SpotLight
SpotLight is a 2-column, fixed width, widget-ready theme that is based on the Light theme by Stephen Reinhardt.
It is brought to you for free, with the support from Hosting Reviews & Coupons.
Here is a screenshot for you.
Its features include
1. Sidebar Widget Compatible.
2. Template Page for creating an archives page.
3. Template Page for creating a contact page.
4. Template Page for creating a favorites / links page.
5. Automatic Top Navigation.
6. If a page has any sub-pages, they are listed at the bottom of that page’s content.
7. and much more for you to explore.
8. Supports Tags when used with WordPress 2.3
Download link is dead.
We have put this new plugin for download counter and thats causing it.
you should actually click on the download link, which comes in the next page.
Thanks.
If you would please provide a better link for download…the next page directions is confusing since there are no instructions or link to the next page.
Dianne / All,
Updated the link to the download, so you can download immediately instead of going through another page.
Thanks.
Hello, thank you for the great Theme but how can i insert a search funktion?
Hello, thank you for the great Theme but how can i insert a search function?
Great theme, how about a 3 col. version?
ok I don’t know why my comments aren’t going through, but I’m having trouble with this theme and it’s tendency to push the paragraphs together.
there we go. instead of placing a space in between paragraphs, this theme pushes them together, making it difficult to read. I want to use this theme, but with this, I just can’t. Is there a way to fix this?
egon and others,
it is very easy to fix.
look for
p {
line-height:1.6em;
}
in the style.css and change it to
p {
line-height:1.6em;
margin:0.5em 0;
}
Save the style.css and hit ctrl + F5 (hard refresh) on the browser.
That would help.
The theme is now updated to have this fix.
Thanks.
Should there be a template page for links and a template page for creating a full archive (posts and comments listed) page? It says in the description that there are but I don’t see them.
Thanks for mentioning about it Carl.
I somehow missed it before. Now the theme is updated to version 1.1 and has those page templates.
Great! The links page is exactly what I’ve been trying to do (unsuccessfully) with plugins.
Hi, at first - great template, and I want you to ask how I can change the ,,about image,, ?
I’m trying to figure out how to get the menu to not kick the content to the right when the browser window is smaller than 1280×960. I have more than a few pages in my menu bar and there are still people out there that don’t use high resolutions. I’m looking through the CSS file and thought that it might be the navigation section but I haven’t gotten it to work yet.
Any thoughts?
Is there a way to make the menu on the left instead of the right?
b1ci, look in your “wp-content/themes/spotlight/images” directory…there should be an image there named “profile.png”
Make whatever image you want in that resolution (I’m not looking at it right now so I don’t know what it is,) name it “profile.png” then just replace that old image with your new one and it should show up!
By the way, I figured out how to make the content float right and the nav menu float left, just simple CSS. I can’t believe I missed that. Now to figure out that dotted line…
thanks for the nice theme…
almost the same with my modified version of light theme. nice
I’m trying this theme that I really like. Some proglem in the option part were the left box is empy:
http://sergioandreozzi.com/tmp/spotlight-options.png
I’m using it on wordpress 2.1.1
Cheers, Sergio
I also suggest replacing in style.css the ‘code’ definition with the following one:
code {
font-family:monospace;
display:block;
padding:10px;
background:#eee;
}
you might want to consider it also for the ‘pre’ css element.
Sergio
Sergio,
to fix the issue in WP 2.1 series, open the functions.php file within the theme folder.
look for post_status="static" and change it to post_type="page" and save the functions.php
Thats all.
I tried your recipe and found the string in an SQL predicate (WHERE post_status=’page’ AND …).
Unfortunately nothing changed.
I’m running wordpress 2.1.2 now.
checked mistylook that is working fine. THe actual recipe is to change:
from
WHERE post_status=’static’ AND
to
WHERE post_type=’page’ or post_status=’static’ AND
and it works fine.
Thanks for the great theme.
Sergio
Nice theme thanks,
I have an issue in Internet Explorer if the window is too small it will pish the side bar below the content. No problem with Firefox though.
Is there any fix for this?
Hi there, I can’t get the ajax comments thing to work and wondered if you could help me. I have ajax comments plugin installed, it just doesn’t do it.
Just disable your plugin. the ajax comments will automagically work. this theme already includes the ajax comments functionality.
Thank you it worked!
hi all.
Hmm, I spoke too soon, it isn’t working after all. Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
Beautiful theme. One small issue … my blog title and description (tagline) are too close to each other, how can I add some vertical space between them?
Modified the css to add vertical space over the description. On a separate note, I wanted to get rid of the arrows in the sidebar so I deleted the image file … was there any other way of achieving this?
The counts of categories and archives are not showing up in the sidebar. Can anyone help? Thanks.
Great theme, but i tried it on wp-version 2.2.2 and it doesn’t work at all.
After the first list-item from the tabs, it stops showing/parsing text.
Any ideas?
Johan,
1. It does not happen on my wp 2.2.2 installations and in many other people’s websites.
2. When you write something here, provide a link to your site so we can come and see what is going on.
Thanks for the response.
I detected the problem.
It was due to the relative path that is used when the pagefunction.php file is included in the header.php file.
For some reason it didn’t find the path.
So I hardcoded the theme’s path with an ini_set function, and now it works.
Johan
Hi, when i have just install spotlight on a test server, and when i try to leave a comment i get this error:
Warning: require_once(../../../wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/38/d216919608/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/spotlight-13/spotlight-13/comments-ajax.php on line 2
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../../../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php5′) in /homepages/38/d216919608/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/spotlight-13/spotlight-13/comments-ajax.php on line 2
Thanks.
The counts of categories and archives are not showing up in the sidebar. Can anyone help? Thanks.
Hi,
is Spotlight theme compatible with WP 2.3?
Thanks, Ron
Wordpress 2.3 is out.
Will there be any issues with sotlight when updating?
Wptr: Go to Presentation, Widgets, SideBar and then click on categories and make sure that “Show Post Counts” button is checked.
Are there any plans to have a custom image header in spotlight?
I wanted to make some changes in my installation:
1). Add a custom header image
2). Add another sidebar
3). Add RSS button at the top
Can anyone guide me how I can go about doing this?
Hi ,I would like to do the same as the post before me written by Vishwas…. thank you for any help!
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone would be able to teach me how to remove the dashed/solid border lines under linked images? (It’s the same border line that appears under regular text links.)
I know that it’s a CSS change, something similar to the .entrybody a:link, a:visited, a:active, a:hover items but I can’t seem to get the right syntax to get it right.
Thank you for anyone that can help me out!
Also, I absolutely LOVE this theme. Thank YOU!
Trying to get the site setup where I have a static main page, and my blog page actually be another page (called real estate)
I created a page called “main” to be the static front page, however now I have a page called “home” that I can’t see in the “edit pages” in the admin menu, nor can I see in the theme menu. I can hide “main”, but when I click on the “real estate” page, both “home” and “main” are visible in the top menu, even though I have “main” hidden.
Also, home doesn’t highlight as the active page… any help on setting up the navigation when using a static home page and another new page for blog posts would be much appreciated!
The site can be viewed as is at www.palaestraholdings.com/medfordnj and will be moved to it’s new home once the bugs are worked out.
Thanks!!
Christopher Rees,
just do one thing. open up header.php file in the theme, and remove this line.
<?php if (is_home()) {$pg_li .="current_page_item";} ?>
<li class="<?php echo $pg_li; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo(’siteurl’); ?>" title="Home"><span>Home</span></a></li>
That will get rid of that extra Home Tab.
Thanks.
Awesome, that did the trick. Thanks SO much for the quick turnaround. That was the missing piece, now I can wrap up and take the site live.
Great theme, keep up the good work!!
Regards,
Christopher Rees
Palaestra Training
www.palaestratraining.com
1-800-324-0946
Looks like the theme isn’t displaying quite the same in IE 7 as it does in Firefox. I am looking at the site in IE7 now for the first time, and looks like line height is off, and bullet points are showing in the navigation and elsewhere that I don’t want showing (and isn’t showing in Firefox).
I know that’s a CSS issue, any thoughts for a quick fix?
Again, the temporary location for the site is http://www.palaestraholdings.com/medfordnj
Thanks!!
Christopher Rees
Palaestra Training
IT Certification and Training Videos
www.palaestratraining.com
How can I make a direct link from a page (top menu)?
I want a page to link to a photo album for example.
I have the same problem as Christopher here. My page is beautiful with FireFox, but with IE7, bullet points are showing everywhere in the sidebar !
Thanks for the help!
-Pierre
I just stumbled upon this theme this week, and WOW! I *love* it! It’s so clean, simple, and classy looking! I have tried and used several other themes by Sadish - Techland and Paalam - but Spotlight is absolutely superlative! Thanks, Sadish!
Rob
http://blog.ivman.com
I love this theme but I really need a 3 column version. Is there on available?
I also have the Internet Explorer problem, where the bullets are showing up in the sidebar. If anyone has a fix, please post!
OK, I think I fixed the IE7 thing. Add this to CSS:
#sidebar ul {
list-style-image:none;
}
Works for me anyway.
When i come to this website, i desided to choose best theme for me and write a comment for it. So this is most beatiful template for me. My practice in design - 7 years. Respect for lite theme.
Hello,
first of all i want to apologise for my bad english because is not my native language.
I use this theme for my blog http://www.blogbancar.lx.ro/
I have a problem with Blogroll when i activate this option from the widget, on the right sidebar the space between blogroll and the last categorie is too big and i don’t know how to fix that.
Thanks in advance.
I have the same issue with blogroll. Can some hel us? Thanks in advance.
Has anyone added a 2nd sidebar or a third column?
Do you have a changelog for the theme update? I used your theme as the basis of my own theme and do not want to overwrite all my customization. Obviously you have no obligation to help me as I have altered your source but if there are some simple php changes to accommodate the new WP upgrade I would be really psyched if you let me know which files to alter. I really only want to upgrade to accommodate tags and not sure if thats a simple fix in your theme. Thanks for your help and thanks for creating a this nice clean theme to work!
Josh,
Please see this post for learning how to upgrade your existing theme for the Tags feature.
http://wpthemetips.com/how-to-upgrade-your-wordpress-theme-for-wp-23/
Thanks.
Thanks, I appreciate the help!
Is there a way to have pages not show the “this page has the following sub pages” list?
I tried editing the Page Template by removing:
“” ){?>
This page has the following sub pages.
Though when I updated, it displayed a 404 page. I tried editing another page and there was no 404. So is there another way to now show the sub pages list?
Where is the fluid version?
one of the nicest temps i saw. thanks!
Great theme. I am a little frustrated though that I can’t find out how to add vertical spacing between my blogroll and my tag cloud in the sidebar.
How would I do this?
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Thanks.