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This is a modified version of the “Wp-NewsMag” theme over at http://www.wp-magazine.se/
When I did the redesign for Jerico Systems I was too busy to do a whole new theme myself so I looked at a few premium themes and didn’t really see anything I thought would suit my needs here. When I came across this theme I knew it was perfect for what I needed. As with me I always like darker colors so I immediately knew that I would have to make some Major changes to the theme when I downloaded it. I change all the colors of the theme and added a lot of transparency. I also made use of thumbnails for every post and changed the archives view to a gallery view with the thumbnails and a short description. The original theme you had to have your pictures in a certain directory to use the thumbnails but i changed it so you can add the entire url to use them. I removed the wordpress avatar tags and made use of the MyAvatars plugin because it offers a lot more freedom over the display. Because I changed this to use thumbnails for every post I made it so the smaller 90×90 images use the thumbs you make for the post so you don’t have to make 2 different thumbnails for every post. I also changed all the icons and images which was necessary to go with the new colors. I have also added an ad bar at the bottom which uses 16×16 favicons or images. The theme looks great in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, and Opera 9.5.
To install simply unzip and put contents in the themes folder of your Wordpress installation.
There are 2 types of thumbnails you can use for this. For every post made you will need to use a 140×140 thumbnail. The theme used 90×90 thumbnails for the smaller images but i have changed this so it resizes the 140×140 size down so you don’t have to make 2 different thumbnails. For the post you want on the top 4 you will still need to make 220×140 thumbnails for these.
1. Place the key thumbnail to post a 140×140 image and the key image to place the 220×140 images.
2. Place the full image url into the value box for the image key
(Example: http://jericosystems.com/image/none.png)
3. After you do this the first time you will no longer have to type anything into the “Key” field, you can simple choose the key from this drop down which saves your used keys.
This theme has only been tested on Wordpress 2.5 and above. If you are using anything under 2.1 please update your Wordpress installation. Since you are paying for this theme you may remove the footer links to my site but the site, but the theme credits inside the .css stylesheet must remain.
The Dark Side (Single Use License, 5.99)
This option is for you if you want to use The Dark Side Wordpress Theme on your own WordPress site. Purchase of this option entitles you to use The Dark Sidee Wordpress Theme on NO MORE THAN 1 site. You MAY NOT resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute The Dark Side Wordpress Theme in any form, including derivative works. You may not remove the credit links in footer or css stylesheet.
The Dark Side (Multiple Use License, 10.99)
This option is for you if you want to use The Dark Side Wordpress Theme on multiple WordPress sites owned by you. Purchase of this option entitles you to use The Dark Side Wordpress Theme on any number of sites that you own. You MAY NOT resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute The Dark Side Wordpress Theme in any form, including derivative works. You may not remove the credit links in footer or css stylesheet.
1.0 (7-03-2008):
• First release.
Title: The Dark Side (Wp-NewsMag)
Price: 5.99
Release Date: Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Demo: Available
Category: Premium Themes
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Comments: 5 Responses
I like how you re-styled this.
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I don’t think i have every seen any designer that can take anything he sees or creates and truly make it dark. Your eye for making dark themes is i think one of the best in web design today. You can make the most bright theme turn truly to the dark side. You my friend are the pure evil in Wordpress design, but in a good way
Hmm, not sure I ever got a complement by being called evil before
Jebus i love this theme.