Monochrome Pro
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Monochrome is a magazine-style theme for Wordpress packaged with an AJAX post slideshow, a custom theme admin page to easily manage and customize Monochrome, author archives, two page templates, multi-tier drop down menus, utilizes custom fields options and a CSS framework to aid in customization. Now that’s a mouth-full.
With Monochrome, you get:
- AJAX-enabled post slideshow on the homepage
- Multiple entry points to your posts on the homepage
- Auto or manual thumbnail control
- Two widgetized sidebars, one for homepage content, one for single page views
- A widgetized bottombar which includes three widgetized areas
- A custom administration panel
- Authors archives
- Two page templates: One with sidebars and another without
- S.E.O. optimized
- Valid HTML and CSS
INSTALLATION
- Unzip the downloaded file
- Upload the entire “Monochrome″ folder to your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
- Log in into your WordPress control panel
- Click the Presentation tab
- Select the “Monochrome” screenshot
CONFIGURATION
- GETTING STARTED: Monochrome creates a new administration page in the Presentation tab of your Wordpress admin panel to easily manage an update the categories that you want to display on the homepage. View the theme options page. Type in the category id’s and you’re ready to go!
- PHOTOS & CUSTOM FIELDS: This theme uses custom fields to manage all photos and thumbnail photos. In your Wordpress settings, you can change the dimensions on both thumbnail and medium sized photos. Change the thumbnail width to 128 px wide by 128px tall. Change the medium photo size to 575 px wide. Save the settings. Wordpress will resize every photo uploaded to the dimensions described above. After uploading the photo into Wordpress using the media uploader, Monochrome Pro automatically generates your thumbnail and slideshow images for your homepage (version 1.1 only). Don’t like the thumbnail Wordpress generated for you? Override it, by copying the link to this thumbnail photo and pasting it into the custom field value, with a key called “thumbnail.” Similarly, you can copy the link to the medium photo (575 pixels wide maximum) and paste it into the custom field value, with a key called “photo.” Here is a screenshot of all properly filled out fields.
- YOUR AUTHORS PAGE: Monochrome comes packaged with an author archive (authors.php), which will display some author specific info pulled from the Users page in your Wordpress installation. In order for the author’s image to show up, you’ll need to place a jpg of the author titled by the author’s last name in the wp-content/themes/monochrome_lite/images/authors/ folder. For instance, mine is Allender.jpg, sized at 75px X 75px. Here is an example author page.
- STYLES.CSS: Unlike most Wordpress themes which plug all the css in one file called styles.css, Monochrome utilizes the Blueprint CSS framework to help separate positioning, typography, forms and what I’ll refer to as custom or Monochrome specific styles. To edit all custom Monochrome specific styles, you’ll need to edit the file style.css in your wp/wp-content/themes/monochrome/ directory.
ABOUT BLUEPRINT
This theme utilizes a CSS framework called Blueprint. Who is credited for the ideas behind Blueprint? Some of the best designers on the web. They include Jeff Croft, designer for Blue Flavor, Khoi Vinh, design director for NYTimes.com, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, Eric Meyer, Wilson Minor, Angus Turnbull, Olav Bjorkoy and a few others. Most major websites use some form of css framework to allow for rapid, consistent development and design. Take the Blueprint 101 course to learn about all the possibilities.
hi ,
just purchased the monochrome pro 1.2 theme.
looks great in your demo but my site is scrambled – many errors.
i am using wordpress 2.3 – i presume i have to upgrade to latest version to make monochrome theme workable?
i am waiting for your confirmation prior to make the upgrade – i just love old wordpress interface and not going to do the upgrade unless i have no other choice.
thanks,
B
I have seen a lot of themes for Wordpress, but this is right up there as one of my favourite designs.
@Bogdan
I would highly recommend upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress unless you don’t mind having your site being hacked. I’ve seen WP users hold onto an old version of WP because, like you, there is something that they just can’t let go of. Soon thereafter, their site gets hacked because of security holes and they loose their entire site.
Hi Thas,
I bought the monochrome pro theme, are you planning to release a wp 2.7 compatible theme ?
Cheers
This theme is not compatible even with WP 2.6, are you planning to release the latest version?
I am keen to discuss this with our web designers
I’ve bought this theme and it doesn’t work.
Is it compatible with Wordpress 2.7?
Before I purchase this theme, I also would like to know whether it is compatible with the latest WP (= 2.7.1)
Please let me know if Monochrome Pro is compatible with WP 2.7.1 too. I would like to purchase it if it is.
thanks I like wp
Woww, Thank you brother . Very good theme .
How do you change the Blog Title colors? Do you know if you can change the text and replace with an image header?
I downloaded the Author version to play around with it but can’t see a way to change to a graphic header. I want to purchase the Pro version but want to make sure I can change a few things first.
It seems a great theme.
I see many questions up on the board but am unsure as if they were actually answered. Does Graphic Paper Press respond directly to comments via email?
I am interested in purchasing this template but need to figure out if it is compatible with the latest WordPress software and if the blog title colors can be changed or replaced with an image header.
Any help on this would be great. Thanks!
Either Chandra and I answer all questions on the forum. Yes, our themes are 2.7 compatible. You can change colors and we provide instructions on adding header images.
Thanks Thad!
whats happing here and how do i sort it?
http://blog.modernpics.co.uk/2009/05/11/rockin-robyn/
Ace!
i cant find where the download link for Monochrome Pro is?!
Is there any way to control what posts go into the homepage slide show?
I will have a site with some features images, but don’t want to have every photo from every post show in the home page rotation.
If I buy Pro version can slide show be limited to a certain category(s)?
Other than that, it looks great…
Definitely among my favourites .
@Arturs,
Monochrome Pro is here. If you’ve downloaded it, it may have installed as simply “monochrome” which threw me for a loop..
http://graphpaperpress.com/2008/02/06/monochrome/
Hmm.. I should also like to note that the medium image width that worked for me was actually 565 not 575 as suggested here. The wider image doesn’t center properly in the slideshow window.
Also, portrait oriented photos overflow and cover over the small sections below. I haven’t dug in to this yet, but I suspect that a float needs clearing.
J
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This is so exciting with the new upgrade!