Journalized Theme Version 2

Journ­al­ized theme Ver­sion 2.7.2 for WordPress ver­sions 2.5 through 2.7 is now available.

The latest ver­sion fixes a couple of bugs and is now ready for inter­na­tion­al­isa­tion. It comes with Rus­sian trans­la­tion files (Rus­sian trans­la­tion kindly sup­plied by Dmitriy Donchenko)

screenshot of theme
click for a lar­ger image.


or TAR ball journalized-theme-2.7.2.tar.gz

Update: The theme has been updated to ver­sion 2.7.2.

The theme has the fol­low­ing features:

  • Comes with six seven built in ‘skins’ (includ­ing the old Blue, Sand, Winter, and Xmas)
  • A new admin­is­tra­tion inter­face to con­fig­ure the theme.
  • All known browser bugs addressed. Tested in Fire­fox, Inter­net Explorer, Web­kit (Safari), and Opera
  • Sup­port for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
  • Can be con­figured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
  • The num­ber of columns can be con­figured sep­ar­ately for archive pages and single posts or pages.
  • Sup­ports cus­tom header image, includ­ing in the background
  • Sup­ports full-width or cen­ter column header
  • Com­pat­ible with WordPress ver­sions 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7
  • Sup­ports threaded com­ments (WordPress 2.7 only)
  • Sup­ports paged com­ments (WordPress 2.7 only)
  • Sup­ports drop-in cus­tom skins
  • XHTML 1.0 transitional
  • Sup­ports mul­tiple lan­guages. Comes with Rus­sian as a second language.

Here is a screen shot of the new admin­is­tra­tion inter­face used to con­fig­ure the theme.
screen shot of admin interface

And here is an example of the nes­ted com­ments. It also sup­ports paged com­ments in WordPress ver­sion 2.7.
screen shot of nested comments

You can con­fig­ure a num­ber of fea­tures of the header:

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After almost two years of inactiv­ity, this theme is finally updated and avail­able again.

You can down­load the final release here:

ZIP file journalized-theme-2.7.2.zip
or TAR ball journalized-theme-2.7.2.tar.gz.

This ver­sion com­pletely replaces all the old ver­sions, includ­ing the stan­dalone Journ­al­ized Sand, Blue, and Winter themes (unless you are still on WordPress 1.5).

Please give it a try and let me have any feed­back in the com­ments on this page. I have kept the old com­ments here, just add any new com­ments as usual. The theme is licensed under the GPL. So you may modify it and dis­trib­ute it. I’m very inter­ested to hear if you use it, modify it, etc. If you have any ques­tions leave a com­ment on this post with your ques­tion. Com­ments are mod­er­ated so you won’t see your com­ment immediately.

I will write some more inform­a­tion about cre­at­ing your own skins in the next few weeks. I will also doc­u­ment some of the hun­dreds of con­fig­ur­a­tion possibilities!

Update: You can now down­load an extra skin! This is the Xmas skin I occa­sion­ally use on this blog. Note this skin is now included with ver­sion 2.7.2.

screenshot of xmas skin
click for a lar­ger image.

You can down­load the xmas skin here:
xmas-skin-2.7.1.zip.

  • Once you have down­loaded it. Unzip it, then upload the files to your journalized/skins directory.
  • Go to Appear­ance -> Journ­al­ized Options in the admin screen, and select the new skin.
  • If you want a pic­ture of Santa to appear along side your blog title, type ‘santa.gif’ into the ‘Header Image’ box and uncheck both ‘Add the image in the back­ground’ and ‘Turn off the blog title’.
  • If you want your header to be full width, check that box and set header image height to be 138 pixels (that worked for me)
  • Finally save your set­tings and you are done

321 thoughts on “Journalized Theme Version 2

  1. Hi Mike,

    How do I make the font size for my posts’ titles lar­ger? Also, is it pos­sible to have them centered on the page? And whereas I know that the title of the post also con­tains the permalink and defaults to the color blue, is it pos­sible to change it, too?

    I have no idea where to begin look­ing for where the code might be for that sort of thing.

    Thanks!

  2. I just wanted to thank you for journ­al­ized sand. I have used the older ver­sion on one of my web­sites for many years. Actu­ally it is still live and work­ing just fine. I have con­figured and mod­i­fied it a lot. What I liked about it is that is an easy to con­fig­ure theme. It may not be the most best look­ing wordpress theme, but it was simple, func­tional and worked really well with plu­gins and customization.

  3. Also,

    I’d like to know if it’s pos­sible to change the lay­out this way: The first art­icle would look bet­ter if I could break it in half and use the one half for another art­icle. That would give the front page more of a news look.

    Secondly, any­way of hav­ing menu tabs run­ning below the logo/header?

    Thanks

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