Connections Reloaded

Overview
Features
Downloads
Donations
Installing
Demo
Changelog
Questions & Known Bugs

Overview

Connections Reloaded is a complete reload of the highly popular and extremely beautiful Connections theme by Patricia Müller.

Features

  • Though the DOCTYPE is XHTML 1.0 Transitional, it perfectly XHTML 1.1 compatible.
  • Perfectly compatible with WordPress 1.5 and above.
  • Support for WordPress Widgets. Includes inbuilt widgets for calendar and search
  • Support for Gravatars.
  • Single sidebar, footer and header file are used , thus ensuring ease of use and sitewide modification by editting as little files as possible.

Some of the things I changed about the original theme are:

  • Made a single sidebar file for all the pages. It uses WP’s conditional tags to load the uncommon parts of the sidebar. Also added feeds, and miscellaneous stuff. See Variable Sidebar Content.
  • Also modified the header and footer templates so as to remove the redundancy across the Main, Page, Archive, Post, Search etc. templates. So, in the future if you want to change anything in the header or footer, you need to update a single file and not all.
  • Added the 404 template to catch 404 errors. (I wish WordPress incorporated the other errors as well!)
  • Modified the CSS file to add what was needed for my plugins and also added a whole set of settings to make the Live Calendar melt into the rest of the site. If Live Calendar is not installed, then the default WP Calendar is displayed
  • Created Archives and Links template for my Archives and Links page obviously, as in Spirit. Deleted the date.php which is the date template used when a date is queried
  • Also created another template I called Pages with Comments. I felt the need to let my visitors comment on my plugins and hacks, while preventing them from commenting on other pages like the About and Rules pages. I couldn’t use the normal Pages template mainly because it didn’t display the comments form. Also, didn’t want to add the comments form to it, as then it would display across all the pages, which is what I didn’t desire. So, that is where the Pages with Comments template came into the picture. Now for pages where I would like to enable commenting, I use the above template. :)
  • Updated the Comments template, so that the comments form is only displayed for Single Post and Pages with Templates pages.
  • Added the code for a favicon.ico in the Header. Please make sure you create and upload a favicon.ico in your blog root or comment out the code in the header.php file.
  • Modified the footer to add Wordpress statistics.
  • Have added five new classes to style.css, viz. alignleft, alignright, center, left and right. The first three are aligns, the last two are floats.

Downloads

Donations

Themes don’t write themselves, people do. The creation, testing and development of a theme requires lots of time and effort. If you like the theme and find it useful and would like to donate something for my work please do click the Paypal Donate button below. The payment is secure. The amount hasn’t been filled in so you can enter whatever amount you choose to donate. Thank you :)

Installing

  • Unzip the contents of the zip.
  • Copy the whole folder into your wordpress’s wp-content/themes/ folder. You will get a folder connections-reloaded.
  • Go to the Presentation area of your WordPress Admin and Select the ‘Connections Reloaded’
  • Create the following pages in wp-admin: About, Archives, Links, Contact. For Archives and Links please choose the Archive and Links template respectively. Ensure that you have permalinks turned on (Select Date and name based or your custom structure), or modify the links in header.php to reflect the modified pages. Note that selecting Numeric based structure as your permalinks causes a clash when your Archives page post-slug is archives. If you would like to use this structure, change your post-slug to something else, e.g. archived (note ‘d’ instead of ’s’).

Demo

Questions & Known Bugs

If you know of any bugs or have any questions then please post the same in the support forum.

- Download Connections Reloaded from WordPress Theme Directory
- Download Connections Reloaded Header
- Connections Reloaded Demo

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26 Total Responses to “ Connections Reloaded ”

Comments:

  1. nick says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    Do you know that your WP theme is everywhere on the internet? I’ve seen it in so many places. The only negative issue is that you didn’t make it adsense ready, and also you can not put adsense code on the left column which is the best.

    Anyhow it is a clean and great theme

    Nick

  2. Ajay says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Thanks Nick. I won’t be making major changes to this theme. However, will do so to any new themes I release in the future.

  3. Geoserv says:
    August 25th, 2008 at 4:16 am

    Very nice template, downloaded and will tinker with it.

    Thanks.

  4. Electrical Edgar Allen says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Ajay man,

    This is an awesome theme and like Nick said above, I’ve seen this everywhere too. Thanks for providing us with this nice free theme. Much appreciated.

    Edgar

  5. Cornelia Moore says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    I’ve always loved the Connections theme, and your modifications have made it even more valuable. Thansk very much.

  6. Blog Flipping Bryan says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    That’s pretty awesome. I like the connections theme, and you have definitely improved upon that. Looks awesome!

  7. aşkı memnu says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 4:24 am

    wonderful - thanks =) it’s amazing

  8. Vadim says:
    September 5th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Nice one! thanks for that i`ll try it!

  9. SEEPEX says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 1:31 am

    This was one of the first themes that I have ever used in my blog. I think I will donwload the reload version and reuse. Thanks Ajay.

  10. Helen Kosmos says:
    September 7th, 2008 at 12:08 am

    It is a very nice theme.The Connections theme is one of my favourites.

  11. Matt Serwin says:
    September 9th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    I have liked connections, so connections reloaded is probably really great.

  12. Chetan says:
    September 14th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    This is wonderful theme. Keep up the nice work. This will work fine with personnel blogs.

  13. Sebastian says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    Amazin Theme. I’m big fan of wordpress - I have a lot of wordpress blogs. Thanks for sharing

  14. Abhishek says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    Lovely theme, Great work mate !!

  15. Bill says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am

    That’s a very nice looking theme. I especially like the shade of green. It is very appealing and easy for people to read.

  16. Chetan says:
    September 20th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Nice theme, thanks for sharing.

  17. Jay says:
    September 21st, 2008 at 6:23 am

    This is a pretty cool theme that like everyone else, I have seen all over the place. Keep up the good work, the wordpress community would fail to thrive if it wasn’t for hardworking designers like you.

  18. Michael Smith says:
    September 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    This is an awesome theme! I’ve seen this everywhere too. Thanks you!

  19. Anastasia says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Very nice template. I enjoy using it.
    Thanks a lot

  20. sharon says:
    September 26th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Yes,

    This is a very nice template. I came across it on dosh dosh, and I like the clean theme. Very nice work. Will look forward to your future adsense themes.

    Sharon

  21. Carvoeiro says:
    October 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Very cool theme, thanks for making and sharing it with everyone!

  22. Jeff says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 4:35 am

    This theme is very nice, I’m looking for a new one and this works perfectly. Thanks!

  23. Danny says:
    October 18th, 2008 at 4:37 am

    I really like the header photo. Where is that tunnel from anyway?

  24. Ajay says:
    October 19th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    Absolutely no clue :)



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