Aqua Vaccinium WordPress theme
The “Aqua Vaccinium” WordPress theme was originally intended for use on a clients site, but they have since decided to go with a red theme and use Dreamweaver (ick!) instead of WordPress, so we have decided to release this theme to you for free.
Aqua Vaccinium features a smooth blue and green theme and has a prominent Suckerfish dropdown menu built in (no plugin needed).
Live Demo
Visit our WordPress theme demo site to see Aqua Vaccinium in action.
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Bugs/feature requests
If you find a bug or would like an extra feature which isn’t present in the standard Aqua Vaccinium theme, feel free to leave a comment in our themes forum.
If you require any customisations specific to your site, please get in touch via our contact form.
Theme files
We’ve tried to keep the theming as simple as possible to allow for easy customisation. There are only five template files, plus images, javascript and css files. I’ve included the original build file for the logo (PSD format), so you can edit it to match your own site name.
The main dropdown menu is set to display categories by default, but you can insert other pages into your dropdown if you like (leave a post in our themes forum if you need help with this).
The blue section (below the main menu) displays either the blog description or the category description depending on what page you are on. If the blog or category description is missing, this will be left blank.
Naming
The word Aqua came from the mixture of the blue and green tones of the design. The name Vaccinium is the genus for a variety of berries including blue berries which we baked a pie for in honour of the new theme.
9 Responses to “Aqua Vaccinium WordPress theme”
Annoy on: February 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Nice theme, the top menu looks stylish. Keep up the good work.
Ryan on: February 24th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Thanks
The top menu took quite a bit of messing around to get it working cross browser.
It can also be used as a standard non-dropdown menu.
Piggy and Tazzy on: February 24th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I like this. Lots!
And very generous of you to release it for other to use too.
Many thanks.
kris on: February 24th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
hi can you tell me how set to display categories into your dropdown as categories are not coming in drop down
Ryan on: February 24th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hi Kris,
You need to specify a category parent for the categories you want to appear in the dropdown. If you specify a parent of a parent then that category will appear as a flyout.
For example, in the demo site, the “Apple” category is the parent of the “Fuji” category which is a parent of the “Morioka” category.
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