The gathering Wordpress Theme
The port of gathering is now available for download. The theme was designed by tri star design. The theme’s icons are from iconkits.com. It is widget enabled. Gathering follows a less is more philosophy when it comes to your blog organization. If you have reams of pages gathering might not be a good fit as the menu bar will not hold more than 7 or 8 simply named pages. Feel free to do what you’d like with the theme. In return I ask that you keep the links to tri star design and iconkits.com in the footer. It’s just a nice thing to do.
Updated [June 9th, 2007]: I waded back into the Gathering code. For all practical purposes it’s a whole new theme on the inside. I made it larger (960px). Expanded the category background gif in Photoshop to avoid the crowding of the original. Changed some fonts, made it more SEO friendly, added microformats for hatom, and a whole host of other changes. It’s much more solid now. Please do yourself a favor and read the Configuring section below. I forgot to include a README. I’ll get around to including one later, which means sometime in the next month, maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe two, but within a month. Therefore, read the Configuration section. There’s not a lot of magic to it. Pretty simple. Really you could do nothing and it’ll work right out of the box. I also did not do anything resembling extensive testing so I’d be obliged if you could hit me up with bugs.
A few points to keep in mind:
- This baby has widgets
- Plugins are included but not required.
- It should work with Wordpress 2.0 and above
- I have not tested the new version with anything resembling gusto
Configuring gathering
- The top sidebar menu lists the categories. If you have an outrageously long category title then the theme will look less than perfect. What’s an example of an outrageously long category? Hard to say, but something like Vampire Bunnies From Outer Space might be close to the limits of looking clean.
- For author highlighting in the comments section open the comments.php in your editor of choice, navigate to line 34 and enter your email and name.
Please Note: There is a known bug in Gathering that effects, not surprisingly, IE 6. It has to do with floats, not the Thanksgiving Day Parade kind, but the left and right variety. The Theme itself validates out of the box, but this is of little concern to IE. A fix probably wouldn’t be too hard, but, knowing myself as I do, it’s best I put up this notice up as it might take me awhile to get around to it. Anyway, in the spirit of full disclosure I mention the only known bug at this point.[posted 6.22.07]
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Credits
- I
borrowedused some code from the Cutline theme. Please leave the comments in the code. - gathering’s comment section is code provided by Christian Montoya. I’ve left his comments intact and ask that you do the same.
The Flickrrss plugin included in the zip is lightbox enabled (there’s also one that is not). This is possible due to Emac Online’s work. I had nothing to do with it. Other than breaking a sweat while downloading it.It is the original one now.- The icons are from iconkits.com. I corresponded with them, very nice folks, and they’d appreciate it if a link to their site would remain somewhere in the theme.
- If I’m forgetting someone or something I apologize. As soon as I discover the slip I’ll be sure to give credit where credit is due.
Further Reading
So Sorry
But comments are currently disabled while I work out some bugs and explore the feasibility and wisdom of implementing the Intense Debate comment system. I apologize for being a buzzkill, but they'll be back up soon. You can always contact me if your about to burst with a classic riposte or feel a pressing need to reach me.
