One nice thing about taking a long vacation is that after spending a few days doing simple rest & relaxation, you have a nice opportunity to get some non-pressing things knocked off the to-do list.
For example, back when I most recently re-themed this site, I intended to share the Wordpress theme files, in case anyone else was interested… but I never got around to cleaning up and packaging the files.
Well, I now have the opportunity to do so. I’ve made the theme files available for download.
A few comments:
- It works in Wordpress 2.2, is free, and should be unencumbered by my adsense code. (At least I think I got it all out of there.)
- Standard installation rules apply: unpack the archive under /wp-content/themes, and customize to your heart’s content.
- The theme is widget-friendly. You can find a few custom widgets I created for the theme in functions.php.
- The default search box (in searchform.php) assumes Google sitesearch and needs to be customized for your site. You may wish to substitute in searchform.php.original if you prefer.
- For adsense ads, I use the Adsense Manager plugin. One of my widgets assumes that it’s installed.
- For the “related posts” widget, I assume that the Related Posts plugin has been installed.
- I run Gallery2 and make use of the WPG2 and WPG2 Random Image plugins. Within Gallery2, I use the wpg2connections_G2 theme (no URL handy, but should be findable via google), and I’ve provided appropriate wpg2header and wpg2footer files.
- Emergy-C is a color scheme publicized by Mark Ontkush as being both reasonably aesthetically attractive and being more energy-efficient than the dark-text on light-background coloration used on many websites when displayed on CRT screens.
- Standard disclaimers apply. I did strip out some code unique to this site, and I’m not currently able to test the results (having done this work in the middle of the Atlantic), but it should be operational. Nonetheless, use at your own risk, etc., etc.