Linoluna: Magazine-style Theme for Wordpress

30.12.07 at 16:29 in Wordpress and Themes # 83 Comments

Bored of usual Wordpress template? Well, magazine-style themes is now becoming a trend. With Linoluna, you will be brought to a new level of blogging. It is a simple and neat theme for a magazine-styled blog. The theme use the Wordpress’ template tags quite extensively but still, it is very easy to use. Linoluna best suits a multi-author Wordpress blog.

The CSS is lean and the design is very simple. Basically it is a grid-styled layout with green accents. The theme uses a tabbed navigation to show the most popular posts. There are four tabs avaiable and by default it is “Viewed”, “Commented”, “Top Rated”, and “Emailed”. There is a slideshow animation for the featured articles in the front page. It is a simple JavaScript from JQuery.com.

You can see the statistics of each page in a rectangular box inside every post. I include some fresh icons to make everything look better. The statistics includes the total comments, total views, author name, category, date, and the email and print function. For the best functionality, you should have the plugin WP-PostView, WP-PostRating, WP-Print, WP-Email installed. Those plugins are from LesterChan.net.

Installation

Download and extract the zip file.
Upload the theme file to your server at “/wp-content/themes/” folder.
Activate the theme. (Admin Panel -> Presentation -> Themes)

Configuration

Linoluna is built to support WP version 2.0 and up.
The theme is sidebar widget-ready. By default, the sidebar is divided into four sections. Sidebar-Top, Sidebar-Left, Sidebar-Right, and Sidebar-Bottom. Each sidebar can be configured in the WP Admin Panel (Presentation -> Widgets). So it will be only clicks-and-drags.
In the index.php file you will find some PHP code like:
<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=10'); ?>
The $cat variable refers to the respective category_ID. You can see the category ID from the WP Admin Panel. (Manage -> Categories) The $showpost variable refer to the number of posts you want to show.
Images across the theme can be configured using the Custom Fields. You should add a custom field called “Image” in every post and put the image filename within the custom field value. Each post is attached with several images (but the same filename) that will be shown according to its proper places. The “Banner” image will be shown at the top of every post (below the title), the “Slideshow” image will be shown in the slideshow, the “Asides” image will be shown in the “Aside” section, and the “Thumbnail” images will be shown in the archive and author pages. I repeat, all images should be named the same for each post. (e.g Custom field name: Image; Custom field value: pool.jpg)
The layout will also work with different image sizes of your likings but I think it’ll be better if at first you try everything using the default sizes. The slideshow images are 400×300pixels, the Asides images are 200×130pixels, and the Thumbnails are 75×75pixels.
There is a dedicated author page that show the author biography, his/her photo, and his/her publications. The author photos should be named after the author’s last name. And it must be a JPG file. (eg. Hutagalung.jpg)
An ad banner (468×60px) is shown in the post pages between the post entry and the comments. An ad square banner (300×250px) is shown in the sidebar.
This is the folder structure of the theme folders:
- Main folder (index.php, single.php, author.php, style.css, etc.)
- Images->Ads (put the advertisements here)
- Images->Banner (put the banner images here)
- Images->Asides (put the aside images here)
- Images->Slideshow (put the slideshow images here)
- Images->Thumbnail (put the thumbnails images here)
- Images->Author (put the author photos here)

Download the theme (ZIP File)

Anyway this is the very first theme that I made and I really want to hear any of your comments and suggestions.

Changelog
V1.1 Some PHP code correction. Linoluna now works well for blogs that are not installed on the root folder. (e.g http://www.yourdomain.com/blog)

83 Comments

Ronggo said:

adsen mas liat liat

# 83 - 2 July 2008 at 08:05 am
Wang said:

Thanks for sharing. Great Theme!

# 82 - 28 June 2008 at 09:42 am
Mark Tisdale said:

Very nice template! We are migrating our large blog from wordpress.com to our own hosted version on our new server so we can monetize our site.

Question - Is there a reason the >>Next or >>Archives link doesn’t show at the bottom of the main page? I am examining the code and wonder what I may be doing wrong.

# 81 - 28 June 2008 at 08:14 am
Sparked said:

Love the theme… can’t figure out how to use it. I’m so new to all of this I can’t get anything to work. How do I get stuf to show up on the first page?

# 80 - 27 June 2008 at 01:49 pm
Jikeb said:

Linoluna is such a great theme ! thanks à lot forit michael! BTW, is it possible to “freeze” the slideshow so that it don’t works automatically?

# 79 - 26 June 2008 at 10:44 pm
Justin said:

Nevermind… I got it! This is such a cool theme!!

# 78 - 24 June 2008 at 02:56 pm
Movilimo said:

Great Theme! Thnk’s alot

# 77 - 23 June 2008 at 09:56 pm
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Thank’s about the theme! Beautiful thank you Michael.

# 76 - 23 June 2008 at 09:55 pm
Justin said:

I LOVE THIS THEME! I’m really confused about how the images work though. Right now I’m showing the outline, sustainablesessions.com. Is there any way you could step through the post process? I know that’s asking a lot, any bit of wisdom would be MUCH appreciated!

# 75 - 19 June 2008 at 11:23 am
Matteo said:

Hi, what a great theme, it’s clean and professional, i’ll use it for my new site, but is it search engine optimized?

# 74 - 19 June 2008 at 02:54 am
harry said:

i more question. i want to show image with every post in category page.

i see only textual post in the category page .

# 73 - 18 June 2008 at 01:34 am
ARS said:

Thanks for sharing this theme!

# 72 - 17 June 2008 at 07:37 pm
harry said:

I like your theme “arthemia” and i want to add “uside-1 . uside2 . uside3
” from linoluna . in Arthemia under “BROWSE CATEGORIES”..

How can i do it .. plz help

# 71 - 16 June 2008 at 12:16 pm
michaeljubel (author) said:

all - thanks guys, I hope you like the theme.

Rosina Lippi - you can contact me via e-mail and email me your screenshot and I will tell you how to put the image URL in the custom field.

# 70 - 16 June 2008 at 11:22 am
Rosina Lippi said:

Hi — I’m having some fun trying to get this to work. The thing that confuses me most is how to set up the custom fields for the various image types.

I’m not sure if the url for the specific image goes into one of the boxes, or what.

If you could post a screenshot of your manage post page that shows how the image special fields are setup, that would be really useful.

I really hope I can figure this out. I like it a lot.

# 69 - 15 June 2008 at 03:14 am
Insuranceter.Com said:

Great wp Magazine themes.

# 68 - 14 June 2008 at 03:51 am
Adam Boulton said:

Brilliant theme, well done!

# 67 - 12 June 2008 at 05:37 pm
sumit said:

so good that i would have have paid over $50

# 66 - 10 June 2008 at 08:25 am
tasdemir said:

wowww super thanks for work

# 65 - 9 June 2008 at 09:48 pm
hissikablelvuku said:

Ok I have done with it

I’m using the latest version of wordpress and WP-email plugin.

Sorry for mistake in my first comment, I’m using SQL 5 and php 4 (not 5). And then, I just change the .htaccess file for running php 5 functions.

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

this is what you need in .htaccess file if you are running php4, and to perform php5.

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

# 64 - 6 June 2008 at 04:24 pm
michaeljubel (author) said:

Kelly Cain - can you be more specific what trouble you are facing?

hissikablelvuku - maybe you have the old version of WP-Email plugin installed. The plugin do have some problem with WP 2.5.1 and should be upgraded to the latest version. Check LesterChan.net to find out about this. What version of WP are you using?

# 63 - 6 June 2008 at 10:35 am