Ministry Free WordPress Theme
Ministry Free is a little bit similar to the premium theme, Ministry Theme. I designed this site to be the front end web site where I will feature the Ministry Theme. I wanted it to be clean and free of clutter. Here are some features…
- Valid CSS & XHTML
- Widget-ready sidebars
- Support for tags, gravatars, comments, etc.
- Nice search feature and clean menu style
- FREE!
If you’d like customizations made, a logo designed, or if you download this and use it, feel free to contact me.
Note: to replace the header’s text with a logo, take out the following from header.php:
<p class=”site-title”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></p>
<p class=”description”><?php bloginfo(’description’); ?></p>
and add this:
<a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/images/yourlogo.jpg” alt=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>: ,<?php bloginfo(’description’); ?>”></a>
Your image file can be .jpg, .gif, or whatever, but store it in /wp-content/themes/ministry-free/images/.
This will show your logo and will have an alt= text of your site’s name and tagline. Right now, the logo’s area is 300 pixels wide by 108 pixels high. You would need to tweak the stylesheet.css file to change this.
Hi Brandon, thanks for your theme. I help run a website using wordpress to promote Christians in sport, particularly touch-rugby. I’d like to use your theme for the site. You mention adding a logo or header image to the header styling. How would I do that? At the moment I use K2 which allows me to have multple random headers.
And what a joy to have your daughter come to know Christ!
Thanks
Ross
@Ross -
Thanks so much. The easiest way is to open the file logo.jpg, replace the graphics, then re-upload it. Also, in the stylesheet (style.css) you’ll see a line that reads #header {… and on that line it uses a background image. Delete all of this… “url(images/header-bg.jpg) top left no-repeat;” and it will get rid of the box around the logo. Just remember that the dimensions of the logo should not exceed 320 pixels wide by 125 pixels high or we’ll need to tweak the stylesheet a bit more. Thanks again!
Hi Brandon. I love this theme and also would like to include a logo. The version I downloaded (1.1) doesn’t seem to include the logo in the header, and I can’t find a reference to “logo.jpg” anywhere in the files. Also, my logo is a gif — so is there a way for me to include it in my header? Thank you!
Melissa, I’ve answered your question in the post above, since this comments area strips html…
Hi Brandon. I’m trying your Ministry for my website CMS. Thx. I’ve try to replace header image by replacing the code above. My website won’t show up, just text:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /home/kebunang/public_html/wp-content/themes/ministry-free/header.php on line 55
Could you explain this?
Thx
@Fahmi -
I’m afraid you may have deleted too much or too little from the code. Can you send your header.php file to me at brandon at egracecreative.com? I can see what needs to be there and send it back to you if you’d like. Or, you can re-upload an untouched copy of header.php and try again. If you begin a php snippet, it must be closed, so you have to delete the entire php declaration or it will cause an error as the page begins to load.
Hi Brandon. I’ve just send you my header.php file. Please check it. Thx
Hi again, Brandon. I’m wondering about CSS issues with IE 6.0 and this theme. When I look at this page in IE 6.0, the header doesn’t appear nicely lined up the way it does in Firefox. I’m looking at this example: http://www.egracecreative.com/ministry-free/2008/09/26/images-in-a-post/
Do you know of a workaround?
Thanks!
Hi Brandon,
I am currently looking for a theme for my website, and your download link is 404. Any ideas why?
Thanks so much for the work you have put into this theme…it looks good.
Daniel, my upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 created a problem with my download counter plugin. I’m replacing links one at a time with direct download links. Thanks!
I’m working on the site of our youth ministry. I tried replacing the code to add the logo and it doesn’t work. I get a partial site title, that’s all. any thoughts?
John, I think I figured it out. In your General Settings, make sure that the “site url” and “blog url” say http://amuth.org and not Alpharetta Methodist Youth. This will correct the hyperlink that calls for the image.
Where is this in the code? I’m not sure where you are talking about
the link i’m working on is actually hs.amuth.org
If you are talking about the settings tab in wordpress…they are set correctly.
Thanks,this template will help a lot as there aren’t a great deal of themes designed for youth organisations or youth groups.Also glad to hear that you offer to do logo customisations.
Andrew Blachut.Australia
I changed the logo text to what it says to put on this page and uploaded my new logo but I only get an “x” and the logo doesn’t show up.
Actually now there is no “x” just what it had before which is my blog name.
How do I create the nice looking drop down menus like i see on the ministry theme demo site?
I’m afraid I didn’t include drop down menus here. There is a plugin available to create dropdowns, but it requires a bit of customization. You are also welcome to copy the css/xhtml from one theme to the other.
Reese, the blog name is showing up because it’s the alt= text. So far, everyone who has had your problem has traced it back to something being wrong with the img src url in the header.php file. You might try hard linking directly to the image’s location.
Hi brandon,
thanks, i have changed the header.php
The stylesheet css remains the same:
#header { width: 960px; float: left; display: inline; overflow: hidden; margin: 0px; }
Problem: No logo appear on my header. What could possibly be the problem? Thanks
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