Wordousel Lite WordPress Theme
Alright so here we go, my first theme based on the WP Post Carousel I built this summer. This theme is the first in an up coming series including some premium themes playing with the carousel.
Here are a couple of screen shots and check the list below for a few features.
UPDATE: Wordousel Lite 1.2 Released – Download link and Change log at the bottom of this post.
Screenies
Download & Donate buttons are not included in the theme files
Only basic styling has been done to the blog pages and widgetized sidebar
Nested comments were added and styled for up to 5 nested comments
Features (quick & dirty):
- All Major Browsers Suppported – IE6 is not a major browser to me!
- W3C XHTML/CSS Compliant
- Latest Official WordPress Version Supported
- Friendly CSS
- Easy Setup
- Widgetized sidebars
- Gravatar enabled
- RSS ready
- nested comments
- WP Post Carousel capabable
Change Log
1.2 (20Sep09)
- Page comments fixed
- CSS changes and additions
- image.php page fixed to center all content
- functions.php cleaned up
1.1 (2009-09-18)
- Added valid search box to sidebar using searchform.php
- cleaned up invalid CSS
Demo Wordousel Lite
Download Wordousel Lite 1.2
Support & Changes
I will be adding further functionality and basic things like search and cleaning up various portions of the theme. If you have any feature requests, go ahead and leave it in this post.
I also want to give Jonathan Dingman big ups for helping along the way. Make sure to visit Jonathan over at FireSide Media. Great friend, and an awesome SEO!
Hello Dre! thanks for this fantastic theme.
Do you have a height limit for the carousel in the light blue area that displays a scrollbar if I change the height of any of the elements inside?
I checked everything and I couldn’t figure out what it is.
Thanks,
Cynthia
Cynthia, thanks for trying it out :)
Can you show me a sample of the issue?
The JS is called out in the footer:
$("#myController").jFlow({
slides: "#mySlides",
controller: ".jFlowControl", // must be class, use . sign
slideWrapper : "#jFlowSlide", // must be id, use # sign
selectedWrapper: "jFlowSelected", // just pure text, no sign
width: "910px",
height: "320px",
duration: 400,
prev: ".jFlowPrev", // must be class, use . sign
next: ".jFlowNext" // must be class, use . sign
});
Feel free to contact me via Skype if you have more questions: dre.armeda
It worked! Now, if we are defining the sizes of the carousel in the footer, why do we have to set up the width and the height of the masthead in the css?
the carousel sizes defined in the footer is through the script. The carousel sits in the masthead which is set to 990px and has a margin of 0 auto to ensure it centers correctly.
Feel free to change it for your application, whatever works best :)
Enjoy.
Thx for your theme and your contribution to help the other people, Dre.
Hello Dre,
I have another question regarding the height of the carousel: in the JS in the footer you define a fixed height for the carousel, is it possible to make the height dynamic, and the carousel gets bigger and smaller according to the height of the thumbnail that comes with the post?
It happens that I have a fixed width for my thumbnails, but different heights for every single one. Is this possible to modify this, how?
Thanks again,
Cy
I’m thinking of going with this theme, but there are a few things that wouldn’t be functional with my site, and I was wondering if you could tweek some things.
1. Is it possible to make it like how your current site is, where there is a middle portion that is another color, and then a solid background color that can be changed that goes with it. Currently, when you scroll down, the entire page is one color. In the event that I want to begin advertising, I want to have the option to make that background an entire advertisement. I hope that makes sense.
Dre:
I’m working on a site and it seems that the carousel theme is right up my alley. I currently have the theme installed and activated on a localhost installation of wordpress. I followed the instructions in the readme file, but the carousel is not showing up. I will install it on my test web server later on when I get back home, but do you have any ideas I can try? Is there something not in the readme that I should be doing? Thanks, cool theme!
Hi Dre,
thanks for this theme – I really like the carousel. I’m trying to adjust it to my exact needs – How do I adjust the overflow limit, so that I can include more text in the carousel display?
At the moment it seems to curtail my text leaving half the box empty…
Thanks for any help.
James