Simon WordPress Framework & Blank Theme
November 23, 2009
A WordPress Framework and Blank Theme. It’s purpose is to rapidly build and deploy WordPress driven web initiatives. It’s a base for you to design from. It’s new and I am sure buggy, but I will support it and make updates quarterly at the very least. Feel free to build on it and use it as you please.
A little bit about the Simon WordPress Framework:
- Uses 960.gs Grid
- Featured Post
- Uses Blueprint Typography Framework
- Flexible
- Two-Column
- Clean
- Blank
Please support my WordPress Theme and download it (v.1.1.6).
Change Log
01/22/10 – v.1.1.6 Critical Changes
- Fixed Featured Post on Home Page
01/19/10 – v.1.1.5 Important Changes
- Added Featured Post on the Homepage
- Made Changes to Meta Layout
- Made Changes to Post layout
- Updated Comment Section
- Updated Comment Form
- Added Title Tags for SEO
- Made Changes to Typography
- Made Changes to overall Stylesheet
12/05/09 – v.1.1.4 Minor Rewrites
12/01/09 – v.1.1.3
- Added GPL
- Fixed Child Pages Displaying Incorrectly and Breaking Nav
- Page Comments Working Now
- Changed Demo Blog Name to WP
11/22/09 – v.1.1.0 Minor Rewrites
11/20/09 – v.1.0.0 First attempt
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Bookmarked.
Outstanding site.
Cheers
Thanks!
Very nice Blog, I will tell my friends about it.
Thanks
Hey,
Nice theme. I just recently discovered 960 and am trying to set up a blog, and thought a 960 theme would be nice to build up upon. Yours is the second 960 wp theme I am trying. I only wish it was valid. :/ The other one by Troy was not either. Too bad.
I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case, great info…I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!
Let me work on it…
I have bookmarked your web site and I will social bookmark too.
Merit
Hi, could it be, that you mean 2010 in your Change Log:
01/22/*09* – v.1.1.6 Critical Changes
01/19/*09* – v.1.1.5 Important Changes
Best Regards
Kay
Ok that’s embarrassing.
I love your idea of a nice clean 960 grid design for rapid prototyping in WordPress. But I can’t get anything but a full-width page to work. If I edit the page.php so have two equal columns (and no sidebar), there’s a line break between the two divs. For example:
This gives me two 6-column sections that follow one another vertically, rather than the desired two-columns aligned horizontally. That is, I get:
xxxxxx
x x
x x
xxxxxx
x x
x x
xxxxxx
when I want:
xxxxxx xxxxxx
x x x x
x x x x
xxxxxx xxxxxx
Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?jeannine
OK, I lost the code on my previous post. The code i’m using is
< div class=”grid_6″ > < /div >
<; div class=”grid_6″> <;/div >
< div style=”clear: both” < > /div <
That code is malformed…
Investigating…
Remember that you have to use the .alpha and .omega when going full page…see 960.gs.
LMK what happens and I will let you know what I find. Thanks.
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Nice framework. 960 grid is a good way to design. I just discovered it myself a while back and I do design layouts with it. Really nice. Keep up the good work.
I love your idea of a nice clean 960 grid design for rapid prototyping in WordPress. But I can’t get anything but a full-width page to work. If I edit the page.php so have two equal columns (and no sidebar), there’s a line break between the two divs. For example:
Did you add the either the “alpha” or “omega” classes to the columns?
thanks for great informations It’s a wonderful
Hello,
thanks for the Framework!
Best regards!
Is it possible to see what the framework looks like without downloading it?
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/simon-wp-framework
http://simonwebdesign.com/demo/
Just happened to check your demo page in IE6, and it all goes into one column :S
There’s still stragglers out there hanging onto IE6, would be nice if it worked under that too.
Good idea. I will work on it!