Objective
Create a flexible Magazine theme with options page to give user full control the layout and appearance.
Features
This is a list of (possible) features. Feel free to add your own ideas or comments.
- By default front page should look like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98478097@N00/3458799554/in/set-72157617074795732/
- Page Layout switcher: http://designm.ag/tutorials/jquery-display-switch/
- Lead/Featured article on front page with an option to let user select which post to show on that page from dashboard. If nothing selected it will display the latest post.
- Top stories next to Lead article.
- Latest comment under Top Stories or social/RSS buttons (Twitter, facebook…)
- jQuery Slider (carousel) to browse categories
- single.php: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98478097@N00/3458034881/in/set-72157617074795732/
- page.php: I haven’t created a design for this page but it could be something similar to single.php
- Thumbnail generator for front page or Automatic Image Resizer like the one used for the Arthemia theme.
- …
options Page:
Chris created an options page with:
- An otpion to display ad blocks in header or/and sidebar
- Change Layout width from 960px to 760px
- Advanced: link to css/js files
What I’d like to see:
- Breaking News Ticker: let user select articles to display in there or disable it completely from dashboard
- Favorite button: something similar to youtube. User can add article to his favorites if logged in and browse them on a separate page
Design
Alternative Color Schemes
Author Page
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Archive, Category, search Pages
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Competition
TEAM
Please, if you want to work on this theme leave a comment and I will add your name to the list:
- Jeremie
- Chris
- Yiannis
- Keith
- …
jeeremie 2:51 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink |
Theme is in development and can be seen at http://dev.wpsynergy.org/demos/pignews/
Web-kreation - WPSynergy.org – Opensource Wordpress Themes 12:00 pm on August 11, 2009 Permalink |
[...] are actively working on PigNews. You can follow the progress here (please, note we didn’t fix IE6’s bugs yet). However, [...]
Synergy Project Still Swinging 3:02 pm on August 12, 2009 Permalink |
[...] it’s really cool what those guys are doing. WP Synergy is currently working on a theme called PigNews which I’ve been anxiously waiting to see released for quite some time now. Based on the [...]
jeeremie 2:32 am on August 13, 2009 Permalink |
Another inspiration for Pignews: http://www.gabfirethemes.com/demos/advanced/
jauhari 2:22 pm on August 25, 2009 Permalink |
Extra Ordinary.. I like it
Resolutions for 2010 | mou.me.uk 9:32 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink |
[...] on my list are my commitments to WPSynergy. I’ve been working on polishing off the PigNews theme, a free magazine style theme for WordPress built around my side project, the SynTOF theme [...]
Dustin 5:35 am on March 14, 2010 Permalink |
Any updates on this? Would it be possible to get the most recent revision as a .zip file? Would save me the time of saving each file and folder from the SVN individually
jeeremie 5:42 am on March 14, 2010 Permalink |
With SVN you can save everything at once. You don’t need to save files individually. I will send you the ZIP archive by email anyway.
Dustin 3:16 am on April 3, 2010 Permalink |
The SVN is asking for a username and password…
Adding 'Older posts' to Hybrid News - WordPress Tavern Forum 12:08 am on May 9, 2010 Permalink |
[...] a blog layout. I can control excerpt presentation via a plugin so no worries about that. I wish PigNews would be released already but it's got a ways to go yet. WPTavern Twitter Account | Personal [...]