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Evanescence

Latest version: 1.6 (Updated on 26 July 2008)

Evanescence, my first ever WordPress theme is a simple blue on white fluid width theme with two columns. The theme is released under GPL. Feel free to use the theme on your WordPress weblog and provide your valuable feedback. Contact me if you have any problems installing the theme or if you find any defect that needs a fix.

Evanescence WordPress theme screenshot

Preview the theme.

Features

  • Fluid width
  • Two columns
  • Right hand sidebar
  • Supports sidebar widgets, tags for posts, gravatars
  • Compatible upto WordPress version 2.6
  • XHTML and CSS validated

Download

The theme can be downloaded from the WordPress theme directory.

Installation

  1. Extract the evanescence.zip file in a convenient location
  2. Copy the ‘evanescence’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
  3. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels
  4. Select the ‘Design’ menu.
  5. Select the Evanescence theme from the available list of themes to preview
  6. Activate the theme.
  7. Click ‘View Site’ at the top of the Panel’s screen. Your selection should immediately become active.

Check this page regularly for updates and newer versions of the theme.

97 Comments

  1. Art Lader says:

    Fixed. :-)

    I used your flexipages widget to take care of the problem.

    Thanks,
    Art

  2. Nikita says:

    Thanks for your evanescence theme – it is the best-looking one that I could found.

    Are there any plans to internationalize it?

    I would like to provide my site in two languages …

  3. cloakable says:

    Any chance of WordPress comment threading, and a way to login from the comment page? :)

  4. junky says:

    Hi Srini

    can you update this theme for WordPress 2.7 ? and I want put the right sidebar to the left what must I change for this?

    my next question is, I have many categories and subcategories, Subcategories should only open when I click on them

  5. Costas says:

    Hello Srini, first congratulations for your excellent work. You are a special person.
    I tried different styles and none of them was simple enough and attractive enough. Finally I discovered your theme and installed it. I become adventurous and did some changes (increased the font slightly and added a header picture). The font is now great but the insertion of the header picture changed two things:
    1. Moved the search box below the header. I can live with that, especially if I can add a border around it.
    2. I lost the beautiful top corners. My picture is 480px wide by 90px high and I am very happy with the looks. In fact even the sharp corners are OK. If there is an easy solution I will greatly appreciate it. The change I did in the lower part of the header.php is:

    <a href=”/”><img src=”http://www.zhteitai-komma.com/wldps/wp-content/uploads/header4.jpg” alt=”">

    Thank you very much for all the great work you are doing, I wish you all the success in this World.

  6. ib says:

    Hi,
    Very nice theme. I’m pretty new at customizing themes. If I wanted to place a single image into the header, what would I need to do.

    • Costas says:

      Hello ib, in my case it worked OK (I only lost the rounded corners), I am not sure if it is allowed to post an email here but anyway here it is:
      Send me an email at elpizo@zhteitai-komma.com and I will send you details of what I did. I basically did some minor modifications to files style.css and header.php, uploaded a new picture in my site and placed the link in header.php
      Unfortunately the details in the above message were cut and it is not clear what exactly I did

  7. Kirill says:

    After searching though all schemes on wordpress.org I must admit that evanescence theme is one of the best.

  8. MayBaby says:

    hello Srini,
    I love this theme!
    But I have some question about it…
    Does “Evanescence” Compatible with WordPress 2.8?
    And comments list don’t decrease progressively, even I tried to set the admin. But the newest comment always not show on the top.

    Thank you for your reply:)

  9. dolu arşiv says:

    Any chance of WordPress comment threading, and a way to login from the comment page

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