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4-Column WordPress Theme Gallery
June 10, 2008 by Tony · 5 Comments
In previous posts I featured some of my favorite 2-column WordPress themes, as well as 3-column WordPress themes. Those will likely get the most attention, but I’ve found that there are several bloggers out there that really enjoy 4-column themes. If done properly, a 4-column theme can move a lot more stuff above the fold while at the same time give your blog a fantastic look.
Some WordPress theme designers are truly talented and have managed to make these work, so I’ve decided to create a large collection of these themes and throw them out there in all their glory for everyone to see. Here is my compilation of my favorite 4-column WordPress themes:
Techicon Theme (Widget Ready)
Quadruple Blue Theme
Four WPTP Theme
Royal Blue Theme
YGo Green Theme
My Best WordPress Themes Series
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2-Column WordPress Theme Gallery
June 8, 2008 by Tony · 3 Comments
I have always been of the opinion that WordPress 2-column themes give your site a much better look than 3-column themes, and I think if you look around the blogosphere at what most full time bloggers use, you will see that these people tend to find the most success with 2-column themes.
There are definitely a lot of brilliant and useful 2-column themes available for WordPress users, so I figured that I would throw together a post compiling screen shots and links to some of the best 2-column themes available:
Left Sidebar 2-Column Themes
DarkT Theme
Green Bug Theme
Integral Design
Riaz Theme (Widget Ready)
Right Sidebar 2-Column Themes
Slick Blue Theme (Advertising Ready, SEO Friendly)
PassionDuo Theme (3 Colors)
Green: Demo | Download, Red: Demo | Download, Blue: Demo | Download
Green Tech Theme
Lemon Twist Theme
WP Freemium Theme
GlossyBlue Theme
Salmon Theme
iTheme Theme
StudioPress Theme
Crystal 1.0 Theme
Several3 Theme
Mag on Wood Theme
Boxy Mint Theme
Daily32 Theme
Silicon Theme
WoodPress Theme
Green Love Theme
YGo Just Simple Theme
Curved Theme
Clean and Mean Theme
Source | Download | Download “Extras”
Twilight Theme
Insense Theme
Cool Water Theme
Accord Theme
Blue Block Theme
Red Clover Theme
Webby Green Theme | Webby Blue Theme
Source | Download (Green) | Download (Blue) | Demo (Green) | Demo (Blue)
Feel your 2-column theme belongs on this list? Feel free to comment below with a link and I’ll check it out!
The Wordpress i3 Theme
June 8, 2008 by Tony · Leave a Comment
I absolutely love the i3 WordPress theme. I used it for my site for about a month, and I had no problems for what I needed. It features a “mac” look, has the Mac OS X classic background that fades into the mac’s “spotlight blue”. The sidebars are on the left and right side not attached to the middle content. The separate widgets are each in their own little bubble with a mac like toolbar as the header. The theme displays the pages in the middle content column, and this is one of the very rare themes that display the sub-pages very nicely under the page parent. Also you can move around the columns to your liking, so instead of the content being in the middle you can have it off to the right and the sidebars on the left, and vice versa.
If you are on the photos section it would display a small little bar under the pages bar displaying the sub pages, but if you are on the home page it will not display these sub pages. It has a built-in search bar in the top right hand corner, and it looks like the spotlight application in Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, except its black. The only problem I’ve ever had with it is displaying javascript in sidebar, ad- sense would fine, but a simple javascript code would make the sidebar screw up and shift to the bottom of the page. I switched themes because of that and because it is a very popular theme, and I like to switch up my theme every once in a while.
I highly recommend using this theme if you can’t find a better theme for yourself. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!
How To: Adding an Email This Button to Your Blog
June 7, 2008 by Tony · Leave a Comment
In the past we’ve talked about how to add a print button to your WordPress theme. Today I wanted to give you the javascript code you need to create an Email This button on your WordPress blog.
Before getting to the code, I wanted to first say that this code is designed to allow readers to click on the button and have it open up their default email software and create a subject and link that point to the post the reader is currently visiting. This code is not designed to allow readers to contact the blog author.
If you are wanting your readers to be able to contact you, I recommend you use one of the many great contact form WordPress plugins available. You should never embed your email address into some HTML code because it will be picked up by spam bots. Contact forms prevent spammers from finding your email address. The other thing you can do is offer “EmailAddress AT EmailCompany DOT com” (which your email address information filled in) to avoid spammers.
Okay, so back to the Email button code. Here is the javascript you will need:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!– Begin
function isPPC() {
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(”PPC”) != -1) return true;
else return false;
}
if(isPPC()) {
document.write(’<a class=”contact” HREF=\”mailto:\?subject\=Take a look at this page I found, ‘ + document.title + ‘?body=You can see this page at: ‘ + window.location + ‘\” onMouseOver=”window.status=\’Send your friends e-mail about this page\’; return true” TITLE=”Send your friends e-mail about this page”>Email to a Friend<\/a>’);
}
else { document.write(’<a class=”contact” HREF=\”mailto:\?body\=Take a look at this page I found titled ‘ + document.title + ‘. You can see this page at: ‘ + window.location + ‘\” onMouseOver=”window.status=\’Send your friends e-mail about this page\’; return true” TITLE=”Send your friends e-mail about this page” rel=”nofollow”>Email This!<\/a>’);
}
// End –>
</script>
This will create an email where the reader can enter in someone’s email address and send them a link to your post/page.
How To: Adding a Print This Button to Your Theme
If you ever visit our actual website, you’ve probably noticed the “Print This” button that we display below each post. Depending on the type of website or blog you are running, having a button like this may be a good fit for your blog. I’ve found it to be good to have this button available to readers for any type of website that offers tutorials, recipes, guides, or pretty much anything that might require a visitor to print something you’ve written.
If you think you’d like to offer your readers the option to print something on your blog, here is the code I use on my blogs (uses Javascript):
<a href="javascript:window.print()" rel="nofollow">Print This!</a></span>
It prints the page you are on, so it is probably best to use it mostly on post and pages. If you place it on the blog’s homepage, it will print the entire homepage, not just that post.
