I had a few days to spare so I thought I would expend a bit of energy on a new theme. In fact, a new style of theme altogether. I have written a couple of themes now, mainly all in the same kind of genre as everyone else who is writing themes. Always vertical, straight down the page. Now I don’t like scrolling horizontally using the browser’s scrollbars, but this was something different.

Based on 13thparallel’s old column code, I changed it to accomodate the WordPress blog system. It ISN’T straightforward. Your visitors MUST have JavaScript enabled to use this. Also, you will have to do a little bit of editing if you want to get the menu system to show your own About Me page (assuming you have one). I also added some random links at the very begining, which you can remove or alter as you wish, as you can see here.

Installation

First, this theme requires 1.5+ Once you have downloaded the theme, unzip it and:

  1. Upload the unzipped theme to your wp-content/themes/ directory.
  2. Enter your Admin panel -> Presentation and select the theme.

Frequently Asked Questions

None so far! It is a simple unzip, install and off you go. You can edit the theme as you wish (it IS commented a little bit). If you have any questions, you can comment here, or you can go over to the WordPress Forums where I started a Horizontal Theme thread.

Terms of Use

Except where otherwise noted, this software is:

  • Copyright Richard Dows
  • Licensed under the terms of the CC/GNU GPL
  • Provided as is, with NO WARRANTY whatsoever

In a nutshell, the GPL means that:

  • You may freely use the works for any purpose, including commercial ones
  • You may freely make derivative works provided that you leave the proper attribution and copyright notices
  • You may freely distribute the works and derivative works provided that you make the source code readily available under the same terms

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Download the Horizontal Theme v 1.0