Bueno
Here’s a great, free blog theme from the WooThemes team. Installation uses Manfre’s mem_templates plugin to import all page, form and CSS templates plus it installs all plugins used by the theme and activates them.
No theme images need to be uploaded to the “Images” tab. All aspects of the theme remain external to Textpattern itself.
The theme includes the “woo_variables” and “woo_widgets” plugins. Once installed you will find that you have 2 new tabs – “Content/Theme Variables” and “Content/Widgets” – both of which enable you to modify the setup of the theme without the need to go anywhere near any code.
The theme comes with extensive documentation. Here are some details about Bueno:-
- Comes with 7 colour variations which can be set on the new “Theme Variables” tab.
- The header can use your own logo image or, if you don’t have one, it will display the site name entered into the “Preferences/Basic” tab. These settings are on the new “Theme Variables” tab.
- By default the theme uses the “articles” section for the Blog but this can be changed on the “Sections” tab and the new section entered on the new “Theme Variables” tab. This will then be used throughout the site including widgets, navigation and sitemap.
- Feeds use Txp tags by default but if you have a Feedburner account the URL can be entered on the new “Theme Variables” tab and this will be used instead.
- The email address for the contact form is added on the new “Theme Variables” tab.
- All widget variables, including ad images, are on the new “Widgets” tab.
- All widgets can be placed in both the footer and the sidebar, or both if necessary (except Twitter which can only appear on a page once due to the way the API works).
- The extended footer can be left blank.
- The main weblog images at the top of the articles are entered into the “Article Image” field in “Advanced Options” on the “Write” tab. Just need the “id” number. If you don’t want an article image the theme can cope with it.
- Article image thumbnails are not required (unless you want them for something else) as the original image will be auto-resized for the “Featured Posts” widget.
- Styling is included for images contained within an article to position them left, right or centre. Just add the appropriate class name to your image tag.
- The Contact form will be automatically added to the bottom of the Contact article once it has been created.
- The Sitemap form will be automatically added to the bottom of the Sitemap article once it has been created.
- The “mem_templates” plugin needs to be installed manually but once that is done all page templates, form templates, CSS templates and remaining plugins are imported with a couple of “clicks” plus all plugins are “activated”.
- A full-width page template is included.
- An error_503 page template is included.
