Today we have another WordPress theme designed by Ben Swift. This is a very clean, light-colored template with a nice rainbow strip at the top. There is also an area in the header to add a little note or announcement, above the top heading and menu. It has a widget-ready sidebar. Recent post and archive listings are located in the footer, where there is also space for a quick author blurb.
Tags: Ben Swift, colorful, light, right sidebar, two columns, white
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By: Leland on Apr. 7
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Nice and clean.
It’s a lovely theme. I even considered using it when Colourise didn’t work out for me. Sadly, it doesn’t look as pretty in Firefox.
@Babs: What exactly happened with Colourise?
@Babs: What exactly happened with Colourise?
The first problem I had was with adjusting the font size of just the entry text (which is WAY too tiny, IMHO). Apparently (unless I’m missing something) the only way to do this in this theme is to increase the size of the font in the “body” class then reduce the now ginormous fonts everywhere else.
Then I discovered there’s no RSS feed with this theme. I’m sure I could’ve added the code for one, but it was just so frustrating to discover this after having to tweak all the fonts in both size and color that I just went back to the original theme I was using.
If those two things can be fixed, I’d gladly reinstall it. I loved the look of Colourise, especially in regards to the sidebar. Some folks may poo poo over themes with dark backgrounds, but my old website was like that and I always received compliments on how easy on the eyes it was.
Babs, thanks for the comments. About the RSS feed thing - I know what the problem with that is.
Add this before your closing head tags:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />I’ll be writing an article soon about “fixing up” WordPress themes which will go over things like this.
About the font size, I’m not sure I could help with that but I’ll see what I can do. That is how the original template was designed.