Introducing the Silver Light 3-Column Wordpress Theme

New option! Now you can preview the theme here. Be sure to come back to read more and download!

Jai of BlogOh!Blog created a free 2-column theme called Silver Light. It’s a lovely theme, but it doesn’t offer a 3-column option. So I’ve made some adaptations which create a three-column split look (one sidebar on the left of the post and one on the right) which should be compatible with any browser including IE6.

You can download it here or on the official theme page.

You can see the difference if you look at a screenshot of the new 3-column:

vs. the old 2-column:

I also added gravatar support for the comments. This means that if a commenter has a gravatar associated with their e-mail address, it’ll show up in the comments. For example, this is what it looks like if someone comments on a site with gravatars enabled.

If you would like to remove gravatar support, simply delete this code from the comments.php file:

<?php if(function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar($comment, '40'); } ?>

You don’t have to, but if you want to be really thorough, you can remove the avatar styling information from the style.css sheet. It’s not necessary, since as long as it’s not using in the site code it doesn’t matter if the style information is there.

img.avatar {
float:left;
margin-right:6px;
}

In addition, I changed the style.css file to make it easier to read. However, I left in the old stylesheet in the file oldstyle.css. It’s been adapted to reflect all the changes as well, so you can always copy and paste it over the new style.css sheet if you feel so inclined.

Obviously, this theme owes most of its creation to Jai of BlogOh!Blog and his creative vision. What I hope I’ve done is make it more appealing to a wider audience by offering more options. Share and enjoy!

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Written by Ms. Crafty

Ms. Crafty enjoys long walks on the beach mountains, Wordpress, clean code, and (some days) Thesis. Her specialties include theme customization and blog migration. She also loves to write about ways to make your site better.