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May 30, 2008, 2:54 pm | Category: News Style, WPTheme | No Comment | 389 views
Magazine-style WordPress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking:
Installation
- Download and unzip the file
- Dump the theme into your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
- Log in into your WordPress control panel
- Click the Presentation tab
- Select the “Mimbo” screenshot
Support and Discussion
Getting things configured
- Mimbo is built to support the current version of WordPress (2.3). If you get fatal errors related to tags (”Call to undefined function: is_tag”), please upgrade.
- In the “index.php” and “sidebar.php” templates, you will find a series of query_posts functions which refer to specific category ID numbers from my database. Example:
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=1&cat=4′); ?>
- You will need to change them to reflect the ID numbers in your own database. They can be found in your control panel under Manage->Categories. Read more about this process.
- Images on the homepage are displayed using Custom Fields. Read more about this process.
- For the layout to work, some image dimensions must be exact. The “Feature” images are 255×88 pixels while the various category thumbnails are 51×51 pixels each.
- For the author bio photo to work, you must upload a photo with the author’s first name (ex: “Darren.jpg”). Read more about this process.
- If you are upgrading from a previous version of Mimbo, please view details in the Changelog to see what’s new. Most importantly: if you are having trouble displaying the homepage, please note that this configuration step is no longer necessary! The latest version of Mimbo works like any other theme – it uses index.php as its homepage template.
Add Your Logo
First make sure your logo image is no wider than 625px. After it’s been uploaded, open the style.css document and make this change to the H1 properties:
h1 {
text-indent:-9999px;
background: url(images/logo.gif) no-repeat;
width: whatever;
height: whatever;
}
Done!
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