Fluid Blue WordPress Theme is a simple, graphics free, fluid width two column theme. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Fluid Blue WordPress theme
Features
- Fluid width
- Two columns
- Right sidebar
- Supports sidebar widgets, tags and gravatars, nested comments and comments paging.
- Compatible upto WordPress version 2.8
- XHTML and CSS validated
- Graphics free
Download
Latest version: 1.7.2 (Updated on 8 July 2009)
The theme can be downloaded from the WordPress theme directory.
Installation
- Extract the fluid-blue.zip file in a convenient location
- Copy the ‘fluid-blue’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels
- Select the ‘Appearance’ (or ‘Design’) menu.
- Select the Fluid Blue theme from the available list of themes to preview
- Activate the theme.
- Click ‘View Site’ at the top of the Panel’s screen. Your selection should immediately become active.
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Hi,
I removed that line but another problem occurred.
Please see the problem on my sit and help me to correct this problem.
Thanks
Remove the line “margin:150px;” under #header.
now I use Evanescence theme, I will try this blue fluid theme . I hope have a better result. thanks….
You may want to try out F2, the successor of fluid blue theme. http://srinig.com/wordpress/themes/f2/
I may not be updating the fluid blue theme anymore.
I hope you’ll at least fix security issues, should they arise. I’m (probably) staying with Fluid Blue for now, because I prefer its clean 2 column layout over the (crowded) 3 columns layout of F2.
Sure, I’ll update the theme with security fixes whenever needed.
You can still use F2 theme with 2 columns. You just have to turn off the left sidebar in the settings page.
Sorry to hear you will no longer continue to update Fluid Blue. I have tried many different themes but keep coming back to the elegant simplicity of Fluid Blue. I guess there is not much I would need to do to keep it updated myself with future WordPress updates.
F2 is just not the same for me!
Thank you for all your hard work and sharing it with the public. I honor you for that sir!
Frank, thanks for your appreciation of the theme. I may still update the theme when it’s needed, I’ll try and make sure that the theme is works with the latest WP version, as long as possible. But there won’t be any new features or design improvements to Fluid Blue anymore. Afterall, F2 was born when I was trying to improve the design of Fluid Blue theme.
Srini, I’ve got a question which might or might not concern your theme, so don’t feel obliged to answer my question. I use a modified version of the original Fluid Blue (last week I added the threaded comments, but none of the new features). I don’t know my way around PHP and CSS all that well, so the results of my trial-and-error might result in ‘crooked toes’ (especially because I didn’t understand the term “fluid” when I started with your theme). I use your theme on five WP installations, here is one stylesheet. In the installations where I used the Excerpt Editor plugin, the excerpts are in a tiny font size. Thinking that this was a simple CSS question, I asked the question at the WP forums. First a user thought it was the plugin doing something strange (the excerpts get the postmetadata div), but the last conclusion is that it is something in the template files. I have been going through and through the theme files and the plugin files, but there is nothing that I would relate to this behavioir. Should you have an option, I would be happy to see if it helps.
I don’t think it’s a problem with the plugin or the CSS. When I look at the source html of your bookreviews site, I see that the
<div class="'postmetadata">is not closed. There should be</div>before<div class="postentry">, which is just not there. I think you erased it accidentally from the index.php and archive.php files. If you are still not able to sort the problem, just send me your template files, and I’ll help you out.Wow, that’s a path I hadn’t thought about. Doing what you suggest completely messes up the index though (margins lost from post 3, etc.). I think I deleted more when moving around with metadata, etc.
Hm, it’s not as easy as this. Like I said, I can’t just place a there. It’s probably a combination of mess-ups in the index and the stylesheet or something. The same thing happens when I change the index.php by that file from the theme’s download pack.
Send your template files to my email, I’ll check it up.
Srini,
A little patch for the tag archive header:
- support multiple tags, like /tag/foo+bar+baz/ (and), /tag/foo,bar,baz/ (or)
- RSS link
http://radek.cc/fluid-blue-tags.diff
I have tested this with WP 8.4 only. You can see the results here: http://radek.cc/tag/psql+macros/
Radek, thanks for the patch. But I’m not sure if the RSS link will work if permalinks are disabled. I’ll check the patch, make any changes if necessary and update the theme. Thanks again!
Hello Srini-
Great theme; one of my favorites! I was wondering if you knew what part of the original code I would need to alter to allow the navbar to reach 4 or 5 deep nested pages. Thanks!
In header.php, wp_list_pages() function, depth=2. Change the depth to 4 or 5 or whatever you want. But beware that levels more than 2 may not be displayed properly.
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