Leaves Revamped
May 4th, 2006 by Daiko
This is my first Wordpress theme ever and must still be regarded as experimental. I would like you to test it out for further improvement.
It is based on the very elegant and simple design made by Anthonyy (at) OSWD.org Leaves v1.0.
Now the theme also supports Sidebar Widgets.
Latest version has a restructured xhtml file from www.positioniseverything.net/ and full support for sidebar widgets.
Still not tested in IE-Win so please bear with me for not handling all IE hacks yet.
Should now also work in IE-Win!
Download v1.0c (Right-click to download)
Hi Daiko,
Great idea and good work,I am currently getting our main website up with anthony’s leaves template.
I needed a design for our Blog - Guess I found it :))
Regards
Olav
I really like this theme and widgets compatibility is a must so I think it may even end up on our show blog for The Unharshed Mellow.
-Seuss
BTW I think you meant to say http://www.positioniseverything.net/
Thank’s for the comment Seuss, and of course I meant http://www.positioniseverything.net
i have a wee bit problem, im using this theme at the moment but everytime i post images on my entries, they get bigger. why emoticons get bigger, too. can you fix it? thankies.
Laarni! I don’t think that is a problem in the latest version but I’ll fix it if not so…
aww thank you daiko.
btw, here’s my site and the oversized bunny emoticon hehehe.
http://doorlight.doyougetme.net/?p=17
thank you.
You can change your theme setting regarding images by removing the following section in style.css:
width: 120px;
height: 90px;
float: right;
}
I’ll do it when I get back next week….
thank you. it worked.
The above “fix” is now commented out in the download. Remove comments if you want to controle the image size in posts!
Good luck! ;D
Thanks for the theme. Using it now on my site. I went to Laarni’s site and see her using few more useful plugins. Gotta try them some time soon. But my XHTML and hence my CSS don’t validate
I think the validation is linked to your widgets or even your posts. The theme itself is valid. I just corrected an error in the Joe’s Quotes widget and my page validates…. When you validate you will get an error list and line number reference.
Hey,
Your theme is really cool. I’m trying to adapt it for my blog, but I don t know how to put a picture as a header. I’m sure it’s not complicated, but I can’t find which codes lines I must write, and where…
Could you help me maybe?
Thanks
Vlad
Because the theme is made very search-engine friendly, the content comes first in the HTML so the code for the heading is unlogically enough placed further down. You will find the HTML-code for the header in index.php under
id=”header”
In the css file you will find the code on line 184 under:
z-index:1;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
width:740px;
height:95px;
overflow:hidden;
}
Please note that you should be careful with the size of the picture as I suspect that it might break the design if you go outside the width and height of the header.
I haven’t experimented with pictures in the design, but go ahead and place a background image and see what happens!
Good luck!
did you make the layout compatible with IE already?
Yes! It should work in IE. Sorry for not updating the text….
Good Luck!
Daiko, you are the man. Thank you so much for recreatign this theme - I absolutely love it.
Regarding an image for a header - I just replaced every instance of “95px” with “125px” in style.css *before* the part that says “/* HERE IS THE STYLING OF FONTS COLORS AND OTHER LEAVES 1.0 ELEMENTS */” (I dunno if there are any after but you won’t need to modify those). Seems to work beautifully. Of course, “125px” would be relative to the size of your image but you get the idea.
Daiko, my only general suggestion for your next release is to make this comment box text bigger and darker, and don’t include the Pages in the left sidebar by default since it can & should be controlled by the Widgets.
Thanks again!
Sorry, forgot to mention that you have to insert the img tags at the bottom of both the index.php (Main Index Template) and single.php (Simple Post). I made mine look like this:
%h1%%a xhref=”%?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?%/”%%img xsrc=”http://www.deanish.com/ img/logo1.png” mce_src=”http://www.deanish.com/ img/logo1.png” alt=”Deanish” border=”0″ /%%!– %%?php bloginfo(’name’); ?% –%%/a%%/h1%
I replaced the anchors with percent symbols because I wasn’t sure if HTML code would translate or not, but I’ll post the original code just in case:
/”>
Yeah, that didn’t work.
hi there. i saw that you updated this theme. i was able to download the previous one. what did you change? i can’t download the new one and overwite my files because i made some editing already and im lazy to do it again. hehehe.
its nice its IE-win compatible now. thank you.
Hi Laarni!
I’ve done some changes here and there and can not really say what has changed since your download. Sorry.
Dean!
I’ve now removed the Pages from default and increased size and text-color in the input field.
Latest version is 1.0c
oic. thanks anyway but i just can’t figure out whats the problem whenever i put a table in the sidebar using IE. Can you look at my site using IE? eek. it looks nice in Firefox though.
thanks.
btw, i love this green layout. :p
Larni!
Remove your width=”70″ in the table-tag and the width”5″ in your td-tag and you’ll be fine in IE. Good luck!
it worked. thank ya!
Hey there,
I LOVE this theme, and I’m curious about what Asides plugin/widget you’re using in the demo of Leaves Revamped. It’s very slick. Please, do tell! What is it?
I’m using Sideblog 3.0 at the moment but am disappointed by it so far.
Thanks for the theme!
Abe
Hey Abe!
Well thank you for the comment. I’m not sure if I understand what you are refering to regarding Asides plugin/widget. I only use the plugin from Joes Quotes (you’ll get there if you click the quote). Otherwise there are no other plugins than a Spam plugin….
Good luch with your blog!
Daiko
Daiko, have you experimented with variable widths rather than fixed widths? According to my blog’s stats, most of my visitors are using 1240×1024 or 1240×768 resolutions. This theme still looks great on those resolutions, but it’d be nice if the middle column could stretch out a bit to take advantage of that real-estate. I suppose the title and search portion at the top of the page would have to expand as well… hmm… what do you think?
Hi,
I liked your simple design, and have tweaked it (mostly the style sheet) to meet my specific needs. Know nothing about php, and don’t need widgets.
But - starting to fill up my new blog with “pages” from my old WP, I realise that your solution treats wp-”pages” as ordinary “posts” - with time stamps and category filing (which, btw, isn’t true in wp -?)
Since there’s no page.php, I cannot find a way to fix it - that is, to make “pages” behave like good old wp-items. Maybe because I’m stupid - but anyhow, can you guide me, please -?
erik
Thanks for the great design! Is there anyway to get rid of the date stamp on the pages? (like Erik wrote)
I’m also interested on how to get rid of dates on pages. Great design. Any ideas?
find and remove the following from your theme files:
or
Sorry that didnt work, I should’ve pre’d it
look in the theme files for either or
Hmm… look for ?php the_date(); and/or ?php the_time();