LightCMS [WordPress Theme]
LightCMS is a light weight theme, based completely on CSS with size 20KB , very much inspred from Leaves 1.0 by Smallpark. It is a content management lookalike 3 column template for wordpress. It fits well as a corporate theme, now works with WordPress 2.0 . And ofcourse,The sidebar nicely fits in for google ads.
Note:
- Use class=”articleimg” tag for images to appear on right , and class=”articleimgleft” tag for images to appear on left.
- Added del.icio.us and technorati tags after posts.
- Any problems / suggestion ? Please contact us.
Preview : http://www.sreejith.net/index.php?wptheme=lightCMS
Download : .Rar (7 KB) | .Zip (8.18 KB)
If you don’t need fixed width or the sidebar shows alignment errors, replace this style.css.
Change Log
Date: Feb 10, 2005
In style.css replace form { with #searchform {
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GFXedit Designs is the official website of Web Designer & Coder, Sreejith R Krishnan, with over five years commercial design experience as a freelance designer. Creating clear, simple, effective web designs with respects to latest web standards, personally and with help of a team of freelance designers.
The services range from web designs (PSD), XHTML/CSS coding, PHP, Content Management Systems, Static, Corporate & Blog themes with Wordpress etc.
January 24th, 2006
Hello, I love this design and would love to use it, but I wanted a bit more darker one. Could you please make a similar one but dark ?
January 24th, 2006
I’m working on LightCMS v.20 , it is a bit more updated version with few fixes and use of background images. It is not entirely a dark one though.
Still I’ll consider making a dark one. Thanks for the suggetion. :)
January 24th, 2006
Hey there, I was just Googleing and found this website sinid.com , They are using this theme but without any credit to gfxedit.com .
January 24th, 2006
Hey Chris,
It depends on the theme users if they wish to leave credit to certain theme or creation. Some site owners may not like it or might feel that the credit to the creator cause a bad impression for their website.
Infact I just don’t care as long as they say its their work, fortunately for me more users prefer to leave the link ^_^.
Still thank you for letting me know.
January 25th, 2006
Hey, Sreejith. This is a beautiful theme. Could you please tell me how to make this theme like these people did, http://artesquema.dreamhosters.com/ . I have dreamweaver installed on my PC .
Thank you.
January 25th, 2006
[...] I had heard that there was problem of content area going down in certain websites in Internet Explorer for the LightCMS theme. I sorted it out by removing the width. You just need to download this style.css and replace it with existing one. [...]
January 25th, 2006
Hey Kyle,
They have changed the color to make it look attractive, you need to edit the link colors in /style.css
Hope that helps
January 26th, 2006
Working fine, thank you :D
January 26th, 2006
How difficult would it be to make this something other than fixed-width, assuming there was no image in the top banner?
Thanks!
January 26th, 2006
Hey Rian, did you try this
January 27th, 2006
omg you f’n rule!
I made a few slight modifications and it rocks da house!
http://polyscience.org/
Btw, you have “calender” spelled wrong. The way you have it spelled means “A machine in which paper or cloth is made smooth and glossy by being pressed through rollers.”
It should be spelled “Calendar”
Cheers!
January 29th, 2006
A couple more things…
1) Is it possible to make the Calendar appear with Sunday as the first day of the week?
2) Is it possible to get the author’s name and date/time of the post up top where the “Edit This” link currently resides?
Thanks!
January 29th, 2006
Er, I am retarded. I figured out how to change the day of the week…
January 31st, 2006
Hi there. First, thanks for providing this theme. I’m using it with my WordPress blog at http://independentpropaganda.com/ip_wp/
I was wondering if someone could help me out with something. I created a header graphic which I want to put at the top of the blog. But after a couple of hours tinkering with the coding, I can not get it to work.
If anyone could provide sample coding on how to add a header graphic along with where it goes, I would be forever in your debt. Mucho thanks in return.
Wesley
February 1st, 2006
In your index.php ,
Edit the content inside, i.e remove them and add yourimage.
<div id="header"></div>.January 30th, 2006
Hey Rian you need to put
before or after
February 3rd, 2006
Hi Sreejith,
I love your lightCMS theme! However, the indent onlist items in the sidebar looks too much to me. I’d like to make it match the navigation bar list item indent, but couldn’t see an obvious tweek. Any suggestions? If this has been discussed elsewhere, please just point me there!
Cheers,
ptermx
February 3rd, 2006
OK, after my last post, I put this ‘blunt instrument’ into style.css which is a start…
#sidebar ul {padding-left:0; border-left:0; margin-left:0}
#sidebar ul li {padding-left:0; border-left:0; margin-left:0}
February 5th, 2006
How can you make the width a % instead of px. I want to make mine like Rian’s site at polysience.org but not the whole width of the screen.
February 5th, 2006
figured it out, thanks
February 5th, 2006
[...] He procurado buscar un diseño en la lÃnea del anterior. Encontre este en GFXedit.com. Sencillo, a tres columnas y fondo blanco. Lo adapté al español, traduciendo meses y dÃas de la semana, cambiando de lugar algunos elementos de las columnas laterales y añadiendo otros. Si alguien quiere los archivos modificados que me los pida. Luego importé las entradas publicadas en Typepad, actualizé enlaces y redireccioné dominios. Pendientes queda traer los comentarios (me temo que manualmente) y subir las imágenes antes de cancelar mi cuenta en Typepad. Guardado en: Uncategorized [...]
February 7th, 2006
Hi Sreejith,
Great theme, I think we’re going to use it for a company blog.
However, in both IE and Firefox, in the Sidebar the “Pages” list is heavily indented, crushing the child list links along the right side. Other sidebar elements (Links, Archives, etc.) turn out just fine, however.
The blog is offline for now, but you can see a partial screen shot of this problem here.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
February 7th, 2006
Found a work-around in the sidebar.php by substituting
with
[space]
Lining up fine now.
Otherwise, really enjoying the theme, thanks for sharing it!
February 7th, 2006
It seems code is not working here, Thanks for trying it out.
February 7th, 2006
Hello, I updated my style.css file with the new one you posted on the 26th, but there was no change. The content section is still quite far down on the page. Will you please tell me what needs to be done? I really like this Theme and hope to get it to work.
thanks in advance, PJ
February 7th, 2006
Hey PJ,
Could you plz try updating every file of the theme (but rename the float-style.css to style.css and delete the existing style.css).
February 7th, 2006
Thanks for this brilliant theme. I am using it on number of my blogs.
February 7th, 2006
My Pleasure :)
February 10th, 2006
[...] theme jetzt lightCMS von hier [...]
February 10th, 2006
Hi, loving this theme; I’ve used it and adopted it to fit my needs. I do have a question though — when I make two posts on the same day, only the top one displays the date, the other one just displays the time. How can I change that?
February 10th, 2006
I guess thats wordpress Default. Still try asking at wordpress support.
February 10th, 2006
Thanks, will do.
February 13th, 2006
Hi Sreejith,
Back with another question.
I’m now trying to get the Categories list in the Nav bar to show Subcategories.
When you said re: your theme fix that the “sub category problem is also covered now,” is that what you were referring to? I looked in float-style.css and couldn’t find where Subcategories are displayed. Couldn’t find it in the index.php, either.
If you have created code to display Subcategories, does it indent them under the parent Category?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for all your fine work on this theme! And by the way, even though our blog is private, rest assured that we’re still giving you credit in the footer. :)
February 14th, 2006
[...] For the time being, I’m using this one. ‘S got the layout I want, and other minor details, like coming up with an image for the header, etc, can come later. [...]
February 28th, 2006
I’ve tinkered with all sorts of things with this excellent theme, i’m still sorting out the list styles in the sidebar…but i’ve noticing that on the post page (as opposed to the main index) something happens so the post starts way way down the screen–
example
http://www.jefke.com/?p=816
if you can point me in the right direction and help me figure out how to make the nave column and the sidebar start at the same height (sidebar is a bit higher and the Pages heading isn’t right) i’ll be one happy little man
February 28th, 2006
Hey Jefke,
I visited your page on IE 6.0, Opera and mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1 and it looked fine. I know that you are saying the right thing. So, could you give me a screenshot ?
February 28th, 2006
ha, what do you know, i must have fixed it. thanks for looking..
March 2nd, 2006
Hi, how can I (add and) create a default layout for pages? I mean don’t you think it should be useful? for example in a generical contact page I don’t need to see the date and the category in which the page is in..(it doesn’t make any sense).
Anyway you made a really good job!
thanks!
March 7th, 2006
[...] LightCMS NEW [...]
March 8th, 2006
Ooopps!
Great theme, thank you.
I was trying to make the whole thing narrower and centered on the page.
I tried putting a width value into #content, but all I’ve managed to so is squish up my posts.
http://www.nickrobinson.org/blog/
Any ideas?
March 8th, 2006
Cancel that – think I’ve done it.
Changed the #content width to auto
and set a value for the #container width
http://www.nickrobinson.org/blog
March 16th, 2006
I’m working on some tweaks for my website (in beta). The sandbox is at http://sandbox.andreameyers.com.
I’ve tried a few of the suggestions above for making the sidebar align left and look more uniform, and I’ve changed the heading for the Pages section to Information. I’d like to not have “Pages” display below the Information heading. Any idea on how to get rid of that, or am I stuck with it since it’s in the php script for pulling pages list?
Thanks.
March 16th, 2006
In your Sidebar.php , delete this
<ul id="overline"><?php wp_list_pages(''); ?></ul>March 16th, 2006
Thanks Sreejith. I thought so too, but when I take it out, the list of pages disappears from the blog. Here’s how I want it to look:
Information
——————
About
Cookbooks
Gear
Resources
So how can I make it pull the pages list and call it Information rather than Pages?? I’m stumped. :-)
May 5th, 2006
I love the look of LightCMS — but I have just added it to the theme directory and it is not working — I just get the unstyled page contents. I’ve just installed WordPress 2.02 — is there something I’ve missed?
May 5th, 2006
It should work fine if you have uploaded all the files, can you please upload all the files again http://www.gfxedit.com/wp-themes/lightCMS.zip
Do tell me the website URL if you still have trouble. The theme is working fine here.
May 13th, 2006
So, what happens when people remove the theme/design credit from a wp blog?
Is there actually any recourse or is it mainly a respect thing or what?
I know alot of time goes into coding all of this.
May 14th, 2006
Well it is a copyright , that this theme was made by the designer. Many people do remove that but there’s nothing much we can do.
There are more than 30 theme users who removed credit from my themes. But it doesn’t matter as far as the ratio of users who give credit is more :d .
May 20th, 2006
[...] LightCMS [...]
May 22nd, 2006
What is another size of LightCMS weight theme. Or it is fixed with 20kb. Please explain.
May 23rd, 2006
Eh, I did not get you. Could please explain
June 3rd, 2006
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June 16th, 2006
Hi Folk!
At first i have to say what a theme user have to say: Nice work :) So I have some stupid questions to this theme. I know this is basic css but i don’t come in the topic. My results are bad. SO i ask here.
I want the Archieves and probably the calendar on the left side how can i make it? The blogroll and the pages on my site is aren’t looking nice, they are to right, why? With the standard theme unedited it is the same? How can I delete the lines under the categories or the meta etc..? The category of the Post is viewed in the right, is it possible to view it left?
And what can i do to detach the posts a bit more?
I fix the color and the header border line, make but there was nothing more i can fix?
Any solutions ?
Thanks for your help :)
KarlKoch
http://karlkoch.kilu2.de/wordpress
July 7th, 2006
[...] New Look WordPress templateA new look for the site based on the Light CMS theme, which I’ve used before. What prompted this was the realization that the blog was somewhat divorced from the main site, so now I’ve integrated the logo of the main site into the blog. I hope it’s not too intrusive. You can click on an image of a book to go to its dedicated page. [...]
July 11th, 2006
Any chance to get this theme widgetized? I’ve been trying to mod it for widgets but it does some pretty crazy stuff. You might be able to do it more quickly than I since I have to reverse engineer it and you just know how it works already. :)
July 11th, 2006
Sure twiggle. You will be notified as soon as it supports widgets.
July 19th, 2006
Hey Sreejith, thanks again for this excellent theme.
I’ve done a few mods, here’s how it currently looks:
http://www.nickrobinson.org/blog
Now I’d like to get a Blogroll section under the Categories section but above the Meta menu.
I just can’t figure out how to do this and am completely stumped. All and any ideas woud be very welcome.
Cheers,
Nick
July 19th, 2006
open your index.php , and search for
< ?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=0'); ?>
after that add this
< ?php
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”);
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
< ?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?>
< ?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?>
< ?php } ?>
Now open your style.css and search for
/* NAVIGATION BAR */
after that add this
width: 150px;
}
Hope that helps :)
August 8th, 2006
Hi, Any idea on how I can put the seach engine on the sidebar? Using your nice LightCMS. When I move it from the header it appears over the categories, mixing all the beatifull design.
August 10th, 2006
Sorry Sreejith, I can’t see most of what you’ve written here – the code seems a bit mangled.
Any chance of making it a bit clearer or sending in an email?
Cheers,
Nick
August 15th, 2006
Sreejth,
Just to be clear, would you please re-post your reply (item 58 above), as it’s not displaying properly?
Thank you very much,
Nick
November 18th, 2006
Sreejth, wicked theme. ;)
Q: how do I remove the border from logo?? Tried playing with all the borders in the theme CSS’s and couldn’t find anything that worked. Help?
Thx
Mark
November 18th, 2006
oops, here is the site: http://www.sidefinder.net/blog/index.php
logo at the top: SideFinder.NET
November 19th, 2006
Open the style.css and add this
a img {
border: none;
}
November 21st, 2006
BTW, check out my post http://www.sidefinder.net/blog/2006/11/20/gfxeditcom-httpwwwsreejithnet-rocks/
Love to give credit where credit is due.
Thanks again.
Mark
November 21st, 2006
Thank you Mark. :)
December 4th, 2006
Hi Sreejith and others,
I’ve got an image hyperlink in my navbar using this theme – does anybody know how to get rid of the blue “hyperlink” line around the image?
By the way, here’s my site:
http://www.nickrobinson.org/blog
December 5th, 2006
Add this in your style.css .
a img {
border: none;
}
December 6th, 2006
Excellent! Thanks again
Nick
February 19th, 2007
Hi Sreejith,
Any ideas about how I can reduce the indent for the list items in my sidebar?
I need more space over there, to show recent comments better.
Cheers,
Nick
June 19th, 2007
Hi,
I’ve been working on this theme to configure it to 1024 and 4 columns. It’s all working OK in my localhost, but not in my hosting. The single entries just show the message “sorry no posts…”. Categories are ok, monthly archive is ok, main page is ok… but I can’t fix the single entries. I haven’t touched anything important on it, and as I said, in my localhost it worked…
I will appreciate a lot any comment, as I’ve worked on the re-design of this great theme a little bit.
Thanks a lot!
January 2nd, 2008
Hi, I just installed this theme, and then applied the fixes you’ve mentioned later. I was disappointed to find that the theme is not widget-ready. I would really like to see a dynamic sidebar in this theme. Will that ever happen?
Thanks,
Priscilla
January 5th, 2008
This theme seems nice, but it’s 2 years old. Does anyone know how well it plays with WP 2.3, with tags and all other news since 2.0?