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Posted October 5th, 2008 by Antonio Wells in Category: Freebies, Web Design, WordPress Themes with 28 Comments »
Fresh is a clean and minimalistic 3 Column WordPress Theme suitable for resource blogs or even a company website. Built for WordPress Version 2.6+ and Widget Ready. Fresh Theme by Antonio Wells.com of NAMYnot Multimedia Inc.
This theme is the current Theme for my site and I will give it away to the WordPress blogger community. I will give away the Theme files, source PhotoShop file, and offer support for the theme.
Features:
- 3 Columns: Left Content, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar
- Wigdet Ready Left & Right Sidebar
- Clean Web 2.0 minimalistic color scheme
- Ads can be placed in the Sidebars
- Custom 404 page that automatically emails the site admin about errors
- Photoshop PSD file included (with some custom icons).
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Hey, this is a really clean theme. Does it come in other color schemes?
It’s currently only in this blue scheme. If enough demand for other colors come in, I will create one. Otherwise, if you need help… I can instruct you how to change the scheme. It’s very easy as I have included the Photoshop PSD file and the website colors can be changed from the CSS file easily.
AW
Nice theme, however you have an issue with the 404.php line 43. It requests the /searchform.php which is not present in the theme.
Thanks Nick for noting that. I will release an update in the week regarding the search form. In the meantime, you can comment that line out.
Sorry for a newbee question – how do I update the Blog-roll and Advertisements sections?
Great job on the design – I like it alot!
Thanks,
Biren
Good job, I wil tray to use in my site
great theme,
i’m using it on my personal blog…
I’d like to add a header to my site, but can’t figure out some questions:
1. What pixel size?
2. How to input it into the theme editor on the header.php page.
3. I’ve inserted a widget on my right sidebar, it shows up, links to the reverbnation.com site, but (since it’s a music player) it won’t play the music.
many thanks, I really love the FRESH theme, beautiful.
Downloaded it and will be using on my blog. I’m going to modify it a lot, but it’s VERY much what I was looking for. Thanks!
@Widad… Hopefully this answers your questions:
1. I recommend 300px Width x 25px Height, Maximum 500px Width x 125px Height for the header.
2. Find the H1 Header Text around lines 19-20 of the “/themes/fresh/header.php” file. You can swap that for an image OR refer to the “/themes/fresh/style.css” file around lines 65-86 to place a image with CSS.
3. The music plays for me when I click Play button, sure you have your speakers on?
@TheInfamousGdub…
Glad you like it. After you modify it… come back and post the URL to it!
The URL is http://youshouldbe.net
I’m still playing around with some things. Could you take a look at it for me?
I was wondering if there’s an easy way to place the articles in a center column and place one sidebar on each side.
Whereas it’s now:
Left Content, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar
I’d preferably like it:
Left Sidebar, Center Content, Right Sidebar
That would be VERY helpful.
Also the search bar changed when set up the banner image. Any clue what could’ve happened?
Also Also, the comment# image is showing up doubled. What’s that about?
Thanks f the awesome theme that’s been a great framework for what I want to show the world!
This is very nice, and is exactly what I’m looking for. One newbie question, though: how do I change the font for the posts? Thanks.
To change the Post-Only font:
1.) In “/fresh/style.css” find “.PostContent” around line 377.
2.) Add your CSS reference there (i.e. font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;) because I don’t set a font for the posts, it inherits “Tahoma” from the body reference at line 19.
It is very clean. I like it.
Thanks so much for doing this! I’m poking around trying to figure out how to add to the tabs across the top — and I can’t quite figure it out. I’ll keep Googling and trying things, but if anyone knows the answer I’d very much appreciate the help!
You can see how the theme looks at my site at http://www.cadence90.com
Have a great 2009!
@Lisa Glad you found it useful!
The top tabs auto populate as long as you add WordPress “Pages”. For example, create a Page and it will appear in the top tabs.
If you what to create a Category, Archive or Tag as a link in the top tabs, you will have to edit the “header.php” template file. For example, my “Freebies” tab up top is not a WordPress Page, yet a Category (I wanted a category because there will be many types of “Freebies” to list).
Simply list your new link. You will need to add some PHP code to get the tab to “highlight” if it’s the current page, see below:
<li class="page_item<?php if (is_category(‘freebies’)) {echo ‘ current_page_item’;} ?>">
<a href="http://www.antoniowells.com/category/freebies/" title="Freebies">Freebies</a></li>
The code…
< ?php if (is_category('freebies')) {echo ' current_page_item';} ?>
Just checks to see if it’s the current page, if so… add the CSS Class “current_page_item”, which you can markup to your hearts desire.
Hope that helps!
Hi, thinking about using this for my blog but would definitely like to be able to change the colour scheme from blue. You said in a previous comment reply that this was easy so please could you give instructions. Thanks.
@Terri Sure it can be changed by modifying the CSS “style.css” file in the theme folder and a few images. I will list general changes but ask can you be more specific as to what color changes you had in mind:
Change links color sitewide (near line 30):
a, a:link, a:active
{
color: #2c97ba;
}
Page Title links (near line 321):
.Article h2 a
{
color: #2c97ba;
}
Footer (near line 139):
#Footer {
background: #1cb4e7 url(images/bg_footer.gif) repeat-x;
padding: 30px 0px 10px 0px;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
Top Tab Buttons (near line 276):
.Menu ul li a
{
display: block;
float: left;
font-size: 1.4em;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
background: url(images/btn_nav.gif) no-repeat top right;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px 6px;
padding-top: 12px;
width: 100px;
}
Additionally, to change the Top Tab Buttons, you need to modify the graphic “/fresh/images/btn_nav.gif”… the PSD should be included in the original download under “/fresh/Sources/Fresh.psd” for color changing and slicing.
How that helps
Hi, this is a great theme but why is your name showing up as the title of my blog rather than the blog title? (I’m a newbie and living proof that there is such a thing as a stupid question.) thanks for your help and such a clean design.
@Didi
Hi, that’s not a stupid question, here’s the help:
If you’re see my name logo in the place of your Blog name, then you must have changed lines 65-86 of the Fresh theme… “/fresh/style.css”
By default, your blog name shows because lines 65-70 are left intact (your Blog name in title text) and lines 73-86 are commented out (these line are a guide on how you can use a logo image in the place of your Blog name in title text).
If you choose the latter, be sure to upload your logo, replace my name logo images at line 80, and enter the location of your logo there.
Regards,
Antonio Wells
Thanks so much for this theme – it is great! How do I take advantage of the adspace? I am new to blogging and barely getting by with wordpress – any recommendations or programs out there that make it easy to insert ads, etc without writing code?
Thanks again!
@Sean
Does this Wordpress plugin work for you?
Adsense Manager:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adsense-manager/
You manage the ads via admin in Wordpress, while in the Widgets manager, you can place the plugin where you like in the left/right sidebars.
Hope that helps!
Hey, man!
There are 3 admins to the site and we are very, very new to the internet. Can you please instruct us on how to add more tabs to the top of our site?
We sure appreciate all you do for everyone here!
Thanks!
-Invictus-
@Raymond
Is this for the Thesis Theme you have by DIYThemes? If so, I’m not sure. But for the Fresh Theme I created, you simply create a “Page” and it is automatically created on top. If you are trying to place a “Category” or “Tag” as a page on top… that’s more tricky and involves opening the design theme. See here
Please clairify what Theme you have, what WordPress version too…
hi there– i just downloaded your theme and am excited to try it out. question…i’m creating new pages and do not want the date, tags, etc. to be visible. i would like it to look like an actual ‘about’ page rather than a post. how would i make these changes? thanks so much!
@may Sorry for th delayed response… is this still an issue for you?
hi, i for indonesia. nice to meet you. i very love this theme. and i want to modif the theme with my style. i was include the theme with 4 widget in the theme, easy to me for management sidebar. i want to learning make theme and first about it, because i still newbie. this theme will be my first project for redesign. because theme very simple. anywhy i want u become teacher. if i was design with my style, i ‘ll share to u. thank for all.