Today we have an awesome free WordPress theme, originally designed by Styleshout. This theme has a number of cool features and is reminicsent of the FreshPick theme, also designed by Styleshout. There are six widgetized areas, including a widgetized footer, as well as a custom widget included with the theme. It also has threaded comments, so you’ll need at least WordPress 2.7. Other features will also be gone over below.
And now onto the features in more detail…
Thumbnails
This theme makes extensive use of thumbnails, so I coded in a custom write panel to insert thumbnails into your posts as an alternative to custom fields.
- Featured Image – This image is displayed next to your featured post on the main index template. It should be sized at 350×250.
- Post Image – This image is displayed above the content on your single post pages. Thanks to the TimThumb script, a resized version is also used as the image under “Recent Posts” on your homepage.
For both, make sure you use the full path of the image. The images should also be hosted on your domain, otherwise the TimThumb script may not work.
Widgets
Like I mentioned above, this theme has a whopping six widget ready areas. One in the sidebar, four in the footer, and one on the 404 template.
For the first time, I also created a custom widget for the “Follow Us” links you currently see in the footer. This will require WordPress 2.8 to work, but if you’re currently using 2.7 it shouldn’t break anything.
Simply place the “Feed links” widget in any one of the footer widget areas, and be sure to fill in the respective URLs.
Many thanks to WPengineer for the code to this, which I modified slightly.
flickrRSS
This theme has support for the FlickrRSS plugin, which you can currently see in the sidebar. Here’s a screenshot of my settings in case you’d like to set them up on your sidebar like I have them currently:
Conclusion
Hope you all like the theme. It was actually a bit easier to port than it looked, considering I had already done most of the work already with the FreshPick theme. As a lot of the markup was very similar, it was mostly just copying a lot of the functions over to the new theme.
Oh yeah, and for the first time in like 10 themes, there isn’t a theme option page included with the Jungleland theme. Sorry all you theme options lovers, but I couldn’t think of any justifiable reason to include one. If there’s something specific you’d like to change, a tiny code edit might be in order.
A special thanks to Omar Corrales who was kind enough to test out the theme for me and found a couple bugs that I missed. Sometimes it takes an extra set of eyes to find these things.
Let me know what you think of the theme in the comments, but if you have any support questions please make sure to post in the forums.
Tags: brown, featured post, green, right sidebar, Styleshout, two columns
This. Is. Sexy.
@Keith: Couldn’t agree more.
By the way there are a couple slight changes and bug fixes between the pre-release copy and this final version, so you might want to redownload it.
thanks for the mention and it was a pleasure to be able to of had the pre-release, if only i could give a use. I’m pretty sure that a lot of people will give it a good home.
Great job with the conversion to wp ^^
@Omar: No problem. Thanks again for testing the theme.
The theme looks nice
What a fantastic theme – thank you! The best one I’ve found so far. I can’t believe it’s free….
(FYI, if you’re not yet aware of it, there are two “Footer Three”s in the footer.php file.)
@Rebecca: Thanks for the kind words. And apparently, I can’t count…lol.
That last one should be “Footer Four” so thanks for pointing that out. I’ll upload an update ASAP.
Hi,
Great theme, I was using freshpicks before and have now upgraded to this theme
Slight layout problem, my ‘recent articles’ is only showing 5 articles, your demo shows six on the homepage, can you advise on how to change settings?
Thanks.
@Tia: There aren’t any settings you need to change. Are you sure you have 7 posts published?
Leyland, sorry. A case of ‘user error’ – I had the setting to 5 posts in my WP settings. Nothing wrong with your excellent theme! Thanks for the prompt response.
Hey Leyland. Great job! Theme looks great. This is all new to me and I was wondering if there was any way to insert a logo instead of having the text in the header?
Cheers.
Sorry Leland, just noticed the mis-spell… Apologies.
@Craig: No worries, you’re not the first person to spell my name “Leyland” …lol.
As for an image logo, would probably be just a matter of replacing this:
<h1 id="logo-text">...</h1><p id="slogan">...</p>
…with an image tag linking back to the homepage. May need to use CSS to position the image properly.
Great! Thanks for the fast reply. That’s the problem with creating such good stuff. People just keep wanting more… lol.
Thanks again.
Great theme though I experience a problem with links in articles. They are simply not shown as links on the website. Anyone else experiencing this or knows a solution for it? Thanks in advance.
@Reno: No idea what you mean by the links are not showing up in the articles. You mean on single post pages or archives?
Could you post your issue on the support forums along with your site URL and any examples or screenshots that might be helpful.
Hey great theme.
Is there a way to make the first image of the post display as the feature shot and the thumbnail without having to manually enter this. I am just curious as i use wp-omatic to import posts into my blog?
Hey Leland,
Whenever i should get the 404.php page, I just get this error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /html/wp-content/themes/jungleland/404.php on line 29
Any ideas?
Also, I am not seeing the Feed Links widget, where can I download that? And, is there anyway to edit the Contact Info at the bottom of the page without having to modify the actual template?
Thanks!
Deuce, on the 404.php template, remove the following code:
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>Which should clear up that error. That’s not supposed to be there. I’ll update this in the download shortly.
Also for the Feed Links widget, you should see it as an available widget on the Widgets page. There’s not supposed to be anything extra to download.
To edit the contact info, you’d just have to override that in the respective footer widget area with a text widget containing all the relevant contact info.
Hi LeLand !
Nice theme, and it’s valid CSS and XHTML (if we turn it on “XHTML 1.0 Transitional”.
Great work thank you verry much.
Nicolas.
Hi Leland, great theme. I got one question. How can i change the button-color in the “recent articles” area in standart and rollover style? I can`t find the right parameter
Thanks
Sebastian
Sorry, correction:
Gorgeous theme, just image floats don’t work properly, please replace in style.css (about line 179):
img.float-right { margin: 5px 0px 10px 10px; }
img.float-left { margin: 5px 10px 10px 0px; }
with:
img.alignright {
float:right;
margin:0 0 10px 10px; }
img.alignleft {
float:left;
margin:0 10px 10px 0; }