Apr.28.2007

Salmon WordPress Theme

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Theme information

  • Author: Justin Shattuck
  • Description: A two to three columns, blue and pink theme.

Author’s Note

The new theme is titled, “salmon,” because of its pink and blue color tones. I have decided to leave most of the original design style in tact. Upon uploading and activating the theme, you will need to modify sidebar.php and place your Flickr ID as well as modify header.php to include the links to your various pages within the navigation.

Theme Comments by Small Potato

Salmon is based on JustinShattuck.com’s current blog design. Recently, there have been several JustShattuck.com-inspired themes released. I’m featuring Salmon because it’s the best looking version and it’s coming straight from JustinShattuck.com.

Needless to say, I like this theme. It’s clean, spacious, and has a nice color scheme. My favorite design feature of Salmon is its search form. Call me weird, but the search form is my favorite!

Code-wise, Salmon needs a bit of work. For starter, the header has three differently links, linking back to the home page; that’s too many links pointing to the same page.

Second, the Page template isn’t styled properly; font size on the Page template is 12px instead of the home-page 11px. Also, the Page template doesn’t call for the comments form.

Third, the Comments Template function is used within an if-else statement in the index.php file to display the comments form only on Single pages. However, the single.php file or template already uses the Comments Template function. Therefore, there’s no need to place the Comments Template function within an if-else statement in the index.php.

Fourth, the middle sidebar needs the Recent Comments plugin to display properly.

What's Next?
Adrian King:

Hi,

I found your wordpress theme development tutorials very helpful and am on my way to creating my own theme.

The one thing I have noticed is that many sites using wordpress often have some pages in alternative parts to the main navigation. For example the about me page will not be listed with all the other pages for the blog.

How do you seperate these two levels of navigation so that they can be styled differently and appear in different locations on the blog. Has it go something to do with assigning pages under categories??

Thanks for your time

Adrian

Small Potato:

Adrian,

It’s a matter of design. The links separate from the rest of the page listings are usually hand coded (customs / extras). Check my Peaceful Rush theme for example.

For future support questions, please post them at the forums. Thanks Adrian.

Adrian King:

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. That was the response I was dreading though. If you hard code the links, that must mean that the pages are not generated in the WordPress Dashboard? If they are then they would appear in the navigation with the php get pages code?

I will check out your template.

Thanks again,

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Eric Amundson:

Hey Small Potato,

Gorgeous theme, Sir. Well done! :)

waterbird:

Hey Small Potato,how are you?
I am waterbird

Small Potato:

@Eric. I didn’t create Salmon. The author is Justin Shattuck.

@waterbird – Hi waterbird. I’m fine. Thanks :) .

Eric Amundson:

@Eric. I didn’t create Salmon. The author is Justin Shattuck.

Oops, should have spotted that. Well, thank you for posting it anyway and giving such a thorough design review.

grazitaly:

This is a very cool theme.