Looking for a professional, clean layout? Vesper is your answer.
We love giving back to the open source community and thought what a better way than to build a beautiful template. Vesper is a free widget ready 2 column fixed width template written in valid standards based code for the Wordpress content management system. Vesper supports second level subpage navigation that is very similar to our own here. Basically, if a top level page has child pages it will display them in the sidebar when viewing that page, even if you have widgets enabled.
As well, Vesper has support for a more advanced paging navigation through the use of the wp-pagenavi plugin. The template has the pagination style built into the style.css file and removes the call to the default CSS file that comes with wp-pagenavi by a simple remove action in the functions.php file in the Vesper directory, so everything should work right out of the box.
In addition, Vesper is Wordpress 2.6 compatible and should also work in previous version but has only been tested in 2.3 and above. You can download the latest version of Vesper below and play around with it. If you have any questions, found a bug, or think there is room for improvement to the code please leave a comment.
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Installation
- Download Vesper
- Unpack the zip file
- Upload the ‘vesper’ folder and all of its contents to the ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory
- Activate the theme through the ‘Design’ menu in WordPress
- Download the wp-pagenavi plugin by Lester Chan
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Done, enjoy!
Features
Features include: Excerpt Reloaded; WP-Pagenavi; Recent Posts; Widget-Ready; simple, clean, organized layout; Valid HTML; Valid CSS.
Donations
- Make a donation and help keep the awesomeness flowing.
Disclaimer
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Valen Designs, cannot guarantee or imply reliability, serviceability, or function of these programs.
All programs contained herein are provided to you "AS IS" without any warranties of any kind. The implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are expressly disclaimed.
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@Dan
You need to replace the_excerpt_reloaded(….) in the index.php with the_content(), and that should fix the issue. If not send me an email with a link and what exactly the problem is and I’ll try to be more specific with my response. Oh, and thank you.
Hi Derek.
First, thanks for a wonderful theme, it is awesome.
Second, I need help. I have problem with perex, it it that part of text displaxed above . It cannot display any colors, bold or italic in it. But when i click continue reading, all the text from start to end of post is ok=as i writed it in admin panel, it means all colors, bold and italic parts of text are displaxed corectly. But in back in perex not. Can you help me please? Iam crazy of it. Im sorry for my english. Thank you very much.
I got it! It need to use brain only.
For others users which have the same problem: It is simple. Edit the wp-loop.php file and at line where is <?php the_excerpt_reloaded( ADD HERE THE TAGS WHICH YOU WANT TO ALLOW IN PEREX EX. or etc…). is for italic and for bold text.
Hey Derek! AWESOME theme! One of my favorite Wordpress themes, actually; very simple and elegant. We decided to use it for our tech blog, and haven’t looked back!
I have two questions:
1. – When I embed an image in a post, it displays properly with the correct transparent border wrapped to the text. But when I add a link to that image, it creates a strange visible border that looks much sloppier. Any way to fix this? I can demonstrate if need be.
2. – Is there a way to stop the default wrapping of the text to the images altogether?
Again, great work, and thanks for your help!
Nice theme there Derek. I’ve installed it over at http://www.quityesterday.com/blog. I’m going to contact you now for some custom work.
Cheers.
Sorry everyone for not responding to your comments, I was in the hospital most of last month and this month I have been playing catch up. I’ll try to answer some questions in the next day or two, for now I just wanted people to know I didn’t completely forget about them.
Hi Derek,
Thanks for your wonderful custom work to this theme. Am very happy with your results and highly recommend your work to others.
Take care and good to hear you’re out of hospital now.
Cheers.
Glad to help, I always enjoy a little Frankenstein action. I think it’s hard to tell it was once Vesper, but in reality it wasn’t big of a change to the core code. Anyhow, happy that you’re happy.
Cheers
@tim: can you post a link and also what browser you’re using?