Mini WordPress Theme with widgets – CreativeZodiac
The whole theme is preloaded with JQuery. This is the only one fully JQuery powered Wordpress theme on Theme Forest and probably on the whole internet too. It’s not just a simple minisite, it’s a fullblown Wordpress experience with all the bells and whistles. Please take your time and explore every corner of this theme because it’s really filled up with my originality and unexpected features. I would even call it as my master-piece because I really tried to do my best here.
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CreativeZodiac is mainly a Portfolio and Blog theme. It’s suitable for all creatives and bloggers out there, but I can also imagine it as a stylish virtual business card. The possibilities are endless, it all depends on your imagination and interest. Plus the whole theme is so simple and easy to use thanks to extensive theme options panel and custom write panels which makes everything quick and breeze!
Now let’s cut to the chase and sum up what it’s all about.
General Features
- NO PAGE RELOADING , EVER – THAT ’S A PROMISE
- This is really good for increasing page views (for like 100% and even more) and improving overall user experience
- Support Back and Forward buttons on your mouse with animations (feel free to try it yourself right now!)
- Support Mouse Wheel for the Scrollbars:
- Scrollbars – are automatically added if your content in blog posts or pages is bigger than the height of the main container. No kidding, it just automatically pops up when and where you need it.
- Unlimited number of Galleries / Porfolio pages
- Unlimited number of Pages
- Unlimited number of Blogs and blog posts
- Unlimited number of Comments
- Search (again with no page reloading as promised)
- Full support for URL linking (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/blog/01-my-blog-post/) so you can tweet your latest blog posts with direct link!!
- Revolutionary and yet so simple Contact form with awesome field validation (see for yourself)
- Extensive Theme Options Panel
- You can edit literally every piece of text – great if you want to translate everything to your language
- Intro page with 3 link-boxes
- Can be completely disabled in Theme Options Panel, so the user can land on a page, gallery or blog directly. You just choose which one you want and it’s set.
- Images of those introboxes can be easily edited in one really simple and ready PSD file without any clutter around. Here is a that PSD saved as PNG file, ready to use on live website (link)
- Many “small” PSD files for almost every “piece” of design and 1 big PSD file with the whole site. We both know that this is very handy.
- Well documented – HD video screencast on how to setup everything
- Amazingly light and sleek new lightbox (officially called “colorbox”)
- Pre-installed TimThumb PHP script for dynamic image resizing
- Just upload one big picture and you are done! This scipt will automatically resize the picture and use it thoughout the theme.
- Don’t like automatic resizing? I got you covered. When writing a post, you can manually resize and upload 3 sizes of your image (small, medium and large) and fill the URLs into custom Write Panel.
Page Templates
- Standard full-width page template with poping up scrollbar if the content is bigger then the height of it’s container
- Blog template with poping up scrollbar if the content is bigger then the height of it’s container
- Gallery/Portfolio template
- Contact page template
Blog Features
- Article
- Category
- Date
- Title
- Thumbnail with lightbox fullsize image upon clicking (can be disabled)
- Comments
- Unlimited number of comments
- It’s almost impossible to hack the new JS commenting system by general spam bots!
- Sleek form for adding comments with magnificent field validation – you have to try it.
- Gallery
- Every blog post can have it’s own gallery.
- For instance imagine you were at the party, took some bling bling photos and you want to attach them to a blog post and share them with others. Or you just finished a project and have some screenshots to share? Quite handy huh? And pretty easy to use, just fill the URLs of your images into the Custom Write Panel when you are writing a blog post and you are set!
- Share
- Built-In sharing which can be more customized in Theme Options Panel
- Your visitors will be automatically one click away from sharing your posts with the world via famous services like Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and much more
- Search
- Blog comes also with it’s own search panel with beautifully designed search results.
- Turn ON and OFF some or all effects and sub-effects of animations to your liking or for a better performance. See Theme Options screenshot here (link)
- Disable the intro page with 3 link-boxes and then set any page you want as your homepage
- You can also set the pages where those link-boxes should link after clicking
- VCard function in the upper right corner
- Can be completelly disabled or enabled
- Text “Download my Vcard” can be of course edited via Theme options panel
- Don’t like the icon? change it in /gfx/vcard.png or in photoshop with /gfx/vcard.psd
- Think the body text size or line-height are too big or too small? Just adjust this line in style.css file:
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body {font-size:99px;} to change the general font-sizeor this line:
body {line-height:99px;} to change the general line-height - By doing this, the theme won’t break! Sizes and line-heights for things like navigation, buttons etc. remains still same because they are fixed in other css classes, it’s that easy.
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- Literally every piece of text can be changed via Theme Options panel like buttons, description for icons in the blog, contact form steps etc., simply everything
- Due to a javascript loading nature of this theme, plugins, widgets and different permalink structures other than / post_id – postname / are not supported.
Vaga para desenvolvedor WordPress em São Paulo
Recebi ontem um email de Diego Ivo, encaminhado por Rodrigo Ghedin, da empresa Primeiro Lugar, pedindo a divulgação de uma vaga para profissional especializado em desenvolvimento para WordPress, ou seja, temas, plugins, customizações, etc. Os interessados deveram entrar em contato com Diego através do email diego[arroba]primeirolugar.net.
Sem dúvida alguma é mais uma prova que o WordPress está dominando o mercado de CMS! 
Que tal adicionar um gerenciador de projetos ao WordPress?
O plugin CollabPress WordPress Plugin permite adicionar um gerenciador de tarefas simples e prático em seu blog WordPress, é uma boa opção para freelancers controlar seus trabalhos. Seus principais recursos são: número ilimitado de projetos e tarefas, facilidade na edição de tarefas e projetos, notificação por email de novas tarefas e comentários, atribuição de prazos para cada tarefa, utiliza as mesmas contas de usuários do WordPress. Além disso também funciona com WordPress MU.
WordPress 2.9.2 corrige falha de segurança
O estudante de segurança da computação Thomas Mackenzie alertou a comunidade WordPress sobre uma falha de segurança que permitia usuários logados visualizar posts colocados na lixeira por outros usuários. Por se tratar de uma falha grave esta versão foi lançada apenas para corrigir o problema.
Se você possui muitos usuários cadastrados no seu WordPress é muito recomendado que realize esta atualização, para isso acesse a administração do blog e clique no menu Ferramentas/Atualizar ou baixe a nova versão.
6 Easy Ways to Get More Traffic With Wordpress Blogs
Blogs have become a very powerful tool for today’s businesses but I do realize there are a lot of beginners out there who still struggle to get visitors and build a community. Being so Search Engine friendly, Wordpress blogs can work to increase traffic to your website very quickly. A blog is simple and easy way to share your ideas and thoughts and to promote your products or services. Internet users are searching the internet for the information that interests them; and once they find a website that provides good updated content about their interests, they will most likely return again and again for more. Carrying out some of these strategies is a sure way to see traffic building fast and lasting longer.
1. Get Full Control Over Your Wordpress Blog. Wordpress self hosted platform is the best recommended platform. To make it easy for people to find your site, whether your into Internet Marketing or long term blogs, you’ll need to brand yourself and reliable hosting is a must. If you haven’t done so already, switch to a hosting service you have under your control.
2. Own The Domain. Getting your own domain name will help you brand yourself further, I recommend getting one that’s relates to your particular product or service. Godaddy is one of the best domain sites where you can purchase at a discounted price, but there are many others out there. When you build your brand, and traffic comes to a certain domain name, you can move to different hosts and platforms, traffic comes with you anywhere!
3. Stand Out With Your Design. Take some time to choose the right Wordpress template for you. There is a vast amount of free Wordpress themes to choose from that it can become a little daunting. Choosing one that is visually aesthetic and has plugins-ready capabilities will provide many more opportunities and add much more functionality to your blog. You might also consider a premium wordpress theme so that the traffic coming to your site will directly be able to recognize your identity online. We are using “The Corporation” WP theme on this blog and it costs just a few dollars.
4. Make Search Engines and Social Bookmarks Work for You. Getting an all in one SEO Pack plugin is an absolute must have that will help to increase traffic to your site by optimizing titles for search engines. It will also generate META tags for you which avoids the common problem of duplicate content often found on Wordpress blogs. Check out the complete list of bloggers most beloved wordpress plugins. Another essential plugin is the Google XML Sitemap plugin. It supports both Wordpress and custom made pages and will update itself every time you create or edit a post and handily notifies the major search engines that support this plugin, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN search.
5. Post Frequently. Regular and updated content for your blog is essential, content being the postings and articles you write and publish on your site. The content should be relevant to your particular niche or topic, so that when that topic is being searched for online they can be easily referred to your website.
6. Spread The Word About Your Blog. Lastly but not least, is getting traffic to your website and there are many free ways to achieve this, because if you are on a tight budget, even Google Adwords coupon might not help. Posting comments on blogs related to your own subject matter and becoming part of a forum community is one way, others may choose article marketing. For your blog to become successful and popular will take a bit of time, no matter what anyone else may tell you. It will take not only hard, but consistently hard work as well as good regular updated content and a readiness and enthusiasm to continually educate yourself about traffic and Search Engine Optimization, otherwise known as SEO. Likewise it is also important to have some kind of game plan and be prepared to stick at it and not give up at the first hurdle or two. Once your blog becomes more established, readers will want to come back and visit the site often so long as you have the content and information they want. Good Luck!
Como ter um background diferente em cada categoria
Já recebi alguns emails e respondi alguns tópicos no fórum sobre como ter um background/banner/imagem diferente em cada categoria do WordPress. Como é algo simples e que pode ter muitas utilizadades resolvi fazer este rápido tutorial explicando o passo-a-passo. Para exemplificar utilizarei o tema Mystique, que além de ser muito bom possui um background que poderemos utilizar neste exemplo.
Antes de colocarmos a mão na massa vamos primeiro explicar a teoria. No WordPress existe um recurso chamado Condicional Tags que nos permite realizar uma tarefa apenas se atender uma condição. Por exemplo, exiba este menu apenas se a página for a inicial. Com o tempo é fácil perceber o poder que as condicionais possuem e a quantidade de coisas que se podem fazer com elas, principalmente em termos de personalização.
Então vamos cair em campo, no CSS do tema Mystique há uma id chamada page que define o background.
#page{background:transparent url(images/header.jpg) no-repeat center top;}
A idéa é criar uma id para cada categoria e claro, um background para cada uma também, para isso acrescentaríamos mais algumas linhas de código ao CSS.
#page{background:transparent url(images/header.jpg) no-repeat center top;}
#page1{background:transparent url(images/header1.jpg) no-repeat center top;}
#page2{background:transparent url(images/header2.jpg) no-repeat center top;}
#page3{background:transparent url(images/header3.jpg) no-repeat center top;}
Não esqueça de criar as novas imagens que serão usadas como background e fazer o upload, neste exemplo seriam as imagens header1.jpg, header2.jpg e header3.jpg. Feito isso é hora de usarmos as codicionais do WordPress e dar o pulo do gato. No arquivo header.php, exatamente na linha 30, existe o código:
<div id="page">
Empregando as codicionais nós iremos fazer com que o valor da id “mude” de acordo com a categoria que esteja sendo exibida.
<?php if (is_home()) { ?>
<div id="page">
<?php } else if (is_category('noticias')) { ?>
<div id="page1">
<?php } else if (is_category('novidades')) { ?>
<div id="page2">
<?php } else if (is_category('geral')) { ?>
<div id="page3">
<?php } ?>
Interpretando o código: Se a página for a home faça id=”page” e por consequência o background exibirá a imagem header.jpg, caso a página seja da categoria notícias faça id=”page1″ e a imagem do background exibirá a imagem header1.jpg e assim por diante.
Simples não? Se você der uma olhada na página do Codex referente as Condicional Tags verá que existe dezenas de opções. Você poderá utilizar para os mais diversos fins, por exemplo, exibir anúncios de DVD’s apenas na categoria filmes, ocultar o menu lateral das páginas e posts, etc.
