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xMark 1.0.2

xMark 1.0.2

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Custom blog design by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Author: Lisa Sabin-Wilson

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Tags: 3 columns, Fluid width, Options page, Red, Right sidebar, Widget ready

Downloads: 2,651

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  1. Welcome to xMark, a fully fluid, three column WordPress theme designed with the end user in mind. You know who you are - you bloggers who just want to get on with the business of blogging and don’t want to tinker with all the technical mumbo jumbo… Yea, you! I have done my utmost at making this theme as easy as possible. Straight out of the box, xMark will be a perfectly functional theme for you - however, xMark has numerous options and highlights available to you - check this stuff out:

    3-column, fluid CSS layout
    A print.css files to maximize print output
    2 sidebars, both fully widget compatible
    Admin options menu that gives you the option(s) to:

    Display the authors name in the post byline.. or not
    Custom date displays for the posts
    Display the authors name in the byline on static pages…or not
    Allow comments on static pages…or not
    Set up ‘Asides’ for your blog

    XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliance
    Successful cross-browser rendering
    Currently supports the following plugins:

    FlickrRSS
    ShareThis
    WordPress Sidebar Widgets
    Related Entries
    Clean Archives

    Includes optional coding for displaying an ad beneath the first post on the page. This site displays a 336×280 Google Adsense ad block - however, you can choose to display any type of banner ad you’d like. If you don’t want to display any ads beneath the first post - don’t worry, if you don’t add in the advertising code, nothing displays at all

    Category pages that display post excerpts with date, comment count and ‘read more’ link. Each Category page displays the name of the category you are browsing!
    Monthly archive pages that display post excerpts with date, comment count and ‘read more’ link. Each Monthly page displays the name of the month and year you are browsing in!
    Custom search results page gives a display of post titles, excerpts, date, post comment count and ‘read more’ link
    Custom 404 “Page Cannot Be Found” page
    An optional Archives page - - you can see my archives here
    An optional SiteMap page - you can see my sitemap here

    A quick look at the documentation should answer any burning questions you have on installing and using this theme. xMark comes as is - free for you to use and relased under a Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.5 Licence - which basically means you are free to use and share - to copy, distribute, and display the work as long as you keep the original designer attribution in place. Even if you modify the theme - original attributions stay in place.

    The Credits page give an idea of some folks who indirectly helped make this happen. The Plugins page shows the plugins this theme currently supports.

    Upcoming
    Support for total theme flexibility with a color picker in the admin options menu.

    I’ve done my best with testing this puppy out - however, that being said, if you find a bug or somewhere within the code that I tripped up, be sure to let me know and I’ll get a fix right quick!

    I will not be supporting this theme here on the WP Themes site. Visit the official xMark theme page for documentation, change logs, release notes and questions you may have

    I hope you enjoy xMark as much as I enjoyed creating it. Please do leave a comment if you end up using it on your site!

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — February 26, 20:31

  2. Could you move the columns to the left instead? How do you do that? :) thanks

    Comment by benj — February 27, 16:26

  3. Well, I could - and that would be a release of a new and different theme. I’ll consider it the next time I release another theme. Thanks!

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — February 27, 18:33

  4. A most excellent design! I am truly impressed with the simplicity and functionality of the over-all theme. I’m currently in the process of drawing up my own scheme, and I would be lying if I said that this hasn’t brought on a new sense of inspiration.

    Comment by Matthew — February 28, 3:38

  5. Hi Matthew - thank you, I’m glad you like it :)

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — February 28, 3:59

  6. Theme updated 3/4/07 - several adjustments made, please review theme site for detailed change log

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — March 5, 6:20

  7. Nice theme Lisa. Has a crisp, clean look to it. If I hadn’t spent as much time customizing the theme I’m using I’d seriously consider this as a start point.

    As a development note - noticed you had some requests for moving the columns around. If you plan to keep upgrading this, might have a look at Water3 by theundersigned. He coded it with controls in the admin panel to allow sidebar 1 or 2 to be placed left or right. In otherwords, through the dashboard, the user can choose how they want the three columns to lay out. With that functionality the same theme can have two sidebars right, one left or right..etc. It’s a cool bit of functionality to have that run from the dashboard admin instead of having to go flip around lines of code in the templates.

    Comment by cp — March 8, 6:06

  8. Hi CP - thank you for your comments. :)

    I am actually working on including certain style functions in the options page to switch header images, insert a custom header image and will also look at the layout element, as well - as you suggested.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Lisa Sabin-Wilson — March 8, 20:58

  9. Absolutely Stellar!!! I’ll take one, thank you…

    Comment by brettsrain — March 14, 2:52

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