BlueSpot - Features
Posted by Gurdit on 07 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Features Edit This
As you may already know, this theme is a fusion of 2 excellent themes by Sadish Bala. They are called Aquablue and Coffeespot, and can both be found at WP-Themepark. All I've done is some CSS changes and some small image changes.
This one has built in many nice features as part of the theme.
Let me try to list out a few, so you can better appreciate the theme.
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Archives Page Template
page-archives.php found within the theme folder.
This one lets you create an archives page for your website. Here are the steps to do that.
- Go to WordPress Admin Panel, Presentation tab and make this theme as the current theme
- Go to Write Page, and create a new page, and call it ‘Archives’ (or any name that you think will represent ‘archives’
- Look for the Page Template dropdown, and choose ‘Archives’ as the Page Template.
- Click on Save. Thats it. your site has an archives page now.
Don’t you think it is cool ?
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Contact Page Template
contact.php found within the theme folder.
This one lets you create a contact page so the visitor can send you email from your website. Here are the steps to do that.
- Go to WordPress Admin Panel, Presentation tab and make this theme as the current theme
- Go to Write Page, and create a new page, and call it ‘Contact’ (or any name that you think will represent ‘contact’
- Look for the Page Template dropdown, and choose ‘Contact’ as the Page Template.
- Click on Save. Thats it. your site has a contact page now.
Don’t you think it is cool ?
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Page Navigation
The Pages you create with the wordpress, are automatically listed in the top navigation bar.
Added to that, It also shows which page you are currently browsing, by underlining it.
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Sub Pages
If you create sub pages for any given page, they are not presented in the top navigation. but once you are visiting a page, it displays all the sub pages of the current page, on the sidebar.
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Author Page
Author.php found within the theme folder.
When you click on the name of the author, in the next line to the post title, you will be taken to the Author’s Page.
Here you can see the Author’s full name and other profile information, and a small text about him, followed by a list of posts that he / she has written.
The authors can modify all of this information, from their wordpress admin panel. (http:// your website name / wp-admin/ profile.php )
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404 - Not Found Page
404.php found in the theme folder.
When a page that the user is requesting, is not found on your website, WordPress tries to find a 404.php file within the theme folder.
Our theme provides one, which you can edit, to fit your needs.
Just to test drive this, click on a post in your website and then go ahead and make some spelling mistake in the URL in your address bar, and click enter.
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Category Page
Category.php found within the theme folder.
This is the page that gets loaded, when you are browsing the site for a specific category.
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Date-wise Archives Page
date.php found within the theme folder.
This is the page that is served when viewing the site archives by month, date or year.
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Search Page
search.php found within the theme folder.
You enter some keywords in the search box, and hit enter. This is the page that gets loaded for showing the search results.
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Valid XHTML
The theme is XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid. I have tested all pages and found them to validate perfectly. If you find a page that's not validating, let me know