The Privateer Theme

I’ve just finished updating the Privateer Theme to version 1.7, which is a fairly minor version update which replaces the menu system, adds support for the new WordPress 3.0 Menus, and rolls all bug fixes into 1.6.

I’m doing some final testing, but ( as you can see ) things appear to be working well. Note that the menu shown at the top of this site is using the new wordpress 3.0 menus.

Continue reading The Privateer Theme v1.7 with WordPress 3.0 Menu Support

This quick set requires a little more work than most of the others that I have put up so far, but I think that it gives a nice look and illustrates how to do a few things that some people might be asking about.

By creating new gradients and altering the quick set as illustrated in the Quick Set Image, Color, and File Replacement tutorial, you can get a lot of nice looks with this quick set.

Continue reading Clean White Blue Quick Set

This quick set is gradient heavy, using small gradient image files to style many different parts of the site.

Introduced via the Quick Set Image and Color Replacement Tutorial, by following the tutorial instructions you can easily and quickly change the gradients used, the file locations, and the text and link colors by editing the quick set file and doing a few search and replace operations.

Continue reading Fading Colors: Pink and Black

Version 1.1 of the PWS WP Ad Manager is now available.

New features include:

• More sorting options
  You can now choose to display ad spots in date, descending date, title, descending title, menu order, descending menu order, comment count, and descending comment count order in addition to the normal random order.
• Category Association
  With the new related-cat=1 override, you can choose to have only ads which share a category with the current post, page, or category archive page show up while having your normally displayed items show on pages that do not have category associations.
• Tag Association
  With the new related-tag=1 override, you can choose to have ads show up based upon the current pages tags.
• Not on Post/Page
  With the new noshowon override, you can provide a list of post and/or page ids to have the ad block simply not show up on those posts and pages.

If you received version 1.0 of the Ad Manager, you should shortly get a download link to version 1.1 via email.

With a little bit of css knowledge and the ability to create gradients, you can get a lot of nice looks with the Privateer Theme quite easily.

This tutorial covers applying gradients and rounded corners to the the following items within the Privateer:

• The date feed site header bar
• The widget titles
• The post titles

You can certainly apply it to most other things within the theme though, at this time, you need to edit core_css.php in order to do this with the page menu bar and category menu bar.

Continue reading Applying gradients and rounded corners to the Privateer Theme

Although not readily apparent, it is actually fairly easy to create non-blog looking web sites for WordPress using the Privateer Theme. Of course, it can be handy to know some basic html and css when attempting to do so.

This tutorial covers a few different things related to making your WordPress site look more like a business web site and less like a blog.

Continue reading Creating non-blog wordpress looks with the Privateer Theme

This tutorial covers quickly changing the colors, images, and file paths of existing quick sets to get the same look in completely different colors.

Rather than spending my time creating the same look in various colors which you may or may not like, I am going to go forward by creating new looks that have distinct layouts along with the basic information needed to use this tutorial to quickly change the colors and/or images used.

Continue reading Quick Set Image, Color, and File Replacement Tutorial

This quick set is gradient heavy, using small gradient image files to style many different parts of the site.

Introduced via the Quick Set Image and Color Replacement Tutorial, by following the tutorial instructions you can easily and quickly change the gradients used, the file locations, and the text and link colors by editing the quick set file and doing a few search and replace operations.

Continue reading Fading Colors: Green and Black

This quick set is gradient heavy, using small gradient image files to style many different parts of the site.

Introduced via the Quick Set Image and Color Replacement Tutorial, by following the tutorial instructions you can easily and quickly change the gradients used, the file locations, and the text and link colors by editing the quick set file and doing a few search and replace operations.

Continue reading Fading Colors: Light Blue and Black

If you run Affiliate, PPA, or PPC ad spots on a wordpress site, you can use the PWS WP Ad Manager plugin to place random selections of advertisements where you want on your site.

This tutorial covers placing such ads using the PWS Ad manager with both the Privateer theme and other themes.

Continue reading Placing Affiliate, PPA, and PPC ad Spots With the PWS WP Ad Manager Plugin for WordPress