Yaletown

This theme is called Yaletown after the neighborhood depicted in the banner. Some of the features of this theme include:

• One column (left side) design
• “Flexible” width. The pages automatically adjust between a 750px width and 1000px version depending on browser width.
• The home page features a taller banner than subsequent pages.
• Support for Sidebar Widgets Plugin
• Support for two different Bread Crumb Plugins
• Options page to control Navigation and Title Display options

This theme was created for the Wordpress Theme Contest held by Arena WP in May of 2006.

Current Version: 1.6

Revision History:

Installation:

1. Copy the directory yaletown and all it’s contents to the WordPress themes directory on your server, (%WORDPRESS PATH%/wp-contents/themes/).
2. You will then need to activate the theme from the WordPress administration presentaion page.
3. Once you have activated the theme you can then adjust the options as necessary. The options are available under the presentations page in the WordPress administration.
   

Version 2.0 beta:

For those anxious to try out the new version I have made the latest beta available for download.

Remember this is a beta and will contain some issues but it is close and is what I am running on this site right now. I will be writing up some documentation on how you can customize the theme but for now you can look at some of the sample styles I have included, and feel free to contact me with any questions, defects or suggestions.

List of the changes in Version 2

Major overhaul with many new features:

• Style Support
• Plugin Architecture to allow filtered content
• Full localization Support
• Upgrade notification
• Make Date Display Adjustable
• Increased flexibility
• Plugin/Filter Enabled Content

This new version includes some default styles to demonstrate the capabilities of the theme’s architecture. Some highlights of included styles:

• Default:
  This style implements the Yaletown version 1.x theme.
  
  
• Liquid:
  This style demonstrates a liquid design.
  
  
• Vancouver Nights:
  This style implements the Vancouver Nights theme.
  
  
• Colorize:
  This style is the most powerful of the included styles. It allows the user to adjust the content aspects, colors and banner used. This style allows you to have many themes in one.
  

Also included is a Sidebar Widget and Static Sidebar item for allowing the end user control over which style is displayed. (Thanks to Ryan Boren who’s Theme Switcher plugin inspired the idea and who’s plugin supplied some of the code.

Added some items to the default (non-Widget) sidebar.

Contains several fixes:

• Fixed issue with comments template and sites that require logged in users for comments.
• Fixed issue with background image of url(’none’) rather than “none”
• Fixed issue with link in description pointing to wrong location.
• Fixed issue with comment post date.
• Fixed sizing issue with date box.

To Do List:

• multiple/random headers - simular to Vancouver Nights. This would have an option fo allow for the choice of a specific header from a list or random headers from the entire list. Done in version 2
• An option for the sites width to be: fixed (to either 750px or 1000px); or liquid; or the current “flexible” design. Done in version 2