Bible Scholar WordPress Theme
Bible Scholar is basically the theme I use for my blog (currently) at www.brandonacox.com, enhanced so that it can be applied to any WordPress blog. It can be 2 or 3 columns, depending on how the owner wants to style the site. It has room for ads, a nice search function, and the built-in ability to use the blogroll without using it site-wide. The preview page includes instructions. Note that I’ve updated it as of April 24 to include threaded comments and to reflect some changes suggested by WordPress. The theme provides gravatar/avatar support.
If you’d like customizations made, a logo designed, or if you download this and use it, feel free to contact me.
Truly clean and beautiful themes. I have listed them in my top-best-themes.com website. Keep up the good work.
I’ve been looking for the perfect theme to overhaul my site, and I’ve just found it! I’ll be doing some major visual changes, but the layout is exactly what I’m looking for. Thank you for offering such a wonderful theme! God Bless.
Hi, some post dates are not shown when I use this theme.
any help?
no problem. the date problem is fix. However, some posts are centered in IE7, which are OK in Firefox.
cheer…
Concerning the centering problem, it happens in other WP themes too. I find the problem happened in some specific dates.
thanks….
Hi Brandon from a fellow twitter follower
Can you tell a newbie wordpress blogger is there a way to change only the colour of your theme from green to blue?
Thanks,
Richard
Hi, downloaded this template but why can't I control the widgets?
I look in the widgets but in my admin panel it is empty yet they still show up. "They" being "Search my site", "Subscribe", "Articles by Category", "recent posts", "More information". How do I remove them easily?
I LOVE this theme, I am very new to blogging and html in general so I have a lot to learn. My question as of right now is this – is there a way to change that grey area around the header to white? If so, how? Could you be sorta detailed too, it would help me a lot!
Thanks!
Fellow Follower of Christ
Got this theme on my website. Thanks for this wonderful theme!
No problem, Lyndon. Thanks for the compliment!
Hi! I have downloaded the teme and i want to use.
Hi,
I currently use version 1.4 of the bible scholar theme. How do I safely upgrade to 2.1 without having any real downtime on my site?
Thanks so much Brandon.
Brian
Brian, good question. Really, an upgrade means only that there are some new or modified files in the zip package, particularly the comments.php file. Basically, if you haven’ted modified any theme files, you can just replace the existing ones with the new ones via ftp. If you have modified theme files, you’ll have to know what you’ve changed and how you can integrate your changes into the new files, but upgrading won’t affect your site’s uptime at all.
Quick question… I can’t find the instructions that you used to have up somewhere for changing the add images.
Thanks!
Sam, no problem. Since I moved to a new server I haven’t set up my own demo, which is where I had a few tutorial posts. To change those images, just open sidebar.php and you’ll see a div with a class of widget and something like “ad-blocks” and three identical lines of code – each one an image. You can replace those with whatever code you have for a 125 x 125 banner.
Quick question… I can’t find the instructions that you used to have up somewhere for changing the add images.
No problem. They are hard-coded in the file sidebar.php. You would just open that file and scroll down until you see a small section that begins with a div class=”ad-spaces” and there are links and sample images there. Just switch those out. If I ever get time to release a new version, I’ll make a theme options panel to handle these.
Hello I like the theme but dont know what to do with the 3 ad block spaces? is there a way to put ads in or remove them
Sorry if i am asking basic questions but I am new to blogging
No problem, Craig. You can open the file sidebar.php and delete the blocks altogether. I basically left them there in case someone wanted to use ads there. There will be a line that starts with “div class=”ad-blocks” or something similar. Delete everything to the closing /div tag.
@pak -
I’ve used a wrong piece of php code. If you’ll look in index.php, single.php, and any other file where a date is used, you’ll find a line of php code that calls for the_date() and that needs to be changed to the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’) and this will fix the issue. I’ll be fixing this in the next release. Thanks for pointing it out for me.
Richard, changing the color would need to be done in 2 steps. First, comb through style.css and change the hex keys for styling numbers, then substitute a new graphic header with whatever color you choose. I’d love to add color selection to a theme options page but until then, it requires raw editing the stylesheet.
Jarad, not everything in the sidebar is widgetized. Since it's a semi-magazine-style theme, I wanted to have a diversity of widgets and content in the sidebar. Just open up sidebar.php and delete the elements you don't want, or put them inside widget code following the example of the elements that are widgetized.