New magazine style theme for WordPress “WyntonMagazine” - Version 1.0 available now

Here we are: The official version 1.0 of my second WordPress magazine style theme “WyntonMagazine” has been released for download. This article replaces the original post of March 15th 2008.

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WyntonMagazine is somehow the “brother” of my first WordPress theme “BranfordMagazine”. It uses a lot of Branfords code but also has its own face and style. The homepage has got a complete new face without a tabed section. Besides the page templates you might know from BranfordMagazine I added another interesting one: The Section Page.

Just as BranfordMagazine, WyntonMagazine is not a “plug&play” WordPress theme. It requires a little more setup in the beginning and advanced WordPress knowlege would be helpful.

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Theme history / Changelog

2008-03-15
BETA Version (0.5) released

2008-04-21
First official version (1.0) released

Credits

Thanks to all the WordPress theme developers who have been an inspiration the one way or the other.

Thanks to Patrick Griffiths who delivered the script for the dropdown menues. http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

And last but not least my very special thanks go out to all of you out there using the theme and sending me tons of emails telling me how great this theme is.

THANK YOU ALL!!!

WyntonMagazine in your language

Currently WyntonMagazine supports the following languages:

- English (standard)
- German (included)

If you like to contribute to this project and translate the file into your language, please make sure you do it properly. Please send me both files (*.po and *.mo) and I will publish them on the themes website and you´ll become not rich but famous

Installation

Installation is as easy as usual with WordPress:

1. Download and unzip the file
2. Dump the theme folder into your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
3. Log in into your WordPress control panel
4. Click the Presentation tab and activate the theme
5. If you need help, please use the Support Forums

General useage of the theme and configuration

WyntonMagazine is built to support Wordpress 2.3 and above. If you get fatal errors related to tags (”Call to undefined function: is_tag”), please upgrade.

In the “index.php” and “sidebar.php” templates, you will find a series of query_posts functions which refer to specific category ID numbers from my database.

Example:

< ?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=4'); ?>

You will need to change them to reflect the ID numbers in your own database. They can be found in your control panel under Manage >> Categories.

Tested in

- Firefox
- Internet Explorer 7
- Opera

Internet Exporer 6 however causes an issue with the category dropdown menu. If you have categories without children you might not have any problem. If someone has an idea how to fix it I would appreciate.

That´s all for the monent. I hope you enjoy playing around with the themes functionalities.

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