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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Thank you for your theme!
Is there a way to chance the title “Featured” to “Nyheder” and still have all the same functions?
Yes you can.go edit the header.php
Hello,
How can I add separate meta filds as : meta keywords,meta title and so on?
For example, I want that every single posts to have separate meta?
Thank you in advance!
Use a wordpress plugin – http://techblissonline.com/platinumseo-pack/ can do it.
Excellent theme bro
First off I must say that I love the theme!
I am a novice and this site is my first. How do I add comments to the pages and not just the posts?
One more question. Is the featured box restricted to just posts? I want to add a poll to my blog and would like for it to be in the featured content as well.
Yes it is available only for posts.
Hi Suhas,
I was wondering if you could help me with a problem related to the Simple Indy theme?
I have been having difficulties with the search function, and I just figured out the problem, though not the solution.
When using SimpleIndy, if you use the search function on the website domain level (e.g. http://indiafascinates.com/?s=example), it works just fine.
However, if you use the search function on any other page or subdirectory, it will either do nothing or give a 404 error (e.g. http://indiafascinates.com/about/?s=example).
I know that the search form and code is located in the header. Is there any way of forcing the search-get function to use the website domain level, no matter the user is on the site?
I hope this makes sense to you, I’d really appreciate any help you could offer. Please email me any suggestions you may have.
Thanks, Eric
BTW - I forgot to mention that I love the theme as well. Thanks for creating it!
Eric
Suhas – I FIXED IT!
Here is what I did, if you look at SimpleIndy’s header.php, go down to the search form:
<form id="searchformtop" method="get" action=”">
The area in bold is the problem, the search form is using whatever page it is on to conduct the search… that does work as I pointed out in my earlier comment.
The Fix:
<form id="searchformtop" method="get" action=”http://your-domain-name.com/”>
That’s it! It works just fine now. I would suggest that you make that change to your theme and update it on wordpress.org. Glad I could be of service
Take care,
Eric
Thanks Eric….will do that…
Great theme. I saw it and just fell in love with it but I have a question regarding images. On my homepage (http://www.AMomBlog.com ), I have it set to show 5 posts which it does no problem but I put an image in just about every post and only some of them show up.Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong that’s preventing them from showing on each post? Posts where it is just an image doesn’t even show the post at all? Any help you can share is appreciated. TIA
I love the SimpleIndy theme. Thank you for sharing it. It’s just what I’ve been looking for. I have a question though. All of my posts on the main page are showing in a bold font.
Is there any way I can change this. I’m not sure what I did wrong :/