Simple Indy WordPress Theme
Simple Indy is a free theme, AND is easily customizable. The Footers, Featured Posts section and Thumbnails can be easily disabled or enable through the Theme Options Page.However you cannot disable the left or right sidebars. You will have to use another theme – Indy Premium.
Thumbnails in Home and other archive pages are created using the last image uploaded for a post. Hence, make sure that you upload the appropriate image (i.e. appropriate for showing as thumbnail), last, for every post. But don’t worry, in case you uploaded the wrong image last.Simply delete all the uploaded images for a post and upload them in the right order.
Simple Indy is WordPress 2.7+ compatible with widgetized sidebars and footer.
Features of Simple Indy WordPress Theme:
- 3-column Theme with Left and Right Sidebars
- Sliding Featured Posts Section
- Multi level sliding menus
- Automatic thumbnails of first uploaded image of Posts, in Home page and other archives
- SEO optimized CSS layout
- Gravatar Ready Theme
- Social Media integration
- Compatible with most WordPress plugins
- Compatible with WordPress 2.7+ and earlier versions
- Easily spiderable, structured navigation
- W3C XHTML and CSS Validated theme
- support for threaded comments and seggregation of comments and pingbacks/trackbacks
FAQs:
You can find these in the theme’s ReadMe.txt as well.
Where can I find the Theme Options Page?
You can find the Theme Options Page under Appearance folder on your WordPress Admin Menu Bar. It will have the title “Simple Indy Options”.
How to mark posts as Featured Posts?
Create a category by title “Featured”. Add every Post to an appropriate category and if you want to display it under Featured Posts Section,add it to “Featured” Category as well. Once it is done, all the latest Featured Posts will be displayed under “Featured” section in the Home Page.
How many posts can be displayed as Featured Posts?
In the Theme Options Page, you can set the number of Posts to be shown as Featured Posts. But decide on an optimal number (taking performance into consideration).
How to display medium sized images in Featured Posts?
Go to Settings –> Media and set Max width for Medium size as 300. Then, in the Theme Options Page (“simple Indy options”), check the option “Display medium sized image for Featured Posts”.
Note that by default, thumbnail images are shown for Featured Posts.
How to Change the Top Header Banner?
You can easily change top header banner by replacing banner.jpg file under Images folder (in the theme) with your own banner. But name your banner as banner.jpg
or
go to the stylesheet (style.css) in the theme folder, search for #head-bottom section and replace banner.jpg under background property with your banner name.
How to adjust the height of the Top Header Banner?
In style.css file within theme, search for “head-bottom” and adjust the height element in pixels.
I do not want a Top Header Banner? How to remove it?
Remove the following section in header.php (Pls. be careful in removing it.Don’t leave a open div tag):
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<div id="head-bottom">
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<!–This contains the banner as a bacground image in style.css. If you have your own banner specify it as the bacground in style.css for #head_bottom –>
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</div>
What should be width of content in left sidebar and right sidebar?
Make sure that the width of content (or widget or image) in left sidebar is not more than 120px. Likewise, make sure that the width of content (or widget or image) in right sidebar is not more than 300px.Otherwise the sidebars may fall and the theme may get distorted.
How to add submenus?
Simply create pages and specify the hierarchy (Parent Page) via WordPress admin interface. Indy Premium takes care of creating the sub menus. Indy Premium can support even 4 levels of sub menus and higher.
What happens if I disable Footer?
If footer is disabled, then the widegetized footer section will not displayed. However the theme is smart enough to retain your blog’s Copyright section.
Enjoy free Simple Indy WordPress Theme !!!
Tags: Free Wordpress Themes, Simple Indy
Hi ,
It is great theme thanks for contribution.
I am trying to use this with Plugin called CubePoints, it is not working this is causing destortion on all page ?
can you guide me whats wrong?
I see an answer for your question in the plugin’s FAQ section here – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cubepoints/faq/
if it still doesn’t work, you need to contact the plugin support.
what could be the problem, my featured navigation on the home page is not showing my post,i have followed instructions and created a featured category but nothing is showing.
I may not be able to help unless i see what you are doing….can you give your website address? You need to assign posts to the Featured Category and not just create it…
Why the Featured section was not function after i posted the second post? Why it was overlapped with the 1st post and out of the area. The auto slide was malfuction.
Hey, is there any way possible to turn off the Excerpts and instead use the “read more” button?
@Zac Pritcher
This theme is designed for excerpts.In case you want to display the full post, then replace < ?php the_excerpt();?> with < ?php the_content(__(’Read more’));?> in index.php of your theme.
Note that the single quotes in the above code(around Read More) will not appear correctly in my comment, as you view it.Ensure that the right single quotes are used.
First – thank you for this wonderful layout, I am having so much fun developing my blog.
I do have a problem, and thats the thumbprint photos have disappeared from the summary list, and I cannot see a way to get them back, if you could help, I’d be most grateful.
You probably would have turned it off through the Theme options page. Go to Simple Indy Options page and verify this option.
Can I delete the right column on my blog? Specifically the blogroll.
The sidebars are widgetized. Once you add widgets to the right sidebar, the default lists including blogroll will disappear. Use widgets to add you stuff
@admin
I tried you code snippet but it didn’t work, it just showed that code for every post’s excerpt.
But I did end up altering the code and getting everything to work smoothly. Thanks a lot!
Great! Thank you so much for your help.
One more question for now: How do you create page that displays posts that do not show up in the main (front) page?
I.e. I want to have an “Articles” page that contains posts that do not appear on the main page with everything else.
Choose a static front page and create an empty page and assign for Post. You can do this in wordpress admin Settings–>Reading
Hi, no its not turned off, the only feature I selected to off was the “featured” item option. The other tabs seem not to work. I manually change the number of posts that are listed and it always stays at 10, and I have tried to select display medium pictures, but as I say no pictures are displayed with the snippet of the post. When I select the post to display in full, they show up – no problem.
Thanks again for all your hard work and help.
The problem is with jquey. WP hasn’t included the latest ones. They should have included jquery1.3.2 and related ones…I am waiting for wordpress to fix these in the next release that is expected soon as wp 2.8 is having a lot of jquery issues…
I want to have the featured slide on my home page but I also want to have my posts appear on a separate blog page, Is there any way of doing this?
bro I want to disable the feature category posts in the archive. When I post in feature i get the same post below in the archive. I tried making main.php and adding
ii didnt’t work out
hope you can help
Hello,
Is it possible to embed my logo in this template?
I don’t see a logo image file nor do I know where/how to add it.
Thank you very much!
Scott
I love Simply Indy! It is awesome. I have one question, Trackbacks are not showing up on my posts. How do i get them to show up?
Thx in advance,
Papatodd
thank’s a lot, i like simple themes
nice themes.. i like this
how do you change the favicon?
You can replace the default one in images folder within the theme.
Has anyone tested to see if this works okay with the WordPress 3.0 upgrade?
Yes, all themes are compatible with wordpress 3.0.