Reaching Darkness: WordPress Theme
Theme Information:
- Description: A 900px, fixed-width, dark, grayish, widget-ready, rounded corners, 3-column design. Designed to get a lot of information on the page in a clean and organized manner.
- License: GPL
- Requirements: Wordpress 2.1+
- Support: Support forums
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- Other Features: Clean and organized list of all posts in the “archive” and “category” pages with their date, time, and number of comments.
- Notes: It’s very important that you look over the “readme.txt” file. Only “Sidebar 2″ and “Sidebar 4″ are widget-ready.
I must mention that I got the idea for the menu from Veerle’s Blog.
Also, to use this theme with the multi-column category and links lists, you’re going to need the Multi-Column Category List Plugin and the Multi-Column Links List Plugin. Both of these are packaged with the theme for your convenience. You don’t have to use the plugins, and I have error-proofed the theme in case you don’t use them. That way, you won’t get any PHP errors.
This is my third Wordpress theme. I wanted to go with something dark this time because I think that I fall short when designing dark themes sometimes. So, this was a challenge for me to overcome. I think I done fairly well.
Usually, I try to keep all themes either fluid or 800px wide. I didn’t feel I could do that with this theme because of what I wanted to get on the page. Therefore, if you have a lot of 800×600 users, I wouldn’t recommend using it.
As always, leave a comment either praising me or telling me what I’ve done wrong. If you have problems, please let me know so that I can fix it for the rest of the community.
Update: (April 26, 2007)
I’ve made some major changes, and now have released Version 1.1. The most important changes I should note are that I have dropped support for the Multi-Column Category and Links plugins. This was because I couldn’t get a simple reply to a question I had about a bug with the Multi-Column Links Plugin. Also, I may change this to a fluid width layout in the future if there’s enough people who want it.
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Great work Justin!
Veerle would be proud…
Hi Justin,
I really love this theme- Reaching Darkness. However, I just can’t find the way(s) to make my monthly ‘Archive’ appear.. the /Archive certainly does appear but when I click on it, it will automatically points to a different link of the page.. Can you help me with this?
Thanks a lot.
Cheers!
Sure Toni. I know I can be a bit confusing. To get the Archives to work, you need to find the Permalink ID to your Archives Wordpress Page. Go to your Wordpress Admin-Panel and click Manage, then click Pages. The ID will be located to the left of whatever your Archives Page is. You’ll need that number.
Look for this code in “sidebar.php:”
<!-- TO ADD AN ARCHIVES LINK, JUST UNCOMMENT THIS & CHANGE THE PERMALINK NUMBER<li class="archives"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(47); ?>" title="<?php _e('Archives'); ?>"><?php _e('Archives'); ?></a></li>
</a>
-->
All you need to do is change the “47″ to your ID number that you got from your Admin-panel.
Or, you can erase the entire link and just give a link to your Archives page itself. Of course, you need to uncomment the where it says uncomment, but I see you’ve already done that. I hope this helps.
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Hi there.. I did change the “47″ to the ID number of the Archives folder however it will just give either a blank page or a different post of my blog.
creating another page did not solve the problem. Is there another way to get the permalink of the whole Archive folder in wordpress? I mean, I tried replacing the permalink ID of ‘March’ and then it showed up but just only for the specified month.
Thanks for the help Justin
Cheers!
First off, do you even have an an Archives Page? When I say Page with a capital “P,” I mean Wordpress Page that you created, not folder or the file called “archive.php.”
Your month of March shouldn’t have a permalink ID. Your Archives Page is something you create. There’s not much I can do from this end because I can’t see inside your Admin Panel.
How have you gotten your Archives Page to show up prior to having this theme?
You can always write this in “sidebar4.php”:
<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>to list all your pages. When you see Archives, then you can see what the number is because I see you don’t have pretty permalinks.
Update: I now see that you’ve gotten your Archive Page to work in your top navigation. And, I see that the Page ID is “119.” That should be the number you use instead of “47.”
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Finally.. got my Archives work perfectly
.. took me days to figure out but geez.. this is great!
Thanks a lot Justin!
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Thanks for the great work. I was looking for something exactly like this. I enjoyed the installation process and discovered a few lovely little surprises along the way.
Thank you for using it Julia. I think it looks great on your site. I like the header image you added.
This is my first post
just saying HI