WP-Themes: Premium News Style
Jun 9th, 2008 | By dikiem | Category:WP Themes | 3 comments | 235 views |A lot of people have asked me what theme is used for this new design and layout. When looking into redesigning the domain, I wanted something to infuse all of the blogspot account I have and with the content management style I had with the Nuke-PHP engine I used previously. That lead me to use Wordpress. But the standard WordPress theme wasn’t exactly what I was looking for. In searching, I came across hundreds of different themes and finally settle with one made by Michael Oeser.
The theme you are seeing now has 3 parts to it:
- Branford Theme
- Wynton Theme
- And lastly, my own customization coding to it
I like the main design of Branford, but also wanted some features of Wynton, both of which was creatively designed by Michael. That didn’t stop there, I wanted certain features and more dynamics to it, thus I made some modification to them. One main notice is on the front page. The feature article is no longer there, but in fact was replaced with an RSS PHP feed I had used in earlier web design. Using the CSS box design from the theme, I had infuse it with an RSS feed from various sources. The engine used is “LastRSS“. It is a simple, but yet powerful RSS parser.
Both the Branford and Wynton Theme are based upon Mimbo and Revolution style theme.
With some plugins, dabbing of PHP code changes, and various ideas, you have the website before you today!
Michael Oeser Themes: http://www.der-prinz.com/
Revolution Themes: http://www.revolutiontheme.com/
Mimbo Themes: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/05/wordpress-magazine-theme-released/
Wordpress Blog Engine: http://www.wordpress.org/
LastRSS Parser: http://lastrss.oslab.net/
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3 comments | 235 views
Hello smilepak (saw your name and post on branfordmagazine-supportforum)!
regarding michaels comment it looks like your are very good at adapting the theme!
My problem: I just want to have several featuredpages like the orig theme ones but showing only one (two would be perfect) category and 5 to 7 post of this category. Just like in the theme but not the recent posts but the post of the defined category. I still believe this should only be a littel snippet of code but I have no experience and tried copy paste but messed up the whole template…
Can you help???
Peter, from Bavaria
Hi there Kevin, I had a question about your featured page hack on Michael’s support forum, you listed a cool bit of code:
is_category = false;
$wp_query->is_archive = false;
$wp_query->is_home = true;
?>
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<a href=”” rel=”bookmark” class=”title”>
Where exactly within the featured-page.php template did you add this, and where within this code did you change the category?
Thanks a lot!
Hmm It has been awhile since I made any modification to the php file. I believe you to the category check in the “foreach” loop.
foreach ($display_categories as $category)
..blah blah blah..
I can email you the file if you like.