Highly stylized WordPress theme: Gods and Monsters. Everything your business theme isn’t.
By Ars Grafik
We’ve uploaded another theme today. This one, called Gods & Monsters, is stylized to the hilt, so business bloggers look elsewhere. Everyone else give it a gander.
Gods & Monsters is an image-rich, two column, grunge theme adorned with Medieval gods and monsters. There are lots of details, such as a stylized search box, interesting presentation of the date, and great illustrations like flying fish and fighting gods and monsters. The background of the content area is an old parchment, giving the whole theme a cool antiquated look. The colors are muted and dark, the text uniformly serif.
The navigation will display all published pages and will automatically accommodate two rows of tabs.
The sidebar is widget ready. At the top of the sidebar, you will find a custom RSS link and custom search field hard-coded into place. These could be removed, but they are designed to mesh with the rest of the theme’s design. Here is a screenshot:
As to browser compatibility, the site’s been tested in IE7, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. It was not designed with IE6 in mind, so I included a special message to IE6 users kindly requesting that they upgrade their browser to Firefox. If you find a browser issue, please leave a comment.
To install the Gods and Monsters theme, you will need to:
- Unzip the gods-and-monsters.zip folder
- Upload the full folder gods-and-monsters to wp-content/themes
- Go to your WordPress admin panel
- Open the Appearance drop-down and select Themes
- Select the Gods and Monsters theme and click Activate Gods and Monsters.
Hope you like it!
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06.06.09
I wanted to thank you personally for the excellence of this blog which fits most suitably within the subject matter of my site.
06.07.09
This is a gorgeous theme. Thank you for the release!
06.07.09
I’m glad it’s working for you. We had fun making this one.
06.10.09
It looks lovely in the previews, but we’re largely an Opera shop and it doesn’t work for us – either from Linux or Windows. (I didn’t bother running over to the Mac; 1 of 3 for eye candy just doesn’t help). PLEASE fix; it does look lovely….
06.10.09
Hi Jeff,
I will take a look with Opera, but it might take some time to work out. I will note in this thread any fixes that I find.
Thanks for the heads up.
06.10.09
Jeff I took a quick look with Opera 9.63, and things look fine. What is breaking in your browser and what version of Opera are you on.
06.11.09
Love the Theme. Any chance of getting the PSD file for the Header?
06.11.09
Chad,
I built this theme from a single master PSD file so I’ll need to look at putting something to together. If we come up with something, I’ll leave a comment here.
06.12.09
Love the theme. Great job on it!
06.12.09
Perhaps you could have a look at my site? I’ve installed this theme per the directions specified here on a fresh installation of WordPress 2.8 and it doesn’t work in Firefox.
06.15.09
Michael,
I checked your site using Firefox and saw no issues. What version are you using? I am on FF 3.0.10.
06.16.09
I’m on 3.0.10 too.
I’m sorry for the ridiculous input; I have never used WordPress before and, so, I’m not very well informed on how to describe and resolve issues with it.
I’m not quite sure what made it work but, some days ago, your theme just randomly started to function normally. I’d been mucking with plugins per a fix I found for WordPress 2.8 but that didn’t change anything; I’d had the Arclight theme up in the interim. After downloading several other themes and changing some folder permissions on my webhost, I switched back to Gods & Monsters on a whim and it worked.
On a different note, how can I remove the Search box in the sidebar? Adding or moving Widgets doesn’t change its position and I need it to be further down the page so I can have a photo slideshow above the fold.
06.16.09
Nevermind the dumb questions, I figured out how to do it after a few minutes.
Thank you for your time!
06.19.09
I loved yout theme! is there any chance you could upload the original PSD file for us to customize the art?
06.20.09
Kamon,
Thanks for the great feedback. We are looking at doing just that, but at the moment our source material is a bit unorganized. It might be a little while yet. We will post about it on the home page when we make it available.
06.24.09
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06.25.09
For some reason I don’t have comment links showing in the theme, so unless someone clicks the actual header, they can’t comment.
06.25.09
Hi, Silke
I designed this theme so that nothing is displayed until a comment is left on the post. If you would like to have a no comments tag, you will need to make one small change.
In page
home.phplook for:<?php comments_popup_link('', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>Replace it with:
<?php comments_popup_link('Leave a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>that should do it.
06.25.09
Thank you!
That’s perfect.
07.03.09
Hello,
I love your theme. Could you tell me please how to display categories pages in ascending order ?
Thanks,
Robin
07.06.09
I have another question for you.
I want to turn off showing the description below the links (Blogroll etc), which I’m told I do by adding show_description=0, but I have no clue where I’d need to put this, because at WP they refer to wp_list_bookmarks, not the get_links you have in the sidebar.php.
Any clues? I’ve tried to add it but I get syntax errors no matter where I put it. :/
07.09.09
Hi Silke,
The site looks great!
I’m not sure I understand your question. Could you explain again in more detail. It’s been a long week so maybe my brain is just not making the connections.
07.17.09
It was me being “Duh”.
I had the description enabled on the widget. Don’t worry about it, it was me being an idjit.
Thanks for the compliment on the site.
07.28.09
Hi,
We’ve recently decided to move my husband’s blog from Blogger to WordPress, and this was by far the most visually striking and beautiful theme!
I’ve successfully made certain changes that I wanted, but changing the font of the blog content is still eluding me. I want the titles and everything else left the same, but I’d like to be able to change the actual blog post font, if desired. I know that I can do it with HTML code when editing each post individually, but is there an easy CSS tag I can edit or add to change just that one element through the whole site?
Thanks,
Mrs. Large Fierce Mammal
07.30.09
Hello Mrs. LFM,
There absolutely is a way to accomplish this task. Look for this code in
style.css:Add your font style and save. An example would look like this:
Also include any additional style for this text, like size, weight, etc.
07.31.09
Thank you so much, that’s exactly what I needed!
07.31.09
Yep, that would be great.
08.21.09
I would love to have a second sidebar but all of the tutorials I find on modifying the code of functions, sidebar and index.php in order to add a sidebar to a typical Wordpress theme don’t take into consideration the existing code that makes this terrific theme do its thing.
How can I add a second sidebar to this theme, or perhaps even a third, which I’d imagine will become clear after learning how to add the elusive second.
Thanks!
08.21.09
OK, so with a little more searching I found code that demonstrated how to add a name to the array within functions.php to provide for more than 1 sidebar (source: http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/11/how-to-create-multiple-dynamic-sidebars-for-wordpress-widgets/). Wordpress picks it up in the admin sections “Current Widgets” dropdown. I can even add a widget.
So now how do I get it to appear on the site?
08.21.09
Hi Joe,
Adding additional sidebars to a theme is a fussy business. Here are the steps:
-register a second sidebar in functions.php. (there is extensive literature available on this topic at wordpress.org)
-create and upload a second sidebar file, with unique name like sidebar2. (creative right?)
-call up this sidebar file using the include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/sidebar2.php”) format.
-if widgets are wanted, you will need to use call up the function created in function.php for sidebar2.
This list is just an overview of the basic steps, there is a ton of fantastic information available over at WordPress.org.
08.25.09
(sorry, double post, but this is the one with coreect spelling)
Hello Evan, i love the heme, it’s absolutely fantastic.
I’m wondering wether i’m looking at a bug in it though.
The problem occurs in the footer when looking at comments.
On the bottom the right part of the footer gets cut off (in 1600×1200).
Since i have done some redesigning, i put your original files back up, yet the problem persisted, so i then just put my version of your work back up.
Have a look at it at: http://weblog.starthemel.nl and hit a post to view the comments en thus the problem with the footer picture.
link to modified theme source: http://www.starthemel.nl/white_on_purple.rar
link to weblog: http://weblog.starthemel.nl
I just have this thing about weblogs having to be, content on a white background. Hope you guys like it too.
I hope you can fix the problem and i’m curious wether other people are experiencing the same problem
Thanks for reading, a php newbie, Paul (netherlands)
08.30.09
Hi,
This theme looks great, did you draw these gods and monsters your self? I have been trying to find the name of this style of art. I looked up things like scary Renaissance art, but cant find anything similar. I see these types of drawings in movies when they have to look up some kind of curse, or Exorcism in some kind of anciet book or text. Would you happen to know the specific name of the style this kind of art falls into?
Thanks
09.06.09
Oh hai Portuguese shield!
10.17.09
i have not yet received a reply from you about my question? i do not care if you publish the comment or not, please just respond via email ulij@hotmail.com
again, my question is: how do i create extra pages to show on top of the blog theme? i have created a few extra pages and they are not showing up at all but they are in my page catagory? how do i make this visible?
10.17.09
Hi Dave,
Sorry if your comment from before is not showing up. We made a domain and theme transfer last week and some of the most recent comments didn’t survive the move.
I went ahead and took a look at your site, and there looks to be several pages: feedback/comments and search. Is the issue that these pages are not showing up on your browser, or that you are trying to add additional pages? I haven’t run into problems with the pages display on this theme before, so I am interested to hear more about your issue. Let me know.
10.17.09
Hi,is there any chance that you could help me about themes on my sites? And can i put my logo somewhere on this theme?
10.17.09
DarkLady,
I’ve sent an email to you with full directions for adding the logo.
10.20.09
Thanks, very thanks for the theme, is great for my writing
Hug for you
10.20.09
Jose,
Glad you like it!
10.23.09
thanks for the reply. Those 3 pages “home” “feedback” and “search” do all show up but they were there from my previous theme i once had before swithching to yours. I went to add 2 new pages (ex: submit URL and Links) .. the creation of the pages went well but when i saved the info and checked out my site, it did not show up at the top or anywhere?
10.24.09
David,
That’s odd. Typically, if you create and save new pages they should be displayed in the navigation row. The fact that your previous pages are there makes me think that the theme is working, but maybe your browser is displaying a cached version. Try double checking that the pages are published and then clear your cache, and then navigate to your blog. See if that works and let me know.
10.24.09
I installed the DB cache plugin and deleted the cache like you said. nothing still? i checked the additional pages i added and they are still there under “add/edit pages? when i clicked them on, my sub-domain page appeared like expected but still no page button on the top of my site?
any suggestions?
Dave.
10.24.09
Dave,
Here is another thought. Lets call up the pages another way, just to see that they are all there. Try adding a page widget to the sidebar temporarily. This should display all of your pages. Let me know what happens.
10.25.09
Evan, tried the page widget and it just shows the same original 3 pages i already have on top.
10.25.09
Dave,
This is odd. It makes me think that the issue is not with the theme. These pages should show up in the widget regardless of the theme. If you want, send me an email through the contact form with a temporary administrator user name and password. You can delete them after we get things figured out. I’ll take a look.
10.27.09
ok, but how do i do this? i want to be very careful with this info.
p.s. sorry if i dont reply right away, i am on eastern standard time here in USA.
where are you by the way?
10.28.09
David,
I am out on the West Coast. I am going to send you an email using my personal email, you can respond with this info and I’ll take a look.
10.29.09
Thank You very much Evan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was a word press plugin all along.
** to all readers here**
Evan took time to help me out on a one-on-one basis! He helped me solve a problem i have been having for some time now. My many thanks go to Evan for spending his time for my situation when he could have been doing something else!..
I wish there were more people like him on the internet!
David Lee
11.01.09
Evan, I forgot to ask last time, how do i change the “link” colors? when i originally transfered to your theme, all of my link colors blend in too much with the background color of this theme. i just want them to stick out a bit.
any advice?
Dave.
11.02.09
Hi Dave,
Try opening style.css, and looking for this code:
Change this
color: #e6d9c2;into any hexadecimal color you choose.Hope that helps
Evan
11.03.09
thanks once again! That took care of it !
11.15.09
Hi Evan, is there anyway to hide or get rid of the Tags under my posts? without hurting SEO? they are ugly and an eyesore!
thanks,
D Lee.
11.15.09
Hi David,
If you want to get rid of the tags you just need to cut
<?php the_tags(); ?>out of the index.php file. I wouldn’t worry to much about the SEO so long as your content is reasonably long. Maybe 500 or greater word count.11.15.09
i removed that like yousaid and the tags are still there under the posts?
11.15.09
Hi David,
You’re totally right. I forgot that the tags are on the frontpage also. In order to remove these look for the same snippet of code in the home.php file and delete it. This should remove the tags from your site entirely.
Let me know if you have any problems.
11.16.09
Thanks once again ! it worked !
11.24.09
Hi Evan, Thank you sincerely for making this killer theme. I am having slight problems with it in that the header and footer images do not load sometimes and it leaves a weird result. I have tried two different hosting companys, Tried the new vs. old version of the theme and tried replacing the database. The weird thing is it only breaks intermittantly (50% on 50% off). Could you recommend anything? The URL is in my link. I’m going to donate 20 dollars to your tip jar for your great effort, other should do the same. Thanks again, Dylan
11.24.09
Dylan,
Thank you for your support, and I’m very glad that you like the theme.
I took a look at your site and it appears that your displaying page-content through a frame. This is one that I haven’t seen before, so maybe you could hep clarify for me what is taking place. Secondarily, both the header and footer images are displayed as background images within div’s as assigned within the stylesheet style.css. It might be worth looking at the way style.css is called up within the frame environment.
I have tried to replicate the missing images on firefox, but I’m not having much luck. What browser are you using?
You might also copy the page source from your site when the issue is apparent, and send it to me using the contact form at the bottom of the site.
These are just my thoughts and more may come to me as the coffee kicks in.
I’m out of town visiting family at the moment so please be patient if I am slow to respond.