Blue Horizon

October 20th, 2005 by Kaushal Sheth

As promised I have released my first theme named as Blue Horizon. More about it can be found here. Enjoy the theme.

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85 Responses

  1. Jonathan Says:

    You do realize you really didn’t change much at all. You basically just changed the header and the colors and then called it your own. I’m failing to see how different it is than geekmakemehot’s original theme.

  2. Administrator Says:

    I know that. Have just started learning theming in Wordpress. Idea is to share the colour variant of theme with communty which I also made clear with original author Jennifer.

    It’s with consent of Jennifer that I have released this theme.

    Regards,
    Kaushal Sheth

  3. david Says:

    It’s a lovely theme. And Jonathan, remember: if you don’t have anything nice to say, then just don’t leave a comment — yes, it’s not an “orginal” theme, but the picture and colors are not something I’ve seen before, so this qualifies as a “new” theme in my book.

  4. knotty Says:

    Thanks a lot Kaushal, it’s my favorite color of blue and the header pic is great. I just used it right out of the box, no other customizations needed for me.

  5. Kaushal Sheth » Maple Leaf Released Says:

    […] Well after success of Blue Horizon tried to play with color’s one more time and came up with one more of its color variant named as Maple Leaf . […]

  6. Twisted Says:

    I like both of the layouts. It’s basically what I have been wanting in the long run. =) I have just downloaded the two themes now, but might just put it up on a test word press site to modify it some more though. I’d marry whoever it is that could add a drop down menu with subs to the top nav… haha… naa just kidding. It shouldn’t be too hard I guess…might just try it once then. Thanks again though for the wonderful themes..

    Twisted

    P.S. The idea for what I want is, basically the same overall layout and syle as wordpress.org but in the top nav bar, drop downs with submenus in css of course. =)

  7. Moris Says:

    Excuse my ignorance, but how do you edit the links in the blue string (Link1, Link2, etc.). Also, how do you edit the Tagline?

  8. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    Open header.php file of theme and search for term Tagline here and Link1 and change it.

    You can use Ctrl+F to search for the above term and just replace it with your tag line and link. Links can be given proper a href accoridng to your needs.

    If still you are getting problems let me know.

  9. Hermes Says:

    Thanks for that Great Theme!
    I love the Picture and the colors.
    The one with the Leaves is great also. So bad that I have not seen it earlyer for autum.

    Greez Hermes

  10. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    Thank You for taking time to appreciate.

  11. CellphoneSavant Says:

    I love the theme!! The picture you used is amazing!

  12. Kenny Says:

    Hi there..

    just installed this skin over at my blog, great skin btw… really nice combination of colors etc..

    its just one thing…
    When I wanted to change the “tagline here” to my own text.. it wouldent work..could you say why ?

    cheers.

    PS!! sorry for “bringing” up a quesion on a old post..

  13. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    open header.php of the theme and search for term ” Tagline Here” and replace with your Tagline.

    I hope this will solve your problem.

  14. kenny Says:

    thx, worked fine :)

    you do some great work btw …
    is it okay that I add u to my “bloggroll” ?

    cheers,
    kenny

  15. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    Yeah no problem . Feel free to add me to blogroll. Just wait for KryptonX to release. Its gonna be cool, with its new menu structure whose just 20% capabilities you are seeing at this site.

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  17. Benjamin Says:

    Very great theme! When I wanna add a calender use “php get_calendar(); ?” in the sidebar area (replace wp_get_archives), it display into wrong place. Do you know why? many thanks.

  18. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    Currently theme doesn’t work well with calendar. I didn’t take that into consideratino while designing this theme. Maybe future update of this theme will support wp calendar.

  19. Billy Says:

    I have it installed to my themes subdirectory but it still does not appear in the WP panel, even after cycling WP, did I miss something? Sorry, first time. TIA.

  20. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    Please ask http://wordpress.org/support/ regarding your problem. Seems you haven’t installed it properly or made something went wrong during installation.

  21. Srinath Says:

    where to download theme for v2 ?
    Thanks

  22. deckchair guru Says:

    This is great theme, thanks. I now have it at my site and just did some basic colour and layout changes and it’s come up a treat. It is one you could use as is, no dramas, and it’s pretty easy to customise it too (I spent about two hours playng with it, as a newbie to code, and have it sorted now).

    Thanks again :)

  23. Elijah Chancey Says:

    I am AMAZED at the header photograph. Where did you find it? Who is the photographer?

    Elijah

  24. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    I found it while I was searching for a skin for Jalbum. The exact header image address is given in style.css ;)

  25. Wordpress 2.0 and Some New Features-- david brunelle dot com Says:

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  26. Sue Says:

    This is a beautiful template. The colours are just right and it looks great with small or large amounts of text. I can’t wait to get my site live so I can try it “live”.

    Congratulations on a job well done!

    Can I ask if it’s part of the design that sub-page links in the sidebar don’t indent? I was going to try & change it (which really scares me), then I thought it might be a deliberate thing.

  27. Chris Says:

    Hi, I have installed your theme (finally one I liked) and wonder if you could advise me with a little problem? On my site with your theme, there is a big white gap between the first post on the page and the top menu above it, there is also too much white space on the right between the content and the main menu.

    I really would like to remove these, or less, these white spaces. How would I go about doing this?

  28. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    1>Open style.css and search for following line:
    #content {float: left;width: 490px; padding-top: 40px;}
    and change it to
    #content {float: left;width: 490px; padding-top: 20px;}

    2>Next search for this line
    h3 {font: 24px ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana,
    sans-serif; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 30px;color: #17397A;
    }

    And change it to
    h3 {font: 18px ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana,
    sans-serif; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 30px;color: #17397A;
    }

  29. Darius Says:

    Hello, I’m having a bit of a problem with this theme. I installed it, changed the header image, and was very pleased with the design. However, when I look at it in Internet Explorer (6.0), the sidebar appears at the bottom of the screen below all the posts. Also, when I look at it in Safari (1.2), the whole page is blue–there is no white column in the middle, and the things in the footer appear in the sidebar. The Safari issue could just be due to it being an old version, but about half of my visitors use IE. Could it be something I did, or is IE just lacking in CSS support?

  30. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    @ Darrius just reduce the width of images used in post and your problem will be solved

  31. David Esrati Says:

    Hi Kasuhal-
    A lot of people like your theme-
    my question is- why is all this in the header of the download:?

    It would seem you are helping someone else get indexed.

  32. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    I did not get what you mean david . But perhaps you mean about meta tags. I will soon change it

  33. Eric Says:

    Wonderful theme…newbie question… when my site loads I get this message at the top of the sidebar: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/littlebi/public_html/wp-content/themes/bluehorizon/sidebar.php on line 19

    Any thoughts?

    The code in question is as follows:

    Themes

    get_results(”SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”); foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
    ?>
    cat_id; ?>”>cat_name; ?>

    cat_id); ?>

    Forgive my ignorance… :)

  34. Eric Says:

    Just an addtion…I’ve no plugins activated and have done no modifications to the theme thus far…

  35. Eric Says:

    Oops… :( I think I copied the wrong sidebar code…

    get_results(”SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”);
    foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
    ?>
    cat_id; ?>”>cat_name; ?>

    cat_id); ?>

  36. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    Eric I think you are having problem with Blogroll . Did you delete blogroll by any chance (links )?. The immediate and effective way to solve the problem would be to remove the following lines of code from sidebar.php


    < ?php
    $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");
    foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
    ?>
      <li id="linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>"><h4>< ?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h4>
       <ul>
        < ?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?>
       </ul>
      </li>
    < ?php } ?>

  37. Ideologist Says:

    Hi Kaushal. Congratulations.
    Do you know how to rotate ramdomly the header image? Has anyone done that before?
    I am no programmer but if you point me to the right files I think I cand do it. Thank you.

  38. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    ideologist try random images plugin available for wordpres. Though I haven’t given a try to it myself

  39. Ideologist Says:

    Thank you but I tried and they are all done to the default theme.

  40. christian weller Says:

    Just wanted to say thx! for the fine template - very nice layout and very adaptable… I guess I’ll be using this for a long time.

  41. Andrew Albinger Says:

    Great theme. Thanks!

  42. kmm Says:

    Hi,

    Great theme.
    Would like to check with you, how to change the font size and font type to the main Header? ie the one above “Tag Line”

    Thanks

  43. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    @kmm

    .post h2 { font: 100% ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: 0.2em; margin: 0 20px 0 30px; padding: 20px 0 30px 0; }

    edit this code as per your wishes in style.css of blue horizon.

  44. Rawiri Blundell Says:

    Hey there,
    got a couple of fixes for problems that have been experienced with this theme:

    To fix the IE drop menu bug (where IE refuses to render the images to a width that you’ve defined in CSS) change your CSS file to read the following:

    img {margin: 0px;padding: 0px; border: 0px solid #2F700F; max-width: 490px; width: expression(this.width > 490 ? 490: true);}

    We go with 490px because that’s what’s defined here:
    #content {float: left;width: 490px; padding-top: 10px;}

    So if you change the width for #content, you’ll have to change your #img code too.

    max-width: 490px; 490 ? 490: true);

    Now that I’ve earnt brownie points, I have a question:
    Is anyone else having problems with the search function (wp 2.0.1) ?

  45. Rawiri Blundell Says:

    Just a follow up to my last post, the search function is working fine… because it was returning full posts instead of shorts, I got confused.

    Heh.. I can figure out the CSS and PHP problems, yet that simple thing flies right by me ;)

    Actually, it looks like my last post is missing one of my suggested fixes, so here it is again.

    Regarding the site’s tagline, go into header.php and search for
    tagline here and change it to read:

  46. Rawiri Blundell Says:

    *sigh*

    Third time’s a charm

    search for
    tagline here

    and change it to read:

    Kaushal, when you read this, can you merge this post into my last one?

  47. JT Says:

    Hi Great theme, been using it for a while now!

    I was wondering if it is possible to remove the numbers on comments? Where would I find the script for this?

    Cheers

  48. kmm Says:

    Hi,

    Need some advise here.

    1) There are quite a huge white space in between the post and the right-hand menu, any chances to reduce that?

    2) for post, the spacing between lines are quite big, how to reduce that?

    Thanks

  49. Chris Says:

    I absolutely love this theme. I have a great idea for an addition to this theme. I’ve been working on it for a couple hours already. However, I cant figure out how to display a flash movie in the header instead of the gif. I’ve messed around with header.css and style.css How can I do this?

  50. Kaushal Sheth Says:

    @Rawiri thx for pointing out changes I will look into it and do the needful

    @JT you would need to edit comments.php to remove the numbers.

    @kmm i have already answered it above how to do that . Will mail you later still to solve your problem

    @chris you would need to edit header.php appropriately … to use flash with it. Contact me using contact form and explain what do you want to do exactly and maybe I can help

  51. JT Says:

    Thanks for the reply, I know I need to edit the comments php file, but what script am I looking for, as I can’t work it out!
    Also can’t workout when viewed in IE the sidebar category headers don’t have a live break above them, this makes the sidebar look cluttered and unorganised. Any fix for that? It displays OK in firefox though

    Cheers

  52. Chris Says:

    Can you link me to the original fullsized image, by any chance?

  53. Klinsi Says:

    Hi there, very nice theme! I love it!
    But there’s one thing! I integrated the wordpress-plugin called “Eventcalendar 3.0.4″! and I tried to remove the link-hover-image, but I can’t get success!
    You can watch it on http://www.theweasel.org ! The calendar in the left sidebar! I’m talking about the month-links and the day-links! You will have a day-link-example, when you step forward in the calendar to “May”, on the 24th!
    I’m thankful for every help!

    Yours,

    Klinsi

    PS.: Sorry for my english! :)

  54. elastigirl Says:

    hi,

    love the theme, but just can’t find the correct css to fix the gaps in between the menu items in the right hand column. I saw your post above but I’m not talking about the content, just the right hand column I want to squeeze the items together a bit

  55. Rk Says:

    It would be a better idea to provide BlueHorizon options (in admin panel in presentation when bluehorizon is selected) to edit the links - Link1,Link2 etc and also to edit the Tagline here.

  56. RomeoJava Says:

    Hi,

    I was just looking at your great theme and I found a very quick tweak that will make the tagline work automatically. in header.php change the line starting to the following:

    Just thought this might be useful to others

    Rj :o)

  57. Don_Andy Says:

    A hearty hello from good ol’ Germany!

    You’ve done a great job with both templates. Especially the Blue Horizon Theme looks pretty awesome to me (because I like that kind of blue so much).

    I only changed a few details, and for me, the template looks almost perfectly now ;)

    Keep up the good work! *thumbs up!*

    Faithfully Yours
    ANDY

  58. Casas Rurales Says:

    Interesante

  59. Garrett Says:

    Great Theme! It looks fantastic!

    Tweeking question: Can the sidebar be moved to the left?

    Thanks, Garrett

  60. Mona Ammitzbøll Says:

    I’ve found a way for using Vanguard’s Calender for WP2.0 with this theme.
    You’ll have to put the “get calendar” function at the top of the sidebar - before the “theme switcher”-function.
    like this:

    ___Kalender__

    ___________________

    You’ll also have to change the with of the sidebar in the style.css - 200 px ( #menu {float: right;width: 200px;…) It’s been a while since I messed with the coding so I can’t think of anymore small changes I might have done - but try it and find out what’s best on your site.

    Thanks to Kaushal for creating this great theme!

  61. Mona Ammitzbøll Says:

    Hey - my coding stuff changed into the real view of how it should end up
    I try in another way:

    Right before the: … you put in the do_calender-code.

    In this way the links in the calendar doesn’t get the link-icons.

  62. Adrian Says:

    I’m completely new, not only to the world of web development, html, php and all the other wiggly bits that go with them, but also new to Blogging.

    I’ve searched high and low for a Wordpress theme and I’ve just stumbled upon yours. You’ll be pleased (well, maybe) to know its the very first one I’m ‘roadtesting’.

    I like the contrast in colours and the overall layout - however just one question :-

    I changed the tagline in WP admin, but it didn’t change on the Blog. I had to edit the file header.php to accomplish this. Maybe, I’m being silly - but did I do something wrong or is the php code incorrect in the zip file I downloaded?

    Gosh, this is a long comment - I’ll finish with a quick THANKS

  63. John S Says:

    Great theme, but had a few issues getting it working. I’m new to blogging and WPress, perhaps there’s a few things I missed.

    I installed the ’simple recent comments’ plugin and put it in the sidebar, but noticed that the comment links did not jump to the correct part of the page when clicked. I validated the template and found a problem - the commentbox is rendered multiple times (if there’s more than one comment) which is not good for an id element. I solved this by changing the comments.php code - moving the div outside the comment loop and supplying a new div for each comment. I also needed to change the anchor tag in commentid to have an id rather than an href, as otherwise it can’t be referenced. I can supply more details if anyone wants them.
    cheers!

  64. kev Says:

    Really great theme, congratulations!

    I added some pages and now am facing this problem: My tables in these pages aren’t displayed correctly, it looks like they are treated with padding presets. How can I avoid this? Thanks for any help!

  65. artflux Says:

    I’ve got my weblog up and running and like the template a lot. It’s just what I wanted however I would like to rotate images in the header and have been unable to find a way to do it. I wonder if anyone has been able to accomplish this. Thanks

  66. MAB Says:

    Very great and nice theme!

  67. Artflux Says:

    I found a plugin that works perfectly for rotating the header. It is Random Header by Kamiel Martinet.

    http://www.martinet.nl/wp-site/random-header-plugin

    Create a directory in plugins and move the files there.

  68. wp Says:

    this is a great XP theme, when do you publish a Vista theme?

  69. Preissuchmaschine Says:

    nice theme.
    Thanks.

  70. UNCBlue Says:

    I love the theme just what i was looking for. I am trying to modify the theme to show a page without the sidebar. I have tried to modify the page.php file, but cant seem to get rid of the sidebar. Am i missing something in the .css stylesheet? Any help would be appriciated.

  71. Steve K Says:

    I’m having trouble with the hnav menu at the top — in IE, it has a lot of extra space at the bottom of the menu. It displays fine in Firefox. I’ve tried changing the padding-bottom settings and the #hmenu height setting in style.css. I can’t get rid of this extra height in IE. I’ve searched here to see if any of you were talking about it, but it doesn’t look like you have. Kaushal, what is causing this? Can you look at my site to see what I’m talking about? Thanks.

  72. Brandon Says:

    Kaushal, I’ve been using and editing your theme for awhile now. Thanks for your great work.

  73. Steve K Says:

    OK, I figured it out — to get rid of the extra space or padding in IE at the bottom of the hnav menu at the top, you need to adjust some of the margin and padding settings in the “#hnav ul”, “#hnav ul li”, and “#hnav ul li a” sections of style.css. Specifically, IE needs a “margin-bottom: 0;” added in there. It also looks like IE and Firefox interpret “margin” and “padding” settings a little differently. Besides the margin-bottom setting, I fiddled with other padding, margin, and line-height settings in that part of style.css and got it exactly like I want it. Very cool!

  74. Susana Says:

    Hello K!

    Thanks so much for your beautiful theme….I really like it, and have happily done some of my own tweaking.

    I do have a question for you, or anyone else…. i have not been able to add 3px padding to images, for some reason. I even swapped out the css commands with another ks theme, and still, the images are right up against the text.

    Anyone else have this problem? Is there a conflict somewhere?

    Again, a gorgeous theme…thanks so much!
    s.

  75. Susana Says:

    Answering my own question…. it was just a lame cache problem. Changing the img css works fine.

    Good luck all.

  76. David G Says:

    Beautiful theme. I’m having the same issue as Steve K, above.
    The navigation menu displays extra space in IE.
    Wish he had left a bit more details for us newbies.
    Anyone else have a detailed fix? thanks!

  77. Thomas Says:

    Hi, thanks for Blue Horizon - nice theme! Just trying to adopt it for my use (changing colors and stuff). Looking through the PHP files, I don’t really realize where the “Blogroll” link in the sidebar comes from. Renaming all occurences of “Blogroll” in functions.php doesn’t rename it on the site… Even deleting all that

    // WP-mapleleaf Blogroll
    function widget_mapleleaf_blogroll() {
    ?>

    ‘, ”, ”, FALSE, ‘name’, FALSE, FALSE, -1, FALSE); ?>

  78. Thomas Says:

    …oops… It swallowed half my post… So deleting all that on in functions.php

  79. Thomas Says:

    …again swallowed. So errrh, well, deleting all the last part in functions.php starting with

    // WP-mapleleaf Blogroll

    until the end of the file (leaving the ?> there) doesn’t remove the “Blogroll” entry. So where the heck is that from?

    Thanks! :-)

  80. Meteor Says:

    Hi, all. Nice site…I really like your site ! Good job man.%

  81. johnny Says:

    just want to ask how to removie green borders on images, sometimes it makes the images unattractive thanks a lot

  82. Rick Says:

    I read about your comments about tag lines and links but still do not understand it. how do I link to my page 1 I have created on manage pages? Thank you.
    ps. love this blog theme

  83. Afzal Javed Says:

    I updated wordpress 2.1.2 and after that I lost all the links which I had under differenct catergoris. I reviewed the category list and found these links under each category have not posts, but url links.
    Please help me to show all the links again on my blog.
    So far I am getting the following error message;
    “Wordpress message
    error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
    SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM ”
    You can visit my my webpage www.afzaljaved.com read the error message in sidebar.
    Thanks

  84. directtv Says:

    Blog of directtv

  85. Jakub Stefano Says:

    Hello . I did not designed my blog and my friend who did this for me I cant reach him. I never had problems following his htlm codes and adding links to my blogsite but I don’t un derstand now I have try to add 3 new links to my blog the same as before and they will not work ? where can I find answer to how to solve this? and I look at carefully now many days a couple hours each day trying to figure out problem ? Blogger site . has not reply to me can any one help me please thank you much Jakub

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