WordPress Theme: ThemeMeme Aeterno

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.

Download

The ThemeMeme Aperio Prototype theme is free, but I’d love for you to fol­low me on Twitter and to post a tweet. To down­load, just click on the tweet2download but­ton and fol­low the direc­tions. If you’re not on Twitter, you can use the other down­load link below.

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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.