Written by Pixel Theme Studio
Friday, 24 September 2010
The new Pixel Linear theme is my next level of developing ideas with more features and more
functionality. Pixel Linear is designed to give a nice clean and linear feel to your web site or
blog and will definitely increase your popularity as a professional whether you are running
a large corporate business, or simply blogging day-to-day.
You may be surprised to hear that this theme offers the end-user the ability to customize its
colour styles almost with an unlimited level of ability by using a special colour picker that I
incorporated into the theme's own settings. Even some of the graphical elements
are customizable, for example, don't like the angled top and bottom images
on posts or widgets? Easy to disable those...don't want the
social networking bar? Easy, disable it! For the menu,
I used a dropline menu because it just fit the
linear design better but does have some
limitations. Joomla Demo WordPress Demo
Membership or Single Purchase
You have the choice of signing up for a membership to access all themes, theme updates, and of course, full support, or, you can purchase this theme as a single download. NOTE: If you want access to theme updates, I recommend signing up for a Personal Membership. For single purchases, there is a support "only" membership available for $10 per month.
Standard Features
- WordPress 3.0
- Joomla 1.5
- Theme Settings control panel
- Built-in Colour picker to let you change your site colours with almost unlimited options
- Built-in breadcrumb navigation
- Built-in Blog Search
- Dropline menu with one sublevel menu only
- 9 HTML Snippets for nested content column
- Various typography styles
- Social Networking bar with Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, and RSS feed icons
- Built with CSS3 (Note: IE browsers ignores this)
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WordPress Features
- 10 Page Templates with one special front page option: Front Page - Widgets only, Half + Half, Left + Inset + Main Content, Left + Main Content + Inset, Left + Main Content + Right, Left + Main Content,
Main Content + Inset + Right, Main Content + Inset, Main Content + Right, Page - Default Full Width
- Pixel Text Widget is a customized version of the default WordPress text widget with more flexibility.
- Image Plus Text custom widget
- Up to 16 Widget Positions: 4 offer dynamic sizing within Group 4
- 4 widget groups with different widget styles for each group
- 3 Showcase options: Showcase-1 lets you put your own images above the page content, and if you use Widget Logic, you can put a different image for each page; Showcase-2 lets you take advantage of the built-in WordPress Header feature to place your favorite image throughout your site; Showcase-3 is a special container which gives you the option of choosing your media based plugin like a content slider, image slideshow, flash movies, or more.
- Contact Us form using Shortcode
- Pre-coded footer menu (you can enable or disable the menu)
- Various Shortcodes from Read More buttons, quotes, to even list styles.
- Custom 404 Error page
- Editor-Style.css file precoded for your tinymce editor
- Theme Shortcode Documentation
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Joomla Features
- Add your own logo
- Up to 9 page layouts: Left + Main Content, Left + Inset + Main Content, Left + Main Content + Inset, Left + Main Content + Right, Main Content + Inset + Right, Main Content + Inset, Main Content + Right, Main Content (Full Width), Module positions for 1, 2, 3, and 4 columns without the Main content
- 26 Module positions
- 4 Module groups with custom styles for each group
- Showcase header position for adding in content sliders, slideshows, and other media based extensions...or static content.
- Built-in Contacts - fully customized
- Built-in Poll extension fully customized
- Custom Module styles
- Custom 404, 500, and other error page(s)
- Custom editor style sheet for select wysiwyg editors
- Customized core template overrides allowing for easy Joomla cms updates
- Customized pagination (next, previous, etc)
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Pixel Theme Studio is focused on designing professional WordPress themes and premium Joomla Templates (this site is in Joomla). The goal is to design real world concepts for individual bloggers and business owners with themes that are not bloated with scripts and code. We create the best WordPress themes and Joomla templates possible by keeping the designs simple and clean.
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Additional tutorials on how to setup and customize the theme can be found at http://www.pixelthemestudio.ca/wordpress-theme-setup/919-pixel-linear-theme-for-wordpress
Looking forward for Layers theme.
For layouts on the home page, you can use any of the page template layouts by doing the WP static front page method and gives you flexibility. It's easier with Joomla because all layout possibilties (with any template theme) is achieved with a single template, but WP does it with separate files.
You should be able to. I've seen a few sites already with different height images and slideshows too.
Good question, actually if you do a very dark or black header, the menu link colour won't change so you would need to do it from the style sheet. Good idea though about that colour option. I will have to keep that in mind for my next theme here. You can change the links in the page content itself though. I think I will add that option for the main menu colour in the redesign of the Visionary theme (which I am working on at this moment).
Example: if I change the Header Background to #000000 will the menu still be invisible because it is Black as well.