Excel Free WordPress Theme
Finally!
Looking for a cool, and different WordPress theme for free? I present to you, Excel. Voila!
Some of you who have been following me prior to this blog, will see similarities in this theme. I released a theme in November last year, almost identical to this, and I have been selling it for $20 from then until now, with 100% of the proceeds going to charity.
With the help of proceeds from the theme, my uncle has smashed through his initial target of £4,000.
Now, I may release a theme in the future, which will help to raise more money for charity, but for now, I’ve pulled the initial theme off the ‘market’, revised it (made it better), and I’m now releasing it for free to you all.
Let me get into the features…
The 6 column grid…
Firstly, this is a theme for people who appreciate attention to detail…’pixel peepers’ if you like. Those who love order, structure, and like everything to line up correctly. You see, this is one of the very few WordPress themes which sticks to a strict horizontal grid. Right throughout, from the navigation to the comments box, every section of this theme has its place.
This shouldn’t be a ‘feature’, but sadly, this basic principle of design isn’t even understood in its simplest form by some ‘designers’ (not that I’m a master either, admittedly). Rather than marking it as a ‘feature’, I’m really just informing you.
Rotating header images…
The header images of 622×190px, rotate with every refresh. Again, this isn’t your average rotating header images. These images rotate without any WordPress plugin, nor do they rotate using the method Chris Pearson uses. No, these images, which you will place in the /headers/ directory of the theme, rotate as many images as you place in the folder, without altering any code whatsoever. It’s a really neat way of doing rotating images, thanks to Dan Benjamin of A List Apart.
Inter-post ad integration…
This is one of those things every Adsense user wants to know how to do, but finds it difficult to find the answer. Many people would like to be able to place a banner below their first post on the homepage of their blog. However, they soon find out that the banner appears below every post, violating the Google Adsense rules, as you’re only permitted to display 3 content ads on any given page.
Well, your headaches are over. In Excel, I’ve done the dirty work for you, so all you have to do is go to the index.php file, and put in your 468×60 adsense banner. I have it clearly marked in the file, so anyone can understand what to do.
Built-in author comment styling…
There has been an ever increasing desire among WordPress bloggers, to have the comments on their own blogs, identified from all the comments of their visitors. This has led to the use of a WordPress plugin in order to achieve the desired effect. However, Excel has it built-in. In most cases, without changing anything at all, your comments will be styled differently than your visitors.
Built-in separated comments and trackbacks…
Again, this is an issue more would desire to have in their designs, but have no clue how to do. On top of that, very few themes come with it. Rather than having trackbacks breaking up the flow of conversation in the comments, I’ve placed the trackbacks in an ordered list at the end. Plus, what’s especially nice about the way I’ve done this, is that the ‘Trackbacks’ title does not appear when there are no trackbacks to the post. Cool, eh?
Also…
- Post image styling
- Code for 125px ads in the sidebar
- Valid CSS and XHTML 1.0…
So how do you get it?
To get the theme for free (remember, I was charging $20 for this), all I ask you to do, is sign up to our mailing list (please remember to confirm).
P.S. Along with a download link for the theme, I’ll also send you the url to an awesome link building and blog marketing discovery I made at the end of last week, which will really help every blogger. At this stage, not many know about it, so it’ll put you ahead of the competition, and save you heaps of time!