I have just released a new theme - Greening, loosely based on my first WP theme - Rusty. I didn’t succeed in my previous attempts to make Rusty wider without breaking its visual representation. So I started a new theme generally using the Rustys’ interface, but making it flexible enough to let the user change easily the width of the blog, the height of the header, the header image and the correlation between the sidebar and the page content. This improved flexibility required some ot the Rusty’s elements to become obsolete of course, but everything has its price. You can find detailed instructions how to manipulate the enumerated features in the header.php file in the theme directory(your_blog_installation_directory/wp-content/themes/greening/header.php). You can preview and download the Greening theme here. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Cheers.
Hi Martin. This is a beautiful theme! I would add an event handler to the search form so that the text clears out when the search box gets focus.
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Hi, Andy,
Thank you very much for your comment and help. You can share your update to help me out with the next theme release or you can make your own release. Whatever you decide here is my mail - Martin[dot]Mihalev[at]gmail[fot]com. Thanks again.
Hello Martin,
I am proud to announce the localized Arabic version of Greening. I chose to start the localizing process with Greening because I like the green color :).
I want to know if I missed something here or not regarding your rights as the author of Greening.
I found some problems with localization process because of the RTL things… I am not sure if it is 100% correct :D. It might show some errors in the near future. However, during testing stage, I found there are some mistakes in the FireFox and Opera while there were no mistakes with IE6. But, I solved theme by trial & error only.
I hope that you make more beautiful themes like Greening so I can localize them :).
Thank you for your excellent efforts.
The localized version is in http://wpdemo.com/
One more thing, the Greening is working in both 1.5.1.3 & 2.0.2 without any problem yet.
Hi, Kamal,
I’m proud too that you chose my theme for localization. And I share your opinion about the green color. It’s my favorite. I can talk a lot about the colors, especially for the green, but my English isn’t very good to allow that.
I’m glad that you asked about the rights, but there is no rights or some kind of license. You can do whatever you want with the theme. It’s enough that you leaved a reference to my blog, but it’s not mandatory. You can remove it if you want.
I’ll appreciate a lot if you share with me the errors you experienced with FireFox and Opera to help me improve my work.
I’ve noticed some visual mistakes( in my opinion ) in your localization:
- the rss feeds links bellow the header need to be moved a little bit right
- the search box need to be moved a little bit left
- the box where the comment form is situated is smaller than the post box.
If you want me I can fix them. It’s not a big deal. Just write me.
Excuse my English. Best wishes.
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Hi Martin,
Thank you for your nice words :). I am glad to share many things.
For the rights, I kept everything as is and I don’t want to steal your efforts. I want to thank you for sharing your experience and efforts with us.
Finally, your notes are valuable to me and thank you for visiting my website. However, it is only in the FireFox browser and it is OK in IE6!! I don’t know how to reach the level of the original theme!!
If you can help me, I will appreciate it. I need to know the secrete behind those mistakes :).
Best regards,
Eng. Kamal
Hi, Kamal,
I’m very glad that you respect my efforts and keep the references to my site at goodwill. Thank you very much.
I want you to know that I visited your site a few days before you posted a comment here due to Technocrati service.
I’ll help you, be sure for that. The only thing I need is a link to download the localized version. Can you provide one? Or if you want you can email me your version at Martin[dot]Mihalev[at]gmail[dot]com.
Hi Mihalev,
I appreciate your help deeply. For the localized version it is here:
http://www.wpdemo.com/greening/greening1.01.zip
I hope to make some notes in the files where did you make changes so I can learn from that and not to repeat like these mistakes :).
With regards,
Eng. Kamal
Thanks for the link, Kamal. I’ll see what I can do tonight. I promise that I’ll leave detailed notes about what is changed. Take care.
Hey there Martin,
Thanks for you comment, but I really don’t know what you mean. Everything seems to work fine with me. I also downloaded your Rusty 1.04 theme, and that doesn’t seem to work with me. It doesn’t show the orange header, and the layout is not the way it should be.
Greets,
Robbert
Awesome themes! I’ve installed two of your themes, I’m just trying to figure out which on I want to use. :)
Thanks!
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Hey Martin, thanks for the great template.
I am new to blogging and I kind of messed up the code trying to get rid of the calender and other things I did not need. I seem to have mistakes though which become visible on the left side of the template. I have been looking at it for days and I am going slightly mad….:-(
Could you please have a look for me? Oh and uhm…if you do….please dont fall off your chair…Its an erotic blog.
Thanks,
Pat