GreyDove Wordpress theme with Adsense support
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GreyDove is a simple and elegant Wordpress theme with lots of features. It has been designed to provide Wordpress users with a theme that's free but as good as a custom-made theme.The theme is being released under GNU General Public License. (Download GreyDove 1.1.3)
GreyDove makes use of search engine optimization. The problem of duplicate content has been taken care of by instructing search engines not to index pages other than homepage and single pages.
Homepage of GreyDove prefers to show post excerpts along with a thumbnail created automatically from the image mentioned while creating the post. In case the post does not have an excerpt or thumbnail image, the full post is displayed. If "MORE" tag is used in the post, a custom "Read More" link appears with the post.
The theme has an option for showing Featured Posts, which can be set while creating or editing a post.
The options page of the theme (Appearance -> GreyDove Options in Wordpress amin panel) allows various customizations, including control over showing or disabling About Me and Featured Posts boxes in the sidebar.
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The theme has provision for showing ads under the post title and at the end of the posts. The codes to be used for displaying the ads can be set using the options page of the theme (Appearances -> GreyDove Options in Wordpress admin panel). In case one wants to disable either or both the ads above and below the posts on single pages, it can be done by checking the boxes in the writing panel while creating or editing the posts.
If one wants to display ads in the sidebar, just go to Appearances -> Widgets in Wordpress admin panel and add text widget(s) to the appropriate sidebar. Now, paste the ad code in the text box and save.
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The Archives page in GreyDove is special. It will display all categories, archives by months as well as list all the posts. To create an archives page in GreyDove, create a blank page with title as Archives or something similar. Set the template for the page as "Archives" and save the blank page.
The footer of GreyDove is also customizable. Just add anything to the footer using GreyDove Options page under Appearances tab in Wordpress admin panel. Since the theme is being released under GNU General Public License, it's imperative that you retain the sentence that reads "GreyDove theme by Nyutech". You may reword the sentence in a way that's neither offensive nor distorts the meaning.
It does not support Internet Explorer 6 and may not function in optimum way. The theme displays a notice to all IE6 visitors that they are using an obsolete version of a Web browser and urges them to upgrade to a newer version of nay popular browser.
There is no demo for this Wordpress theme but you can see GreyDove in images (Homepage, Posts and Archives).
Enjoy the theme. Do give me your feedback.
Preview GreyDove 1.1.3
Download GreyDove 1.1.3
Update (9 November 2009): GreyDove has been added to Wordpress.org's Themes directory. Just check the GreyDove page on Wordpress.org for demo of the theme.
Update (19 November 2009): Thanks, Laura and Yaramazadam for pointing out the issue with thumbnails. It was an error with TimThumb. Perhaps I was using an old version which wasn't functioning on many servers. Today, when I upgraded my server for a thorough checking of the theme for solving the thumbnail issue, I faced the error too. Changing TimThumb file has solved the problem.
41 Responses to "GreyDove Wordpress theme with Adsense support"
I want to use this themes on wordpress mu, but it dont displayed image at Featured post. examp: http://teknoloji.yaramazadam.com/
Can you help me?
Thanks and nice theme. I like
wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=-1&sort_column=ID');
Change the value of depth from -1 to 1.
All the best.
GreyDove has been designed to work with Wordpress. It uses Timthumb to create thumbnails. I have no idea why it doesn't work with WPMU. Will try to solve the issue. If you manage to solve the issue, please let me know as well. Sorry for now, and thanks for using the theme.
I've downloaded the GreyDove Theme and installed it into my Wordpress.org site (on Hostgator). I cannot get the pictures to come up for the thumbnail on the homepage posts or on the Featured posts. In the area where the picture should show, the title of the post appears with the question mark icon. I have copied the url from the Wordpress library several times and even had someone with some technical skills look at it, but he could not figure it out either. Can you please help me with this problem? Love the theme and want to continue to use it, but I need to fix the problem with the thumbnails on the Homepage and Featured posts first.
Thanks. Laura
I'm using your Greydove theme for my blog and I've run into a problem. For some people, the blog only shows old posts, and does not update to show more recent material. It's like it's showing a cached version of the site from about 2 weeks ago. If I clear my browser's data and go to the blog I see the old version, however if I go to wordpress and log on as an admin I can then return to the blog and it is current with new posts. I've tried everything I can think of to resolve this and haven't had any luck. If you could help me out I would really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for using GreyDove. I visited your site; the last post that I saw was posted on 12 November. Is it really the last one. I don't think the theme has any element that would create such problem. There was an issue with the theme regarding thumbnails. It has been solved on 19 November release. Please use it and let me see if I can help you solve the problem. If I can find a solution, I will post the same in the comments section here.
Thanks for responding. That post from November 12 is not the most recent. There have been many posts every day since then, the site just seems to be stuck on that post. Other things have been updated since then as well (just some formatting and an image on the right sidebar) so it seems like it's just showing a cached version of the site from November 12. I'm not sure if the problem is something with GreyDove or with wordpress or something else. Im kind of stumped.
When you change Wordpress themes, the images that are part of the posts are not affected. They remain there. But some themes, like GreyDove, also use thumbnails and special categories such as Featured Posts that are separately included in the theme. They are not part of the default Wordpress package. You will probably lose them. But that should not be a huge set back because new posts after switching theme will have those images. Older posts without those custom images shouldn't make the theme ugly, at least that's true for GreyDove.
Thanks
I love the theme you have designed and chose it after looking through a hundred. Thanks.
1. i just cannot get the thumbnail pics to come up in the featured posts and the recent posts
2. how can i temporarily (for this project) delete one of them, as i need only one, either featured posts or recent posts ?
Thanks very much,
Deenise
www.eddiebauerconvertibleevenfloconvertiblecarseat.com
i´ve used your theme a couple of weeks (or month) but after i´ve updated it the theme shows on frontpage a placeholder- image in every post.
Before the update everything was ok? Do you have any idea how i can fix that?
There is another question: I want the theme to show featured posts a longer time than it does. In the Admin- Panel i click on appearance and than on edit. In the settings.php i´ve changed the number from 5 to 15 but it only shows one featured post ...
greetings
you can delete my former post. there was a plugin buggi
I´ve just one little question about the blogsite:
there will be shown a excerpt for every post but in the php-files is written: if there´s no excerpt show the_content ??????
greetings
torte
If you are talking about the Index.php file, the code says "show full post if excerpt not available". The theme first tries to show the excerpt of the post. If an excerpt has not been created, it displays full post (which is truncated at READ MORE tag, if present).
Your theme is lovely and I'm looking forward to using it for my new podcast livinghistorypodcast.com. Just a quick question, is there a way to hide the sidebard for certain pages? We're trying to put up a forum page, and the sidebar crowds the forum.
Thanks, Alena
Cheers
Thank you for all the hard work you put into making GreyDove elegant and functional. It is a very useful theme.
Robert
I like the theme and would like to use it for my blog. Is it possible to change the color or the background and the header?
If it does not have that functionality in the control panel, can i go into the html code and change it there?
Thanks much,
Dan
I got your theme, but the thing is that I do not need "Subscribe" button.
How can I remove it?
Thanks
Open the header.php file in some text editor such as Wordpad and look for the word subscribe. It would be wrapped in UL tag. Delete it and save. Done.
Please feel free to customize it.
I've numbered my pages in the order I would like them to appear but it doesn't make any difference.
Nice design though!
Thanks a million for making such a great looking theme!
A
This is a great Theme, but is there any way to display tags below the posts? Also, is it not possible to display the tags as a list rather than a tag cloud?
Thanks.
I love this theme but the featured post has been the cause of all my headaches.
Go to settings.php and look for this:
$featuredposts->query( 'showposts=5' );
Change it to desired value.
i just decided to download a separate featured post plugin that works much better for me.
thanks for the theme! it's perfect other than the problems with the featured posts.
http://alnoorjournal.org/
Thanks,
Zoe
I can't edit the About me options anymore. Comes up with an error. Please help.
Nik
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