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Web 2.0* 1.5.0

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A clean and simple 2 column fluid-width theme influenced by current Web 2.0 colours and fonts with and an Options page, built-in admin area in sidebar and Widget support.
*includes AJAX commenting.

Author: Neil Merton

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Tags: 2 columns, Fluid width, No images, Options page, Right sidebar, White, Widget ready

Downloads: 1,037

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  1. [...] Well, as promised, I’ve released the Web2.0* Wordpress theme to the general public. [...]

    Pingback by Web2.0* Wordpress Theme Available | Neil Merton — October 21, 8:48

  2. I like it, it’s simple, clean, and good-looking. Great work.

    Comment by Steven Bao — October 21, 15:10

  3. Great theme, thanks!

    Comment by Joanna — October 21, 16:55

  4. Sorry, I forgot. Five stars :-)

    Comment by Joanna — October 21, 16:57

  5. It’s partialy support the sidebar -> no automatication :( - that’s minus ;) i hope you could imporve it in next release ;) grreting from Poland

    Comment by sinx — October 22, 0:08

  6. Thanks for all the comments people - these will definately spur me on to do enhancements to the theme.

    @sinx - I take it you mean support for Widgets would be nice?

    Comment by Neil Merton — October 22, 8:30

  7. Hi all,

    This is now release 1.01 - I’ve fixed a few problems discovered with IE7. All is good again.

    Comment by Neil Merton — October 23, 16:52

  8. I’ve updated to 1.0.2 as there was some hard-coded bits in the footer.php that’s been changed to dynamic values.

    If you’ve downloaded and would like to update without redownloading simply open footer.php and changed line 3 to:

    Copyright ©

    Thanks for all the downloads so far - it’s much appreciated :¬)

    Comment by Neil Merton — November 12, 12:51

  9. right - let’s try that again:

    <p>Copyright © <?php echo date(”Y”); ?> <?php bloginfo(’name’) ?>

    Comment by Neil Merton — November 12, 12:54

  10. @ Neil exactly - widget suport would be nice ;) and i’ve added some i18n into Your theme, but it’s not perfect … but i think you’ve made it yourself :> if not I can send you some code (this which is modified at http://0×1fff.com/ ) ;) :) I like it a lot … - sorry for long anwsering time :) (ps: i haven’t check new release yet … )

    Comment by sinx — November 14, 23:22

  11. nope the i18n is not added :> if you want it i can send it to you ;) (it’s only changing string values to _(”string”) ) and find strings in wordpress translation ;) so it’s not difficult ;) but helps a lot customizing a wordpress (we all want native speaking wordpress) ;) greetings ;)

    Comment by sinx — November 14, 23:25

  12. again, the classic issue with child pages being listed in the top nav.
    use depth =1 in wp_list_pages.

    Comment by Edwin — November 15, 1:42

  13. theme updated again (please see the included ‘readme.txt’ file for full list of changes)

    fixed page link display (thanks to Edwin for pointing this out).

    Comment by Neil Merton — November 26, 10:30

  14. [...] I’d lagged behind the latest Wordpress patches so finally bit the bullet and upgraded today. The “unzip the new files over the old” barfed for me, so I went for the slightly more complex “delete the old files first” approach, and all was well. I also ditched my (badly) tweaked Hemmingway theme for the current Web 2.0 one. Expect it to remain fully functional for as long as it takes me to start editing the theme… As always, feel free to report any glitches. [...]

    Pingback by Wordpress upgrade & new theme | magpiebrain — December 3, 14:45

  15. hi all,

    just so that you are aware the theme has been updated again - it now supports Widgets :)

    the next updates will be:
    * ajax commenting (this will require a rewrite of the comments display)
    * translation

    as usual you can either check this post for updates or my own website. any further suggestions please let me know.

    Comment by Neil Merton — December 4, 11:15

  16. [...] Web 2.0* 1.1.0 - Le nom est très poche, mais il reste mon coup de coeur. Il est coloré et simple, je l’aime beaucoup! [...]

    Pingback by En toute simplicité… » Blog Archive » Une p’tite vite! — December 6, 15:44

  17. [...] J’irai donc avec mon coup de coeur, Web 2.0*. Mea culpa de vous avoir fait perdre votre temps… [...]

    Pingback by En toute simplicité… » Blog Archive » Ouf! — December 7, 15:18

  18. [...] Web 2.0*, mon coup de coeur. Simple, discret et coloré, il a une touche urbaine et féminine que je ne saurais négliger… [...]

    Pingback by En toute simplicité… » Blog Archive » Je m’incline… — December 7, 16:15

  19. [...] Edit:  Missy has offered to help!  Thanks Missy.  And for a preview of the new template, click here.  Then click on test run to see a full screen.  The small screenshot looks bleh, so a test run peek is a must.  ;)  [...]

    Pingback by Help Wanted « Heather Harper — January 10, 18:47

  20. Great design, I have this on several sites know and plan on some new (skins-hacking the) css and adding a calendar in the the next week or two.

    I am having trouble one at the link above. Looking at this with a resulution of 800×600 the css falls apart. Is there a q&a or forum for web 2.0?

    I’m also looking for a calendar to work in the side bar, any suggestions?

    Comment by Jack — January 12, 13:48

  21. From Above:
    I’m having trouble with only 1 site http://www.webdailingdesigns.com/updates/ with a resulution of 800×600, the css falls apart.

    Is there a q&a or forum for web 2.0?

    Comment by Jack — January 12, 13:52

  22. Good to hear about ajax comment :)

    Comment by au8ust — January 13, 7:25

  23. Hi all,

    The theme is now at v1.2.0. I’ve now included AJAX commenting.

    @Jack:
    See the replies to your questions on my website :)

    @au8ust:
    AJAX commenting has now been implemented :)

    Comment by Neil Merton — January 13, 17:39

  24. Thanks Neil for the new version :)

    I’ve a question about updating, Since I’ve changed many things in your theme to fit my need. So is it possible to update only the file that you’ve changed from the last release? If yes, which files?

    And one more thing, something doesn’t act as it should when using the new ajax commenting system. After posting comment, instead of having this ( see http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5388/fineqp6.png ) which is the good one, but I got this ( see http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4555/wronggb9.png ) which I think it’s unusually (nothing the alternate color of post, it’s the same) or it’s normally?

    PS. Sorry about my grammar

    Comment by au8ust — January 13, 23:34

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    gimmemoney 640318 Research about freezer recipe salsa….

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  26. [...] Well, I’ve finally managed to get my Web2.0* Wordpress theme to utilise AJAX commenting. I’ve also cleaned up alot of the code on the comments.php page. [...]

    Pingback by Web2.0* Wordpress Theme Updated | Neil Merton — January 17, 12:24

  27. Very nice theme. I’m considering it for my blog’s new look :)

    Comment by AJ — January 21, 18:35

  1. [...] Finally, customising my template. I didn’t really like the templates that come with WordPress - the default is too static (and I prefer my stuff to be dynamic) and the classic template is just plain ugly. So I had a look through the templates gallery and decided on the Web 2.0 template by Neil Merton. Sure, it’s not really Web 2.0 - no AJAX or anything like that - but it was a pretty style that was laid out exactly how I wanted it. I’m not much of a designer so if I can get the layout I want I’m happy. [...]

    Pingback by Moving from Blogger to WordPress | Rob’s Blog — January 24, 20:26

  2. Hi guys (and gals),

    I’ve updated the links page so it’s now compatible with Wordpress 2.1.

    If you don’t want to download the whole theme again then feel free to visit my site to download the links.php page on it’s own.

    Comment by Neil Merton — January 26, 20:36

  3. Hi people,

    Apologies for yet another minor update - here’s the details:

    v.1.2.2 - 2007.01.28
    Forced page display to use ‘menu order’
    Added attachment.php page
    Added more options to the admin area in sidebar

    File(s) changed:
    header.php
    sidebar.php
    style.css

    File(s) added:
    attachment.php
    icon_comments.gif
    icon_dashboard.gif
    icon_link_manager.gif
    icon_logout.gif
    icon_options.gif
    icon_page_new.gif
    icon_plugins.gif
    icon_post_manage.gif
    icon_post_new.gif
    icon_presentation.gif
    icon_uploads_manage.gif
    icon_users.gif

    The theme should now be WP2.1 compliant.

    Comment by Neil Merton — January 28, 10:43

  4. Nice update ;)
    I’ll try it

    Comment by au8ust — January 28, 12:15

  5. Thanks everything looks to work great in 2.1 at first test. I’ll start to re-css everything in the next couple of days. Look forward to adding some widgets soon. Thanks again great work.

    Comment by Jack — January 29, 15:49

  6. Hi all,

    Firstly thanks for all the downloads and kind words - these are always unappreciated.

    I will shortly start work on the next major release of the theme, this will hopefully include an options page - so that you can changed some of the options via the admin area.

    ETA is unknow - but it shouldn’t be too far away.

    Regards,

    Neil

    Comment by Neil Merton — January 31, 7:19

  7. Hello,
    I hope the rating for 5 stars worked with firefox on mac os x. A very cool theme. The only issue I have is the task to translate it to german.
    The easy way to customize the design by only modify the css is one thing I’ve been looking for a long time.

    Really good work!

    Comment by kiwix — February 5, 21:40

  8. Hi Kiwix,

    Thanks for the positive comments and rating. The translation thing is still something I’m looking into.

    Regards,

    Neil

    Comment by Neil Merton — February 6, 13:24

  9. Very nice! Thanks!!

    Comment by Otto — February 13, 11:29

  10. Not one of my favourites. The colours seem a bit unfortunate. Blockquotes readability is below average. Should be nice after some editing, but that’s not the competition I guess.

    Comment by fisherman — February 17, 3:26

  11. Any ETA for i18n?

    Comment by antxon — February 20, 11:17

  12. Hi Antxon - not as yet, I’ve been bogged down lately with work related stuff and have not had any time to devote my attention to Web2.0*.

    I’ve not forgotten about it.

    Comment by Neil Merton — February 22, 7:53

  13. perfect. tenksss.

    Comment by mahmut — March 9, 21:16

  14. something hit me when come to wide area wp…now where’s the
    downloads..

    you should add a giant blockquote graphic to make it more web2

    :) :-0

    Comment by rkcorp — March 10, 8:09

  15. Hi,

    I wrote you a msg from your web contact form and got not response :/ I’ll like to help you with i18n on this theme… any way to contact with you?

    Thanks

    Comment by antxon — March 12, 13:50

  16. Elegant. Easy to customize. Thank you!!

    Comment by John P. — March 12, 17:37

  17. Thanks for the comments ppl.

    @antxon - I did reply to your email on the 28th of Feb 2007. Feel free to email me at neilmerton[at]gmail[.]com

    Comment by Neil Merton — March 14, 19:00

  18. [...] I just noticed that my Web2.0* Wordpress Theme has managed to sneak into the Top10 list on Wordpress Theme Viewer website! [...]

    Pingback by Web2.0* In The Top10 | Neil Merton — March 15, 19:10

  19. Hi all,

    I’ve applied a small update to how the drop-down menu is incorporate (ie - only included if IE is less than 7).

    Comment by Neil Merton — March 26, 18:07

  20. Hi all,

    One more minor update - this time relating to the comments page. If you downloaded 1.2.4 I strongly suggest updating to 1.2.5.

    Comment by Neil Merton — March 28, 6:50

  21. Hi all,

    I forgot to include the functions.php in the last update - the package now includes this file.

    Comment by Neil Merton — April 6, 8:31

  22. Ah.. new update! Let’s see how it looks like :)

    Comment by au8ust — April 6, 8:41

  23. [...] Cansado de fazer meus próprios templates (e, praticamente sem tempo de fazer um decente), busquei uma solução pronta. Testei o Hemingway, depois o Utom eacabei ficando um tempo com o template default. Só que eu não estava plenamente satisfeito com nenhum deles. Aí acabei descobrindo este template web 2.0-ish e, após testá-lo, acabei por escolhê-lo para o [cc] - pelo menos - pelos próximos meses. [...]

    Pingback by Mudanças na interface | o [cc] do [caiocesar] na [www] — April 25, 18:53

  24. [...] So far, I like it. Loads a little bit faster than my previous theme, Web 2.0 which also boasted a fluid design and no decorative images. [...]

    Pingback by   Rapid Access Theme - The Aesedra.com Blog — April 30, 14:34

  25. A little question. If I align an image in a post left and do not have enough text to go below the image then the design tends to look weird.

    http://otoboku.se/2007/05/02/couple-of-the-week-sasuke-and-chidori/
    the “no comment” sign here doesn´t get the correct value.
    Is this because of the images height or why?

    Comment by manga — May 3, 18:57

  26. That would be down to the height of the image. I will look into clearing the content with css - that might help.

    I’m busy trying to finish off the next instalment of Web2.0* - it will help those who aren’t too comfortable with changing the css itself.

    Comment by Neil Merton — May 5, 21:04

  27. Theme updated to 1.5.0!

    Let me know how you get on with the Options Page.

    @manga - I’ve managed to fix the issue with long images.

    Comment by Neil Merton — May 6, 11:10

  1. [...] I can happily announce that Web2.0* version 1.5 is now available for download. [...]

    Pingback by Web2.0* 1.5 Available | Neil Merton — May 6, 11:33

  2. Excellent theme ;) I’ll try it.

    Comment by Cortex — May 6, 13:53

  3. @ Neil Merton
    Thank you. Then I´ll download the new version of the theme.

    Comment by manga — May 7, 17:25

  4. This new version is excellent !
    Thanks you very much.

    Comment by Nicolas W. — May 12, 10:01

  5. Dropdown menu is good to have, but theme looks too white due to lack of graphics, however theme looks good enough despite of less graphics.

    Comment by Mohd. Hashim Khan — May 20, 7:04

  6. I added a header image to the theme. Looks great on it.

    Comment by Jayvee — May 27, 17:43

  7. Hi Neil,

    I am trying to understand something for 2 weeks now : the 1.5 style.css is not take by my wordpress configuration (2.2) I get a no CSS page, the web2.0 options is effectless. But when i put instead your 1.2.5 style.css, I get back my web 2.0 theme !!

    Where should i look to verify and correct my configuration ?
    Thank you
    Philippe, Paris

    Comment by inowlocki — June 7, 13:23

  8. Neil,

    Great theme! I’d like to use it but my site has hierarchical page sets and I’m having trouble with the pulldown menus.

    As a test, I created a set of pages using WordPress 2.2 structured: (root,(a,(a1,a2),b,(b1,b2))). “root” appears in the menu bar but the pulldown only shows a, a1, b1, b2. I’ve triple-checked the Page Parent properties and they’re right. If I use the WordPress default theme a proper hierarchical list of the pages show up on the right. Any ideas?

    Thanks for all the hard work on our behalf!

    Comment by Al — June 11, 13:21

  9. Al…may I suggest My Page Order plug in.

    Comment by John P. — June 11, 17:46

  10. Great plug-in, John, but it didn’t solve the problem. Thanks.

    Comment by Al — June 11, 19:13

  11. @ Philippe
    Are you sure you copied all the files into the theme directory? It sounds like it might be missing ’style.php’.

    @ Al
    I will have to investigate by creating the page list as you described and test the results.

    Comment by Neil Merton — June 13, 6:51

  12. Thank you VERY much for the drop down sub-menus. Wow.

    Thank you VERY much for the cusotmizable colors. Wow.

    Q:

    How do I control (order) the Pages across the top of the Main Menu?

    Thanks again,

    Scott

    Comment by Scott — June 26, 4:46

  13. Scott…use the plugin noted in comment 63 above.

    Comment by John P. — June 26, 11:42

  14. Thanks for the recommendation. I saw it but wasn’t sure it overty handled the menu across the top. [Does it?]

    I figured out how to order of the pages on the Pages menu on the right (and how to make some pages NOT show up).

    And I do not have a problem with the Sub-pages across the top. [Just the page _order_ -- and which pages should show up.]

    So, if I understand you and it correctly, the plug-in should handle a.) which Pages ae listed across the top, and b.) what order they appear.

    Thanks,

    Scott

    Comment by Scott — June 26, 13:15

  15. It does handle the pages in the header. I use the plugin to order my pages from left to right in the header and order the subpages on the pulldown. The plugin does not hide pages AFAIK. You have to pass the pages you want to hide in the wp_list_pages parameters manually.

    Comment by John P. — June 26, 15:30

  16. Thanks very much. (I will investigate the “wp_list_pages” parameters.)

    Thanks again.

    Scott

    Comment by scott — June 26, 23:49

  17. Right, finally got PHP etc working on VIsta, so I’ve been able to do some testing.

    With regards to the page order - I’ve been able to create the following structure without any problems:

    1 About
    2 — Resume
    3 — Interests
    4 Coding
    5 — ASP.net
    6 — ColdFusion
    7 — PHP

    The numbers represent the Page Order value specified for each page.

    If I only wanted to include the parent pages in the menu I would change the ‘wp_list_pages’ functions parameters (in ‘header.php) to:

    wp_list_pages(’include=2,5&sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’);

    where 2 and 5 are the page id numbers.

    Comment by Neil Merton — June 27, 5:55

  18. I really like this theme, however, if I wanted to replace the header with a header image how would I go about doing that? I set the site width to 995px and my header image is 995px x 100px. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    Comment by Susan — June 28, 21:54

  19. Go into the theme’s style.css and add the following line to #wp-header

    `background-image: url(yourfilepath/yourfilename.jpg);`

    I think you’ll want to make your image a little narrower than the site width.

    Comment by John P. — June 29, 21:40

  20. #1. I want (I think) to delete the hard-coded “Home” from the Pages menu across the top of the page.

    Because:

    a.) If I leave it in and edit the hard-coded Home page, nothing shows up.

    b.) I believe I know how to make a page become the new Home page.

    OR . . .

    #2. Can someone help me figure out how to make my edits to the hard-coded Home page SHOW UP when visitors land on my URL. http://www.levelsofmeaning.com

    Thanks.

    Scott V.

    PS I understand that if I go route #1 above (deleting the hard-coded Home page, that I have to delete the coding from header.php.

    If so, exactly *what* do I delete?

    Sorry. I am sure this is easy — one way or the other.

    Thanks again…

    Comment by scott — June 30, 0:07

  21. In header.php, find:
    ` current_page_item”>/”>Home` and enclose it in:
    ``

    Comment by John P. — June 30, 0:30

  22. For some reason the code isn’t showing anymore
    Comment out line 51 in the header.php.

    Comment by John P. — June 30, 0:32

  23. It’s the code line that starts with

    Comment by John P. — June 30, 0:50

  24. Ugh…contact me on my blog and I’ll get this info to you.

    Comment by John P. — June 30, 0:52

  25. Thanks much. Will do.

    Comment by Scott — June 30, 13:59

  26. FAVICON

    Sorry to bother all y’all; but I have spent all evening educating myself about inserting a custom Favicon. I have successfully created one, and updated it to work both in the URL and in the Favorites (and in the browser tabs).

    However, I have cannot make the favicon SHOW-UP for the Subpages, and also for the two regular Pages after the Subpages.

    Anyone run across this? (And can help?)

    Thanks,

    Scott

    Comment by scott — July 4, 1:28

  27. Generally it’s best to put the favicon in the root of the website. So instead of it being in the theme directory move it to the root directory and change the href attribute to the new location.

    Comment by Neil Merton — July 4, 5:51

  28. SEARCH BOX

    My Search Box does not work. Do I have to do something (other than install it) to get it to work?

    And thanks for the FAVICON info. (Got it to work.)

    Scott V.

    Comment by Scott Vanatter — July 13, 20:30

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