The Cloisters

Parchment Draft Theme

Mina — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:43:58 +0000

A very basic 2 column fixed-width theme in reminiscent of old parchment paper. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.8 and is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 valid out of the box.

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Daily Minefield Theme

Mina — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:47:36 +0000

Multi-column fixed-width theme in brown, black and a touch of green includes 4 widgetized footer sections. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box. Space for ads or miscellaneous images included as well as rotating logo images. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.8 and is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 valid out of the box.

LOGO IMAGES:
The theme comes with the rotating logo images function enabled. To use this feature simply upload your desired images to the images/logo directory and the code will do the rest. To diable this function and just use one static logo image go into Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >> style.css, comment out the line for ROTATING LOGO IMAGE and uncomment the line for STATIC LOGO IMAGE as shown below:

/*****ROTATING LOGO IMAGE*****/
/* .logo { background: url(images/logo/rotate.php) no-repeat; margin: 10px; padding: 0; width: 465px; height: 225px; border: 5px groove #666b18; } */

/*****STATIC LOGO IMAGE*****/
.logo { background: url(images/logo.jpg) no-repeat; margin: 10px; padding: 0; width: 465px; height: 225px; border: 5px groove #666b18; }

The location of the STATIC LOGO image is the wp-contents/themes/Daily_Minefield/images folder so you can add your own.

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Where to download my themes

Mina — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:00:26 +0000

Due to some quirks at the Official WordPress Theme Directory not all of my themes will be submitted there. Some (mostly new ones) will be available for download from my account at 4shared.com and all the old themes (up to Quietly Simple) are still at the Theme Directory.

I would advise you to ONLY download from the link you’ll find on either this site or the link on our support forums. That is to ensure that you get a clean copy without sponsored/spam links or any other nasty stuff that some people add to themes before they redistribute them.

Just Grey Theme

Mina — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:34:27 +0000

Another new theme from the Snapp Happy Collection…it’s a 3-column flexible-width theme in gray and blue. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.8 and is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 valid out of the box.

I liked it so much that I modified for this site!

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New Support Forums

Mina — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:33:47 +0000

Okay folks, we’ve got a new support forum here to make things easier for everyone with all questions & answers in one central location. Not to mention that I’ll be better able to keep track of who needs help. I’ve closed the comments on the posts and also request that you don’t email support questions to me. Some valid comments have been getting sent to the spam folder and I find that I’m missing some people’s requests. Hopefully this will clear that up.

You can find the forum here and there is also a link in the top navigation bar. The old board which is still open as a read-only archive can be found here.

So please post theme related issues only to the forum as I will no longer be answering support request emails.

I appreciate your cooperation with this change.

Helpful links

Mina — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:06:17 +0000

I added a couple more links to the “Educational Links” section here at the site from HTML Dog. They cover the basics of html and css are give you a good idea of how things work. Check them out – CSS Beginner Tutorial and HTML Beginner Tutorial.

Happy Birthday To Us!

Mina — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:58:07 +0000

So The Cloisters is a year old now and we’re doing pretty well! We released our first theme, Maiden Voyage (very fitting name) on August 1, 2008. Here’s to many more happy and productive years!

Khaki Theme

Mina — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:27:40 +0000

Our newest theme, Khaki is the first in what I call the “Snapp Happy” Collection. I came across the site Snapp Happy recently and was blown away by some of her designs. The only thing is that her designs are regular websites and not for WordPress. I emailed her and was granted permission to port some of her templates to WordPress. I want to point out that the general layout design and the graphics are of her creation, I just adapted them to work with WordPress.

It’s a 3 Column Split, widget-ready theme in dark-hues of green and khaki. Fixed width featuring Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WP 2.8.

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Dystopia Theme

Mina — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:12:59 +0000

A fully-widgetized multi-column flexible-width theme with 1 right-hand sidebar in black, gray and blue. Featuring an Author Info page, Related Posts and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. Also features a custom Blog Page template which can be used for a default blog style. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.8 and is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 valid right out of the box.

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SETUP INSTRUCTIONS:
The Left Hand Side Column:
1. Go into Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >> side.php and find thise line:

And change Uncategorized to the name of the category you want to feature.

2. Go into Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >> index.php and find these lines:

php query_posts(”showposts=1&offset=0&cat=-1″);
php $posts = get_posts(’numberposts=3&offset=1&cat=-1′); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();
php $posts = get_posts(’numberposts=3&offset=4&cat=-1′); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();

And change -1 in cat=-1 to the category ID number of the category from step 1.
(You can find your category id numbers by going to Admin >> Posts >> Categories and hover your mouse cursor over the category name then look to the lower left hand corner of your browser to see the id number for that category.)

To use the Blog Page Template:
1. Create a new page and name it whatever you want. DO NOT ADD ANY CONTENT. On the right hand side of the page editor screen under Attributes >> Template choose Blog from the dropdown box. Publish your page.
2. Go into Settings >> Reading and at the top of the page under “Front page displays” click the button next to “A static page” choose the new page you created in step 1 from the dropdown box. Save your changes.

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WordPress 2.8 and the themes

Mina — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:33:58 +0000

So WordPress 2.8 has been released and from playing around with the development versions it really seems pretty awesome. I did notice that they deprecated the author functions which is a bit of a problem as I’ve used those function in my themes (the Author Info page, Bio blocks, etc). So that means I need to do some upgrading for my themes. I’m not sure of the extent of what needs to be done yet but will get going on those upgrades asap.

As far as I can tell, besides that author thing, the themes do work in 2.8 so keep that in mind if you upgrade to 2.8. I’ll keep everyone updated on my progress with the upgrades so keep checking back here.

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