New WordPress Theme WP-Ellie (Demo Video)
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By Our new WordPress theme, WP-Ellie, is now available, and I just uploaded a short demo video. YouTube is still processing the video, so it may be a bit blurry for the next hour or so.
If you’d like to embed the video on your own site, grab the embed code from YouTube.
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.
Hi Michael,
First off the theme looks great. I wanted to ask whether I can cahnge the sidebars for each page or are they fixed?
can I move them to the left side as well? And as for the page content, is it possible to integrate a google-map into it?
also, as I am going to use the theme for a site in Hebrew I will need to make it work from right to left, meening text alignment direction of tabs and so on. Do you know of a quick way to do so?
Thank you
Uri
Hi Uri. The sidebar can be moved to the left via the theme settings page, but it will be the same on all pages and posts. If you want it to vary depending on the page, that would require customization.
The theme does not come with an RTL stylesheet. You can create your own if you like, and I’d suggest starting with a google search on how to do that.
Love the WP-ellie theme but was wondering if the option to display more than 125 x 125 ad units exists? In other words I would like to be able to incorporate 300 pixel wide x 250 pixel length ad units on the right sidebar as well and was not sure if this is easily achieved with the WP-ellie theme and widget ready?
We would also like to feature a video from You Tube or Vimeo on the right side bar as well. Is this something that can be accomplished easily with the widgets?
As far as a background for the blog itself I assume this is also customizable?
Thanks again. Looking to purchase this in the next day or so and would appreciate hearing back as soon as possible. :)
Also can the footer area be more customized to instead have headers that represent business/company information…etc instead of recent posts, blogroll and flicker options?
Hi Trish. The sidebar is widget-enabled, so you can place whatever ads you’d like there. Likewise with the video.
The main body background image or color is easy to change via the theme settings page. If you want to chnage the content background color (the white area), that would require a little custom programming.
The footer is widget-enabled as well, so the content you place in there is easy to update and change.
Thanks SO much for this theme. i simply love it. It’s everything and more…
Did you ever notice how cnn dotcom borrowed the solostreams layout from media mag? How could we make a similar theme using many of the “ellie”ments as a hybrid layout?
Thanks again.
-Ryan
Our pleasure Ryan. Thanks for the kind words.
I don’t quite follow your question though.
Enjoying playing with this theme atm. Going do some customizing and whack it on my live site for some real world testing. Must admit I like the theme settings section, they are getting more advanced on each theme release.
cool. ping me when you’re done. would like to see what you come up with. you do some nice mods to our themes.
Just purchased :) Done it under my ThreeRavens addy. Very much looking forward to getting it installed and set up :D I’ve been really excited to get this, since I love how comprehensive the back end of your themes are and the demo vids really help show the range of easy options available which makes purchase choices a snap.
Thanks Sketch. After you’ve had some time to play with it, let me know what you think.
Hi Michael,
You make it look so easy!:)
Your new theme makes it so easy to do many of the things that normally take a lot of tweaking and time consuming.
Thanks for the Video on each of these because they are very educational as well.
By the way I dont know how you manage but you seem to reply to each comment. I salute you – That is really a fantastic trait in customer relationship.
Thank you for your attention.
Hamant
Thanks for the kind words Hamant. We get just enough comments that it’s pretty easy to manage. I long for the day when that’s not the case :-)
Congratulations on yet another good looking theme! I especially like the featured glider, and the fact that it has the text below the image. And I also like the new way of presenting the posts, with the image above the text.
Looking very fresh indeed!
Thanks Iskwew. I’m very happy with it too.
Nice Video.. This month solostream best designs codings. Thanks michael..
My pleasure Tristan. Thank you too.