Revolution Magazine Theme

The Conceditor WP Revolution-X Theme is my third free theme for the WordPress Community to use as see fit. Modify it, change it, colorize it — do what you like, but keep the copyright information in the footer intact. Other than that — enjoy!

A Few Words About WP Revolution-X

This theme utilizes the following plugin:
WP CSS Dropdown Menu by Isaac Rowntree
You do not have to use it, but not using WP CSS Dropdown Menu leaves you without the main menu.

 

Features

WP Revolution-X is not just another WordPress theme — it´s more to it than meet the eye. Read here:

• Fully widgetized with three custom sidebars
• 100% CSS — easy to customize the look and feel to suite your needs
• Hybrid blog/magazine style
• Featured Article Section
• 3 different front page category loops
• One custom page template out of the box: The Life Blog (create more with ease)
• Three level CSS dropdown menu (need plugin) with heavily customized CSS by me
• Utilization of Custom Fields for neat image display on the front page
• Built in image transparency for linked images
• Customized excerpt loop for the front page

And more…

Installation

1. Get yourself a copy of WordPress 2.5.1 (or later) and install it.
2. Download the plugin WP CSS Dropdown Menu.
3. Activate WP CSS Dropdown Menu but do NOT copy the stylesheet content to the stylsheet that comes with WP Revolution-X since it´s already taken care of (besides that I have heavily customized Isaacs code).
4. Open up the file index.php and features.php and set the following options:

• Set the four Features Module category boxes to reflect the categories of your choice. Find the following lines of code and change the CAT-value and the INCLUDE-value to the categories of your choice. Repeat that for all the four feature boxes. The theme will look strange if you do not specify all four feature categories and use them in your front page loop:

• query_posts(’showposts=1&cat=10′);
  wp_list_categories(’include=10&title_li=&style=none’);

5. Create the BLOG page from within your WordPress administration interface. Use the provided page template for your blog page. Use the dropdown menu in the Page Template option in the “Write Page” section of WordPress and pick the template. Now your page is set up.
6. Install whichever widgets you want and choose the prefered sidebar (right, left, middle) in the Widgets section in which you want to display your widgets.
You´re finished.

Using Custom Fields

For the front page loop images in the four featured sections (categories) WP Revolution-X uses Custom Fields. The key for the large Featured Article should be set to “Image” (without the citation characters and with a capital “I”) and the value is simply the name of your image.
Like this: Key: Image and Value: name-of-image.jpg.
For the smaller Featured Category images, use the Key “Small” and then the image name.
The pictures should be uploaded to the folder “featured” in the WP Revolution-X template folder. If you want your images elsewhere you need to change the paths in each of the four featured boxes in the index.php and features.php files. Find this:

bloginfo(’template_url’); ?>/featured/

and change to whatever place you like on your server.

Different browsers

The WP Revolution-X theme has been developed for Firefox. It should work just fine on Opera, Netscape and Safari. Explorer has no issues which I know of. So, feel free to report bugs as well as solutions here. Creds will go into the stylesheet file.
Good luck and enjoy!

Demo & Download

Download WP Revolution-X here | Demo WP Revolution-X here

Want this theme as a PREMIUM version?

The PREMIUM version is IE 8 savvy and has been tested on WP 2.7. The PREMIUM version also includes a FULL translation into SWEDISH or GERMAN and we support you via email until you have it up and running on your domain, as well as changing the header to include your logotype. Updates will be FREE forever and we will also hand over the Photoshop files where applicable.
The price? USD 99 for the full kit.