The Cryonie Theme for Wordpress

This theme has been designed to be easy to modify and to be consistent with the rules of optimizing sites for search engines.

To do this, the structure of pages has been revised with a hierarchy of titles corrected: H1 for page title, H2 for sub-title.
Often found in themes is the site name in H1 tags on all pages and subtitles anywhere, including in side panels or footer!

Features

SEO-friendly.
Variable width (fluid, liquid).
Minimum width of 480 pixels.
Maximum width of 1280 pixels.
Classic layout with two columns and menu to the left.
Navigation bar with categories on the left and static pages on the right.
Can holds 7 categories and 4 pages (may be modified).
List of recent articles below the posts.
Easy to edit.
A static page is provided (on this site) to try changes in the layout.

In addition, a 8-page tutorial can help you adapt the theme to your needs.

Compatibility

The theme has been tested and works under:

All Firefox versions.
Internet Explorer 8.
Safari 4.
Chrome 2.
Opera 9.
And more ...

It works on older browsers too.

It has been in production since Wordpress 2.8 and should work on older versions.

Installing the theme

Extract the contents of the archive. Before putting it online, add your logo with a transparent background, so a GIF or PNG format.

The maximum size is 320 x 48 pixels, which can be modified in the style sheet (descriptor is: logo).

It is recommanded to remove the display of title and description in text form in header.php. In this block:

<div id="logo"  onclick="location.href='<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/';">
    <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <br>
    <span class="sitedesc"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span>  
</div>

Delete:

<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <br>
<span class="sitedesc"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span>

Then copy the cryonie directory into:

wp-content/themes/

Then go to the administration panel to activate this theme.

The theme is deliberately provided with additional elements to allow you to choose them by deleting some.

You can change the composition of the side panel with your selection of widgets from the administering panel.
Else remove the elements that you do not want to keep inside sidebar.php, through the theme editor.
It is advisable for SEO to remove the blogroll, categories that are already in navigation bar, the calendar.
You can edit the style sheet (style.css) to change the minimum and maximum width, in the body descriptor.

How to tweak the theme

See the FAQ.
How to change the graphical elements of the theme.
How to tweak a Wordpress theme. A more general article.
To change the banner, see at the FAQ.
Two banners are included, a shaded image on a gray background and an expanded image.

Download the theme and live demo

Download Cryonie on the Wordpress repository.
License GNU GPL 2.0.
Live demo: Cryonie.com. This demo uses the shaded banner.