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Curent Version: 1.0
Last Updated: September 24, 2006
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Contents

  1. About
  2. Screenshots
  3. Installation
  4. Download
  5. Plugins
  6. Known Bugs
  7. Version History

About

LimeTime is my first publicly released WordPress Theme.
It's built off of Kubrick as a core, as I imagine most themes are.
A soothing green and grey colour scheme makes it easy to read and navigate.
It supports several plugins out of the box - including widgets!

Screenshots

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The screenshot above shows the a "full post", comments, gravatars (and the matching default image), and pretty much the layout as a whole.

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This screenshot shows a "page". Subpages are listed on the left.

Installation

Simply extract this baby to your wp-content/themes/ folder, enable it in your Admin CP and your good to go.
As I mentioned in the "About" section, this theme supports a few plugins out of the box, if you have them.
I've put "if function_exists" around each of the plugin calls, so if you don't have one of the plugins, worry not! No errors shall inhabit your monitor this night. You know unless you mess around with the code or unless I overlooked something.

Anyhoo, some of the plugins you may want to configure first.
For example the c2c_get_custom call in both single.php and index.php will be looking out for a "music" custom field value.
So for it to work, you'll need to add a "music" custom field to each of your blog posts. If you don't add anything to "music" it will default to "Nothing Playing". If you already use a "now playing" type custom field but give it a different name, simply change:
$music = c2c_get_custom('Music'); to
$music = c2c_get_custom('YourCustomField');
And hey-presto! Stuff.
Don't worry about filling in an really long song, in case it might break the layout, because it won't, thanks to the handy-dandy truncating script of doom™
If you want to disable this feature, but don't want to disable the plugin (maybe you use it somewhere else) simply comment out the whole <span> for the now playing thingo.

Gravatars are another plugin you'll want to modify. You'll need to look for the gravatar call in comments.php, and you'll want to change the location of the default image. Since by default the URL very much doesn't work:

http://path.to.blog/wp-content/themes/limetime/images/comment-usericon.gif

Simply change http://path.to.blog/ to the actual path to your wordpress installation.

If you use the Last.fm service, chances are you're familiar with audioscrobbler plugins. First thing's first, install wp-audioscrobbler if you don't already have it, and set the following options:

No Tracks: <li class="notracks">No Tracks Played</li>
Display Template: <li class="track"><a href="%link%" title="%date% (%minutes_ago% minutes ago)">%artist% - %title%</a></li>

The other options you can modify to your liking, you can even change the display template, as long as you keep the classes in order everything should be peachy.
Now head on over to sidebar.php and search for the wp-audioscrobbler call. You'll notice I have a manual link in there after the tracks, one that links to your last.fm user page. Well, actually it links to mine, which is why we are here. Change the link so it links back to your last.fm page.

Download

Download LimeTime (126KB ZIP)
Download Header PSD (50.4KB ZIP)

Plugins

Support for the following plugins out of the box:

See the installation section for information regarding plugins that you'll want to modify.

Known Bugs

Funky Background Disappearing On Low Resolutions
It's a strange bug to be sure.
The only time this bug shows up is when you squish your window too thin, or if you view at 800x600.
I'm not going to go in to how people still view at 800x600 and I'm discriminating them and blah blah blah.
If you want a theme that can be viewed nicely at 800x600, then please look elsewhere :)

Scrobbler Widget: Houdini Header
A bug where the H2 above Scrobbler will disappear. An issue with Scrobbler I'd say. Look elsewhere for a fix, or you could try e-mailing the author about it.

Version History

2006-09-24: Initial Version