Photoshop Template for the Default Theme
Art & Design, Computing February 17th, 2005I wanted to customize the default theme on the brand spankin’ new 1.5 so I made a little psd file with a few layers that made it quite easy to change the look quickly. Just stay within the guides and you should be just fine. Be sure to backup or duplicate your default theme before you start. It is a photoshop file with layers that correspond to the different images needed for the theme. The Guides also give a visual feedback for where each slice will start.
The layers are named to correspond with the exported images. I just added new layers with my look and left the original ones alone. Then I could flip back and forth by toggling layer visibility.
When you have finished just use save for web with all the slices and images only and you should be set.
There will be one extra file (spacer) for slice 06 but it can be ignored. Upload these 5 files into the images folder inside the theme you are changing. Voila. You’re done. I know everyone doesn’t have Photoshop but that is what works for me. The file is quite simple. Sometimes the best way to figure something out is to give it a try.
Update: There is a new file with added layers and masks. More Info
February 18th, 2005 at 8:58 am
How can such be implemented on a fresh (no extra templates) WordPress install?
cheers
February 19th, 2005 at 7:47 am
On the 1.5 fresh install look for the images folder inside the default theme. It will be in wp-content/themes/default folder. Just drop your new images in there. That will change the images. Then you can play around with the style.css file in the same folder to move other things around and change text colors etc.
Thanks for looking.
February 22nd, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Nice of you to hand this out to the public. I love to skin stuff up with photoshop, and after spending so much time learning how to use WP…this will save me some time on the designing part when I get to it. Thanks again!
March 1st, 2005 at 4:57 pm
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March 4th, 2005 at 9:57 pm
Nice ! Thanks for sharing. It is going to help for a quick try. This is what I call Free/Libre Open Source !!
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March 9th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Very nice. Would be nice were I still messing with Kubrick, but very nice nonetheless.
March 10th, 2005 at 7:57 am
If only the BLUE had been separated to its own layer
March 10th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
I have another version with masks and layer effects that I will clean up and try to post. Later tonight. Thanks for checking things out.
March 10th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
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March 11th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
Real nice thanks for the template was just what i was looking for. Is there a way to make it so the img changes upon refresh?
March 15th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
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March 17th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
huh?
March 28th, 2005 at 5:24 am
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May 16th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
Cool… maybe I’ll have to give Kubrick another look… with this file, it will be easy to manipulate… Thanks!
November 10th, 2005 at 11:27 am
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. I like the basic Kubrick theme, but desperatly wanted to add an image for the header. It was easy to use, even for someone who was not totally skilled in PS. And it worked even though I made a few different layers for the header image. Very cool!
November 18th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for the information. That’s really help me with all these layers! (:
December 28th, 2005 at 5:02 am
hi i’m from iran………..
please send for me a lot of template thank you!
February 28th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
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April 24th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
You’ve been a big help. Those layers are the most confusing part for me.
May 26th, 2006 at 10:57 am
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August 1st, 2006 at 5:56 am
Hey all — was hoping that someone could clue me in on a total n00b CSS issue:
I’m trying to customize the Random Image Theme for Wordpress, and I’m running into a small — but incredibly annoying — problem.
I’m trying to make the background of the content area white. The background of navigation column that runs down the right side is not plain white (FFFFFF). Rather Photoshop’s color picker claims that it’s F9F9F9 — but this isn’t anywhere in the style.css file. There is a .alt that has a background set at F8F8F8, but when I change that to FFFFFF, it doesn’t help.
Where is that shading coming from?
many thanks…