Soho Serenity Theme

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May I present the newest offering…

It’s a Multi Column (1 sidebar, 2 main content colums, 2 right hand sections and 3 footer sections all widgetized) fixed width theme loosely inspired by the art galleries of Soho New York and is perfect for a showcase/portfolio or scrapbook type site. It features an author info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap, Blog Post and full width No Sidebars page templates. Tested in Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6 and IE7. Compatible up to WordPress 2.7 and is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 valid right out of the box.

Demo & Download

SETUP INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Go into Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >> index.php and find these lines (there are 2 sets – 1 for the left column and 1 for the right column):

php query_posts(‘cat=1&showposts=3’);
php $posts = get_posts(‘category=1&numberposts=3&offset=0’);

Change the category ID number (in 2 places) to the category you want to display. You can also change the number of posts that are shown (also in 2 places) although for asthetics 3 in the left column and 2 in the right column is recommended.

2. To change the headings of the main content columns go into Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >> index.php and find this line (2 places) and change the text between the < h3>< /h3> tags:
< div class="title">< h3>HEADING< /h3>< /div>

3. To have the images show up in the left hand content column you’ll need to install the Get The Image plugin created by Justin Tadlock. You can download it here: Get The Image.

About Mina

I'm just a regular person who spends her days at work on the computer and comes home and spends her evenings on the computer. I've been using WordPress for over 3 years and after enjoying all the WP community has to offer I've decided it's time for me to give back. This is my humble attempt at that.
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  10. Marlene says:

    Hi! Thanks for this theme. Got it on my blog now. Am loving it!

  11. Mick says:

    Hi, Mina
    Thanks for creating this. It’s very attractive.
    I’m experimenting with it now and have been trying to figure out why my subpages don’t appear off the items in the horizontal menu at the top of the front page.
    Will the theme handle them?

    Thanks

  12. Mick says:

    Hi, Tina
    Thanks. I tried but doing that trashes the menu and it ends up vertical in the middle of the page. Is there an additional edit I should do?

  13. Mick says:

    That’s okay. I appreciate what you’ve produced so far. I’ll do some fiddling. Time I learned how the WP code works.

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  16. Joni says:

    Hello Mina,
    Thank you for all your hard work. I am not familiar with php, and don’t need to use the showcase column….how do I move the left column to the right and use the whole space, like you did on the home page? Also, can I change the background color?
    Sorry, newbie questions I know.
    Thanks for you patience.
    -Joni

  17. Joni says:

    Thank you Mina for your last reply…I work all day at my computer, then work all night as well…so I get ya!
    I am using both columns quite nicely…so appreciate your answer above, but your layout is quite nice, so went with it.
    My next question…now that I am getting warmed up…. is that I want to put a flash xml video gallery on a new page that uses menu.xml, and data.xml. Is this even possible on a blog site? If so, where would the supporting files live?

    Thank you very much.
    -Joni

  18. Joni says:

    Hello Mina,
    Ok, stuck again. I’d like to have the home page be my static page, and another page be my posts page. I’ve located the Setting>Reading>to change the to static page, but the front page doesn’t have a dropdown so it doesn’t select anything…can’t name it as then it would be its own page…doesn’t make sense. Also if I select on the post to publish only to front page…it doesn’t listen here either and posts it on my ‘post’ page as well.
    I’d like to use the 3 showcase and descriptions as a menu, so do not want new post adding to the set items.
    Another subject, if I use the blog.php page, it posts all my posts including the bio and misc widgets in the middle column…why would it throw the widgets in there?

    And finally, I hope I’ve not gone over my bounds on requests, I cannot find previous comments…shows 22, but no link to view them.
    Thank you for your help…I’ll be happy after this! 🙂
    -Joni

  19. Eileen says:

    Hi Mina! I love this theme and believe me I have tried many. I am having the same problem on the Blog page. My bio and mis are at the bottom, It’s like it is bumped somehow like there is not room for it to fit. It isn’t in the footer, just the bottom of the post. Please check it out at my blog http://www.scrapbookingal.com. Thanks so much!
    Eileen

  20. Floyd says:

    Nevermind! Figured it out. Please delete comment.

  21. Zanti says:

    Hi Mina, I’m new to WP and blogging. I also love this theme. I have what I know is a very simple question. How do I add content in “About the author” and the “Welcome to our site?” Also how would I make a static page title a link. For instance, if Home was a link and when clicked on it would take you to my other site. I’m sorry, one last question, I don’t seem to be able to activate the calendar.

    Thanks for your help.

    Zanti

  22. Zanti says:

    Wow, Mina,

    Thank you so much for your time and assistance. I should have said re: the calendar, that it was not showing up. But, based on your answer, since I don’t have any post yet, maybe it shouldn’t. I’ll be working today to get everything set-up and creating some post.

    I’ll let you know if I run into any problems.

    Thanks again.

    Z

  23. Fran says:

    when you answeed Zanti’s post:

    The content for the About The Author section comes from your blog’s profile. Go to Admin >> Users >> Your Profile and scroll down to the section titled Biographical Info. Whatever you put in that box is what will show, just stay within the tags.

    To edit the Welcome to our site section go to Admin >> Appearances >> Editor >>misc.php and edit the text to add your own.

    Where am I to find this information in wordpress, /blog/wp-admin or in my cpanel in my hosting account? do I go to the sitmap? I’m not at this and I love the themes you offer but I’m confused. Nothing new on my part.

    Thanks for your help!

    Fran

  24. Zanti says:

    Hi Mina,

    Followed your direction re: the Author Section and the information that I’m putting in the biographical info is not showing up. I update profile and nothing. The welcome to our site is working fine, no problem.

    Is there a way to add a image in the author section instead of an Avatar? Update,

    When I go into edit theme, bio.php and add my info it works, but not from the bio profile.

    Thanks

  25. Zanti says:

    Hi Mina and thanks for your reply. I don’t think my last comment went through.

    No I did not edit the bio. php before adding the bio. info. What I did was added info in bio. info several times and nothing happened. I then went into bio. php and added info between p /p that is what is there now. Still no calendar. The link to the site is http://beyondbeliefcommunity.com/wordpress There is not much there right now, working on that as I write this.

    Thanks for your help.

  26. Zanti says:

    Mina, not sure if my questions are getting through. One more question. How or where, would I change the blog title color to black, or any other color. I’m assuming black would be 000000

    Thanks.

  27. Dante says:

    Hi, Mina.

    I contacted you a week ago or so via email about the Soho theme. I finally got my “disappearing/reappearing” theme issue fixed. I have a fairly good handle on most of the functionality of the theme but the one thing that has me scratching my head is why my posts don’t show up under the Current News header.

    The post titles show up in the footer under the Recent Posts section but not in the Current News section as in the theme preview. Any ideas?

    Thank you in advance for your help!

  28. Liz says:

    HI,
    I am so new to website design, that I’d love to get your help on a couple of things. I can ask my friend who set it up for me with wordpress and all, but I don’t want to wear out my welcome, so to speak. I just this website last month. I liked your theme best, the colors and the style. However, I can’t seem to find showcase page or how to set it up like your demo page. I also can’t seem to find the area to change the avatar. I’d rather have a picture of myself or something different. I think I can find some of this on wordpress, but I have to watch more youtube-how to do it informational videos.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Liz

  29. Paul says:

    This theme is really amazing. For people who have a just a moderate amount of tinkering ability like myself, this theme is really easy to adjust to just about anything you might want to do with it (although I haven’t really done much, yet). Especially thoughtful were the inclusions of a “blog” page template and a template with no sidebars. I also like that you’ve set up ready made archive pages that will be easy to copy and modify.

    Great, great work.

  30. Dante says:

    Hi, Mina.

    You wrote “The Current News section of the demo has posts from September because that is when I set the demo site up. The Showcase posts are newer because I added them specifically to demo this theme which was done in February.”

    That makes total sense now. I (think) I have it up and running just fine now. Got my gravatar setup and working, figured out how to work with the images, and I even put in a gallery. Thank you so much for your help. This is a really nice looking theme. Keep an eye on your PayPal account. 😉 -Dante