This is a free WordPress template released under the GPL v3. The colors used are (most) green (thus the Fistic name) and white and some variations of dark green nuance.
Structure
The header of the page page has 3 (three) areas: first: the title and the description of the blog which float to the right, second the menu: (supports custom menus) and third: a container with a search box floating to the right and a box with a link pointing to login page if user is not logged in and to admin panel if the user is logged in.
The front page has a different layout from single post and single page. It lists the existing post with the following format: on the left the title of the post (permalink to the post), in the middle a thumbnail and on the right the excerpt of the post. The image thumbnail is generated as follows: if the post doesn’t have a featured image, a function generates a random number between 1 and 6 and adds an image from the /template_directory/img/thumbs/ folder if is not a sticky post, and from the /template_directory/img/sticky/ folder if it is a sticky post. See the code bellow:
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//Random image for thumbs if don't exist function random_thumb_post () { $templ_dir = get_bloginfo('template_directory'); $ext = '.png'; if (!is_sticky()) { $thumb_dir = '/img/thumbs/'; } else { $thumb_dir = '/img/sticky/'; }; $i=rand(1,6); $img[$i]= $templ_dir . $thumb_dir . $i. $ext; print '<code><</code>img class="float-left thumb-img" src="'.$img[$i].'" alt=" " />'; }; |
Note that the images are PNGs and you can see how they are displayed on the second page of the front page of this presentation environment.
The single page has the main content floating on the left and a sidebar floating on right. The main content container is split in two, on the right side being the details for the post (time, tags, author) and a box with a list of random post titles (excluding the current one).
The footer area has just a few notes about the copyright notice and a small text about the template’s author.
Gallery
Web browser compatibility
The template was tested on different environments and it displays well on Firefox v3.6, Opera v10.63, Safari v5.0, Chrome v8.0 and Internet Explorer v8.0. Looks good on Internet Explorer v7.0 and more than acceptable on Internet Explorer v6.0.
Known issues
Opera doesn’t know how to render the italicized version of the used font (Neucha). Also, in “Reader made … comments” section on front page, for Linux OSes is seems that the font used (sans-serif) doesn’t fit the text in the container width, so I’ve place the “Nimbus Mono L” before sans serif-font, and it looks a little bit different.
The menu items have images as background. The images also have background color (white). If you use a drop-down menu, in some cases you’ll see white spots over the green background. To some extent, this is acceptable.
New version – 2.10 – release date: 09-Apr-2012
This version has several modifications. By default, the login box placed under the menu does not appear. You have a “Fistic Theme Options” page under Dashboard –> Appearance which will give you the option to display this box or not. Also, in this page, several labels can be modified or translated in other languages.
Another major modification is the way a gallery is displayed (thanks to Chip Bennett). Now is more cleaner and styled.
On front page, the title of each post stays in a box with its height fixed. If the title length exceeds 65 chars, the font size will be reduced substantially. If the title length exceeds 118 chars, the title will be truncated.
On theme options page you have the possibility to set the length (in words) of the posts’ excerpt. The default value is 50 (words) and you can set the value in the interval 10-99 (words).
So far for now. Enjoy it!
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