The Simple CMS WordPress Theme is designed as a development theme for our Simple CMS WordPress plugin. This theme is not designed to look pretty, but is a practical, simple theme to build your own designs from.
Demo
Simple CMS WordPress Theme demo
Download
Simple CMS WordPress Theme Download
Features
The theme does not display comments, tags, categories or anything related to posts only. This theme is intended to display WordPress Pages and nothing else.
The entire theme folder contains only four PHP files, unlike WordPress’s default Kubrick theme which uses 16! Hopefully this will make building themes for static websites a lot easier as there is less junk to remove to create your simple static site.
Note: Just like the Simple CMS WordPress plugin, this theme is only designed to work with WordPress Version 2.5 or above.
Note: Support for the Simple CMS WordPress plugin has been discontinued. If you are interested in having this product upgraded for the latest version of WordPress then please contact us for information about paid plugin development.
The Simple CMS WordPress plugin converts the WordPress blog tool into a basic CMS (Content Management System). Simple CMS removes all of the complicated blogging functionality which is not needed for a basic static website. This allows for easier use of the admin panel by non web designers.
Free Download
Simple CMS WordPress Plugin download
Please note that this plugin only works with WordPress 2.5 or above
Demonstration
Click here to see the admin panel in action
Username: test
Password: test
Note: The demo site is on an extremely slow server. The plugin will likely operate much faster and reliably on your own web host.
Installing
Simply upload the folder to your plugins directory, then head to the plugins page in your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin.
If you are a “WordPress Administrator” you will not see any difference, but if you log in as a “WordPress Editor” or below, you will see a vastly simplified administration panel suitable for simple static websites.
To modify the items shown in the admin menu, go to the “Simple CMS” options page in the “Settings” menu.
Theming
To help with developing themes for static websites powered by WordPress, I’ve released the Simple CMS WordPress Theme (demo).
The plugin doesn’t do anything exotic, the original code is still there, it is just hidden from view via CSS. Users will still be able to access the hidden areas of the admin panel if they know what they are doing.
Support
Visit the Simple CMS support board for help, advice or further information about the Simple CMS plugin.
Continuing on from our Aqua Vaccinium WordPress theme, is the release of PixoPoint lead developer Ryan Hellyer’s own personal blog theme. This theme was developed for use on ryanhellyer.net but by request has been made available to the public as a free download.
Download
Download Hellish Simplicity Version 1.3.1
If you are using WordPress 2.3.3 or older, you will need to download Download Hellish Simplicity Version 1.2.1 of the Hellish Simplicity WordPress Theme.
Features
Hellish Simplicity is widget ready and comes supplied with a PSD file to allow you to change the text in the header logo.
There is an options menu in the WordPress administration panel which gives allows you to toggle between blue and red versions of the theme. If you would like another colour combination then please leave let us know via our themes forum.
The options menu also allows you to choose to use a logo or plain text in your header.
Live Demo
The theme is available for viewing on Ryan Hellyer’s blog or you can see it in action on our WordPress theme demo site.
Support
If you have any difficulties, need help with modifying the theme or find any errrors then please leave a comment in our our themes forum.
Copyright
Note that although we are providing this theme for free, PixoPoint still retain the copyright to the design. You may modify it for your own needs, but you may not provide it to others. This theme is only available from ryanhellyer.net or pixopoint.com and must not be downloaded from elsewhere.
The “Aqua Vaccinium” WordPress theme was originally intended for use on a clients site, but they have since decided to go with a red theme and use Dreamweaver (ick!) instead of WordPress, so we have decided to release this theme to you for free.
Aqua Vaccinium features a smooth blue and green theme and has a prominent Suckerfish dropdown menu built in (no plugin needed).
Live Demo
Visit our WordPress theme demo site to see Aqua Vaccinium in action.
Download
Aqua Vaccinium download
Bugs/feature requests
If you find a bug or would like an extra feature which isn’t present in the standard Aqua Vaccinium theme, feel free to leave a comment in our themes forum.
If you require any customisations specific to your site, please get in touch via our contact form.
Theme files
We’ve tried to keep the theming as simple as possible to allow for easy customisation. There are only five template files, plus images, javascript and css files. I’ve included the original build file for the logo (PSD format), so you can edit it to match your own site name.
The main dropdown menu is set to display categories by default, but you can insert other pages into your dropdown if you like (leave a post in our themes forum if you need help with this).
The blue section (below the main menu) displays either the blog description or the category description depending on what page you are on. If the blog or category description is missing, this will be left blank.
Naming
The word Aqua came from the mixture of the blue and green tones of the design. The name Vaccinium is the genus for a variety of berries including blue berries which we baked a pie for in honour of the new theme.
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Note: This plugin has been superceded by the ‘PixoPoint Menu Plugin‘.
This plugin generates the code necessary to create a Son of Suckerfish WordPress dropdown menu.
Download
The plugin is available for download here … Suckerfish WordPress Plugin
Installation
Add the following code wherever you want the dropdown to appear in your theme (usually header.php) and activate the plugin in your admin panel.
This code adds a button for your home page and dropdowns for your Pages, Archives, Categories and Blogroll.
<?php if (function_exists('suckerfish')) {suckerfish();} ?>
Customisation
You can modify the look of your dropdown by using our new Online Suckerfish Dropdown CSS Generator. The generator has been designed with this plugin in mind, so just copy and paste the CSS code from the generator to the plugins options page.
Credits
Thanks to Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb for their article which we used as a model for the CSS used in this plugin. And thanks to Miriam Schwab for writing the blog post which motivated us to create it.
Support
For support, please visit the dropdown menus board in our support forum. Please note that many new features are available in the ‘Multi-level Navigation Plugin‘ so you should check that out before asking any questions about this plugin.
