In short: WPFreemium is a two column WordPress Theme heavily designed for multi-authored blogs. WPFreemium features a deep integration of Gravatar images for all post authors, author profiles, and comments. Some of the primary goals for creating this theme was for it to be light weight, fast, and really highlight on the contributing authors. Here’s a few screenshots:
WPFreemium (669.9 KiB, 2,485 hits)
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Author Page:
Here’s a quick run down of features:
- Valid xHTML Strict 1.0 / CSS
- Code is well commented for the non technical savvy
- Sidebar Widgets enabled
- Custom Front Page with 3 featuring articles
- By default - 6 advertisement spots on all pages
- Gravatars highly Supported for Comments, Author Profiles and Author Posts.
- Author Byline + Promotion on single pages
- Author Profiles feature prominent image of the author with bio, contact details and more
- Image Gallery Support
- Yes Jeffr0, a Print Stylesheet is included.
- Favicon + iPhone Webclip icon Ready
- SEO Optimized title tags and headers
- 404 Error Page notifies admin each time someone sumbles across a broken link so they can fix it.
- …and Lots of minor details
Change Log:
- 2.0 - Completely revamped the backend along with a UI face lift. Using Blueprint’s CSS framework and grid system.
- 1.3 - Bug fixed in single.php - It didn’t generate the author’s promotion section with the correct author. To fix, move “
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/addons/author-metadata.php'); ?>” on line 51 in single.php file above the loop, anywhere above line 8 - 1.2 - IE Bug prevented the logo from being displayed. To fix, just remove “
h1#logo a { text-indent: -9999px; }” in header.php on line 31 - 1.1 - Typo, spelled Administrator wrong in author.php on line 25 (Adminitrator)
Recommended Plugins:
I’d recommend installing WP Limit Posts Automatically which enables you to customize the excerpts on the homepage, archives, and more.Things to do before you install:
- Update the image with your logo.
- Change both, the favicon and iPhone webclip icon to match your brand. (Currently WordPress logos)
- Inside addons->ads->ads125×125.php: change the source to your correct advertisement page. currently its pointing to “blogdomain.com/advertise”
- I think that’s it. Upload the entire folder, “WPFreemium” in your themes directory and have fun!
Drumroll… Will there be Support?
Of course silly. BUT this is my first public theme so bare with me. I’ve tried coding for public releases making sure you guys can understand what’s going on in the backend and using best practices (always!). If you find something broken or whatever, shout me an email from the email address in _README.txt file, thanks!Future releases:
Here are a few things I plan on adding in future versions for this theme:- Theme Options for constant variables.
- Image uploader and cropping tool for logo and other images.
- A few aesthetics modifications
- Ad management (pt’s style)
- Fixes for unknown bugs you tell me about.
- X Feature that’ll be pretty cool.
PassionDuo Blue- Free Premium WordPress Themes
Categories: Wordpress Themes
Tags: advertising ready, blue, feedjit, recent comments, recent posts, widget ready
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Here is the blue version of our latest make money blogger template first converted here at eBlog Templates. This amazing PassionDuo template for Blogger comes in three colors: red, blue, and green. The green version will eventually become available so if red or blue isn’t your thing, you might want to wait.
This template includes several popular ad formats for your blog. You get a 468 x 60 banner spot in the header, six 125 x 125 banner spots in the right sidebar, and plenty of other sidebar spots for skyscraper banners. We’ve also included our popular sidebar widgets such as Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and the cool Feedjit (real time visitor widget). Just paste in your blog rss feed urls into the Recent Posts & Comments widgets and they’ll start working. Unlike most other custom make money blogger templates, we’ve taken the extra step and setup the “Fonts & Colors” functionality. That means you can change all the colors and font styles easily by just using the built in Blogger section. We’ve also customized the comments section so it looks very professional as well. PassionDuo also includes top tabs which can be added via your Blogger page element screen. The rss feed icon will automatically appear once you add your first tab so don’t be alarmed after you first install it. Configuring the rest of this template is actually quite easy. You can swap out the ads and replace them with your own or feel free to keep the existing ones if you don’t have any to use. Make sure you check the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox on the “Edit HTML” page within Blogger before trying to make any edits. Also make sure to backup your old template just in case you make a mistake. Let’s start with the 468 x 60 header banner. Search for “<!-- Delete or replace with your ad -->” in the template code and the first one you come across is where you replace the ad. The second instance of “<!-- Delete or replace with your ad -->” is for the Google AdSense code which you can either keep, replace, or just remove completely. For the six 125 x 125 banner ads you’ll need to find “<!-- Replace with your ads -->” and update those one by one. Make sure not to delete the<li>and</li>before and after each ad otherwise it will look funny. If you don’t already have ads to use, I recommend clicking through each banner and become an affiliate. Then you can replace the affiliate codes with your own and start making money!