I’m releasing a version of the ThemeMeme Aeterno WordPress theme. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but I don’t have time to work on it now and didn’t want to withhold it from anyone who might be interested to play with it. It works fine, but may lack a little polish here and there.

Please note: Because of school, I won’t have time to make many fixes or put any polish on this theme for the foreseeable future, so please don’t download it unless you’re comfortable tweaking any minor problems yourself. Thanks.

ThemeMeme Aeterno requires WordPress 2.7 or higher.

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Installation

To install, upload the themememe_aeterno folder to your wordpress/wp-content/themes folder. Then open your WP Admin and select the ThemeMeme Aeterno theme under the Appearance tab.

Here are a few tips for customizing the theme.

“About” Text

You can edit the “About” text in home.php.

Number of Posts on the Home Page

To change the number of posts displayed on the home page, open home.php and edit this line:

<?php query_posts('showposts=21'); ?>

Default Image

You should add a default image to appear as the background at the top of your About text and at the top of posts without categories. Just create an image, name it default.jpg and drop it in the themememe_aeterno/images folder.

Background Image

The default background image is from milleseicentopercento. You can use any background image you want, though, by simply creating an image named background.gif and copying over the background.gif file in the themememe_aeterno/images folder.

Using One Category

Posts should have one category. It is good information design to use one category and multiple tags for your posts. If you use more than one category, the height of your posts on the home page and archive pages will be irregular and destroy the layout. If you must use more than one layout, you will have to edit the .postmetadata selector in the style.css file.

Category Background Colors

To give posts of different categories different background colors, open style.css and edit these lines:

.category-wordpress .post-content{background: #a1e8d9;}
.category-geek .post-content{background: #c1ce96;}
.category-design .post-content{background: #fff6c5;}
.category-about .post-content{background: gray;}
.post-content:hover{background:#d4d4d4;}

Change/add category names to match your categories.

License

ThemeMeme Aeterno is Copyright © 2009 by ThemeMeme. It is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), meaning you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, but you should kindly keep the link back to ThemeMeme (http://www.themememe.com), either in the sidebar or the footer. If you do, you will live a long and happy life. If you don’t, your personal possessions will have a habit of mysteriously disappearing.

History

0.1 Released 20 January 2009.

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