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!