Lush is an ultra advanced theme for Wordpress for bloggers who want everything without any difficult technical stuff involved. Drop it in, enable it and you'll be rolling with a feature packed Wordpress weblog.
Lush is easy to install and easy to use! Almost everything has been taken care of. Here are some small pointers to keep in mind when using this theme. At the bottom of this document you'll find a full list of distinctive features for this theme.
Have a look at the picture above or see it in action over here!
Copyright / License
This theme is ©2005 by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg.
It's licensed under the Creative Commons By-NC license. This means you're allowed to do with it whatever you want including porting it to other weblog engines and / or (re)using the graphics or styles in your own projects for non-commercial purposes. For commercial use please contact me at marco@i-marco.nl and we'll work it out.
In case you use the whole theme on your site or port it to another weblog system you're kindly requested to leave the link to my weblog which is located at the very bottom of each page intact. I worked for over 100 hours on this theme which means it represents a $5000+ value. It's my gift to the Typo community but a link to my site would be really nice.
The theme was ported to Wordpress by Christoph Boecken. You can find the original theme for Typo at w3-labs.com.
Browser support
This theme has been tested and tuned for a plethora of browsers. It even works fine visually in Internet Explorer 5.0. In terms of functionality it works in Internet Explorer 5.5 and up. The theme has been tested on Firefox, Internet Explorer 6, Safari, Omniweb and Opera 8.5+. IE for Mac is broken unfortunately. It crashes on the Javascript that comes with Wordpress.
Features
This theme has a lot of features that set it apart from the majority of free weblog templates:
- 100% custom design. Every pixel was designed especially for this theme. That means all graphics are unique.
- extensive browser support including IE5/5.5's broken box model
- Special graphical notice for users of IE5/5.5 encouraging them to upgrade their browser. It's only visible when using one of these browsers.
- alternating trackback styles
- print stylesheet for perfect article printing
- customized live search
- customized table-less comment form
- customized categories page
- various script.aculo.us visual effect enhancements
- adjustable font size for improved readability
- full gravatar support including a fallback default gravatar that fits with the theme
- XHTML 1.0 Strict
- A nice easter egg
- Builtin support for Ultimate Tag Warrior, Gravatar, flickRSS and time since.
- Support for WordPress Widgets
This theme is dedicated to my lovely girlfriend Renie who had to bear with me tweaking and tinkering with this theme every night and weekends for a whole month. - Marco
Wordpress related notes
This theme took me quite some time to port it to Wordpress, the javascript parts are difficult and this is also the first time for me writing a functions.php on my own. At this state, the theme should work, although there are some javascript warnings in Internet Explorer. If there are problems, keep me informed.
As of 0.99.5, Lush is now completely localized! Thanks to Ralph for his great work!
Download
Update: This version will no longer be supported by me, as I'm doing a complete rewrite of Lush. Get the new version here.
Lush 0.99.8 (tar.gz)
Lush 0.99.8 (zip)
As of 0.99.7, Lush comes with support for WordPress Widgets! Unfortunately, this also means that WordPress < 2.0 is no longer supported.
Zaniwoob also made a slighty wider version of Lush available for those of you that need more space in the content area. Grab it here!
Older downloads
This is the latest version with support for WordPress < 2.0. Note that this one will no longer be maintained by the author.
Lush 0.99.5 (tar.gz)
Lush 0.99.5 (zip)
Changelog
Lush Plugin - Plugin for WordPress 1.5.2 to integrate the admin panel
Plugins
Stefan modified the FAlbum plugin a little bit so it works with Lush. Grab the ZIP file from his page!
