October 27, 2006
New Theme - Iowa Winter 1

Like I said earlier, I’ve been going hog-wild. I’ve been coding a lot lately. The latest is my Iowa Winter 1 theme. Here’s the screen shot:
Iowa Winter 1
This theme started as my own theme from scratch for WordPress 1.2. It worked in WordPress 1.5, but it was kinda lame there - not all things worked as they should have. I completely reworked the style sheet, reworked all the sidebar items (especially with the sidebar items that I like to use) and reworked a whole lot of the code. I modified it to be more like the Kubrick theme that is released as the default theme for WordPress 2.0.4. Kubrick is a great basis for theme development.

Also, I’ve made the theme widget-aware. Widgets are an easy way to format your sidebar in WordPress. By writing your functions in a certain way and by adding code in a certain way to your WordPress theme, you can use the WordPress Widgets plugin by Automattic to easily set up and modify your sidebar. To use this to its full extent, your theme has to be aware that the WW plugin is installed. The Iowa Winter 1 theme is widgetized and takes full advantage of widgets. I’ve thrown in a few widgets of my own but they are dependent upon other plugins; I’ve taken that into consideration and only the usable widgets are offered for the user.

You can download the theme by clicking here. Or you can go to the My Mods page and download any of my themes or plugins.

Filed under: Computer Stuff,
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5 Comments

  • cooper said:  
    (On October 27th, 2006 at 7:54 pm)

    I’m using this theme but in firefox no one can comment( maybe it’s only if the pop up blocker is on), is there a way to turn of the pop up comments and m ake them regular comments? - an easy way from the admin panel.

  • cooper said:  
    (On October 27th, 2006 at 7:56 pm)

    i like it though thanks.

  • Marc said:  
    (On October 29th, 2006 at 9:42 am)

    Great theme however I discoverd one bug. If you comment a post when logged in it does not work. After Say it you get a blank screen in your popup window.

  • BillH said:  
    (On October 29th, 2006 at 12:04 pm)

    Cooper - I don’t seem to have that problem. I did test it in Firefox, Opera and IE6 and did not experience that. However, if you do want to change the commenting so it isn’t popup, simply comment out or remove line #20 of the file “header.php”.

  • BillH said:  
    (On October 29th, 2006 at 12:14 pm)

    Marc - I’ll check in to that one. Not sure why as I pretty much copied the code from the WP Kubrick theme distributed with WP 2.0.4.

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