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Chameleon Theme Released

I have just released the Chameleon theme for WordPress and hopefully it will prove useful for somebody.

More information and download can be found on the Chameleon theme page.

Any problems please contact me and I will try to help.

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23 Responses to “Chameleon Theme Released”

  1. andros Says:
    July 8th, 2006 at 3:40 pm

    Thank you Ainslie
    It’s really wonderful theme.
    I like it so much.
    Thanks again.

  2. Calaf Says:
    July 8th, 2006 at 8:36 pm

    Hi Ainslie,
    I like the theme very much. Colours are wonderful. Thank you. Do you plan to prepare it for easy localisation? Should I wait or should I begin to translate the code?

  3. Ainslie Says:
    July 8th, 2006 at 8:50 pm

    Yes I do intend to prepare for localisation. I will start to do it next week.

    I’ll send you the theme once I have done it.

  4. Calaf Says:
    July 8th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

    Good news for foreign bloggers :-) Thank you.

  5. Munch Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 5:38 am

    I just wanted to say thanks. I just started my first site and my first blog yesterday and I’m currently using the Chameleon Theme. I really like it! Thanks.

  6. Aaron Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 1:33 pm

    Brilliant theme as usual — no doubt one of the better looking and coded WP themes out there. And I love the multiple colors :)

    Widgets make everything so much easier. . .widget support is a must, so awesome job. 3 drop-points for widgets.

  7. Aaron Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    Any chance of getting the subpage navigation to work for sub-sub-pages?

  8. lyonelk Says:
    July 11th, 2006 at 2:00 pm

    Many thanks for your job. I love it and play it !
    So that two sites of mine are with it :
    http://histoire.lyonelkaufmann.ch
    http://lyonelkaufmann.ch/ManuelsHistoire

    One in blue, one in green. Great.

  9. Uncle Che Says:
    July 23rd, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    I think you are just about the best theme creator out there. This one is beautiful and it works so nicely across all the browsers I tried it in. I could keep raving all day but I won’t. The thing just looks tight. I am seriously considering changing over my site running wp-andreas09 over to this one.

  10. Ainslie Says:
    July 24th, 2006 at 9:51 pm

    Hey thanks for such kind words. It’s comments like yours that make it all worth while. :-)

  11. Alan Kellogg Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

    It does look good indeed. I do have a few questions for you, though.

    You see, I recently downloaded three themes from a fellow by the nom-de-net of, Neuro (French fellow). Including a 4 column version of his Identification-Band theme. It has 3 side-bars, but only one side-bar template. I was wondering. How many style sheets are we talking about? How many “side-bar” templates? Have you considered consolidating all style sheets into one? What about consolidating those templates that can be consolidated?

    I figure, if you can cut down on the number of templates the style sheet has to work with, the better the style sheet should work.

  12. Ainslie Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 7:25 pm

    Hi Alan,

    Well Chameleon only has 1 sidebar template but it has 7 style sheets. Normally 1 style sheet is all you need but Chameleon and WP-Andreas09 use the extra style sheets for changing the colour of the theme. Unfortunately the way that these themes work need the extra style sheets.

    There is nothing actually wrong with having more than one style sheet. The use of multiple style sheets can actually make things simpler as each could be used for a different aspect. 1 for structure, 1 for colour,1 for whatever and so on could be easier to follow. So if you want to change the structure you just look in the structure stylesheet or if you want to change the colour you look in the colour stylesheet.

    It is similar for the use of templates. More templates are actually easier. You could make WordPress themes with only 1 template file but everything would have to be in it. It would be a monster of a template and different things on different pages would need to be controlled by conditional tags. It would be difficult to work with! This is much how it used to be in the bad old days, not so long ago, as most WordPress 1.2 themes were coded like this.

    If you look at a typical theme you will have a header and footer template that are common to each view of the site and then sidebar templates which are usually common to each view but not always (think WP-Andreas09 where the alternate sidebar is used with the alternate page template). The other templates are mostly used for the content as this is what changes.

    So you have an index which is the content section of the front page of the site. Then you have the archive template that is the content section of a category or date archive. Then there is the single template which is the content section of the single article page. There is a little more to it but this is the principle.

    I suggest that it may be worth your while looking at the WordPress documentation as there is quite a lot information that you would find useful

  13. Trev Says:
    July 29th, 2006 at 6:08 pm

    I’ve been playing with your theme, I like it very much. It displays fine in Firefox, but in IE6, my XDFORUM and Lazyest Gallery pages display in the main column, but the details aren’t displayed until they are below the sidebar content. If that makes sense. Anyone else with this problem?

  14. Snoopy Says:
    September 24th, 2006 at 11:30 pm

    Hi Trev.

    I got the excact same problem when adding plugins, etc XDForum.
    Half of the content in main colum displays below sidebars (still in main colum though), with alot of whitespace between content.

  15. Ainslie Says:
    September 24th, 2006 at 11:41 pm

    Got a link so I can check it out?

  16. Al Says:
    November 1st, 2006 at 2:29 am

    Hi Ainslie,

    Lovely job on Chameleon. Finally got around to installing it, you’ll find my blog at http://sportcrazy.net/

    I’ve made a couple of personal tweaks and intend to make more as I go along and figure out how to hack it. It’s fantastic to have such a great design to start from :)

    Cheers,
    Al.

  17. JS Says:
    December 25th, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    Really nice theme but after I installed, it seems that

    1)titles for the posts on the first blog page are not hyperlinked and also do not display “Posted on DATE, Under: TAGS” at the end of the post and

    2) the first page does not display any at the bottom of the page.

    Every other page is fine, its just the first home page that these things are missing. Do you have any idea what is wrong/missing?

    Thanks for your assistance

  18. JS Says:
    December 25th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    2) should read..
    the first page does not display “previous entries” at the bottom of the page.

  19. Ainslie Says:
    December 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am

    Can you give me a link so I can check out what is happening?

  20. JS Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    japansugoi.com. Thanks

  21. Ainslie Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    It looks like you have set the homepage as a “page” are you using a plugin to do that?

    Somehow you are using a page template for the homepage and page template titles are not linked.

  22. JS Says:
    January 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 am

    I had Static Front Page plugin from semiologic.com activated. Once I deactivated this plugin the problem was solved. Thanks again!

  23. Sammie Says:
    January 6th, 2007 at 3:02 am

    Hi Ainslie

    Thank your for putting together such a great theme. I’m using it with a few tweaks on my site PaperBased.net. I love the clean feel and the double sidebar.

    Keep up the great work!
    Sammie.