Greed WordPress Theme
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Are you greedy for sidebars? The official release of Greed, it’s finally here! Preview Greed.
Author information
Greed was designed and coded by Small Potato.
Theme Description
Greed is a three-column to five-column hybrid Wordpress theme with ten widget-ready sidebars. Released under GPL, it’s the first released theme of the Seven Deadly Sins theme series.
Features
- Compatible with WordPress 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 series.
- Fixed-fluid width
- Easy to rotate main column and sidebars. Double right sidebars example.
- Switchable banner, background color, and more through the theme options page.
- Able to hold an infinite number of sidebars. 30 sidebars example (10 default and 20 additionals).
- Compatible with / supports over two dozen plugins.
Files: (version .09 RC2)
- Download Greed
- Download Greed Light - This is a the light version, which comes with only two visible, default sidebars.
Usage
To switch to a double right sidebars layout, go to the Greed Theme Options page and edit the values to match the following:
- Main column margins: 0 390px 0 0
- Sidebar A float: right
- Sidebar A margins: 0 10px 0 0
- Sidebar B float: right
- Sidebar B margins: 0 10px 0 0
To switch to a double left sidebars layout:
- Main column margins: 0 10px 0 380px
- Sidebar A float: left
- Sidebar A margins: 0 0 0 10px
- Sidebar B float: left
- Sidebar B margins: 0 0 0 10px
How to add more widget-ready sidebars:
- Open the sidebar_3.php file
- Copy everything. Go to the bottom of the same page and skip several lines.
- Paste
- Change the pasted “secondary_content” to “tertiary_content“
- Below the tertiary_content area, find the numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Change them to 11, 12,… 15.
- Save the sidebar_3.php file
- Open the functions.php file
- Find the number 10. Change it 15.
- Save the functions.php file
- Upload the edited sidebar_3.php and functions.php file to see the change.
How to add more non-widget-ready sidebars:
- Follow the widget-ready sidebars instruction above, except for the steps that involve functions.php
- Next, for every new sidebar, remove:
<?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar() ) : else : ?> and <?php endif; ?>
How to use the pre-defined advertisement styles and files:
- Place your codes within the ads_728×90.php, ads_468×60.php, or ads_inline.php file.
- If you’re using the 468 or Inline ads, include them on your pages by using <div class=”ads_your_choice_here”><?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/ads_your_choice_here.php’); ?></div>
- (Do not copy and paste the codes I gave you. Type the codes to make them work correctly.)
Compatible With / Tested With / Supported Plugins
- Adsense Manager 2.0
- Articles 1.1
- Author Highlight
- Comment License
- flickRSS 3.2
- Get Recent Comments 1.5.5
- Google Analyticator 1.52
- IM Online 4.3
- NextGen Gallery 0.43
- Page Comments 2.6.2
- Popularity Contest 1.2.1
- Related Posts 2.04
- Share This 1.4
- Show Top Commentators 1.04
- Spam Karma 2
- Sociable 2.0
- Sphere Related Content 1.2
- Subscribe to Comments 2.1
- WP Ajax Edit Comments 1.0.6.5
- WP Download Monitor v1.5 B20070310
- WP Lightbox 2
- WP Pagenavi 2.10
- WP Polls 2.14
- WP Post Ratings 1.10
- WP Sticky
- WP User Online
Author’s Note
This theme has a link, linking back to Wpdesigner.com in the footer.php file. You’re allowed to remove it. But if you like, keep it to credit me for creating this theme.
Looks great!
Thanks for the email notification and the release , SP!
Good Job! I Digg it!
I’m trying it now in one of my websites..
You’re the best SP!
Very nice, and dugg.
It’s only a personal opinion, but if you added in a stylised date block, like those highlighted on this post, and maybe bullets for the right-hand sidebar lists, then would you have a chart topper!
Just my two pence!
Is very good theme, i like it.
The two side panels show up first in HTML. Isn’t that more search engine friendly if the middle (main) panel appears first?
That’s true, but I had to place theme before the main column to easily rotate them.
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When do you think we can expect the next theme to come out in the series? I have a feeling I’ll be switching themes over and over! lol
I can’t say. You’ll have to see hahaha.
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Lovely theme, I’m about to use it as a static design for a site of mine
So I’ll be just taking the source code and changing it to my liking 
Could you give us the header .psd please?
Thanks
Thanks Matt, but the header is just a 970×110 jpg image. Plus, your site is not about Greed is it?
30 sidebars? And you want me to believe you have nothing to do.
Now I’m off to download, upload, install, and get to work on. Thanx.
Wow! This is the works, will try to see which blog I will put this into. Thanks!
You are a rockstar!
Awesome theme. Jesse is right
Gotta see, which site of mine goes live with this theme 
Cheers!
I like the theme so tried it out. I had one problem, when on a single post page or comments page it would stretch the first comment out to the bottom of the sidebars.
Hey Jeff, thanks for trying out my theme. Could you post this at the forums and link me to the page with the problem?
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Awesome.
Did you publish it under GPL or CC license? Do you allow to translate it in other languages?
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@Runa - It’s GPL. You can translate it.
Awesome. I’ma download the light version for my new layout. See how it look and how it works. Great job!
Hi SP, liked your theme.. I’m already using it in one of my websites. Though I’m still editing it.
I’m curious about the Continue Reading link at the end of this post…
What plugin did you use for that? Is that also Compatible in Greed Theme?
It’s not a plugin, it’s the “more” button.
hey Sp love the theme. currently using it for a site that i am still editing. i have a question…any idea why my page cuts off the way it does here,
http://www.sepehr-moghadam.com/htdocs…
I don’t know. Grid Focus is not my theme. For theme support, please post at the forums. Thanks.
It’s nice to see another Small Potato WP theme
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it’s a very good site. I’m trying it now. Thanks
Good job!
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Please forgive me, I’m new at this…
I’m using this template on my site and want to know how to change the banner image? Basically I want to leave the bright green and just put my own text on top of it. Can you tell me how to do this? Thanks…
Kate - put whatever you want in the ads_728×90.php file. It’ll show up on top of the banner space.
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@SP: I’m using your greed theme now, I’m trying to modify something. I tried to integrate the iTheme calendar but something went wrong can you help me on this? I think I mess-up the css file..
can you also tell me how to change the color of the sidebar header. Thanks a bunch!
here’s the site I’m talking about..
http://payscrib.page.ph
The file you need to change for the sidebar header is bg_h2_a.gif. It’s a vertical gradient blend 1 pixel wide and repeated to fill the cell. In the style.php look for that filename to see the section you’d need to change. I created a replacement gif for that one.
While I’m at it, great layout SP. The colors don’t fit what I was looking for but the look nails it. Thanks!
Hi again, Small Potato. I just wanted to show you how I used Greed for the main blog in my kids’ school site (runs on WPMU).
The sidebars were just perfect for creating blocks of headlines. Each block is actually the latest entries in a particular category.
Nice Greed mod Connie. I actually saw HedCen before following your comment link and wanted to highlight it as one of the better modifications at a later time.
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Thanks, Small Potato. Am looking forward to Pride.
This is in response to JeffA who had the problem, “when on a single post page or comments page it would stretch the first comment out to the bottom of the sidebars.”
I had the same problem, but only for people who had already commented. Turns out it was a problem with the WP Ajax Edit Comments plugin. I believe it was doing something that was making the width to be too wide, but I haven’t yet taken the time to find it. Instead, I just disabled the plugin for now. But if you aren’t using that plugin, I’d be looking at something that might be causing a width issue.
great work!
Is there a problem with latest download for the Greed Theme?
The styles does not apply after I copy the theme to /wp-content/themes/
I can only see the text in plain white background. Is anyone else having the problem.
Several other people have the same problem, but not everyone.
I tried installing this theme before I went on to Pride. I like this one, but it wouldn’t work. When I enabled it, the entire site was style-less. Do you know why?
I don’t know what the problem is. It doesn’t happen to every 2.2 blog. I have a running 2.2 blog and it’s working fine. Are you using 2.2?
If you can’t solve the problem, contact me for the original stylesheet. That seems to fix it for most users.
@Teryn: Generally speaking, this happens for one of two reasons.
1. The stylesheet got corrupted during the upload. This can be easily fixed by re-uploading it, or by choosing a different method of upload in your FTP client - i.e. binary if you tried ascii, or vice versa.
2. The problem sometimes occurs when WP is installed to a sub-directory. This only usually happens if the server hosting the install is Windows-based.
Hope this helps!
i have wp 2.2.
my files are not corrupted after checking them on the server.
wp is not in a subdirectory.
please send me the old stylesheet. i’ll test that out to see if that works.
thanks!
My Wordpress is 2.2, it was installed - not upgraded.
Thanks for the info.
Cute and simple, I like it
Small Potato — thanks for another great theme in Greed. We’ve have just deployed Greed Light and modified it to suit our style. See it at http://www.RichardCravy.com. We are very pleased. Previously we had been using your Sleepy theme.
Thanks Richard - Your customizations look really good.
Hi Son (Small Potato)
I like the Greed theme. I know you have spent many days working on it. And we really appreciate the efforts you put in behind you theme.
Though, do we see a similar theme in a different color. No doubt i LIKE this theme, but green ain’t my color.
If something is coming then good, else i guess i have to go through your tutorials and try changing the colors myself!
Thanks
Hey Sharat,
You’re gonna have to. I’m not working on Greed anymore (at this time).
Alright Son
I guess major changes would be thru css file.
I will go through your tutorials to start with
If i am succesful in making something good, i will definitely let you know about it! Else….you can understand that your friend Sharat ain’t a good coder at all.
Also when are the next SINS theme coming?
@Sharat - before this month ends
Alright Will be waiting for it
The month’s end is almost here
But seriously waiting for a theme with lot of space just for content. No sidebars, only bottombar.
Probably the “Lust” SIN theme can have that!
Something like that coming?
I’m trying to hurry, but can’t finish these themes fast enough.
Hey great theme,
how can I remove the RSS button? - I have added my own but I don’t want the one that is alredy there,
thanks,
Matt
Matt - Replace the rss button in the “images” folder with your own.
I looked through the images folder, there doesn’t seem to be an RSS button there, do you know what the name of the file is?
Thanks
Matt
Are you sure? It’s icon_rss.gif.
Sorry One more thing, is it possible to remove the ‘bottom side bar’?
help much appreciated,
Matt
Matt - Download the light version, it comes without the bottom sidebars activated. If you have other questions, please post it at the forums. Thanks.
Thank You for the Great Theme! Now all to do is to fill up those sidebars with some good content!
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Thanks for using Greed, Linda.
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It’s a nice theme. And the colors are very ok. Good
Bit confused about the 3 to 5 column thing. How can I make the theme show 4 columns? All I seem to be able to do is create further link blocks down the bottom.
Really want left sidebar, content, right sidebar and then another right sidebar for skyscraper ads.
Anyone can help?
That’s not possible if you don’t tear apart the entire theme for another right sidebar.
ah ok, what does the 3-5 column thing refer to then?
three main columns + 2 inner columns
I discovered that an old implementation of widgets was conflicting with the sidebars when I upgraded to 2.2 (no longer using widgets). So I downloaded, installed, and activated the Disable WordPress Plugins plugin - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-widgets/
That did the trick for me. Works great with 2.2 now.
My guess is that if you never used the widgets before, there’s no problem. But if you once used widgets, and then stopped using widgets, and then upgraded to 2.2, the old implementation of widgets is interacting with the sidebars and mucking things up.
I think you could’ve simply change the name of the functions.php file
Thank You for the Great Theme! Now all to do is to fill up those sidebars with some good content!
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Great theme! Good work….
I am about to change the site layout an is using WP now. I have finalize this theme for the site. Thanks a lot SP.
One doubt can i have only the tite of the post instead of the whole post of the front page
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Great theme!- I’m new at this and would love to add color to the background of my post column as well as make my banner larger but I don’t know how to find the css style sheer to edit- all I see are php files and one style sheet with just your basic info? Thanks for the theme!
Cheers
Jason - It’s in the style.php file.
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Hey SP, your site rocks and this theme is exactly what I was looking for! You da man!!!
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Nice one, smart design, I am using this right now.
Thanks.
Thanks Qingfang!
Gotta love this super-expandable skin!
Hi Small Potato! Thanks for great skin. But i have small problem, like some people before me. I tried installing this theme, but the entire site was style-less. I tried copy content of style.php to style.css - then style worked, but i think that this is not correst solution:) I tried that on WP 2.1 and 2.3
Thanks for answer:)
Small Potato,
I am a big fan of your theme. I recently updated to WP 2.3.1 and there seems to be some problems. The main index page looks fine, but the posts and pages cut off at the bottom so the footer is not visible. On post pages, the page cuts off at where the comments field should be.
Do you have any patches or suggestions to fix this?
thanks!
Here’s the error:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘database_blog.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_categories
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No problem for me !
First of all, you have my admiration and praise for being so good at your templates. I have a very simple question, but then again I am astonishingly ignorant on these things.
I managed to get the changes made and it looks fine, but I am totally lost on the bottom segment which shows all the LINK TITLES and such in what I take to be 10 very dark columns. How do I remove those?
Thanks so much!!!
Brian
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Thank you for creating this theme. This really rocks!
I have just one question. How do I move columns 3-5 above the main content? I’m going to use them as three graphic spots.
Thanks!
make the sidebar include codes come before the posts area.
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I just started using this template and cannot seem to get the ads in right. I have the code for a 480 banner and did what was written above and nothing is showing up…where do they appear and can someone walk me through this?
Thanks
Please use the Wpdesigner support forums for help.
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Great Theme, worked out well for our project.
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Do you have plans to update for WP ver 2.3 compatibility?
No. Add tags to this theme and you should be fine with 2.3.
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love the site, love your themes…especially Greed.
could we have the psd file for the banner?
how do you get so creative and artistic i envy you! This is one nice looking theme that i came across.
keep up the great work!
Mike
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Das Greed WordPress Theme ist wirklich schön!
I love this theme! Thanks for your work! I have made some changes as green is not my color:)) and I am trying to have a uniform vbulletin and photopost. I am trying to change the color as well on the “Pages” links. How is this done? Also is Greed compliant with the upgrade 2.3.3?
Your help is soooo appreciated….. I am a novice at this.
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Das Greed WordPress Theme ist wirklich schön!
I like these templates they look great!! I might consider using one. Thanks