Hrw Big Blue theme for WordPress 2.3

January 10th, 2008 | by Marcin Juszkiewicz

Few months ago I switched my website to “Big Blue” theme created by Bob. Then did some changes to it:

  • Wordpress tags are used instead of categories
  • Post author is shown
  • Doctype changed to XHTML 1.0 Strict
  • “Home” link removed
  • Archive/search/category views use full contents of posts instead of excerpts
  • removed default sidebar contents (use Presentation->Widgets to set them)
  • single post view does not show tags

Also CSS changes:

  • removed extra font-family settings - only body, pre & code has font family set
  • comment form is scaled to 80%
  • Calendar widget takes 100% width and has properly aligned Prev/Next links
  • blockquote is more visible
  • <q> quotes are italic
  • BSuite plugin highlighting of search entries
  • Author comments are marked

Download and enjoy.

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  1. 8 Responses to “Hrw Big Blue theme for WordPress 2.3”

  2. By waidakmy on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    hi,

    i’m wondering why is it the theme you use is working fine in both IE & Firefox, but mine sucks in IE?

    FYI, i’ve downloaded already your version of this theme, but the same thing still happen.

    you can try to open my blog to see it.

    thanks :)

  3. By Marcin Juszkiewicz on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    waidakmy: I am not too familiar with CSS hacking when it comes to MSIE bugs. All my machines runs Linux so I do not have a way to legally run MSIE for checking sites.

  4. By Sadhu on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    http://browsershots.org/

  5. By Marcin Juszkiewicz on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    waidakmy: remove textwidget (the one with photo) and then check. It has broken content as div->li is not correct.

  6. By Hadar Pedhazur on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for doing this. I have been running the bigblue theme for a few months now, and I like it, but I commented out one css line that was attempting load a non-existent gif, etc.

    I just changed my site to use your theme. Just an FYI that you hard-code Wordpress MU in the footer.php file. My site isn’t running that, just plain old WP 2.3.2, so I changed it in the file. Not sure if the software can automatically determine what it’s running under or not.

    Thanks again!

  7. By Marcin Juszkiewicz on Jan 12, 2008 | Reply

    Hadar: It is possible to check WP <> WPMU and I will probably add something to footer.php if I will be making new release.

  8. By waidakmy on Jan 22, 2008 | Reply

    Marcin Juszkiewicz, thanks for the reply :) however, it’s much easier to just find another template without cracking my head to figure it out :D

  9. By Arvind on Jul 10, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks for the post.

    “Home” link removed

    Archive/search/category views use full contents of posts instead of excerpts

    Which file do we need to edit to get those two things ?

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