• Comes with 5 colour variations which can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• The theme uses it’s own theme logo by default but if you have your own logo image, upload it to the _templates/empire/assets directory that was auto-created when you installed the theme and enter it’s name on the Theme Variables tab. If this field is left blank the theme will display a text version of the site name and site slogan that you entered in the “Preferences/Basic” tab.
• The header block can also display either a banner-ad image with link or a Google Adsense banner. All settings are on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can specify the name for the homepage link in the navigation on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can specify the sections displayed in the main navigation and their order on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can enable or disable the category drop-down menus in the navigation on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can switch the display of the slider on or off on the Theme Variables tab.
• The slider section, height, display of the captions and display of the prev / next buttons can be set on the Theme Variables tab along with the quantity of articles displayed and the transition time, speed and type.
• “Slider” articles are specified with a custom_field.
• The front-page can display 2 articles from any section of your site, one above and one below the front-page widget block. These can be specified by article id number on the Theme Variables tab. If one of these settings is left blank no article will appear in that area or none at all if both are left blank.
• You can set the section and the display of individual_article paging for the gallery section on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the section and the display of individual_article paging for the portfolio section on the Theme Variables tab along with several other “slider-related” settings.
• You can set the article_list view quantity for several different areas of the site on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the length of the excerpt displayed in article_list view on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the width and height of the article_image thumbnails generated for display in article_list view on the Theme variables tab.
• Positioning of the article_image thumbnails is controlled on a “per article” basis using a custom_field.
• You can set the width and height of the article_image thumbnails generated for display in individual_article view on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set whether or not to use the “PrettyPhoto” light-box in individual_article view on the new “Theme Variables” tab.
• You can set which sections you want to allow “commenting” for on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the theme used by “PrettyPhoto” on the Theme Variables tab.
• For the “gallery” and “portfolio” sections, “PrettyPhoto” is set to “gallery mode” and you can determine whether it should be manual or auto operation on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the transition speed for “PrettyPhoto” in “auto mode” on the Theme Variables tab.
• The display of the contact form on the “Contact” page can be switched on or off on the Theme Variables tab.
• The contact form email address is entered on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can enable or disable the display of the Google map on the contact page as well as make several other setting adjustments for the map on the Theme Variables tab.
• No thumbnails are required anywhere due to the use of an image-resizing script.
• All widgets can be displayed in the “horizontal sidebar”, “extended footer” or “front-page widget block”.
• You can set which widgets are to be displayed in the “front-page widget block” and the “extended footer” on the Widgets tab.
• You can control various aspects of individual widget display on the Widgets tab.
• Widgets are included for Twitter, Flickr, image advert, archive menu, blogroll, tag cloud, recent posts, recent comments, calendar, text , category listing, get in touch, contact us, feedback and Feedburner subscription.
• Full documentation on how to use your theme can be conveniently referenced in the “Home/Documentation” tab.

This theme requires Textpattern 4.3.0 minimum.

Please note that this theme is not free and is only available for download from ProText Themes.

Yoko is a beautiful theme originally designed for Wordpress. It was created by Ellen and Manuel, who call themselves Elmastudio. It is very flexible as the showcase on the Yoko Website shows.

Therefore I decided to port it to Textpattern, as I would like to stay with my favorite CMS while also being able to use one of the best blog themes I have ever come across.

Thanks to the GPL license it is available at no cost.

In the spirit of sharing (and cos’ we’re nice), we have decided to release our “Hive” admin-side theme for the Textpattern CMS (v4.3.0 or greater) as a download. This is the same theme we use on all our commercial website builds.

This theme has been tested within a limited commercial setting with no reported problems (and we’ve tested internally with Chrome 10, Safari 5, Firefox 4, Opera 11 and Internet Explorer 9) but there may be a few bugs that slipped through the testing net, especially in older less capable browsers (AKA IE7 and IE8).

Notable features

• Clean, simple yet functional design.
• Semi-liquid layout adjusts to larger/thinner screen widths (down to 768px).
• Monospaced font for all text input fields, since it’s much easier to spot typos/formating (sic!) errors in a monospaced font.
• Minimal use of images – keeps the theme lightweight and fast.
• An extra ‘custom.css’ CSS file where any styling specific to popular Textpattern plugins (that don’t follow the standard Textpattern layout structure) can be stored. This will be updated periodically with fixes for any popular plugins that currently look hideous in the theme, and can be fixed via CSS.
• Also within the ‘custom.css’ file, there are commented out lines which can be used to easily hide any sections of the write/edit screen that are not used in a particular project. See this forum post for details on why that’s good.

One last thing

In this theme, the 3 preview tabs on article write/article edit forms have been removed to save screen estate. They were arguably pretty useless anyway so they were dropped, we have never used them in all our time with Textpattern.

If you really do want to enable these tabs again then comment out the following line near the middle of the theme’s ‘textpattern.css’ file (you’ll have to add some custom styling to them though)…

#article-tabs{display:none;}

We hope you find the theme useful in your projects and continue to find success using the wonderful Textpattern CMS.

v1.2.3

• The !important class on textareas to override inline styling on glz_custom_field elements was stopping users from manually resizing any of their textareas within the theme (in browsers that support resizing). A better compromise has been devised now.

v1.2.2

• Change to more standard version labelling and use Textgarden.org download link.
• The dropdown menu code has been rewritten to be more usable on touchscreen devices without compromising the desktop version. For example you can now close active dropdown menus on touchscreen devices nicely, and top navigation buttons are now links again like they were in v1.1.
• Tidy up of code in ‘hive.php’ to make editing/customising easier.
• Added styling for the tru_tags plugin in ‘custom.css’, thanks to Stuart Butcher.
• Form preview button is now removed and other fields on the form page inlined to save some screen estate, thanks to Stuart Butcher.
• CSS cleanup: make ‘outline:none’ now ‘outline:0’ and ‘border:none’ now ‘border:0’.
• Amend language uploader area CSS, as structure changed slightly in TXP v4.4.1.
• Fixed a major display bug when using both glz_custom_fields and bot_wtc plugins.
• Style up the wet_quicklink plugin text ‘Insert Link’ as a button.

v1.2.1

• fix for non-clickable tag-builder links in Safari

v1.2

• dropdown menu now works on touchscreen devices
• added tap highlight colour for mobile webkit browsers
• added responsive CSS for detecting 768px portait screen orientation and adjust page width accordingly
• reset CSS moved to an external @import, since we need that to load before all other CSS files (otherwise it could override colour scheme rules)

v1.1

• you can now choose between 3 different colour schemes: default, green and blue. To change the colour scheme amend URL of line 7 in the “custom.css” file – see the “readme.txt” for full info. More colours will be added in future updates or you can easily create your own by modifying one of the css files within the “color” directory.
• added minor styling for “rah_external_output” plugin.

This theme is the first (shiny) Tumblog theme for Textpattern with a lot of jQuery goodness, some gorgeous icons and let’s not forget to mention the new “Theme Variables” and “Widgets” tabs so that you can easily tailor it to your needs.

Installation uses the brand new “cxc_templates” plugin, making installation almost as easy as with WordPress guaranteed.

Browser compatibility: IE 7, IE 8, Opera 9.6, Gecko 1.9+ (Camino 2.0b4+, Firefox 3.0+), Safari 3+, Chrome 2+.

This theme requires PHP5.

• Comes with 10 colour variations which can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• The theme uses it’s own theme logo by default but if you have your own logo image, upload it to the _templates/boast/assets directory that was auto-created when you installed the theme and enter it’s name on the Theme Variables tab. If this field is left blank the theme will display a styled text version of the site name and site slogan that you entered in the “Preferences/Basic” tab.
• You can specify the sections displayed in the main navigation and their order on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can switch the display of the slider on or off on the Theme Variables tab.
• Both the “slider” and the front-page article_list will display articles “allowed” on the front-page via the section settings.
• “Slider” articles are specified with a custom_field.
• You can set the quantity of articles displayed by the slider on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the height of the slider on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the slider to static or automatic on the Theme Variables tab.
• If you have the slider set up for automatic operation, when a visitor uses one of the side navigation links automatic operation is stopped, however you can set the time elapsed before automatic operation restarts on the Theme Variables tab.
• The speed of the slide transition can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• The speed of the fade transition can be set on the new Theme Variables tab.
• The front-page article_list title and button link can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• The front-page article_list display quantity can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• Whether to display paging for the front-page article_list can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• For sections other than the front-page you can set the article_list view quantity on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the article_list view quantity for search results on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the length of the excerpt displayed in article_list view on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the width and height of the article_image thumbnails generated for display in article_list view on the Theme variables tab.
• Positioning of the article_image thumbnails is controlled on a “per article” basis using a custom_field.
• In article_list view the latest article is displayed in a “feature” box and the height and width of the generated article_image thumbnail can be set on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the height and width of the article_image thumbnails generated for the articles displayed in the “feature” box on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set whether to display the article_image thumbnails in individual_article view on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the width and height of the article_image thumbnails generated for display in individual_article view on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set whether or not to use the “PrettyPhoto” light-box in individual_article view on the new “Theme Variables” tab.
• You can set which sections you want to allow “commenting” for on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the “galleries” section on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the theme used by “PrettyPhoto” on the Theme Variables tab.
• For the “gallery” section, “PrettyPhoto is set to “gallery mode” and you can determine whether it should be manual or auto operation on the Theme Variables tab.
• You can set the transition speed for “PrettyPhoto” in “auto mode” on the Theme Variables tab.
• The display of the contact form on the “Contact” page can be switched on or off on the Theme Variables tab.
• The contact form email address is entered on the Theme Variables tab. If you have set the above field to display the contact form but haven’t entered a valid email address the form will not be displayed as it is pointless to do so. An “info box” will be displayed instead telling you to get the job done properly.
• By default the theme will use the standard textpattern feed tags however if you have a Feedburner account you can enter it’s name on the Theme Variables tab and feed links will point to that instead. This setting is also used for the “Feedburner Subscription” widget.
• Gallery forms are included for use in the “gallery” section. No plugin or thumbnails required. In fact no thumbnails are required anywhere.
• All widgets can be displayed in the “horizontal sidebar” or the “extended footer” or both with the exception of the Twitter widget which can only be displayed once on a page.
• You can set which widgets are to be displayed in the “horizontal sidebar” and the “extended footer” on the Widgets tab.
• You can control various aspects of individual widget display on the Widgets tab.
• Widgets are included for Twitter, Flickr, image advert, Google advert, archive menu, author (individual_article view only), blogroll, tag cloud, recent posts, recent comments, calendar, text (x2), category listing and Feedburner subscription.
• Full documentation on how to use your theme can be conveniently referenced in the “Home/Documentation” tab.

This theme requires Textpattern 4.3.0 minimum.

Please note that this theme is not free and is only available for download from ProText Themes.