Welcome to the home page of WPWeaver’s Weaver WordPress theme. Weaver (formerly known as 2010 Weaver) was based on the WordPress 3 default Twenty Ten theme.
Weaver allows you to tweak almost everything. You can change colors, fonts, sidebar columns, header size, and more. This theme also includes over 20 predefined sub-themes for an easy start. Just for example, this site is running on WordPress 3 and uses the “WP Weaver” sub-theme as its own theme.
Features of Weaver
This list touches on some of the many features available in Weaver. There are many more features as well.
- Easily Customize Your Theme via “checkbox” Interface [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
You can easily customize nearlyh 200 different elements of your theme simply by using the
“checkbox” interface. Check checkboxes or select colors from a color picker – you don’t
have to know the technical details to create a custom theme. (But if you do
know CSS, you can make even more changes!)
[/spoiler] - Take control of your site’s content using the rich set of Per Page and Per Post options and Page Templates [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Select from over a dozen different page templates, including no sidebars, double-column content, and Page with Posts, which lets you filter which posts will appear on your pages. Add custom headers and per page widget areas using the Per Page settings.
[/spoiler] - Select from prebuilt themes, or design your own [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Weaver includes over 20 sub-themes – either ready to use, or to serve as a
starting point for you customizations.
[/spoiler] - Pick your own colors for titles, content, backgrounds, menu bar, and more [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Using the theme admin panel, you can easily change the colors for all the major elements
of the theme – titles, body text, links, backgrounds, the menu bar, borders. You can use the
color picker, or provide a hex value directly. The current color is displayed in the value box.
[/spoiler] - Pick your own fonts for titles and content [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Select from a list of 20 popular web fonts for your titles and content.
[/spoiler] - Take control of your header image – change size or use a slide show [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
You can change the size of the header image, hide it completely, turn it into a slide show
using WordPress plugins, have a different image on the front page vs. the rest of the site, make
your image a video – almost anything.
[/spoiler] - Pick from 7 sidebar arrangements[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
You can select from 7 sidebar arrangements – the default Twenty Ten right sidebar, a wider right sidebar, double left or double right hand sidebars, content in the center surrounded by a left and right sidebar, or no sidebars at all. You can even control your sidebars by specifying the sidebar width.
[/spoiler] - Change site and sidebar widths[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
With Weaver, you are no longer locked into the 940px width of Twenty Ten. Simply fill in
the box with the new site width. You can also specify the width of the sidebars to get a perfect
blend of overall site width, content width, and sidebar width.
[/spoiler] - Support for two custom menu bars[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Using the new WordPress 3 menu bar interface, you can have one or two custom menu bars — one above and one below the header image. You can also simply use the old default automatic menu generation base
on your defined pages. Either way, you have full control of the menu colors and more.
[/spoiler] - Additional Top and Bottom widget areas[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Weaver adds support for two additional widget areas – at the top and bottom of
content and post pages. You can control which type of pages they diplay on as well.
[/spoiler] - Add background colors, borders, and rounded corners to content and widget areas[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Make your sidebars and other areas stand out with custom colors. Add a border to the sidebars. Use rounded corners (on non-Internet Explorer browsers).
[/spoiler] - Add Fade Effect to Site background[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
WordPress 3 added support for specifying a background color or image. With Weaver, you can also add a fade effect to the background color.
[/spoiler] - Add a shadow to site edges[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
With just one check, you can add an attractive shadow to the edges of the site’s page.
[/spoiler] - Customize footer [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
In addition to the 4 widgets available for the footer, you can add your own
custom information to the footer area. This could include extra site information,
hit counters, or almost anything else. In addition, you can add code right
before the end of the site such as Google Analytics or other tracking Javascript.
[/spoiler] - Custom bullets for lists [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
You can independently customize the bullets used on widget and content lists
from a list of over 15 different bullets in 5 colors (black, gray, red, green, blue).
[/spoiler] - Hide Blog title and description in header[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
You can really control your header with Weaver. If you Header Image has your site name in it, then you can hide the site title and description.
[/spoiler] - Hide menu [spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
Don’t want a menu – a simple check mark will hide menus.
[/spoiler] - Add custom code to site <HEAD> section[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
If you have a bit of understanding of CSS, you can get almost total control of your site’s appearance
by adding custom CSS rules, Javascript definitions to the
section of the HTML pages. No more editing the theme style.css file, or any other files, either. And
the custom code you create are saved in the WordPress database, not a file that changes with each
theme upgrade, so you won’t lose your work. Weaver even includes an extensive list of CSS snippets that you can
use to fine tune your site.
[/spoiler] - Export/Import your themes to your own computer for safekeeping and sharing[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
So you’ve done all this work customizing your theme. Now you want to save it, share it, or move it from
your development site to your production site. Easy. You can save your customized theme to a file on your
computer, and upload and restore it later.
[/spoiler] - Real Help Included with Theme[spoiler / (+ details)/ / (- details)/]
While Weaver is supported by a website, it also includes a real help system with the theme. Whenever you see
a circled ? in the Weaver Admin pages, just click it for instant context sensitive help. You can also view the full
help file from the Help Tab. There’s even specialized help for advanced customization using CSS.
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Weaver is available on WordPress.org. You can download it there directly into your Themes Install panel. The WordPress theme approval process can take some time, even for updates, so if you want to be right up to date, the latest version of Weaver will always be available for download from this page.
How to install on your WP 3 site: First, download the weaver.zip file to your own hard drive. Then from your Admin page, go to the download tab of the Themes panel. Then click the upload link at the top, and upload and install the file. (If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Weaver, you will have to activate the default Twenty Ten theme first, then delete the older version of Weaver, and finally upload and install the new version.)
For general discussion and support, please visit the Weaver Forum page.
Examples of some of the predefined Weaver Sub-Themes
The power of Twenty Ten Weaver is well demonstrated by the over one dozen included predefined sub-themes. You can use one of themes directly, or use one as a starting point for designing your own theme.
Wheat Wheat-toned theme, the Weaver default theme. |
Black and White Black and White – no color here. |
Blue A simple theme, based on blue. |
Browns Brown theme – almost a camo look. |
Dark with Green Almost Black, with Green titles |
Dark – 2 Left Sidebars A Dark Theme with 2 sidebars on the left. |
The Grays Gray based theme with title decorations. |
IndieAve A Green oriented theme based on IndieAve.com. Use Indie Ave header to see full design. |
Ivory Drive Modelled after IvoryDrive.com website. Use the Ivory Drive header to see full design. |
Kitchen Sink Blue and Green theme with many borders. Demonstrates many Weaver options. |
Mist Misty theme. |
Orange Simple Orange headers |
Reds Red based theme – good example of some custom CSS entries. |
Shadows Gray with Shadows |
Simple Silver A simple silver theme. |
Sopris Mountain Blues and Greens |
Tan and Gray A clean tan, gray, and white theme. |
Transparent Dark A Trasparent theme for dark backgrounds. It requires a dark background image to look good. |
Transparent Light A Trasparent theme for light backgrounds. It requires a light background image to look good. |
Turquoise A simple turquoise based theme. |
Twenty Ten Twenty Ten Theme (just like the original) |
White White Theme with content border. |
WP Weaver An Ivory tone theme – used by WPWeaver.info. Use WP Weaver header to see full design. |
