This is a Hybrid child theme, based off the Hybrid framework and the Hybrid News theme and uses the Hybrid Hook plugin.
It’s far from perfect but I like the way it looks and mimics the aero glass look of Windows 7. Of course you need a browser that supports these CSS3 effects like: rounded corners, alpha transparency and text shadows.
You’re looking at it now
A few things:
- Of course it requires the Hybrid theme framework to be installed.
- It supports a full page, resizable background image, using Chris Coyier’s method from CSS tricks (http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/). This is achieved using the Hyrbid Hook plugin, and placing the code to your background image in the “Before HTML” section of the Container Action Hooks.
- i.e.<img src="http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/hybrid-win7/images/bkg.jpg" /> - Because its based on the Hybrid News theme it has a custom front page, to utilize this feature, create a page and select the “Front Page” template, leave it blank. Then go into the “Reading” section of your WP settings, and select “Front page displays a static page”, then choose the page you created.
- The Twitter status is achieved using the Twitter for Wordpress plugin, and rather than hardcoding it in, or widgetizing it, I again used the Hybrid Hook plugin, and placed the code in the “Before Primary” section of the Widget Area Action Hooks like this:
<div class="twitter widget" >
<div class="twitter-top">
<h6 class="follow">Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/username/"><span>username</span></a> on twitter</h6>
</div>
<?php if(function_exists('twitter_messages')) { twitter_messages('username', 1, false, true, true, true, true, false); } ?>
</div>
It may seem a little complicated, but really its not. Feel free to leave a comment here if you have any questions about getting it to work.
The theme is 100% GPL licensed and you can download it here:
Windows 7 Fanboy Wordpress theme
Hope you enjoy the theme!
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