We’ve completed a large update today for the PixoPoint Template Generator. The changes include a huge number of bug fixes. Thank you very much to the dozens of you who have reported various bugs to us, without your help we wouldn’t have been able to improve the system. If you have any questions or bug reports, please leave them in the forum.
Some new features have been added for premium subscribers including the ability to add the date, RSS feed links and search boxes to the header, plus breadcrumb links and a dropdown sub-menu.
The Aqua Vaccinium template features a smooth blue and green design and has a prominent dropdown menu built in (no plugin needed). The template was originally released as a standalone theme, but has been incorporated as one of the standard templates in the PixoPoint Template Generator.
Download template as a WordPress theme
Download Aqua Vaccinium WordPress theme
The big blue bar
The blue section (below the main menu) is controlled via the ‘Main menu shadow’ section in the ‘Main Menu’ box in the template generator control panel.
If you require any (paid) customisations specific to your site, please get in touch via our contact form.
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.
Hellish Simplicity is a minimilistic two column design with a distinctive red, black and white design. It was created as the blog theme for http://ryanhellyer.net/ and by request was made available to the public as a free download and has now been added as one of the default themes to the PixoPoint template generator.
Download template as a WordPress theme
Download Hellish Simplicity Version 2.0 (link coming soon)
Modifying sidebar widths
The grey border which runs down the sidebars in Hellish Simplicity are created via the sidebars graphical background. If you change the widths of these sidebars, you should modify/create a new graphic to match the new width.
Copyright
This theme was not originally released as a truly open source theme. However it is now available with a BSD license.
Basic blue is a minimilistic two column template which was designed as a simple base for more advanced designs to be created from.
Download template as a WordPress theme
Download Basic blue 1.0 (link coming soon)
Basic blue as a base
This design was used as the base to create the other templates for the PixoPoint template generator including ‘Hellish Simplicity’, ‘Aqua Vaccinium’ and ‘Yoghourt’. By simply editing the various options in the template generator, the Basic blue template was morphed into the other drastically different creations. With minimal work, you too can develop your own entirely new designs.
Creating your own templates
If you modify one of the core templates in such a way that you think it would be suitable as one of the core templates, then please post your saved XML file in our support forum. If we think it is up to scratch, then we’ll consider adding it as one of the build in designs along with credit back to you as the author.
This theme has been used for the past year by our client Fresh Edge Hockey. The theme is designed for use with our Simple CMS WordPress Plugin. It is designed purely for use on static websites and is not suitable for blogs or sites which require sidebars.
Demo
Ice Edge Theme Demo
Download
Ice Edge WordPress Theme
Features
As with the Simple CMS theme, “Ice Edge” does not display comments, tags or categories. This theme is only designed to display WordPress Pages as part of a static website.
Support
Support for this theme is available in our themes support board.
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.