Wave A Video Centric Theme for WordPress
Download: Wave A Video Centric Theme for WordPress
by mattbrett
Wave is a beautiful and flexible theme catered to those that want to build a video focused site
Version 135 Released 02/26/2010
Important note for users upgrading from previous versions the blog video and featured categories will be reset when you install Wave 13 As soon as you active it head to the Theme Settings panel and select the appropriate category for each from the new pulldown menus
NEW WP 29 Post Thumbnails old method still in tact
NEW Support for selfhosted videos via the FLV Embed plugin
NEW Post author to video and blog post templates
NEW URL and embed code snippet to video post template
NEW Recent videos widget created since the list was removed from the footer
Fixed a bug that would allow the dropdown menus to hide behind videos in some versions of Firefox
Fixed 125125 buttons widget to allow use of nonimage ads such as AdSense
Fixed the 404php template which was broken in the previous version
Fixed a bug that prevented code from being escaped properly in the head include
Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 13 that prevented the featured category from being properly determined on the homepage
Fixed a bug that caused the embed field in video posts to break in some situations
Completely recoded about half of the templates to make them easier to customize
Reduced homepage template to 2 columns
Minimalized footer to only include copyright and credits
Removed the play icons from thumbnails to make it easier to customize the colour scheme
Updated bundled TimThumb to version 112
Changed how Post Thumbnails are handled
Better implementation for selecting the blog video and featured categories from the Theme Settings panel
Lots of other behindthescenes fixes and improvements to make the templates easier to work with
Bundled help documentation with the theme itself so it can be accessed from WPAdmin
Main Features
Support for any size video up to 920px wide Flag high definition videos with an hd tag and the theme displays them in full width and adds an HD button in archive indexes
Post videos from anywhere From third party services to VideoPress to selfhosted videos
Dont like the grungy textures Enable the Clean it Up option to smooth things out
Heading and links colour is selected by the user via a colour picker in WPAdmin
Dynamic image resizing for various thumbnails used throughout the theme
Custom built theme settings panel within WPAdmin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates
Both sidebars are widgetized
Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots 4 125125 buttons 300250 big box 160600 skyscraper along with recent posts and recent videos
Flexible logo space allows images up to 920px wide and any height Image path and dimensions are entered in WPAdmin
Super lean markup and CSS makes advanced customization a pleasure
Tested on Windows and Mac IE6 8 Firefox 2 3 and Safari 3 4 Some details are toned down for older versions of IE but nothing is broken
Support for FLV Embed Subscribe to Comments Twitter Tools WPPageNavi WPPostRatings plugins out of the box
Original PSD included
Requirements
For versions of WP prior to 29 Wave uses Tim McDaniels TimThumb script for resizing the images used in the featured posts sections and in archive listingsTimThumb requires the GD library which is available on any host sever with PHP 4 3 installed
Alex Kings Twitter Tools plugin is required for the Twitter status updates widget
Support Feature Requests
First read the help documentation that came bundled with the theme It is also available on the themes live preview site
Please send me a direct message via ThemeForest if youre having trouble with your theme and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible Please be patient as I work freelance full time and do not have dedicated time for theme support I will not answer support requests left as comments here
Also it would be a good idea to a read through my Terms of Support document which outlines the extent of support I offer and information regarding updates warranty and compatibility
Download: Wave A Video Centric Theme for WordPress
by mattbrett