Simple Round 1.0
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About Simple Round
Simple Round is, as the name implies a simple theme designed to load fast and take advantage of CSS3 properties. Because it takes advantage of the CSS3 border-radius property, it only uses 2 images. Furthermore Both images are optional. One is used to create a titled background for the page, & the other is used as a banner. While the theme won’t look pixel perfect across every browser & operating system combination, it will fail gracefully on the browsers that fall short of the CSS standards.
Features
- The theme uses a two column layout.
- It is centered on the page.
- It Can be fluid, or fixed width.
- The sidebar width can easily be changed via the CSS.
- The theme has both a header and a footer.
- The header has a built in search bar (the sidebar widget is disabled).
- The header also contains links to top level pages.
- The default gallery code has been overwritten to provide a cleaner look.
- Paging of comments is supported.
- nested comments is supported.
- Comment avatars(gravatar) are supported.
- Browser support
- Firefox
- Rounded corners appear
- Version 2 : Yes, no anti-aliasing
- Version 3 : Yes
- Version 3.5 : Yes
- Adheres to maximum width limit
- Version 2 : Yes
- Version 3 : Yes
- Version 3.5 : Yes
- Adheres to minimum width limit
- Version 2 : Yes
- Version 3 : Yes
- Version 3.5 : Yes
- Rounded corners appear
- Internet Explorer
- Rounded corners appear
- Version 6 : No
- Version 7 : No
- Version 8 : No
- Adheres to maximum width limit
- Version 6 : hard coded to the minimum width
- Version 7 : Yes
- Version 8 : Yes
- Adheres to minimum width limit
- Version 6 : hard coded to the minimum width
- Version 7 : Yes
- Version 8 : Yes
- Rounded corners appear
- Opera
- Rounded corners appear
- Version 10 : No
- Adheres to maximum width limit
- Version 10 : Yes
- Adheres to minimum width limit
- Version 10 : Yes
- Rounded corners appear
- Safari
- Rounded corners appear
- Version 4 : Yes
- Adheres to maximum width limit
- Version 4 : Yes
- Adheres to minimum width limit
- Version 4 : Yes
- Rounded corners appear
- Chrome
- Rounded corners appear
- Version 3 : Yes, no anti-aliasing
- Adheres to maximum width limit
- Version 3 : Yes
- Adheres to minimum width limit
- Version 3 : Yes
- Rounded corners appear
- Firefox
Screenshots
Several screenshots can be found here.
Change Log
- Simple Round 1.0.0
- Initial release
- Simple Round 1.0.1
- Limited the tool bar to showing the first 5 pages.
- Fixed a typo (wasn’t the first, and probably won’t be the last)
- Added a sticky post style (see screenshots)
- Added some default widgets to the side bar.
- Simple Round 1.0.2
- Fixed a bug with the favicon location.
Requirements
WordPress 2.8+ (should work with 2.7 as well)
Download & Licence
Simple Round is Released under the GPL License (What is the GPL?), and thus it is free to download, free to use, & free to customize.
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I am not able to edit this theme. In the WP editor, it says that I need to make the file writable before I can save my changes, but the permissions are set already set at 777.
Leslie,
what file are you trying to edit, and does the directory that file is contained in have the proper permissions?
Hi Dan
I hope to use your theme on grinde.dk (test at grinde.dk/new).
Do you have any suggestions on how to remove the automatically generated “Home” in the top menu. In Danish “Forside” = Home.
All the best
Morten
Ohh Sorry I found out by myself. In header.php I just deleted:
<a href="/” title=”Home”>Home
All the best
Morten
Morten, I’m glad you Found it. At some point, I’m planing to write an admin screen, that will let people control the stuff I currently have hard coded into the Theme.
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Dan
I am trying to change the widgets in the sidebar and it is not working. How do I change them? I drag and drop, but the blog stays the same with the default ones you had in there. Please help! (love the design overall)
Thanks.
Lori
Hi Lori,
What version of WordPress are you running? Are your running a caching plugin? Have you cleared out your browser cache?
Somehow I lost the footer. I didn’t take out the code in the footer:
Or the code out of the index.php, page.php or single.php
What other reasons would make the footer not show up?
Carol
I found the problem:
IN index.php, page.php & single.php copy and delete everything under get footer tag.
Then paste it into the footer and delete wp_footer tag. Then footer comes back and everything works.
Carol
I’m glad you figured it out Carol.
Nice Theme!!
we use it in our local Time bank!
Thanks Dan!
Hi…really like the Simple Round theme, but there is one change I need to make. The sidebar has to move to the left and I can’t see how for the life of me. Please help!
Mike
Hi Mike,
Currently if you want to move the sidebar, you need to go in and edit the php/html code directly. However in a future release, I plan on providing an options page in the back end that will make all this configurable.
Hi Dan,
I’m ok with modifying a php/html file, I just don’t know how to go about it with Simple Round. Some themes have a “float=left” or “float=right” option for the sidebar, but I can’t seem to find the code to modify in Simple Round.
Hi Mike,
I’m not using CSS to position the sidebar, as I like to avoid using floats if possible, because of the potential layout issues they can cause. I’m using a table to layout the content & sidebar areas.
check out 404.php this will be the easiest file to see it in. One td tag has an id of leftCol, and the other has an id of rightCol. if you switch the order of the tags (and everything inside of them), the sidebar should be on the left. At least I think so, it’s be a long time since I messed around with the layout of this particular theme. The following other files will need to be modified as well. archive.php, index.php, page.php, single.php