Monochrome Gallery

Monochrome Gallery is a free widgetized theme for Wordpress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, categorized posts with thumbnails on the homepage and a CSS framework to aid in customization.

Installation

1. Unzip the downloaded file
2. Upload the entire “Monochrome Gallery″ folder to your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
3. Log in into your WordPress control panel
4. Click the Presentation tab
5. Select the “Monochrome Gallery” screenshot

Configuration

  1. GETTING STARTED: By default, the slideshow in Monochrome Author displays the most recent posts. The number of posts displayed in the slideshow can be controlled via your WP admin panel by clicking Options > Reading. The bottom row of five posts pulls in the latest post in five different categories, which you can specify in index.php. Simply open up index.php in the Theme Editor and look for the following line:

    // enter the IDs of the categories to display
    $display_categories = array(‘3′,’4′,’5′,’6′);

    Change 3, 4, 5, 6 to the category id’s of the categories that you want to display. You can find your category id numbers by clicking Manage > Categories in your WP Admin Panel.

    To change the final fifth category, scroll down on index.php and locate:

    // enter the IDs of the categories to display
    $display_categories = array(‘7′);

    Change it as described above.

  2. 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, copy the link to this thumbnail photo and paste it into the custom field value, with a key called “thumbnail.” 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.
  3. 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.
  4. SIDEBARS: 100% Widgetized baby!
  5. COMPATIBILITY: For Wordpress 2.3 and up.

191 Responses Comments RSS

  1. العاب says:

    thnks

  2. Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

  3. arquipixel ark says:

    Hello everyone!
    I installed this template via Filezilla to wordpress themes folder. the problem is the page seems to have some errors.

    this is the page http://www.mdrn.co.cc/wordpress/

    The photo’s preview don’t work, i tried other templates from this site, and the same problem insists to apend.
    Can someone help me about the configuration to resolve it?
    Thanks, i hope to receive a feed back from someone who could help me on this…
    :)

  4. There must be more to this story….

  5. its a nice theme but when i used it there seems to be some flaws so i removed it

  6. Great premium free theme, I have add it to my site, Thanks for sharing, Visit my site to see your theme. Thank admin!

  7. Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for a WP theme with a slideshow.

    It’s going to look great on one of my sites!

    Sophia

  8. How do you download a free theme?

  9. Beautiful theme. Just for the photographer. And the main thing is free

  10. Entre nosotros hablando, no tratabais de buscar en google.com?

  11. thanks your help me

  12. Great! Thank you for sharing.

  13. Hello,
    I love this theme & working on translate it into hebrew for myself.
    i follow all the instructions but i cant see the big photo only the thumbnail…
    i did the custom field value like in the instructions but can’t see the big photo.
    Can i get help from you guys with this?
    this is the link to my new blog: http://www.pintophotography.com/blog/

    Best Regs,
    Pinto.

  14. this is a great theme!
    thanks.

  15. through all of them, feel this is the best for me and my blog…
    I’m having trouble with the headers though, when I change them

  16. This is a great WP theme and will be a perfect fit for one of my client’s site. The documentation is clear and concise!

    Mike

  17. The default images don’t load. I’m on a Mac. Could that be the issue?

  18. I get error. Selector is null
    description: el.getElement(options.subtitleSelector).innerHTML

  19. Cannot get thumbnails or slideshow to work. Suggestions?

  20. Cannot get thumbnails or slideshow to work. I use a Mac, would that cause the problem. Suggestions?

  21. thanks.. i’m switching my site over to WP and am going to use this theme- nice clean design

  22. the theme looks really good it might be useful in my next blog

  23. I uploaded this theme to http://www.txisti.com…but I do not figure out, how to publish…how to make it work…any further instructions would be welcome.

    Where should I put the fotos and so on?

  24. Hi, I have two very basic questions:
    where is the
    Manage > Categories
    option on the wp panel? I don´t see it.
    And also, how do you access the theme editor?
    Is it possible to use the slide show to show a video? Or another way to put a video (embedded or with wordpress video) on the front page?
    THANKS, great theme!

  25. Also, how can i get an icon?

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