Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme
Heya,
This site is run using the wordpress blog software. While setting it up I couldn’t find a theme that I liked, so I decided to make my own.
Nearly-Sprung is a rework of Becca Wei’s “Almost Spring” using the same orange and green colour scheme. However I modified it to be a three column blog with fluid centre column, and optimised for vertical layout so its possible to not have any vertical scrolling on a 1024×768 screen.
I have built in support for the following plugins:
-Tags
-Gravatars
-Sidebar widgets (two columns)
-Photopress v1.1
-Geo Mashup v1.1 (requires patch to enable map styles)
-Next/Previous Post in same Category plugins (Richard Maxwell v1.0 version)
-Viper’s plugin list Plugin
Also note that to have random header backgrounds, just drop in a 80 pixel high jpg starting with the name “headerbackground-” and it’ll automatically be picked up and used.
Feel free to download and use on your own site. The code is GPL except the header image supplied, which is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Download
For Wordpress version 2.7, 2.8 and higher Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme v3.0.0
For Wordpress versions 2.6.x Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme v2.0.2
For Wordpress versions 1.5.x to 2.0.x Nearly-Sprung Wordpress Theme v1.0
V3.0.0
-Only works with Wordpress 2.7.x, 2.8.x or higher
-Supports new Wordpress 2.7 comment threading and css styles
-Supports new Wordpress 2.7 javascript comment reply box
-Built in support for splitting pings / trackbacks from comments
-Fixed horizontal scrollbar problem for IE7 users
-Removed support for Official Comments
-Removed support for MK’s Trackping Separator Plug-in
V2.0.2
-Fixed horizontal scrollbars appearing
-Changed width of the search box widget’s text box
-Anything inside the side columns that’s wider will be truncated
-Support for Wordpress 2.6.x (tested on wordpress 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.1)
-Partial Support for Wordpress 2.7.x (comment threading isn’t supported)
V2.0.1
-Upgraded to support wordpress 2.6.x
-Upgraded to support Photopress 1.1
-Upgraded to support Geo-Mashup 1.1
-Added Tag Support
-Added Gravatar Support
-Added Settings page so you can configure wether to hide or show the header menu
V1.0.0
-Initial Release
-Support for Wordpress 1.5.x to 2.5.x (tested on wordpress 2.0.2, 2.0.3)
Notes
If you want to edit the column widths, then first read this article. Then edit the top of style.css accordingly. You then need to change the widths on the following properties so that the links are the right width as well:
#leftsidebar ul ul li a
#leftsidebar ul ul ul li a
#rightsidebar ul ul li a
#rightsidebar ul ul ul li a
Secondly, the way that next/previous links for the main page has changed, you need to delete the following lines in index.php:
<?php posts_nav_link(”, __(”), __(’« Previous entries’)); ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(’ · ‘, __(”), __(”)); ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(”, __(’Next entries »’), __(”)); ?>
and replace it with:
<?php posts_nav_link(’ · ‘, __(’« Next entries’), __(’Previous entries »’)); ?>
Hi!
This theme is very nice! I am novice with wordpress and I have one question may be stupid… Is it possible to delete the links at the top of the page “Home”, “Entries RSS ” “Comments RSS “… I don’t need those links.
Thank you very much for your help.
Gaspacho
You can remove all those options by deleting the offending lines in header.php of the theme, or turn the header off completely in the Nearly Sprung Settings page (Appearance->Nearly-Sprung).
the link for changing the widths on the sidebar dont work – can you post instructions? I love this template but the sidebars are much too narrow for my needs….
thank you!!
Thank you for Nearly Sprung – I have one question though: is it at all possible to show nested pages on the top bar? When I tried, the sub-pages are non-clickable and the headers of the columns are only partly visible.