The Unstandard theme was originally a personal project designed and coded for 5thirtyone.com. The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization. Note that if no images are added via Custom Fields, there are two default image holders that you will want to replace before activating.
The Unstandard supports three independent widget zones and features:
- Sidebar – Main: Column displayed on any page but a single post.
- Sidebar – Single: Column rendered on a single post page.
- Footer – Shared: Always visible widgets towards the bottom of the page.
- Threaded / nested comments (WordPress 2.7 only)
- Gravatar support and site admin comment author highlighting
- Automatically creates thumbnails using timthumb.php – info
- Multiple color themes without touching the CSS
- Support for custom header images – replace header.png in the images directory
Download & Demo
In order to install The Unstandard, download the package below, unzip, and upload the directory titled unstandard to your "wp-themes" folder. Check to ensure that scripts and cache folders are writeable CHMOD 777.
WordPress 2.6+: TheUnstandard 1.2.1 – Working Demo
Changelog
- Current – View changelog.txt
- Jul 7, 2009 – Theme options support added. Change the color, select the option to support a header image, or add additional visual weight to single post pages.
- Jul 1, 2009 – Now includes automatic thumbnails using the URI values for your uploaded images.
- Apr 12, 2009 – Improved pagination support. Removed requirement for multiple loops. Removed home.php. Number of posts displayed on the first page is now specified via Settings > Readings.
- Mar 16, 2009 – Pagination support from the first page.
- Mar 15, 2009 – Project moved to Google Code. Feel free to report issues.
- Feb 23, 2009 – Improperly closed if statement in comments.php breaks layout if you specify that a user must be logged in before commenting.
- Dec 23, 2008 – Fix for WordPress closed comments breaking the post layout. Reported by Jason.
Questions
- What image sizes are used for the main and secondary thumbnails? – Using custom fields, assign a 593 x 225 image with a key titled ‘lead_image’, and a 293 x 150 image with a key titled ‘secondary_image’. The value for these keys should be the hosted image. If photos are now cropped before uploading, the theme will automatically generate thumbnails.
