Scenic Sanity is yet another free gorgeous wordpress theme from dynamicguru.com licensed under GPL. It is a light color variant of my previous theme “The Last fall” .It has two-columns , a widgetized left-sidebar and gravtar integrated comments , ideal for personal weblogs . Some of the cool features include :
- Cufon text-image replacement for headers
- jquery hover effects on links in the sidebar
- Rounded corners in FireFox and Safari
- Excerpt based homepage
- Collapsible left sidebar widgets
- Sleek styles for the Calendar widget
Download Scenic Sanity 1.1
Check out this wordpress theme, perfect for photographers and bloggers.
“Featured Posts” are a key feature of any news/journal wordpress site. It is pretty easy to develop a wordpress theme to display a fixed number of featured posts from a specific category on the homepage. It can be done using the query_posts() function of wordpress. Here are few lines of code that displays latest 10 posts from the news category , you can edit it to tailor to your needs.
<?php
/* Name of your category you want to show posts from */
$cat =
"news";
/* No. of posts to display*/
$num = "10";
?>
<!– Show x Posts from $cat category–>
<?php query_posts(’showposts=’.$num.‘&category_name=’.$cat.”);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(‘Continue…’); ?>
<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></p>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="permalink">Link to this article</a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
The function query_posts(); can be used to control which posts are displayed in the loop. More information on using query_posts(); can be found here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts .
The Official Wordpress Commercial Theme Directory has gone live today. The direcory is a part of the extend>themes section of wordpress.org. Though it is called “directory” right now it only lists some sites that provide commercial or premium wordpress themes licenced under our favorite GPL licence . The criteria for your site being included is quite simple.
To be included, you should:
* Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.
* Have professional support options, and optionally customization.
* Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to date, and professional looking.
* Include a haiku about yourself to be included.
and send your details to themes@wordpress.com
Lets hope that they evolve further and start hosting commercial GPL themes themselves,
Here is just another rocking dark wordpress theme by me , which was downloaded 300 times during the first 20 hours of going live! The theme has a sleek and dark look with some nice eye candy jquery effects on the left sidebar.Give it a try!
Click here to download this free wordpress theme
If you are among the frequent visitors to my blog you will notice that i changed the blog theme today, this new theme is my own creation and the best part about it is the effects on the left sidebar, hover over a link to slide it towards right and click on a link category title to see it slide up, all thanx to the powerful jQuery.8) If you like the theme or want to point out a bug , drop a comment using the form below.
