This tutorial will show you how to modify your theme so that you can have a different header image depending on what page or category your viewing. There are a number of different ways to perform this task. This is pretty easy with minimal modifications to the theme. The modifications we’re going to make are for a typical Artisteer created theme, but it will work for just about any theme. Your mileage may vary. This is sort of two tutorials in one. We’re going to make a small modification to the header.php file and we’re going to write a simple function and call it in the functions.php... Read more
Blue Moon is a magazine style Wordpress theme with lots of features. Navigation above or below header Glider panel for featured content Featured category panel Post excerpt with thumbnails on front page Automatic support for WP-Pagenavi Enable/disable comments on pages Dynamic semantic classes for body, post & comments Admin bar at top of page when logged in Ad/banner areas in header, main content, sidebar & end of posts Incorporates WP custom header API so that you can change header image withour editing any files Preview in admin options. See the changes without reloading your site Everything... Read more
Artisteer makes no provision for placing the search box anyplace other than the sidebar. I searched through all the themes I had collected and found a technique that worked quite well. I just needed to add a new DIV with the search code, some CSS for style/placement and I was ready to roll. It doesn’t matter if our nav bar is above or below the header. The only down side is we’ll be losing about 25% of the width of the nav bar for the search box. Find this chunk of code in your header.php file. Yours may not look identical, the code seems to vary slightly by version. <div class="nav"> ... Read more
Green Envy is my latest theme created with Artisteer. I’m really having a blast with Artisteer. It lets me create the basic theme very quickly. Then I can spend my time improving it and adding features that put the theme in the premium range as far as options and flexibility go. Green Envy is a magazine style theme and is loaded with features expecially if your looking for a theme that is set up for Google Adsense. Major Features of Green Envy Place the navigation above or below the header Random header image – 10 different headers included Support 125×125 ads above the content Banner... Read more
In the newer versions of Artisteer they have provided a footer link option in the Appearance panel for your theme. The image on the left is what you get by default. This was a great addition and made life a bit easier for folks that didn’t like to edit their source files. But something seemed to be missing. So being the curious guy that I am, I started to poke around in the functions.php file. And what did I find? I found the missing link to making your Artisteer themes more user friendly especially if your building sites for other users. Now you can expand the admin panel to as far as you’d... Read more
The Pink Cadillac theme came about almost by accident. I had already done the basic theme color scheme but couldn’t figure out what to do with it. Then about a week ago I made contact with a Wordpress user who wanted to make a sub-header area similar to a site he liked. He wasn’t sure how to go about doing it so I volunteered to help him out. Then BINGO, Pink Cadillac was born. Pink Cadillac is loaded with features. It comes standard with four widgets predefined but uses only three. The fourth widget can be used for whatever you need. It would work great on a custom template page for... Read more
