Sideways Portfolio Wordpress Theme

About Sideways

I’m fascinated by the whole horizontal-scrolling idea, especially for portfolios, but don’t feel it meets my own desires for this site. Nonetheless, I just had to dig in and create a working horizontally-scrolling Wordpress theme. So I present to you Sideways Portfolio. Here are some brief points…

• Horizontal scrolling through all archives and blogs.
• Non-scrolling on single posts and pages.
• Dark, grungy background.
• Clean, simple. Not minimal in a design sense, but free of unnecessary features.
• No extra plugins are required.
• GPL-licensed – use as you wish, personally or commercially, modify to your heart’s content.

Release Notes

0.9.0 – The first release. Please let me know about any bugs you find in the comments on this post so that I can do any necessary repair work for the next release. All releases are free to all purchasers.

Frequently Asked Questions

These will surely be asked…

How do I replace the title text with my logo?

The easy way is to open up the canvas file, add your logo to the background, then export that area as a logo file. You may need to adjust the padding of the #header #title area in the style.css file to line it up nicely.

How do I get pictures to fit the post areas well?

For the purpose of the demo, I’ve gone into the Settings > Media panel and have set thumbnails to 180×180, medium to 240×240, and large to 360×360, which matches the width of the post area.

What about comments?

I have purposely not included any comments functionality in this theme. After a lot of experimenting, I finally decided it best to leave them off.

What about widgets?

Where would I fit them? This theme is designed to be very simple and is really targeting portfolio and photoblog users, not blogs intended for discussion and community necessarily.

Demo & Purchase

Live Demo

Free Download