The gathering Wordpress Theme
The port of gathering is now available for download. The theme was designed by tri star design. The theme’s icons are from iconkits.com. It is widget enabled. Gathering follows a less is more philosophy when it comes to your blog organization. If you have reams of pages gathering might not be a good fit as the menu bar will not hold more than 7 or 8 simply named pages. Feel free to do what you’d like with the theme. In return I ask that you keep the links to tri star design and iconkits.com in the footer. It’s just a nice thing to do.
You can check out a demo of the theme at this link.
Updated [June 9th, 2007]: I waded back into the Gathering code. For all practical purposes it’s a whole new theme on the inside. I made it larger (960px). Expanded the category background gif in Photoshop to avoid the crowding of the original. Changed some fonts, made it more SEO friendly, added microformats for hatom, and a whole host of other changes. It’s much more solid now. Please do yourself a favor and read the Configuring section below. I forgot to include a README. I’ll get around to including one later, which means sometime in the next month, maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe two, but within a month. Therefore, read the Configuration section. There’s not a lot of magic to it. Pretty simple. Really you could do nothing and it’ll work right out of the box. I also did not do anything resembling extensive testing so I’d be obliged if you could hit me up with bugs.
A few points to keep in mind:
- This baby has widgets
- Plugins are included but not required.
- It should work with Wordpress 2.0 and above
- I have not tested the new version with anything resembling gusto
Configuring gathering
- The top sidebar menu lists the categories. If you have an outrageously long category title then the theme will look less than perfect. What’s an example of an outrageously long category? Hard to say, but something like Vampire Bunnies From Outer Space might be close to the limits of looking clean.
- For author highlighting in the comments section open the comments.php in your editor of choice, navigate to line 34 and enter your email and name.
Please Note: There is a known bug in Gathering that effects, not surprisingly, IE 6. It has to do with floats, not the Thanksgiving Day Parade kind, but the left and right variety. The Theme itself validates out of the box, but this is of little concern to IE. A fix probably wouldn’t be too hard, but, knowing myself as I do, it’s best I put up this notice up as it might take me awhile to get around to it. Anyway, in the spirit of full disclosure I mention the only known bug at this point.[posted 6.22.07]
DOWNLOAD: Gathering Theme (4057)
Credits
- I
borrowedused some code from the Cutline theme. Please leave the comments in the code. - gathering’s comment section is code provided by Christian Montoya. I’ve left his comments intact and ask that you do the same.
The Flickrrss plugin included in the zip is lightbox enabled (there’s also one that is not). This is possible due to Emac Online’s work. I had nothing to do with it. Other than breaking a sweat while downloading it.It is the original one now.- The icons are from iconkits.com. I corresponded with them, very nice folks, and they’d appreciate it if a link to their site would remain somewhere in the theme.
- If I’m forgetting someone or something I apologize. As soon as I discover the slip I’ll be sure to give credit where credit is due.
Nice job porting that. It’s a pretty theme and I’m glad my code helped
December 30th 2006 - 8:56pmThank you Christian and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. I thought tri star created a nice design there and I’ve been wanting to learn Wordpress and little bit more so it seemed like a good fit. I’m a bit unsteady on my feet being my first crack at a port but it’s been fun. Learning a lot.
And your code was a godsend. Thank you for sharing it with us all. I’m afraid my stumbling attempts at styling it don’t do it justice. Maybe I’ll improve with time.
December 30th 2006 - 9:23pmI like the theme a lot.
Very clean looking except for the icons. The icons don’t seem to fit to me. But otherwise a great looking theme.
December 31st 2006 - 2:16pmThanks Roy. I’m learning as I go. Hopefully I’m not totally screwing up the port. I thought tri star did a great job with their design.
And I see what you mean about the icons. I started off with them and about half way through had a similar thought, maybe they’re neat but unnecessary, so I included a grey.css which doesn’t have the icons. Maybe that one should be the default stylesheet instead?
Thanks for the comment and thought.
December 31st 2006 - 3:09pmnice template
I use it on my blog. Happy New Year!
December 31st 2006 - 5:23pm@ mejker: Happy New Year to you as well. Looks good. There’s also some other styles lurking in the stylesheets folder if you ever want to mess around with the look. Happy blogging.
January 1st 2007 - 10:30amVery, very nice template!
January 3rd 2007 - 2:58pmThanks Melodie. Much appreciated though tri star design is the real star.
Please let me know if you spot bugs and/or problems or if you’ve got suggestions. Cheers!
January 4th 2007 - 12:36pmHello, nice theme. While I make a traduction in french I have removed the meta keyword and title from the header.php. With WordPress, I prefer using plugins such as AutoHeader to deal with this stuff.
June 17th 2007 - 4:22pmLOOKS FINE IN FIREFOX
http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxyc0.jpg
LOOKS LIKE THIS IN IE7
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9046/ie7fc3.jpg
The bottom is not flush and I wonder what I can do to fix it in IE.
June 19th 2007 - 11:07pmTrès beau thème. J’ai fait une traduction en français que l’on trouve ici : http://wordpress-tuto.fr/theme-wordpress-gathering-162
June 20th 2007 - 3:04amOlivia, my apologies for the delay in response here. I took a little bit of a blogging summer vacation and have been ignoring my journal here. I should have been more keen on following the comments, so again, my apologies.
I believe I just noticed you posted this same question on 9rules Notes. Unfortuently my answer will disappoint. I don’t have access to IE. I believe I validated the code before zipping up this theme so it makes me think it is a specific IE glitch. I’ll look into the code again to make sure it is not something amiss.
I appreciate you dropping by and leaving those screenshots for me and others. And once more my apologies on the delay. No fun waiting.
June 21st 2007 - 11:34pmThanks for providing The Gathering. It’s a brilliant theme and I’ve added it to my list of the coolest themes around the Web: http://www.bestwpthemes.com.
July 16th 2007 - 6:39amA truly lovely-looking theme.
A question: Do I upload the plugin folder as part of the theme OR do I upload the theme minus the plugin folder and upload the contents of the plugin folder but not the folder itself, to plugins? Or some permutation of the above?
February 14th 2008 - 9:18amDavid - Do not upload the plugins folder as part of the theme. I believe there’s two folders. Drop the gathering one into your themes folder, and if you want to use those plugins then drop them, not the whole folder, into your plugins folder. That should do it.
February 20th 2008 - 8:17amHi and thanks for your theme. I’ve adapted it a little, am running it under wp 2.2 and it looks great.
February 25th 2008 - 7:45amHowever, I can’t seem to make the wp-print plugin work.
Du you have an idea what the trouble could be?
Thanks again,
Hey Andre, what exactly is the issue? I mean, I assume you can activate the plugin, and you put the function into the single.php file, but what happens after that? Does it give you an error message? What happens when you click the link?
Let me know the specific issue and I’l see if I can help.
February 25th 2008 - 8:01amWell, I guess that was it.. Just fixed it, sorry and thanks!
February 25th 2008 - 9:42amNo problems Andre. Glad it’s working out for you now.
February 25th 2008 - 10:24amHi,
March 2nd 2008 - 1:06pmthanks for the theme, i’ve found it a few days ago and now use it on my own blog, its really great! But i have a problem.
If i select an entry on my blog there are a previous and next entry link. The right one has a border and the background gets blue (#0066cc) if i move my mouse over it. I want to change this but can’t find anything about this…
Could you tell me where to change this? Would be great!!! =)