WordPress Theme “Cosmic Radiance” available for download

Jotted by brajesh on February 15, 2009

After a long Interval of silence,Here I am back with a brand new wordpress theme Called “Cosmic Radiance”.Cosmic Radiance is a single column wordpress Theme,It is widget enabled and has a fully featured Theme admin panel where you can customize several aspects including logo,sitename,footer text,header and footer image etc.

Let us have a glance at the features here

Features

  • Single Column fixed width layout
  • Widget Enabled,three widgitized region in the footer Top area
  • Easily customizable from Theme admin
  • Support for Uploading Logo,custom header and footer background image in the Theme admin
  • Options for removing/showing top menu
  • Options for controlling the links in top menu from theme admin.
  • Options to show/hide Feed link at top
  • Options to show feeds from custom feed relaying sites like feedburner
  • Featured post support(set a post sticky) and It will be shown as featured post
  • Option for showing a custom image ,as the featured image in each post/page(not in single article but on home page,archive page ,category page etc)
  • Custom css for dropcap,warning,notice etc.
  • Support of wordpress page navi plugin by lester Chan(just activate the plugin and the theme will work with that)
  • CSS for Easy contact from from plaintext.org
  • And many more ,I am missing here.. :)
Take a look at the live demo here
 and Download here Cosmic Radiance (106)

Now details

Here is the Screen shot to show you how it looks like

cosmic-radiance

Well,click on the image to see the larger image

Theme Admin Panel

here is the options that you get when the theme is activated

Radiance Theme AdminSo, you get two options in the Appearance tab when the theme is activated.These two options are to upload and to customize the theme design.

Here is the image showing list of options available in the Radiance Design page

Cosmic radiance design optionsOnce you have activated the theme,please go to Appearance->Radiance Design,here you will see following options

Logo/Sitename  Options:->You may choose to show a new logo/or show the blog name as text

:->It allows you to Show/hide the tagline of your blog

:->Hereyou can either enable the custom header image for your blog  or just keep the default header background.

:->Here you can enable custom footer Image as background or just keep the default.

:->It allows you to show hide the top main menu below the header section and also customize the menu items.You can either completely remove the top menu or you can edit the links show in the top menu there

:->This option will be useful only if you are showing the top menu.It allows you to show/hide the feed link at the top.Also, you can put a custom feed url(like feedburner’s)

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This section allows you to completely control the text displayed in the footer of your website.Please feel free to put anything.

We are granting you all the right to use,edit modify the theme.You may remove the credits if you wish so,but if you don’t mind,then please keep the links in the footer if possible ,though mentioning again ,It is not mandatory, you can do anything what you want.Please feel free to use it in any way which suits you.

Now,If you want to use your own logo or header/footer image ,please go to Appearance->Radiance Uploads

here is a screen shot of the upload page

Upload OptionsHere ,Just brow the image and click on the corresponding upload button and you will bedone within a second.Uploading does not requires reloading of the page as It is ajaxified.

What Features you get on the fron End

  • You can set a post featured by checking it as sticky(It will be shown with special background).Make the post featuredMake your post featured,by checking the option as shown in the above image.
  • You can Control the footer featured area.Go to Appearance->Widgets and widgets to the (3 widgets available in the footer).Here is a screenshot of the widgitized area.Widgitized Area
  • You can control all other options I mentioned above.

Credits: I will like to thank my team mates Mr.abid ali and Mr.sachin for their suggestions.also,I will like to thank phpletter persons as I used their ajax uploader in the theme admin.

License:It is GPL licensed.Please feel free to do anything.We are not asking for any link back or anything.If you don’t like them ,then feel free to remove the links(btw,You can  all footer text from Appearance->Radiance Design,then Footer text).

If you have any issue with the theme,please let me know,I will love to assist you.

Once again for summary

View Live demo here. and download here Cosmic Radiance (106)

Ahh,I forgot to mention,our firm ,Cosmic Coders,specializes in wordpress based development,so if you have a custom requirement, please feel free to contact us there http://cosmiccoders.com.We do the design and development of themes ,blogs,websites ,plugins at very reasonable prices.

Thanks again to all of you for visiting .

Regards

Brajesh

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WP Nic Edit html comments issues with normal user comment

Jotted by brajesh on January 6, 2009

Happy new year to all of you.I wish you and your family a very prosperous and happy new year.

As I had mentioned,I was planning to release another updated version of WP NicEdit,but it has been delayed because of some issues.My apologies for that.

When you use Wp NicEdit,It makes the comment area a rich text editor.

Now the issue is ,when a user is not logged in or has no capability(as in wp terms) to write html,It will not save the comment as rich comment.Reason,wordpress removes all the formatting using the kses filter.

My current experiment has not been successful in removing the kses filter for wordpress and because of time lack ,I could not do more experiments.If you know a way,In which we can remove the kses filter for comment,or allow html comments(so wordpress does not strips the tags),Please let me know.All the help is appreciated.Also,I will give you a credit link in my next release post of wp NicEdit.So pleasemIf you have any idea about allowing HTMl in comments,please let me know.

Thanks

Brajesh

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WordPress Mu Plugins Installation, sitewide Plugins vs. per blog plugin

Jotted by brajesh on January 5, 2009

If you are either new to wpmu development/use or probably switched from wordpress,you might have faced this dilemma.

In standard wodpress,there is only one plugin directory inside wp-content named “plugins”.

If you have installed wpmu or got a chance to work with it,when you will navigate to wp-content folder,you will find two directories named “mu-plugins” and “plugins” as shown in the image below

Plugin Directories in wordpress Mu

Plugin Directories in wordpress Mu

Let us take a look at the differences:-

In wordpress there is one blog only,while in case of wordpress mu the same installation can have hundreds or thousands (even  bigger if you see wordpress.com) of blog hosted on it.

So,wordpress Mu provides two sorts of plugins,one is the plugins which are globally available(my be you can tell them site wide plugin).

To install a plugin which are automatically enabled for all blogs on a wordpress Multiuser installation,you just need to put it in mu-plugins folder.

If you put a plugin in “mu-plugins” folder,It is automatically activated,there  is no need to manually activating the plugin as in case of standard wordpress plugin.

Now there are times ,when you want your user to use some plugin,but they may use or may not use it.So to give the flexibility to your users, you just need to put it in “plugins” folder.

This plugin will be available to all the blog owners(blog admins) on your website and them may enable or disable it on their will from their dashboard.

So,the two plugins directory are required because of the nature of the wordpress Mu sites/blogs.

I hope,It will help someone looking for the differences between site wide plugin and per blog plugin.

I encourage you to leave a reply,if you have any suggestion,any questions,I will reply promptly.

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Showing List of recently Created blogs on wordpress Mu

Jotted by brajesh on

Working on one of my client’s project recently,I found myself looking for some code to show list of recently created blogs on a wordpress Mu website.

After googling for around 15 minutes,I could not find anything to help me.
Finally,I decided to write the code myself.

The code is pretty straight forward,you may include it directly in your theme or use as a plugin.
Here goes the snippets of code dissected.

<?php
/*Fetch an array of $number_blogs most recently created blogs
**@number_blogs :The number of most recently created blogs you want to show.
*/
function get_recent_blogs($number_blogs=5)
{
  global $wpdb;
  $blog_table=$wpdb->blogs;
/*fetch blog_id,domain,path from wp_blogs table ,where the blog is not spam,deleted or archived order by the date and time of registration */
  $query="select blog_id,domain,path from $blog_table where public='1' and archived='0' and spam='0' and deleted='0' order by registered desc limit 0,$number_blogs";
 
  $recent_blogs=$wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare($query));
 
return $recent_blogs;
 
 }
?>

It returns an array of objects having the fields blog_id,domain,path. So now,if you are like me, you may be interested in showing a bulleted list(or simply a list of these all the blogs recently created ),you may do following

<ul class="recent-blogs">
<?php $recent_blogs=get_recent_blogs(5);
	foreach($recent_blogs as $recent_blog):
		$blog_url="";
		if( defined( "VHOST" ) && constant( "VHOST" ) == 'yes' )
			$blog_url="http://".$recent_blog->domain.$recent_blog->path;
		else
		$blog_url="http://".$recent_blog->domain.$recent_blog->path;
	$blog_name=get_blog_option($recent_blog->blog_id,"blogname");
	?>
<li>
<h3><a href="<?php echo $blog_url;?>"><?php _e( $blog_name)?> </a></h3>
<span><?php echo $blog_name?></span>
</li>
<?php endforeach;?>
</ul>

That’s It.we are done.Well ,to make it more easy,I have created another function show_recent_blogs which has a prototype like following

<?php
function show_recent_blogs($number_blogs=5,$description=true)
?>

It will output similar to the above code,but if you call it like

<ul class="recent-blogs">
<?php
/*here first argument is the number of blogs you want to show */
 
show_recent_blogs(5,false);
?>
</ul>

It will not show the description.
You may download the whole file as a plugin here and Can drop it in your wp-content/mu-plugins folder or include in your themes functions.php.
Here is a screen shot from my test blog
recent-blog-list

Well,you may have a look at my template where I experimented this on the site http://clients.wpmudemo.com/motionsblogg
Have a look at the bottom of the right sidebar.

And here is the Plugin for download.List recently Created blogs (196)

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