It´s widget ready, of course, and in fact you may choose to activate all three of the built in sidebars or just go with my choice of display options, which you can see at the bottom of the page. Naturally you may wish to change only one or two of the sidebars, well, just do it. It´s up to you.

This is not a theme for absolute beginners, since you do need to edit the index.php page if you want to take advantage of the category display options (called GOLD and SILVER Categories) on the front page. Neither is the WP Gold Theme just another “normal” theme, but rather more like a mix between a standard web page and a weblog. A hybrid so to speak.

It´s all CSS, so feel free to play around with the stylesheet to achieve your personal look and feel. But remember, the footer of this theme may NOT be altered or removed if you intend to use this theme. See CCA License details here.

Now something about the themes way of displaying images and text.

This theme utilizes Custom Fields, in this case the fields “Thumbnail”, “Thumbnail Alt” and “Thumbnail Class”. If you do not know what Custom Fields are, please refer to the WordPress website for more information before reading on.

The custom field “Thumbnail” displays a picture when for instance you wish to use excerpts instead of the full post text when displaying text on the front page (or elsewhere) and must contain the path to the image in the Value Field, like this: /wp-content/uploads/custom/custom3.jpg.

The “Thumbnail Alt” Key Field allows you to give the image a description, which can be any text string of your choice.

The “Thumbnail Class” refers to the image class in the stylesheet. Like this in the case of this theme: custom-img.

You can, of course, add as many pictures you wish to your post the normal way, the custom fields only applies to the excerpts on the front page. All images will be automatically styled in the way that you can see in my examples. Feel free to work on the stylesheet to change the styling of borders etc.

Now, let´s have a glance at blockquotes and the like…

Blockquotes will be displayed like this:

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An ordered list

1. Do a cartwheel.
2. Sing into your hairbrush.
3. Walk barefoot in wet grass.
4. Play a song you like really loud, over and over.
5. Dot all your “i”’s with smiley faces.
6. Read the funnies. Throw the rest of the paper away.
7. Dunk your cookies.
8. Play a game where you make up the rules as you go along.
9. Step carefully over sidewalk cracks.
10. Change into some play clothes.

An unordered list

• 2 chickens
• 4 fish
• 3 horses
• 8 cows
• 7 sheep
• 13 eels
• 4 crows
• 9 men

Well, that´s it. Enjoy.