The tabbed sidebar module is actually three sidebars. You can leave them as they are, or you can change the tab text in the theme options panel and pop in your own choice of widgets. The block of six 125 X 125 blog ads is also configurable through the theme options panel – you can paste your ad code into the corresponding text box, or choose to hide the block of ads entirely. At the top right of the page you can change the introductory text or hide it.

For those who like “simple,” you can also show or hide the flower graphic at the top of the content column.

I highly recommend the tutorial and source file examples that Dan at Theme Forest puts together in a post called Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme. Thanks, Dan! I couldn’t have done it without you!

Just a few more bits to put together and Blossom will be submitted to the theme directory for approval. Stay tuned!

Still, I absolutely love making new WordPress themes. Right now I’m working on a very pretty (but not too girly) theme – look for a screenshot in about a week’s time. Famous last words…I’ll get it done before 2010, I promise!

Download your theme’s update from your WordPress backend or go here:

Coronado
Daisy Gray
Green Apples
Tickled Pink
Zeeb

Happy blogging!

The Zeeb Theme for WordPress has been released and is ready for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zeeb

I worked out a few bugs in the style and hopefully squashed them all but if you use Zeeb you may want to subscribe to my feed to get notifications of any changes or updates.

Happy blogging!

I think it’s finished! Rose City Gardens is ready to release Zeeb, a black and white, dramatically “zeebish” theme with a flexible width and wide right sidebar.

Zeeb includes a jQuery-driven tabbed panel in the sidebar with Tags, Recent Posts and Recent Comments, and a 3-level page menu with a nice fade effect, also jQuery. Like all of the Garden’s themes, it is very search engine friendly.

Those who want to wait should hold out for a day or three, as it’s really almost ready to be released (famous last words?) I think it’s ready, but I’ve certainly been wrong before, so I’m releasing it now to interested parties as a beta. I’m still going through looking for bugs and ways to improve. If you’re interested in trying out Zeeb on your own site, please contact me and I’ll send you a download link.

Happy blogging!

Daisy Gray has been released and can be downloaded at WordPress.org. This was submitted right before the 2.7 release, but will work with 2.7 if you don’t use threaded comments. If you do, wait for the 2.7 version (coming tonight or tomorrow).

I’ll also be releasing a very nice magazine-style theme very soon, with a dramatic black and white theme and plenty of ad real estate in the wide, tabbed sidebar. I’m working out the kinks now, and should be ready to release by the end of the week!

We had our fill of winter these past weeks! Cold, nasty weather makes me cold and unproductive – so I’ve fallen behind in updates. But it’s warming (and drying) up in the next couple of weeks here in Oregon, so keep an eye out, I’ll be catching up very soon!

Last but certainly not least – the long-awaited release of version 4 of SimplePress, an extraordinary forum plugin for WordPress, is here! I’ve not yet upgraded, but will be doing that soon, and whipping out a few base forum templates to match with my existing WordPress themes. Go ahead and download SimplePress, install it and start playing around with it. You will love the way it seamlessly integrates with WordPress, with no hacking required on your part, beyond a few style declarations if you should like.

And how could I forget? I wish all of you a joyous and prosperous New Year!

Demo link

There are some necessary changes to be made to the Garden’s themes when version 2.7 of WordPress is released. I haven’t yet decided if I will make the themes backwards-compatible or not, but am leaning towards not. So if you want to have 2.6.xx versions of our themes, download them now – the compatible versions will be released as soon as WordPress 2.7 debuts.

This theme is pink, white and gray, fresh, sassy and feminine. It’s ideal for a personal blog – pink but not too pink, sweet but not saccharine!

I’ve already noticed 2 tiny flaws in the list styling. I’ll post the correction here but wait for more feedback before I upload an updated stylesheet. Read on to see how you can fix it (if you have nested lists; if not, don’t bother)

Open style.css

On line #228 find

background: url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat left;

Replace with

background: url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat top left;

On line blank line #231, add:

.post ul ul, .post ol ol {
font-size: inherit;
}

On line #406 add
#sidebar ul ul {
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

Any other questions or problems, please feel free to contact me – here, in the forums, or through the WordPress.org site!

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