New WordPress Theme WP-Ellie: Sneak Peek
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This is the real Ellie.
Coming soon to a WordPress Theme Store near you … it’s a brand new WordPress theme we’re calling WP-Ellie, named after my lovable, but slightly overweight beagle (her name is Ellie). We’re still putting the finishing touches on her, but WP-Ellie should be out before Valentine’s Day. Perfect timing to buy your sweetheart a new WordPress theme.
Like many of our previous WordPress themes, WP-Ellie will have multiple home page layouts (see screenshots below). That includes a basic blog layout as well as several different magazine style layouts, one of which you can see on the WP-Ellie demo site. It also includes social networking site integration, including the latest tweet from your Twitter profile.
On the demo site, you’ll notice a dark gray wood plank background. This is one of several body background images that will be available, or you’ll be able to select a simple solid background color (see screencast). And of course, that will all be very simple to change via the theme settings page. We’re all about keeping things as simple as possible here at Solostream.
As I said, we’re still in the “finishing touches” stage. If you have any questions or even feature requests, feel free to drop them in the comments box below, and we’ll see what we can do about getting them in there before launch. No promises though :-)
Home Page Layouts
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- full-width home page
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- basic blog home page
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- blog with thumbs
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- sidebar left
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- posts 3-wide
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- posts 2-wide
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- by cat 2-wide
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- by cat 3-wide
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- by cat stacked
About the Author
Michael Pollock is the marketing and product development guy for Solostream. He's also a blogger, a web marketing trainer and an entrepreneur. When he's not evangelizing Solostream, he trains other solopreneurs on how to use the web to reach more people, earn more money and live a bigger life. Michael's Website.
I’m trying to decide between this and WP Launch, which I also love, but due to my logo really needing to be on a white background and my background image being a dark red gradient, I think I’ll be waiting for Ellie so it is in the white body :D
Just a quickie Ellie question though – with the headings for the Sidebars bits such as subscribe, tags, etc, is it possible to have an icon and text such as the ones in WP Launch? Would this be a thing that I could just pop in the CSS code and change? Are the little colour boxes with the current headings optional or changeable with a picker?
Hi Sketch. Sure, you could modify the CSS to add an image to the widget titles. The boxes currently are not changeable via the theme settings page, although it sounds like a good idea to implement before launch, so I think I’ll implement that. Thanks for the suggestion.
I really like this theme. When will it be launched as I need to change my theme ASAP but if you are launching soon (i.e. in Feb), I’ll wait.
Another question, will this be available in any other language as I also need a version in Spanish for my other blog.
Thanks
It should be launched within the next week. As of right now, it will only be available in english. will work on doing the necessary work to make it easier to translate in the near future.
awesome theme ;) gonna buy this one as well, think this is 10 in a row for me ;)
Another lovely theme and a gorgeous namesake :) I very much like that the social network icons are inline with the search box and are clear but unobtrusive.
Thanks Sketch. I’ll tell Ellie you send your compliments :-)
:) I notice that it seems to be the same theme as your personal site which has gorgeous rounded corners…I don’t suppose that there is any option to attain that look with the Ellie theme is there or does that mean graphic work?
it is the same theme … well modified. i hadn’t planned on offering the rounded corners in the release version, but you know, it may not be a bad idea to include it as an option. thanks for the input.
Nice Template the featured slider background make it look sexy
Thanks Ahmed. Sexy is what we’re all about :-)
Hi Michael,
Great theme. I like the way it renders different elements of your site.
Beautiful dog (Ellie) too. In fact I think I like the dog more than the theme.
Alex
Thanks for the kind words Alex. Ellie (the dog) IS pretty cool. Albeit a bit stubborn.
Hi Michael,
Really so sweety :) I like thumbs and navigasion menu. Greatz.
Thanks Amy!
Another great theme Michael – sure your last name is not D’Angelo?
I really like the full width posts.
Thanks so much Debra. Yes, I changed my last name to hide my true identity :-)
Guessing this is the same theme as to the one on michaeldpollock.com?
I like the three columns in the demo and the full width posts.
Thanks Martin. Yes. Same one as the one on my site (i really like this theme :-) ). Modified a bit though.