India Fascinates is now dressed up with my first wordpress theme – SimpleIndy. SimpleIndy is a 3-column theme with curvy corners (for Mozilla based browsers) and offers considerable customization options to the user. I am planning to introduce more customizations to this theme.This is how the theme looks:
Simple Indy is a free theme, AND is easily customizable. The Footers, Featured Posts section and Thumbnails can be easily disabled or enable through the Theme Options Page.However you cannot disable the left or right sidebars. If you are looking for a 2-column right-sidebar variation, you will have to use another theme called Indy Premium – here.
Thumbnails in Home and other archive pages are created using the last image uploaded for a post. Hence, make sure that you upload the appropriate image (i.e. appropriate for showing as thumbnail), last, for every post. But don’t worry, in case you uploaded the wrong image last.Simply delete all the uploaded images for a post and upload them in the right order.
Simple Indy is WordPress 2.7+ compatible with widgetized sidebars and footer.
Features of Simple Indy WordPress Theme:
· 3-column Theme with Left and Right Sidebars
·Sliding Featured Posts Section
·Multi level sliding menus
· Automatic thumbnails of first uploaded image of Posts, in Home page and other archives
· SEO optimized CSS layout
· Gravatar Ready Theme
·Social Media integration
· Compatible with most WordPress plugins
· Compatible with WordPress 2.7+ and earlier versions
· Easily spiderable, structured navigation
· W3C XHTML and CSS Validated theme
· support for threaded comments and seggregation of comments and pingbacks/trackbacks
FAQs:
You can find these in the theme’s ReadMe.txt as well.
Where can I find the Theme Options Page?
You can find the Theme Options Page under Appearance folder on your WordPress Admin Menu Bar. It will have the title “Simple Indy Options”.
How to mark posts as Featured Posts?
Create a category by title “Featured”. Add every Post to an appropriate category and if you want to display it under Featured Posts Section,add it to “Featured” Category as well. Once it is done, all the latest Featured Posts will be displayed under “Featured” section in the Home Page.
How many posts can be displayed as Featured Posts?
In the Theme Options Page, you can set the number of Posts to be shown as Featured Posts. But decide on an optimal number (taking performance into consideration).
How to display medium sized images in Featured Posts?
Go to Settings –> Media and set Max width for Medium size as 300. Then, in the Theme Options Page (“simple Indy options”), check the option “Display medium sized image for Featured Posts”.
Note that by default, thumbnail images are shown for Featured Posts.
How to Change the Top Header Banner?
You can easily change top header banner by replacing banner.jpg file under Images folder (in the theme) with your own banner. But name your banner as banner.jpg
or
go to the stylesheet (style.css) in the theme folder, search for #head-bottom section and replace banner.jpg under background property with your banner name.
How to adjust the height of the Top Header Banner?
In style.css file within theme, search for “head-bottom” and adjust the height element in pixels.
I do not want a Top Header Banner? How to remove it?
Remove the following section in header.php (Pls. be careful in removing it.Don’t leave a open div tag):
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<div id="head-bottom">
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<!–This contains the banner as a bacground image in style.css. If you have your own banner specify it as the bacground in style.css for #head_bottom –>
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</div>
What should be width of content in left sidebar and right sidebar?
Make sure that the width of content (or widget or image) in left sidebar is not more than 120px. Likewise, make sure that the width of content (or widget or image) in right sidebar is not more than 300px.Otherwise the sidebars may fall and the theme may get distorted.
How to add submenus?
Simply create pages and specify the hierarchy (Parent Page) via WordPress admin interface. Indy Premium takes care of creating the sub menus. Indy Premium can support even 4 levels of sub menus and higher.
What happens if I disable Footer?
If footer is disabled, then the widegetized footer section will not displayed. However the theme is smart enough to retain your blog’s Copyright section.
Enjoy free Simple Indy WordPress Theme !!!
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hey, love your theme! using it now. except i do have a problem with tags. for some reason when i google my posts (which are all very similar), they are searchable by the title of the post, and then others it just picks a random tag for the post. e.g. if you google simply masses + math the band… i can only find my post by simply masses + justine mainville… instead of “math the band”… why is that? please help. i really want to keep simply indy as my theme.
@simpleton the theme has nothing to do with how your posts are discovered on search engines…
I have to chime in and say I love this theme as well. But I can not get the featured posts to work. I have created a category called “Featured” I have placed several posts in that category, but it still comes up empty on the homepage.
Thanks Again.
You should have the category name as “Featured” (without the double quotes). You seem to be having it as “featured-italian-cooking-articles”
That worked — Thank you for your quick reply..
I have one last question. I have been trying to change the Favicon. I uploaded my own favicon to overwrite the existing. And the original remained on the site. Finally I deleted the favicon file completely and still your original remains – Can you help me please?
Thank You.
favicon.ico is within the theme’s images folder.Delete it and replace it with your favicon.ico. You should be naming the favicon as “favicon”
Hi,
I very like your theme, you did a great job.
I just have a little problem : I ‘d like to eliminate from my clearfloat all the posts which are in Featured (you see 2 times the same post on my index). How can I fix it ?
(I hope I’ve been understood, my english is so poor…)
Hi, I’m trying to change the banner and I’ve moved my .jpg into the images folder but the banner doesn’t change. What am I doing wrong? Love the theme!!!
I love this theme – A note for people struggling to get the Feature box to work – Make sure the SLUG is set to featured do not leave blank or alter.
However I would like to know how to reduce the height of the feature box can anyone point me in the right direction.
Thanks for a great theme! @Mark – great tip re. slugs, eureka