Jarrah - Free WordPress theme
After having a busy week, I had some time to work on Jarrah to fix few bugs and add new features based on your feedbacks.
New features are:
- An optional welcome or contact message box on right sidebar, which can be activated from the admin panel theme option.
- Categorized Links, previously all links used to come under “Blogroll”. Thanks to michael cohen for his comment.
Bug fixes:
- If you have a long site name or site tagline, it breaks into 2 lines and goes bellow the top navigation bar. Now it will have some height flexibility to accommodate 2 lines.
- On having large right aligned or left aligned images without much text to wrap around, they used to overlap the meta info bar (tags, comments, read more bar).
I had very little time to test the new updates in all browsers. Please keep your feedback coming. You can download the latest version Jarrah 1.6 here till it is verified and updated on wordpress.org.
I will try to release a new clean, corporate theme next week, keep visiting.
Download and Demo : http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/jarrah
March 27th, 2010 on 11:17 am
Dear Marsian,
The Jarrah theme is absolutely fantastic! I love it and immediately used it for my blog:
http://www.vivocoaching.com/blog
Ohter authors ask for some “donation” if a tool is considered useful; for Jarrah, I’d donate instantly.
Regards,
G.
March 28th, 2010 on 10:08 am
Thanks Dr. G!! your appreciation is my inspiration.
April 13th, 2010 on 11:10 pm
Hi again.
May I make two suggestions? I would love to have
a) a different format for the hyperlinks (e.g. underlinded (and couldn’t figure out how to do this myself); the different color alone makes it difficult for some people to understand they can actually click on it) and
b) an option for tailormade “excerpts”: my posts have become quite long, and I think it would be easier for my readers to get an idea of the overall content if they see the excerpts with the photos plus maybe the first 20 lines of text.
Thank you for considering this and have a great day!
Gerrit
March 27th, 2010 on 5:19 pm
I am curious - I would like to use a png logo in the header instead of the WP title… what is the easiest way to implement this into the site? Thanks - I like the theme.
March 28th, 2010 on 10:12 am
Use CSS to use the logo as background of the <h1><a> tag
or you can directly replace the site name (bloginfo..) from header.php and call the logo as image.
March 27th, 2010 on 11:32 pm
RFE: could “No Tags” display as null? (I don’t often tag items, concentrating on categoriess instead.)
p.s. looks great under FF2 … I appreciate that. 😉
p.s.2 I think I’m going to tweak it was custom CSS when displaying a single post, so it’s a dark font on a light background. Default is fine for homepage, though.
March 28th, 2010 on 10:14 am
find the string “No Tags” in index.php and replace it with whatever you want.
March 28th, 2010 on 8:41 pm
@marsian Ah, if it were that simple! Changing it to echo “”; wrecked the alignment. [1] Changing it to echo ” “; left the lovely little tag image dangling there without any text. [2] So neither really works.
But why I came by is this: I’m intent on having dark text font on light BG, so did a fast stab and was gratified with this first step. [3]
Nice robust design!
All I did was copy the wrapper for the right sidebar and stick it within “postwrap”!
So … do have that form, but expanding the color palette. I’m going to keep hacking at it but I suspect (if you feel so inclined) you could implement this a lot faster.
cheers!
@bentrem
From liveblog: 1) http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-1.jpg
2) http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-2.jpg
From hacked local copy:
3) http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah.jpg
March 28th, 2010 on 8:43 pm
errata I didn’t change it to a space, as displayd here. I changed it to … could that collapse the styling?
March 28th, 2010 on 10:17 pm
Here’s what I managed as alt CSS for Page:
http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-3b.jpg
Do you think that’s worth doing?
But actually I had to touch that up. For some reason I couldn’t get top and bottom border to display, so ended up with this:
http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-3b.jpg
That’s where we differ: I copy/paste while you’re actually a coder. 🙂
March 28th, 2010 on 10:20 pm
*delete previous; corrected version below*
Here’s what I managed as alt CSS for Page:
http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-3b.jpg
Do you think that’s worth doing?
But actually I had to touch that up. For some reason I couldn’t get top and bottom border to display, so ended up with this:
http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-3a.jpg
That’s where we differ: I copy/paste while you’re actually a coder.
http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/gnodal-jarrah-3a.jpg
April 2nd, 2010 on 11:40 am
Keep tweaking to get the desired result. we all do the same way :). if anything goes wrong, you can always download a fresh copy.
April 2nd, 2010 on 2:17 pm
It seems Jarrah does not support threaded comments. Do you have any plans to implement this feature?
April 2nd, 2010 on 2:42 pm
Jarrah does support threaded comment, you will have to activate threaded comment in wordpress comment/discussion setting. you can see this page as example
http://www.templatesnext.org/wordpress-theme-jarrah-version-1-6-released/?preview_theme=jarrah
April 4th, 2010 on 7:17 pm
How to change category navigation? I don’t find this option in ThemeOptions…
April 5th, 2010 on 8:17 pm
Having an issue with the sidebar widget. Notice on my tonyzeoli.com that the three columns occupy the sidebar. When I tried to reset the sidebar widget from the admin, they won\’t go back to their regular setting for some reason.
April 5th, 2010 on 8:42 pm
There is an extra <div class="sidebarbox"> tag in your authdescription widget. not sure how it came there. try removing that widget, you will see different look.
April 6th, 2010 on 9:32 am
Would you like the code to disable the “title on mouseover” in the navigation? I’ve implemented it into your theme for my site.
April 6th, 2010 on 12:26 pm
Link titles are design drawback, that comes out like tool tip in some browsers but still some people probably might like to keep them for SEO purpose.
April 6th, 2010 on 1:57 pm
I love this theme, using it over at my blog right now!
I have one drawback on it.. adding widgets to the right_sidebar seems to not work for me?
Thanks for any assistance 🙂
Jack
http://www.jackcanning.co.uk
April 6th, 2010 on 2:00 pm
I take it back! I realised you just have to re-add the categories, meta and links etc.. silly me!!
Once again, a truly beautiful theme! I love it!
April 6th, 2010 on 2:14 pm
This time I do have a relevant question.. How can I get other widgets to use the lovely blue H2 title like Categories? ^_^ I don’t really understand why it doesn’t do it any way considering they’re both h2.widgettitle… =/
Thanks!!
April 6th, 2010 on 2:17 pm
There will be a css class like div.widget-cat h4 you will have to add the class in css with a comma
April 6th, 2010 on 2:19 pm
Okey, as long as it’s CSS and not widget-specific or anything I’ll be able to resolve it ^_^
Thanks a lot 🙂
April 6th, 2010 on 7:08 pm
How does one remove the sidebar from certain pages like my gallery, etc?
Thanks for creating this great template!
April 12th, 2010 on 7:55 am
If your gallery plugin supports separate template file, then you need to create a page with single column and add some css tweaks. i will try to add single column layout option in coming versions.
April 12th, 2010 on 7:43 pm
Hi! I think I’ve found a problem. Look here:
http://www.davidcatalina.com/?page_id=2
I think the problem hapens when you put those
April 12th, 2010 on 7:43 pm
I mean HR and BR.
April 12th, 2010 on 8:59 pm
There is a extra “</div>” in your post, it is here “…lo más probable es que acabe dejando constancia escrita de ello.</div>” causing the left column to end at wrong place, hopefully if you remove the extra </div> the page should look ok.
April 12th, 2010 on 9:36 pm
It worked! Thanks!
April 13th, 2010 on 7:37 pm
hi i am using your template, very nice indeed. however the lavalamp menu doesnt seem to recognize any posts i make. the blue cursor just sits in the left corner whenever i open a post. any other menu option works fine. did i miss something? thanks
April 13th, 2010 on 7:44 pm
i forgot to add the blue cursor doesnt just sit on the home field but covers two other fields as well
April 13th, 2010 on 10:14 pm
What is the URL?
April 14th, 2010 on 7:55 pm
hi the URL is http://metisstrategytest-com.si-sv2397.com/blog/
the problem occurs when i click on a link in a post like this:
http://metisstrategytest-com.si-sv2397.com/blog/?p=61
April 24th, 2010 on 12:58 pm
the link should be http://metisstrategytest-com.si-sv2397.com/blog/?page_id=28
April 28th, 2010 on 1:57 pm
I am also working on this site and we are seeing the same issue still:
http://metisstrategytest-com.si-sv2397.com/blog/?p=61
Wheneever the user is on a post or a category (not a page) the blue menu item hovers over the first 2.5 items and appears to default to this. How can we fix this issue?
Many thanks
Kevni
April 22nd, 2010 on 9:25 pm
Hey great theme we are going to use it. We are going to change some things slightly but it is very nice.
I have a question though and maybe the theme does not control this. In the menu navigation there is the “Home” page how can i change the name of this to “Blog Home”? thanks!
April 24th, 2010 on 1:00 pm
Find <a href="<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>">Home</a> in header.php and change “Home” to anything you want.
April 25th, 2010 on 9:33 pm
Marsian, not sure if you have seen my earlier entry:
May I make two suggestions? I would love to have
a) a different format for the hyperlinks (e.g. underlinded (and couldn’t figure out how to do this myself); the different color alone makes it difficult for some people to understand they can actually click on it) and
b) an option for tailormade “excerpts”: my posts have become quite long, and I think it would be easier for my readers to get an idea of the overall content if they see the excerpts with the photos plus maybe the first 20 lines of text.
Thank you for considering this and have a great day!
Gerrit
April 27th, 2010 on 1:08 pm
Hi Dr. G , yes i saw your earlier entry. i will write an article on how to add “Read more” link in your post and how to change the Hyperlink text colors and decorations. I will try to publish it tonight.
May 17th, 2010 on 10:14 am
Hi I was wondering if there will be an article on hyperlink text colors. Even better I think would be an option to set them. Currently I’m just inserting color values with the html in posts.
I was searching for a theme that matched as well as possible this sort of thing ..
http://platinumgames.com/
Your theme matched pretty well, thanks and good luck with developments.
May 20th, 2010 on 3:17 pm
Hi Marsian,
First off - just like to thank you for the great theme!! I’m now with wordpress so its a big change not having to manually manage a site.
I’m wondering if you ever found a fix for the Blue cursor being at the left hand side for pages that are Sub pages and do not have a parent on the menu bar.
Cheers,
mic
June 1st, 2010 on 4:27 am
Hey, This theme is reall great, but I encounter a weird behaviour of the gallery. You can notice it here -> https://dinde.ildnb.com/mav-vs-spinor-me-against-the-machine/ Any help or pointers will be very appreciated. Thanks !
September 14th, 2010 on 6:38 pm
Is there any way to change the the js lavalamp buttons? (I dont want it blue)
Thanks and great theme!
September 14th, 2010 on 6:39 pm
Sorry I meant “change the *color”
October 22nd, 2010 on 8:28 pm
Hello
I wanted to see if you could help me I have a small problem the blue lavalamp hover is no longer there thank you for you time my url is http://www.streetwisedrift.com
February 12th, 2011 on 3:15 pm
Love this theme, the two-tone dark shades look both professional and not-overly-serious at the same time, and the layout is just first class 🙂
Have you ever considered selling these designs?
~ Robert
February 28th, 2011 on 8:54 am
It’s a nice theme dude. I have a question though. How can I have different sidebars for different categories with this theme. Is that possible? I want to have different widgetized sidebars for different posts in categories. Is that possible?
April 20th, 2011 on 1:06 am
Nice Theme, but the latest Jarrah v1.7 seems to conflict massively with easyfancybox plugin, probably because of the “lava lamp” menu bubbles, since other conf.icts have been caused by them as well.