Sorry folks, I’m no longer supporting this theme. The K2 and wordpress code has changed since I wrote it, (and keeps changing regularly!) and I no longer have the time / interest to keep updating it. I’m going to leave the site up for now, so you’re welcome to look at the code and work out what needs to be done to update it. If you’re stuck on how to customise K2, I suggest you check out the forum.
I’ve just rebuilt the Nautilus photoblog theme to work with Wordpress 2.2. You can download it here. Make sure you read the ‘read me’! (you’ll need to activate a couple of plugins to make it work properly).
Check out the screen shots below:
Index page
Archives page
Monthly archive
Page page
‘Lights out’ page
For those of you who want an out-of-the-box solution, you can now download my first K2 photoblog mod ‘Nautilus’ here.
Please read the readme, which explains how to use the theme!
Enjoy.
Photoblogs typically have a minimalist, clean design to focus the readers eye on your images, but it’s up to you how you want your photoblog to look. I’m not going to go through step by step everything I’ve done with Nautilus, but here are some points to consider:First, you might want to remove the sidebar on your main page. Make a copy of ‘index.php’, and rename it ‘home.php’. Remove the call to get the sidebar. This will stop the sidebar showing, but will leave a big gap where it should be. Continue reading ‘[Photoblogging with K2] Part 3: Styling’
I think the most important thing to make a photoblog look slick is the way the archives are handled. Lots of photoblogs out there have archives that just show the photo titles. That’s fine, but in my opinion, a photoblog is all about the photos, so my archives use thumbnail images. In fact, they only use thumbnail images.The key to thumbnail archives is the ability in Wordpress to specify an Optional Excerpt. In this field, you want to paste the url to the thumbnail image (75px x 75px) of your photograph (and nothing else!). You then need to do some pretty serious editing of ‘archive.php’ and ‘page-archives.php’. Essentially, you need to put in a modified version of the loop that retrieves the excerpt for each post, and makes the excerpt a permalink to the full version of that post. Continue reading ‘[Photoblogging with K2] Part 2: Thumbnail Archives’
