Today we have a very cool free WordPress theme, originally designed by growldesign. It may look like a normal blog layout (with Gravatar-enabled comments) from the front end, but with a little WordPress tweaks – this theme is suitable for business website or portfolio. These features will be gone over below.
And now on to the features…
Widget-Ready Sidebar
Don’t like how the default sidebar looks? Want to change it around? It’s easy with this widgetized theme. Control your sidebar with the build in WordPress widgets feature.
Custom Page Headers
Making use of the original header graphics in the RedPepper template, I have decided to integrate these in the pages through custom fields. To activate this feature, you’ll need to input 2 custom field key/value sets. The first key is is page_header. There is a choice of 5 header graphics which can be displayed depending on the custom field you choose.
about
services
contact
home
portfolio
In addition to the graphic, another requirement is to use the page_message key. This is where you will type in a small message to be displayed over the header graphic.
If none of this makes sense to you, hopefully the above screenshot will clear things up. This exact same custom field set is used on the “about” page on the demo.
Conclusion
Hope you all like this theme. Remember, you don’t need a blog on your front page. This theme may be best used in conjunction with a separate blog posts page, so you can take advantage of the custom page headers for the different pages of your website. If there’s anything confusing, feel free to let me know in the comments.
Tags: growldesign, left sidebar, red, two columns
Download links comes up as invalid. :-/
This is nice and clean i love it. Will the dude be releasing more templates?
Nice port non the less man, keep up the good work
Hi Leland, i think this is a cool theme. Really like it. However, seems like you put a wrong download link? Please advice.
Cheers.
Really sorry about that! Download link fixed. I had forgotten to add the file to the download manager.
@Anto: I’m not sure if they will be releasing more templates. I’ll be sure to ask though.
Brilliant!
There we go – thanks.
Can’t wait to try this out.
I do plan on releasing more templates at some point in the future but as my time is pretty limited at the moment, I haven’t had a chance to yet
I’ll be sure to add future releases to the “template” section on my website though, so keep an eye out
Glad you all liked this port and thank you to leland for taking the time to do it!
P.S. I’m a lass, not a lad
Ah rite another lassie =) Good stuff.
Anywhoo, yea there really isnt enough time in the day to do a lot like, but slowly but surely more will be out..I hope, nice clean style, i like it. Keep up the good work.
And again Leland, nice port.
This is nice and have a professional look…
But, I found out, many of other theme alike this theme, the sidebar is not wide… A wider look may look pleasant…
Awesome! Have a plan to convert it to Blogger Template again
Hi Leland, something went wrong with the comment form ! You should check it.
@ThemeLib.com: What’s wrong with the comment form? You mean on the RedPepper theme? I’m looking to fix that with the next release. It seems some things aren’t aligned properly.
Yes, I meant on the RedPeper theme. As you said, somethings aren’t aligned properly.
If the subject to improve the interface I think that would be more beautiful!
Did my work! Here is Red Pepper blogger template
http://themelib.com/2008/07/red-pepper-blogger-template/
Thanks for your work, Leland
@ThemeLib.com: No problem, thanks for letting me know!
This is very confusing. All I’m trying to do is show my tag line. So I thought maybe I could do it in the red box you add to the site. The instructions are very unclear on how to do that. There is no option for a custom page header on your theme. i looked everywhere.
when you give instructions, they really need to be step by step and where to start first and find the item you are talking about.
You say to set up a custom field, but there are no instructions on where find that and set it up.