In my plans for 2010 I said I wanted to release 3 premium themes, and earlier this week Darren Hoyt and I released the first of the bunch.
Accumulo - WordPress theme
Accumulo is an RSS aggregation theme designed to imitate sites such as Popurls.com and Alltop.com, and in particular Darrens own WPTopics.
The unique selling point of Accumulo is the tabbed homepage on which you can place any WordPress widget. The main draw is the custom RSS widget which loads and caches feeds for display on the homepage. These widgets are what make the Accumulo demo work so well.
BM Top Link
One of the features of the theme is a "back to top" link that appears in a fixed place as you scroll down the page. Click it and you are smoothly scrolled back to the top of the page whilst the button fades out. All very slick and, in the Accumulo release post comments, something I was asked to add to our other themes.
I'm not a fan of just adding features to themes, but I could see it would be a cool little widget so I spent half an hour putting together a plugin for it, which I have called BM Top Link (catchy - I know).
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This is a great theme. I've seen a few attempts at this but Accumulo looks the most complete & polished by far!
Hey Jay - thanks for the awesome comments
I like Grid Based theme... very clean...
There's a similar theme named 'Aggregator' by Templatic but this seems better and cleaner. Great work !
Hey Enk - I'm glad you think it looks good!
Thanks for the DM Pluggin... but what about the full background? Seems like it's only the actual middle panel?
Hi Soni - I am not sure what you're referring to?
Seriously, awesome. This solves so many problems I didn't even realize I had. For eg., we have a portal for the company behind 15 different blogs, and this creates a great way to showcase the catalog.
Thank you.
Glad you found it useful
This solves so many problems I didn't even realize I had. For eg., we have a portal for the company behind 15 different blogs, and this creates a great way to showcase the catalog.
BM Top Link plugin works great -- except it's nor fading as it does within Accumulo. I'm using WP 3.01 and TwentyTen wih style modifications. Any ideas?
Nevermind - found the conflicting plugin. Thanks again for a wonderful tool.