a bit…

Here’s some awesome blog posts I’ve been reading lately!

From KitchenWitch: A Fat Post
Really, just go read her post and comment. Not only is SHE amazing but it’s like she took the words out of my head.

I’ve been reading a lot of tweets and blogs about fat acceptance. Blogs about how we should love our bodies, how this is who we are and we shouldn’t be ashamed and hide. And I’m all for that. I think that if you are “fat” you should be treated with the same respect as anyone else. No one should be made fun of for how they look. I think it is disgusting how fat people are treated.

From Photo.Tutsplus: Capturing a Perfect Rainbow Photograph
Seriously, a post about pretty rainbows and how/where to find them to photograph them… what could be better!

So, what exactly are we looking for? Rainbows occur when sunlight intersects with water droplets – whether that’s rain, mist, waves, or a waterfall. Anywhere that you can see bright sunlight and moisture will be a good candidate for rainbow spotting.

From TasteStopping : You blog too much. Here’s one big idea that can help.
Ahh isn’t this always the case with blogging! A really refreshing post!

Notice that I didn’t say “You post too much.” That’s really none of my business. No, I’m talking about the craft of blogging. You know: writing posts, editing posts, adding photos, tweaking your site’s layout, moderating comments, checking stats, composing emails, reading other blogs, commenting on other blogs, checking stats, updating your FaceBook status, researching recipes, perusing the Daring Kitchen forum for tips on this month’s challenges, checking stats, stumbling a post, submitting photos, tweeting, tweeting and more tweeting. And breathe.

So lay it on me, have you blogged recently? Link me up! Any suggestions for an OSN tutorial? Let me know! Have an overwhelming desire to ask me a burning question? Do it! Or you can check out my wee tiny yet awesome forum.

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