Fluid Blue

Latest version: 1.0.1 (Updated on 19 May 2007)

Fluid Blue WordPress Theme is a simple, graphics free, fluid width two column theme. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Fluid Blue WordPress Theme — Screenshot

Features

  • Fluid width
  • Two columns
  • Right sidebar
  • Supports sidebar widgets
  • WordPress 2.1 compatible
  • XHTML and CSS validated
  • Graphics free
  • Tested with all major browsers (Firefox 1.5, 2; Opera 8, 9; IE 6, 7)

Download

fluid-blue-101.zip

Preview and download also available at WordPress Theme viewer.

Installation

  1. Extract the fluid-blue-101.zip file in a convenient location and copy the ‘fluid-blue-101′ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
  2. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
  3. Select the ‘Presentation’ subpanel.
  4. From the ‘Select’ column in the table, select ‘Fluid Blue 1.0.1′.
  5. Click ‘View Site’ at the top of the Panel’s screen. Your selection should immediately become active.

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27 Comments

  1. Res Romanisti says:

    a new themes? haha nice…i like it, simple and good looking…
    can i edited your wordpress themes for use in my wordpress blog? (edited colour or columm)

    24 April 2007, 4:15 pm

  2. Res Romanisti says:

    how to editing font only at posting area?

    24 April 2007, 4:16 pm

  3. Srini says:

    You are welcome to modify and use the theme for your blog. The theme is licensed under GPL, so here is what you can and not do with the theme.

    To edit the font only for posting area, open style.css, scroll down and look for the section commented ‘post’ and include the font under ‘.post p’. Contact me if you need more help.

    24 April 2007, 4:30 pm

  4. blagi says:

    Just started using fluid blue. It’s exactly what i was looking for a couple of days: clean and simple. Didn’t change anything for now.
    Thanks srini.

    2 May 2007, 10:16 pm

  5. Srini says:

    Thanks for using the theme blagi :)

    3 May 2007, 11:29 am

  6. chris says:

    Is this template also affected by http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/May/0011.html ?

    8 May 2007, 10:46 pm

  7. Srini says:

    The template uses bloginfo(’home’) instead of $_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’]. According to this message on wp-hackers list, templates using bloginfo(’home’) are not vulnerable. We can therefore safely assume that the fluid blue template is not affected by 404 XSS attacks.

    9 May 2007, 9:51 am

  8. chris says:

    nice. thank you.

    9 May 2007, 7:50 pm

  9. Johannes says:

    Thank you very much for this theme! I like the ‘less is more’-approach. Best regards!

    11 May 2007, 6:28 pm

  10. Srini says:

    Thanks Johannes for your appreciation! Thanks to everyone using the theme.

    12 May 2007, 8:15 am

  11. John says:

    Many thanks - I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, having previously used the Steam theme. Good work!

    17 May 2007, 2:02 pm

  12. John says:

    Thanks for your comment over at my blog. One thing I have noticed is that my archive and category links in the sidebar no longer seem to work - they just lead to a blank white page. I have tested the blog with my old Steam theme and the default one - they both seem to work fine.

    Any thoughts on this welcome, I guess it could also be a widget thing as I have never used them before.

    17 May 2007, 6:47 pm

  13. Srini says:

    This is strange because I tested the theme with widgets on Wordpress 2.2 and it seems to work just fine. Did you test the other themes after your upgrade to 2.2? If you face the same issues with other themes on 2.2, then there may not be anything wrong with the themes, probably the upgradation may not have been clean. Otherwise, if the other themes work well with 2.2 on your blog, there is something missing in my theme. Please check the other themes with wp2.2 and let me know.

    18 May 2007, 9:25 am

  14. John says:

    It seems to work ok with my old theme (which doesn’t use widgets) and the default one (Kubrick), but I will reinstall wordpress 2.2 over the weekend and see if that helps as well.

    18 May 2007, 1:59 pm

  15. John says:

    Hmm. I’ve reinstalled Wordpress 2.2 and the problem is still happening - any thoughts?

    18 May 2007, 11:21 pm

  16. Srini says:

    John, I have replied you through email.

    19 May 2007, 10:10 am

  17. Srini says:

    There was a defect in archive.php which was causing the above problem. This is fixed in v1.0.1, so anybody facing the above problem is requested to update the theme to the latest version. Thanks John, for the feedback.

    19 May 2007, 4:13 pm

  18. Peter Erbák says:

    Thank you for this beautiful theme, Srini!

    24 May 2007, 3:35 am

  19. Reg says:

    I really like your theme! I am having one problem that I hope you can help me with. I am not very good at PHP or themes. I have my front page set to a static page in WordPress. Using this theme I get both a ‘Home’ page and the welcome page I set as static in the navigation menu. How can I change this so that the ‘Welcome!’ link is not displayed? TIA!

    27 May 2007, 6:04 am

  20. Srini says:

    First, find the page ID for the ‘Welcome!’ page. You can find this at <yourblogurl>/wp-admin/edit-pages.php. For example, let’s consider that the page ID for ‘Welcome!’ page to be 3. Open your header.php, towards the end of the file, you will find a line like the one below

    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1') ?>

    replace the line with

    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=3') ?>

    Of course, this assumes that the page ID for welcome is 3, but you should substitute this number with your real page ID.

    Hope this helps. If you have any problems doing this, contact me.

    27 May 2007, 9:06 am

  21. curtis 74 says:

    Perfect business website submission

    30 May 2007, 11:50 am

  22. Lukas Beeler says:

    Nice!

    I always wanted a nice, clean, professional looking theme. Never liked my self-hacked Kubrik much.

    9 June 2007, 11:06 pm

  23. Senaka says:

    This is a nice theme! I see you use it on your site too! One of the problems I am finding is that the color of a link ()is very similar to the color of the body text, making it difficult to identify the links. Can you tell us how to underline a link and to change the color of link text.

    13 June 2007, 8:39 pm

  24. Srini says:

    Thanks Senaka, and all those using the theme… thanks for all your appreciation :)

    To underline and change the color of link text, open ’style.css’ file in the theme folder and you will find the following block of code starting from line 23

    a {
	color:#157;
	text-decoration:none;
}

    Change the color from #157 (this actually is short notation for #115577. The color number can have six or three digits) to any color you like. You can refer w3schools for a list of color names and corresponding hex numbers.

    Also, change the line ‘text-decoration:none;’ to ‘text-decoration:underline;’.

    But what this does is, it underlines every instance of a link found on the website, you may not want this. If you want to underline only the links in the post entries, add the following code in your style.css file after the ‘a’ block mentioned above.

    .postentry a {
	color:#157;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

    Contact me for any more help.

    14 June 2007, 8:35 am

  25. H.Lee says:

    Hi,

    First for all, I really like your theme. Our group just began blogging and without knowing technical side, I am admin of this blog. Therefore, no programming but surfing themes and plug-ins has been the only way for me. I really want to keep your theme but there is one problem. Could you advice me what I can do?

    We (will) have many authors but your theme does not show who wrote what. If i cannot find a way to implement author id to be appeared, I have to look up for another theme which cannot have nicer look than fluid-blue. I’d really appreciate a few lines of code to be inserted or plug-ins or anything to keep your theme.

    many thanks,
    hyunsook

    15 June 2007, 1:12 am

  26. Srini says:

    Hyunsook, you just need to edit a few files to display the author, no need for any plugins. Open the index.php file to be found in your theme folder, you will find the following code on line 11

    	<div class="postmetadata"><?php the_time('jS F Y, h:i a ') ?> <!-- <?php _e('by') ?> <?php the_author() ?> --></div>

    Replace it with the following line

    	<div class="postmetadata"><?php the_time('jS F Y, h:i a ') ?> <?php _e('by') ?> <?php the_author() ?> </div>

    As you can see, the author name is already there, it just needs to be uncommented. Make similar changes to archives.php and single.php. Thanks for choosing this theme!

    15 June 2007, 10:15 am

  27. H.Lee says:

    Wow…so happy to know. I really do appreciate your advice. I’m really happy with fluid-blue. Many thanks for your creation!

    16 June 2007, 3:12 am

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