John Hesch

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07-6-05

Gila WordPress 1.5 Theme

Posted by John

Welcome to the Gila WordPress 1.5 Theme home page. Gila is based on the open source design of Harlan.

Gila requires two plugins and two images which are included in the distribution. The admin bar plugin places admin links at the top of the page as seen in the screenshot below. These links are only seen by a logged in admin. The other plugin places recent comments in the right sidebar. The images are for blockquote text and form fields.

Place the two plugins into the wp-content/plugins folder and then activate them. Place the images where ever you choose and then change the location in the style.css file.

If you don't want to use the admin bar plugin you will have to take out the admin bar code <?php admin_bar(); ?> in header.php. If you choose not to use the recent comments plugin remove the following from sidebar.php

PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1.  
  2. <p class="sideBarTitle"><?php _e('Recent Comments'); ?></p>
  3. <div class="sideBarText"><?php mdv_recent_comments(10, 7, '', '<br />', true, 0)?></div>
  4.  

For me at least, it was difficult to get the three columns to auto size based on the longest column. I don't see how CSS is very proficient in accomplishing this. I also tried some JavaScript to get the columns to auto-size but that didn't work out very well. The only time you will have issues is when you go to a page with only one or two posts, IE displays the center content funky. Firefox looks awesome.

You can download the theme here. If you have any problems use the contact form.

General
  1. Al Said,

    I really like this theme, but it does not have the RSS feed link

  2. PetLvr.com - [The Blog]» “A Website For All Earthlings, Who Love Animals” Said,

    here

  3. PetLvr.com - [The Blog] » Blog Archive » Some Wordpress Considerations Said,

    [...] Okay – I don’t need a week to make up my mind on using a new wordpress theme, as referred in my previous post yesterday here. I have decided to SCRAP the old template and use this GILA template. [...]

  4. HART Said,

    Hallo! Just wanted to pop by and thank-you for your nice “gila” template, that I have just decided to switch to. Although I see your sidebar already knew that! :-D

    Have a good one! // HART

  5. Moonshadow » Nuevo Planet Blogaditas Said,

    [...] Blogadita es el término acuñado por Álvaro para referirse a las bitácoras gaditanas. De su intento de recopilar todas las blogaditas de la red, nació Blogaditas 1.0, un directorio-anillo de weblogs con sabor a bienmesabe. A él le siguió Planet Blogaditas, un reblog donde se recogen los feeds de todas las bitácoras que forman parte del grupo. Sin embargo, el diseño del planet no me  terminaba de convencer. Esta tarde lo he actualizado. Creo que ahora es más funcional y agradable a la vista (sobre todo si tienes resolución de 1024×768). Me he basado en el tema Gila para WordPress 1.5, que es muy sencillo y limpio, y sus tres columnas permiten ordenar mejor la información, algo fundamental en Planet Blogaditas, donde además de los posts sobre cualquier tema, aparecen las últimas noticias y el tiemo de toda la provincia. [...]

  6. Planet Blogaditas Said,

    Sin embargo, el diseño del planet no me  terminaba de convencer. Esta tarde lo he actualizado. Creo que ahora es más funcional y agradable a la vista (sobre todo si tienes resolución de 1024×768). Me he basado en el tema Gila para WordPress 1.5 , que es muy sencillo y limpio, y sus tres columnas permiten ordenar mejor la información, algo fundamental en Planet Blogaditas, donde además de los posts sobre cualquier tema, aparecen las últimas noticias y el tiemo de toda la provincia.

  7. Alberto A-P Said,

    Hi!

    I want to use your great ‘gila’, but I’d like to change the size of the sidebars text. I’ve succesfully modified the css for other purposes, but I just can’t change that font size. Would you give me any tip?

    Thanks!

  8. Phil Said,

    Hello I like the gila theme, thanks.

    Sorry that I am a newbie, but how can I change the header to an image like Alberto A-P has done please and thanks

  9. Coyote Mercury » Blog Archive » Welcome to the New Coyote Mercury Said,

    [...] The theme is a modified version of Gila by John Hesch. Posted by James in Blogging Permalink [...]

  10. Greg Said,

    Nice theme. I just installed it at:
    http://answermysearches.com

    I do want to personalize the color theme. Does anyone have any ideas or advice?

  11. Igor Said,

    hi m8 Gila is a very cool theme, however if its possible to fix those errors in IE (if u got one or two posts in a certain category that window does get messy) then it would really kick azz :). In firefox it works great, but most of the people still use IE.

  12. Ecurrency Said,

    Love this template. This works great for adsense. Would like a shorter header though!

  13. Luigi Martin Said,

    Fantastic theme.

    Used it as a template to develop my own custom “look”… I wanted something I could mould to look like the rest of my website.

    Take a look at http://www.computer-aid.com.au/blog Navigate around & you’ll see what I mean.

    Now I just need to customise my forum… its the only thing that doesn’t “fit”.

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