622 August 9, 2008

WP theme: Infinity

Updated Aug 18th - Infinity 1.0.1 has been released (get it here or over Smashing Magazine), it is highly recommended that you upgrade at your convenience, especially if you’re need WP page template which was missing in previous version. Enjoy.

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Get the Infinity theme (v1.0.1, total 13087 downloads)

Change log

V1.0.1 includes:

  • WP Page template included
  • Top navigation revamped (now it work with your pages list)
  • Blogroll links

Installation and Configuration

It really doesn’t get much easier than this, extract the contents and upload the whole ‘theme’ folder to your wp-content/theme directory, and you can name it whatever you like. Copy all plugin(s) into wp-content/plugins directory and active them via WP admin.

1) Add a page content - Log into WP admin, Write > Page, hit the save and publish and this will reflect on the top navigation menu.

2) Change the del.icio.us Feed - Edit left.php, line #24:
src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/yichi?count=8&sort=date”
replace yichi with your own delicious id, count=8 where you can change how many items you like to show.

3) Change the number of display posts in home - simply go wp admin, settings > reading > Blog pages show at most: where enter the number (the default value is 10)

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Thanks Smashing Magazine for featuring and publish Infinity theme for wordpress. As you might see that Infinity theme was actually based on my current theme layout, please visit Smashing Magazine for a quick preview and download.

Some guide you might need before using this theme:

Using Custom Field to custmize the post style

As Infinity theme requires to use the feature of Wordpress custom filed, here I will show you how to enable that magazine cover style by simple add key value to custom filed:

1) Once you’re about finishing your post and BEFORE you press ‘publish’ button, scroll down your page to Custom field, where you can enter a new keyword and value

Key: thumbnail
Value: enter your photo path
(you can either upload a image and copy its path directly or link to your flickr album. And for a better result, please sizing your photo to 235*150 pixels), then hit ‘Add Custom Field’ button, wordpress will save this field, and you can edit it at later. It’s that easy!

2) then publish it and go check the update you’ve just made, if everything goes fine, your frontpage will show thumbnail style covers.

I hope you all can enjoy this theme as much as I created, any comments and questions about this theme are always welcome, I’ll try my best to help you out. Since Smashing Magazine publish it yesterday, I already received over 70 emails concerns about this theme, I’ll reply to all of you asap.

Updates

Thanks so much for all encouraging comments, and here I listed a few issues that you might want to modify, meanwhile I’m working on an update to ensure all these can be fixed.

1) How can I remove the favicon?
Open header.php and located to line #6, replace that <link rel=”shortcut icon”… url with your own.

2) Create a page template
Create an individual page please refer http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages, and I will add a page template in the next update.

3) How do I edit the twitter
Edit left.php, line #7
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/***.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1
replace *** with your twitter id - count=1 means how many message, change it to 2,3 and so on.

4) Change the RSS
Open header.php, line #34 simply replace the feedburner url with your own RSS feed.

5) Change the top menu
The top menu items are designed to modify manually, but you still can replace them with wp page navigation, open header.php and locate line #29
<ul class=”topnav”>
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>/” title=”Return to Frontpage”>01. Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://vikiworks.com/” title=”About”>02. About Me</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://vikiworks.com/” title=”Contact”>03. Contact</a></li>
<li><a href=”#main-wrapper” title=”Contact”>04. Skip to content</a></li>
<li class=”rss”><a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/vikiworks” title=”Subscribe RSS”>RSS</a></li>
</ul>

repleace blue color highlighted code with
<?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=’); ?>

For details on page navigation, please refer to Wordpress Codex. This theme requires Page navi plugin installed to enable the page navigation, please get one from here.

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