Free WordPress Theme: Apollo
Apollo is a free WordPress theme with a few added user options.
You can customize most of the display: 1 or 2 sidebars, left or right layout, fonts, rss feeds, gravatars, show pingbacks etc.
The design? - it’s fairly bland and shouldn’t distract from the content of your blog…
Features
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and valid CSS
- 4 layout options - 2 column left or right sidebar, and 3 column with main content center or left. The horizontal navbar shows either Pages or Categories - (further customizable by editing list functions).
- Gravatars are optional, WP gravatar plugin not required.
- User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks.
- Optional show or hide pingbacks and trackbacks.
- Customize body and heading fonts (Arial, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, Tahoma or Verdana ) Customize Link and heading colors.
- A choice of logo (19 so far) - or none.
Compatible with WordPress 2 upwards, including 2.5 and 2.5.1
The theme has been tested on Firefox 2,3 Internet Explorer 6,7 and Opera 9.
Demonstration: Apollo demo.
Download: Apollo WordPress Theme v1.3 - apollo.zip - apollo.tar
Release Notes:
This theme is not sponsored.
Released under the terms of GPL v2.
This theme makes use of Crystal Clear icons by Everaldo Coelho et al (LGPL) and modified famfamfam silk icons - thank you to those concerned.
Support linux and happy May 1st to you all…
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By David D, July 2, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
Looks good and not taking away from the content has got to be good!
By Sheels, July 3, 2008 @ 1:12 am
On my default install of WP, the only button that shows up is “home”. How do I go about adding other elements to my top nav,
By Marcus, July 7, 2008 @ 3:13 am
@Sheels
Try adding some pages - if the menu is set to ‘pages’, or add categories if not…
By Cas, July 9, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
I love how customizable this theme is. I can’t believe this isn’t a sponsored theme! Thank you so much for releasing this.
By alex, July 10, 2008 @ 5:43 am
pretty nice theme and clear. thank you for providing it for free
By Steven D. Krause, July 12, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
I really like this theme and I’d love to use it to update a site I run. But I would kind of like to change the dark grey header with a graphic. Is there any easy way to do this? Is this a CSS thing perhaps?
By steve, July 13, 2008 @ 4:42 am
Great theme - one suggestion - could there be an option to not have a horizontal menu whilst keeping the option for RSS.
Many thanks
By Drew, July 13, 2008 @ 6:32 pm
Steve, at the end of your header.php file, comment out as shown below
_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
<!– –>
_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
it will leave the RSS links in but pull the horizontal menu out
By Drew, July 13, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
whoops, didn’t realize it’d cut out code. at the end of the header.php file, comment out the php ap buildMenu function.
By Ankur, July 13, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
The theme is really awesome but I am having a problem,I do have lot’s of subpages in my site and all the subpages are shown in the header as I have shown in the image below,so is it possible that the theme doesn’t show the subpages,if yes then please do help.
Here is the image-
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/613/capturebm9.jpg
By Marcus, July 14, 2008 @ 12:58 am
@steve
Very good point, I’ve put it on the todo list.
@Drew
Thanks, I guess steve was thinking in terms of the average punter and putting it as option in the admin
@Ankur
It’s all configurable in the functions.php - I’ll write a post as soon as time permits, giving all the possibilities, but for now in function ap_buildPageMenu, set ‘depth’ => 1, or use ‘exclude’
By John, July 15, 2008 @ 9:37 am
I like the theme a lot, especially the configurability. Good job!
By My Blog Posts, July 15, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
I am using this theme. It is great for displaying my posts. My query is since it is released under the terms of GPL v2, is it required to keep credits for the theme, icons, etc. ?
By steve, July 16, 2008 @ 4:12 am
Marcus - thanks for picking that up, you are quite correct, the average punter (or lazy article like me) would rather have a admin config option than dive into code, saves a whole load of change control which makes for easier upgrades etc especially when your focus is the site rather than the tech.
Drew - thanks for the input though.
By Scott, July 18, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Wow! Awesome theme! I have it on three different blogs configured three different ways and haven’t TOUCHED any of the coding. Impressive and THANK YOU!