Greed

Are you greedy for sidebars? The official release of Greed, it’s finally here! Preview Greed.

Author information

Greed was designed and coded by Small Potato.

Theme Description

Greed is a three-column to five-column hybrid WordPress theme with ten widget-ready sidebars. Released under GPL, it’s the first released theme of the Seven Deadly Sins theme series.

Features

• Compatible with WordPress 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 series.
• Fixed-fluid width
• Easy to rotate the main column and sidebars. Double right sidebars example.
• Switchable banner, background color, and more through the theme options page.
• Able to hold an infinite number of sidebars. 30 sidebars example (10 default and 20 additionals).
• Compatible with / supports over two dozen plugins.

Files: (version .09 RC2)

• Download Greed
• Download Greed Light – This is the light version, which comes with only two visible, default sidebars.

Usage

To switch to a double right sidebars layout, go to the Greed Theme Options page and edit the values to match the following:

• Main column margins: 0 390px 0 0
• Sidebar A float: right
• Sidebar A margins: 0 10px 0 0
• Sidebar B float: right
• Sidebar B margins: 0 10px 0 0

To switch to a double left sidebars layout:

• Main column margins: 0 10px 0 380px
• Sidebar A float: left
• Sidebar A margins: 0 0 0 10px
• Sidebar B float: left
• Sidebar B margins: 0 0 0 10px

How to add more widget-ready sidebars:

1. Open the sidebar_3.php file
2. Copy everything. Go to the bottom of the same page and skip several lines.
3. Paste
4. Change the pasted “secondary_content” to “tertiary_content“
5. Below the tertiary_content area, find the numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Change them to 11, 12,… 15.
6. Save the sidebar_3.php file
7. Open the functions.php file
8. Find the number 10. Change it 15.
9. Save the functions.php file
10. Upload the edited sidebar_3.php and functions.php file to see the change.

How to add more non-widget-ready sidebars:

1. Follow the widget-ready sidebars instruction above, except for the steps that involve functions.php
2. Next, for every new sidebar, remove:
   <?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar() ) : else : ?> and <?php endif; ?>

How to use the pre-defined advertisement styles and files:

• Place your codes within the ads_728×90.php, ads_468×60.php, or ads_inline.php file.
• If you’re using the 468 or Inline ads, include them on your pages by using <div class=”ads_your_choice_here”><?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/ads_your_choice_here.php’); ?></div>
• (Do not copy and paste the codes I gave you. Type the codes to make them work correctly.)

Compatible With / Tested With / Supported Plugins

• Adsense Manager 2.0
• Articles 1.1
• Author Highlight
• Comment License
• flickRSS 3.2
• Get Recent Comments 1.5.5
• Google Analyticator 1.52
• IM Online 4.3
• NextGen Gallery 0.43
• Page Comments 2.6.2
• Popularity Contest 1.2.1
• Related Posts 2.04
• Share This 1.4
• Show Top Commentators 1.04
• Spam Karma 2
• Sociable 2.0
• Sphere Related Content 1.2
• Subscribe to Comments 2.1
• WP Ajax Edit Comments 1.0.6.5
• WP Download Monitor v1.5 B20070310
• WP Lightbox 2
• WP Pagenavi 2.10
• WP Polls 2.14
• WP Post Ratings 1.10
• WP Sticky
• WP User Online

Author’s Note

This theme has a link, linking back to WPDesigner.com in the footer.php file. You’re allowed to remove it. But if you like, keep it to credit me for creating this theme.

Design notes

For those who voted for WPDesigner.com, I’m sending you the beta (test) version of Greed, today. If I miss anyone, please let me know. Greed is a fixed-fluid width, three-column to five-column hybrid WordPress theme with ten widget-ready sidebars. So far, I’ve run into only one problem and it’s not a theme problem. It’s a WordPress problem. The WordPress Sidebar Widgets management page can’t seem to correctly display more than four widget-ready sidebars. But don’t worry, it’s only a display problem; you can use all ten sidebars. To place items in the sidebars 5 to 10, drag your item and use the FORWARD keyboard arrow at the same time. Note: This beta release does not include plugin support/integrations and theme options.

Since the sketch or wireframe, I added a banner and moved some things around. Usually, a WPDesigner theme has a lot of rounded corners. This theme has no rounded corners because I’m aiming for fixed-fluid width, without bloated DIV wrappers. So far so good, but I don’t like the color scheme. Do you have a better color scheme for this theme? Coding starts tomorrow.

I didn’t like the initial color scheme and felt that Greed didn’t have enough details. Instead of coding it, I changed the color scheme, designed and added my own icons, and moved some things around a bit. This isn’t the final version, but it’s pretty much what you can expect from Greed.   I have some computer problems to grind out before finalizing the design and coding. If you don’t hear from me then my computer hasn’t been fixed yet.

It’s been almost three months since the last WPDesigner theme release. I’m coming back to creating free WordPress themes with a theme series called, Seven Deadly Sins. Greed will be the first to be released. As you can see, Greed will have ten sidebars, if not eleven.

2.0.0 — Rebuilt as a modern block theme with accessible templates, responsive layout controls, and current WordPress and PHP compatibility.

We will keep the theme compatible with supported WordPress and PHP releases, refine accessibility, and publish focused improvements based on real user feedback.