Monochrome Pro
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
One Site License
This $75 package is for individuals who intend to use this theme on a single website. This is the full version and includes all scripts, theme files, and images. The credit link is required to stay intact.
Developer License
This $199 package is for users who intend to use this theme on multiple websites. This is the full version and includes all scripts, theme files, and images. The credit link is not required to stay intact.
Now you can get all Graph Paper Press themes for only $99.99. This offer includes all “premium” themes on sale today and in all of 2008. When a new theme is released in 2008, you will receive a link to the theme download via email. Currently, Graph Paper Press plans to release one theme per month. Pretty neat, huh?
All Themes - One Site License
This $99.99 package is for individuals who intend to use the themes on a single website. This is the full version and includes all scripts, theme files, and images. The credit link is required to stay intact.
All Themes - Developer License
This $499 package is for developers who intend to use the themes on multiple websites. This is the full version and includes all scripts, theme files, and images. The credit link is not required to stay intact.
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.
SUPPORT
The best way to receive support for this theme is to visit the forum first. If you can’t find the answer to your question there, then please get in touch. We respond quickly to all support inquiries. Just ask a few of our customers.
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.
VERSIONS
- 1.0 - Initial launch
- 1.1 - Improved thumbnail and image handling for Wordpress 2.5
- 1.1 - Revamped functions.php file for compatibility with Wordpress 2.6
February 17th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Hi — I purchased your $99 offering on January 28, and downloaded the themes you then had available. However, I was not notified when your newest theme came out of February 6 — I thought we purchasers were going to get an email from you with download instructions? Please get back to me on this. Btw — I might have originally provided the email address of darcy @darcygue.com. In any case, I didn’t hear from you.
Thanks for a quick response!
February 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Hi Darcy
I sent out the theme update last week. I’m not sure why you didn’t receive the update, but I’m looking into it. You might check your junk mail on the email address you used to purchase the themes. Regardless, I’m sending you the themes via email shortly. Sorry for the delay.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:01 am
When will the free download for Pro be available?
March 26th, 2008 at 7:50 am
I have no money
help me
March 31st, 2008 at 4:51 am
I bought this theme and it´s great (of course). One thing bothers me though. The Ajax-thing does not work for the featured articles.
Here´s the website: http://www.andravarldskriget.se/
April 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Hi!
Going to make the $99.00 purchase today …
Want a blog to post my photos, etc … more for my personal use than anything and a vehicle to share with friends and family …
Question …
I am running Lightroom and recently purchased SlideShowPro for Lightroom … would like to “embed” this onto the mainpage and perhaps others …. let’s start with the main page … how would I go about this?
Any (a,b,c) type of documentation available?
I have “zero to none” knowledge in the programming department … so any “dead simple” guides you may have would be greatly appreciated …
Regards,
Mark Jones
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
your Monochrome theme is perfect, i just don’t get it why you guys ask the link to stay when some chap is ready to pay 75 (not 25!) dollars for design…
April 25th, 2008 at 7:43 am
You can always style the credits to your liking by changing the color, size, etc. If you don’t want the credits at all, than you will need to purchase the developer edition.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:59 am
I recently purchased your Monochrome theme. I love it but i can’t seem to find how to change the 5 category listing in the middle of the page so that the most current is not listed in a all of those category slots. Help.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:25 am
@augusto
You will need to use the offset parameter in the places on home.php to your preference.
You can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.
The following will display the 5 posts which follow the most recent (1):
query_posts(’showposts=5&offset=1′);
The following will display the 7 posts, offset by 3:
query_posts(’showposts=7&offset=3′);
June 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Great post!! Thank You.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:27 am
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July 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I agree with Mark Jone’s post. It’s a great template, but documentation is lacking. I do not know the first thing about code and this seems to be aimed at people like me. If more detailed instructions were included it would be a much better product. Some posts I create appear fine. Others only have the small thumbnail in the recent photos slideshow, others only have a blank space, still others display a photo too large to fit. Uploading a photo does not seem to create a 575 pix photo and a 128 pix thumbnail like it is supposed to. Not that I can tell anyway. Also, the galleria function does not seem to be functioning either.
I know that all this would work if I was doing this right, but I have no idea how to find out what I am doing wrong or what steps I have missed.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:34 am
@Pablo - It appears that you aren’t using Wordpress’ Add Media button to upload your photos into Wordpress. Some posts you are using it (the ones that display correctly on your homepage) and others you aren’t. I would highly recommend reviewing the basics of using Wordpress’ gallery feature:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/
Let me know if that gets you rolling.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Thad,
I have been using the add media button, just like that cool demo video you linked to. Sometimes I get the [gallery] to appear in the post, sometime not. Either way, the gallery does not show up, it’s just a blank post with the previous and next buttons at the bottom. On the home page, a full-sized photo from the gallery appears and takes up the whole screen until a photo from the next post appears. I still haven’t figured out why on some posts the thumbnail is displayed where a 575 pix wide photo should be either.
-Pablo