Theme Features
Ink Stain Details:
Latest Version: 3.00
Added on: 2010/08/31
Stain can be dirty but if process with a bit of imagination, it could look artistic.
Here you can find a few types of ink stain such as smudged ink, dripped ink and sprayed ink. Hope you like the effect.
The following is an example of a custom design of the Ink Stain theme.
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Main Features
– Free forum support. visit Ink Stain forum
– Different design for sticky post feature
– User-friendly Options page
– Custom Header Menu
– Automatic Thumbnails
– Different design for sticky post feature
– Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
– W3C XHTML and CSS compliant
– SEO ready
– Gravatar enable
This is my first theme that allows localization. If you wish to translate this theme into your own language, you can do so with the use of the Poedit program. To find out how this works, please refer to this comprehensive guide.
When you have completed the localization, kindly send me the translated files so I can share your work (with your credit) with other users.
Automatic Thumbnails
Please refer to this page for the details of how the automatic thumbnails work.
Drop-down Menu
The Ink Stain theme has a multi-level drop-down menu that is using the latest function in WP 3.0. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu.
1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation.
2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+.
Plugin
There is a featured content section below the header menu. This feature is built in using the Featured Content Gallery (FCG) plugin. Please download the latest version and follow the instruction found in “Readme.txt” to do the setup.
If you do not want to show this feature, just don’t install the plugin.
Blog Title and Description
The demo is showing a special font as below:
By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font.
You can change the font style by following this instruction:
Part 1: Modifying the Font Style
– Download this font PSD zip file (also include the font that I use)
– Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/GIMP/PaintShop program
– Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want)
– Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg
– Upload the image to your server in the /styles/default/ folder
Part 2: Activating the Style
– Login to your WP admin
– Go to the options page of the Ink Stain theme under “Appearance -> Ink Stain”
– Find “Theme Style” under “Layout Setting”
– In the pull-down menu, select “default.css”
– Save the setting and go to your site to see the changes.
Change log
2009-08-30 v1.00 – Released
2010-08-31 v3.00 – Added drop-down menu, ad-widget, Options page, advanced automatic thumbnails, custom style. Added custom header menu (works on WP 3+ onwards).
