I told you a surprise was coming, and this is it. A free theme! I’ve named it Solid, why? Because it was the first word that came to mind when making the theme AND I believe its a pretty solid theme. While looking around at some blogs I started noticing some really nice simple blogs (design wise). These were the blogs I was stopping at and actually looking at the content. I decided to design my own theme in this fashion and this is the result.
Check out the demo page now!(offline)
Solid Features
- Simple, clean design for any blog.
- Widget ready sidebar that includes a search bar and RSS subscription options.
- Custom Archives Page template
- Ad Management and custom ads widget
- Almost all default wordpress widgets have Silk icons
- Comment striping
- 3 color schemes
- Gravatar support with WordPress 2.5
- Feedburner Intergration
- The ability to wow your friends and family!
- Separated comments and trackbacks
Theme Options
A free theme with theme options? Ofcourse. Solid comes with 3 color themes: Red, Grey, and Seafoam. You can switch the color theme to whatever you feel like through the theme options page.
You can also enter your feedburner feed address for your full feed and comments feed in the options page. Your sidebar will then link to your feedburner feeds, otherwise it links to the default wordpress RSS feed.
Ad Management
Solid also comes with ad management. The sidebar can hold two 125px by 125px ads, and you can use the theme options page to manage them. But thats not it, you can control where your ads show up in the sidebar with a custom widget just like all your other widgets.
Known Issues
Theres always a few right? Most of these are minor inconveniences: IE8 isn’t even out yet, and really who cares about opera users.(just kidding opera users, I love you).
- IE8 breaks the footer
- Looks better on a mac
- Opera will hide the pages menu at the top
- Pages menu is at different heights in different browsers (only a problem if you are anal…like me)
- Hasn’t been tested in IE6 yet
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Thank You
3rd Apr 2008
I fixed the download link. Thanks for letting me know!
And let me know if you find any bugs or errors so I can fix them.
3rd Apr 2008
good one
I had done something very similar myself for a travel blog some time back
Trying to get some ideas in terms of functionality in regards to releasing my next free theme
Do you believe there can be some synergy in our work in regards to us supporting you in wordpress coding
3rd Apr 2008
Rajat,
Not exactly sure what you want but you can email me at curtishenson @ gmail.com and we can talk that way.
4th Apr 2008
Theme demo is back up!
4th Apr 2008