James Lloyd

Download

• Version 0.1 Initial release
  • Alot of bits are hardcoded e.g. Twitter tweet on the front page etc.
• Requires Wordpress 2.5 or greater due to use of is_front_page
• Download JLBP v0.1
• License: GPL v3
• Google Notebook

Instructions

1. Install theme: Upload to wp-content/themes directory
2. Activate theme in the design menu
3. Assign a page to be a static front page in Settings -> Reading
4. Edit that page a change the page template to be home
5. Make sure you have pretty permalinks turned on Settings -> Permalinks
6. Install the plugins from the plugins sections of this article (plus any more you want)

About

Release status: Beta

JLBP2 is a wordpress theme I have built using the Blueprint CSS framework. It features a heavily customised Home page template that allows you to show the latest three posts in adjacent columns along with your ‘Home’ page. So far there are only Two Pictures used in the layout, the header banner a photo I took from the top of the Spinnaker Tower and also the gradient in the background of the body. The rest are all icons.

Feature

• Translation bar
  • using google translate
• Breadcrumbs
  • Currently upto 3 deep for pages, posts, categories & tags
  • Only suitable for pretty permalinks (so probably not going to work on IIS, maybe with that rewrite rule thing they have, but I never got that to work)
    • Is not really that dynamic so will probably break with custom permalink settings
• Sub pages listed
  • and parents via the breadcrumbs
  • Works to three deep
  • currently only displays Slugs not Page titles
• Post views (via plugin)
• Post rating (via plugin)
• Twitter (via plugin)
• Page Templates
  • Customised home page
  • Page with comments in tab
• Browsers
  • Tested in :
    • Firefox 2
    • Safari 3.1
    • IE6

Screenshots

Home Page

Blog

Plugins

Plugins needed at the moment to make best use.

• WP-PostViews
• WP-PostRatings
• Twitter Tools

Credits

• Wordpress - CMS / Blog engine
• Blueprint css Framework
• FAM FAM - flag icons for the translation bar
• Dean Robinson - Alot of the other icons were lifted out of his pipedream theme
• Barely Fitz Designs - Tabber.js javascript tabify thingy