After a long break between new free WordPress theme releases, we finally have a new one! This one is another designed by CSS Heaven, ported from a free CSS template of the same name.

It has several standard features including WP 3.0 navigation menu support, threaded comments, post thumbnails, and widget-readiness. We’ll get to those features later.

WordPress 3.0 Menu Support

There is a WP 3.0 menu placed in the top right portion of the theme (above the search box). You can also use them in any widgetized area.

Widgetized Stuff

There are widgetized areas on the sidebar, 404 page, as well as the “Featured” box on the main index template.

You can override the Featured box by using the custom “Featured Content” widget in the Featured widget area. You’ll need to input a heading, text, and a full image URL.

Post Thumbnails

There is post thumbnail support on individual post and page templates. There are a couple included in the /images/ directory. Here is a sample of one and the placement (right above the content).

They are set not to exceed 609 pixels in width. Height is up to you, although you may not want to make it too high as it will push the content too far down the page.

License

GPL. You can do pretty much whatever you want with it, modify, redistribute, whatever (except release it under another incompatible license).

Conclusion

Hope you all like the theme. Let me know what you think in the comments.

And of course, thanks again to Roshan of CSS Heaven for designing another great template!

Related posts:

1. Jungleland – Free WordPress Theme
2. Bamboo – Free WordPress Theme
3. RS10 – Free WordPress Theme

After a long break between new free WordPress theme releases, we finally have a new one! This one is another designed by CSS Heaven, ported from a free CSS template of the same name.

It has several standard features including WP 3.0 navigation menu support, threaded comments, post thumbnails, and widget-readiness. We’ll get to those features later.

WordPress 3.0 Menu Support

There is a WP 3.0 menu placed in the top right portion of the theme (above the search box). You can also use them in any widgetized area.

Widgetized Stuff

There are widgetized areas on the sidebar, 404 page, as well as the “Featured” box on the main index template.

You can override the Featured box by using the custom “Featured Content” widget in the Featured widget area. You’ll need to input a heading, text, and a full image URL.

Post Thumbnails

There is post thumbnail support on individual post and page templates. There are a couple included in the /images/ directory. Here is a sample of one and the placement (right above the content).

They are set not to exceed 609 pixels in width. Height is up to you, although you may not want to make it too high as it will push the content too far down the page.

License

GPL. You can do pretty much whatever you want with it, modify, redistribute, whatever (except release it under another incompatible license).

Conclusion

Hope you all like the theme. Let me know what you think in the comments.

And of course, thanks again to Roshan of CSS Heaven for designing another great template!

Related posts:

1. Jungleland – Free WordPress Theme
2. Bamboo – Free WordPress Theme
3. RS10 – Free WordPress Theme

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— THEME INSTALLATION —

STEP #1:
Extract the clippo.zip file on your PC using WinRAR. WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility. You can get the free version at http://www.rarlab.com

STEP #2:
After you unzip the clippo.zip, upload the complete folder of the theme to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/themes. FTP-client can do this task for you. We recommend filezilla. It is free and you can get a free copy at http://filezilla-project.org/

STEP #3:
5 required plugins needed and there are attached in the zip file. Please upload them all to http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins.

STEP #4:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Plugins” tab and activate Smart Youtube, WP-PostRatings, WP-PostViews, WP Page Numbers and BlogStats PCC.

STEP #5:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Smart Youtube.
1. Tick show border and autoplay videos
2. To fit the smart youtube plugin with our layout, set the width of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 590 and set the height of video in normal mode and high quality mode to 400

STEP #6:
Click the “Ratings” tab and click “Rating Options”.
1. Select “squares” rating style. This one best fit with our layout. Then set 5 as max ratings, click “update individual rating text/value display” and click the save changes button.
2. Remove the default ratings templates variables and replace with the following code. Important.
Ratings Vote Text: Votes: <strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong><br />Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Rating <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%<br />%RATINGS_IMAGES%
Ratings Voted Text: Votes: <strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong><br />Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Rating <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%<br />%RATINGS_IMAGES%
Ratings No Permission Text: %RATINGS_IMAGES% (<em><strong>%RATINGS_USERS%</strong> votes, average: <strong>%RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong> out of %RATINGS_MAX%</em>)<br /><em>You need to be a registered member to rate this movie.</em>
Ratings None: <strong>Not Rated</strong><br />Score: <strong>n/a</strong><br />Rating: <strong>n/a</strong><br />%RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE%
Highest Rated: <li><a href=”%POST_URL%” title=”%POST_TITLE%”>%POST_TITLE%</a><br />Score: <strong>%RATINGS_PERCENTAGE%</strong>%<br />Rating: <strong> %RATINGS_AVERAGE%</strong>/%RATINGS_MAX%</li>
Most Rated: <li><a href=”%POST_URL%”  title=”%POST_TITLE%”>%POST_TITLE%</a> – %RATINGS_USERS% votes</li>

STEP #7:
Click the “Settings” tab and click Page Number. Select “classic” and click the update setting button.

STEP #8:
Click the “Settings” tab and click PostViews. Select count views from everyone and replace default view template variables with the following
Views: <strong>%VIEW_COUNT%</strong>

STEP #9:
Login to your blog admin panel, click the “Appearance” tab and activate the clippo theme.

— HOW TO ADD A POST —

1. When you want to display Youtube video in your post, copy the video URL to your post and change http:// to httpv:// (notice the ‘v’ character)

The video will be automatically embedded to your post in the proper way.

Example: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmvkTHYqbc

If you want to post a high quality/HD video  you would use httpvh:// (’vh’ for video high)

2. Add a custom field: thumb and paste there your movie thumb URL. Technically you don’t have to upload the thumbnail to your server. You can grab it automatically from youtube’s server.
Example, for movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmvkTHYqbc, the thumb url for this movie is http://img.youtube.com/vi/XQmvkTHYqbc/2.jpg

3. Select category, add TAG and you are done.

— THEME MODIFICATION/SUPPORT —

Minor tweaking or modification is free. Please kindly contact us at http://www.zinruss.com/themes/contact-us

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