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The Daily Grind Wordpress Theme

Description of The Daily Grind WordPress Theme:

The Daily Grind owes a debt of gratitude to Starkers, a “bare-bones WordPress theme created to act as a starting point for the theme designer.” So thank you, Starkers. Also, the theme is based off the tremendous work of Vladimir Carrer’s Golden Grid. So thank you, Vladimir.

I wish I could say this is an entirely simple theme, which requires little to no attention – but alas, I think I cannot. Each post is a separate category, divided into 7 articles (plus some ads). If you count from left to right, moving clockwise, you can count 7 articles, one of which is a podcast. The intention of this theme is to reflect a newspaper style layout in wordpress. Implementing Carrer’s grid, to my thinking, was the best and most unique way to deliver this kind of style. There is great flexibility in how these articles can be arranged.

In the demo version – I used 7 categories (first-article, second-article, etc.) as well as categories based on topic, like Technology, World, Politics, etc. Of course, this is entirely optional.

The Daily Grind Theme does require some attention. You have to activate Get The Image – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-the-image/. I have commented out the wp-postratings and wp-postviews which can be found in the middle.php and bottom.php pages. Just activate those plugins and uncomment the code, and it will look like the preview (after you add some posts). For smaller images to be displayed within the articles you should activate this plugin: Get Custom Field Values by Coffee2Code http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/get-custom-field-values/ – this resizes images automatically to fit the size and proportions of the article width.

You may wish to read the tdg-read-me.txt file before working with the theme; it explains in more detail how the theme is organized. I tried to simplify it as best as possible.

Please tell me what you think. And if you use it, I’d love to know and see how it works out!

Here’s screenshot of the top half:

See Demo Here

Plugins:

Get The Image – here

Get Custom Field Values by Coffee2Code here

WP-PostViews by Lester Chan here

WP-PostRatings by Lester Chan here


the daily grind wordpress theme - A newspaper-style wordpress theme created by siiimple

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enjoy!
Justin from siiimple

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27 Responses to “The Daily Grind WordPress Theme”

  1. amarat says:
    May 11, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Hi, i want to use this theme because it is so beautiful, but i have a some problem.

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_excerpt_reloaded() in /home/muhasebe/public_html/wp-content/themes/tdg-theme/index.php on line 32

    you can see, http://muhaseberehberi.com

    Could you help me?

  2. Justin Justin says:
    May 13, 2010 at 11:28 am

    Hi

    Make sure you install the “excerpt reloaded” plugin. That should resolve the issue.

  3. weeper says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:45 pm

    beautiful!!

  4. Jeff says:
    July 10, 2010 at 7:15 am

    I love this template. Can someone install it and teach how to edit it? How much for this service? I just need someone to teach an old dog some new tricks. Thanks!

  5. Web Guru says:
    July 20, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    A very professional wordpress theme.

  6. PeterQ says:
    July 23, 2010 at 3:40 am

    Justin, I would like to make some mods to this, and roll them back into your master set, if that is OK? One immediate question. What is the title font?

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