TerraFirma
TerraFirma is the wordpress theme, based on an open source design by nodethirtythree.
Its a two-column,Fixed-Width, Widget-Ready wordpress 2.0 theme.
Key Features :
- Includes a Theme Options Page that allows you to
a) specify the pages to be excluded from the top navigation
b) specify how those pages should be listed. alphabetically or by order number or by the date of creation
c) Specify the category for “Asides / Quick Bits”. - Page Template for Archives Page
- Page Template for Contact Page
- Page Template for Links Page
- Support for “Tags” for WordPress 2.3 and above
- Support for “Multi Threaded Comments” for WordPress 2.7 and above
- Automatic Page Navigation
- Widgets Plugin Compatible
- 404 Not Found Page
It has many more features in the theme, that you can explore once you download it.
Live Preview | Download Version 3.6
Thanks.
Enjoy !
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thnx!! ready !
ricardo,
once you activated the sidebar widgets plugin, you would see a new option under the presentation option called “sidebar widgets”.
excellent theme… been playing wit it for a couple of weeks… hope u can take a look… http://culturatecate.com
is it widget ready+ i know it says so, i just can/t find how.
greetings from mexico
ricardo
After a few more houres … it’s working now ! Beautiful Theme !!!
NICE WORK ! Thx
Thanks again for this beautiful theme.
I’m trying to ad some google ads under every post but what ever I do in the index.php file nothing appears on the blog, why ?
Dear Sadish, your kind reply may have hit the point. I notice that the permalinks don’t work well due to the Apache mod_rewrite module. I am trying to fix the problem. Thank you for your great theme again and best wishes.
Young,
Try changing the options for Permalinks to be the default option and see if that solves the issue.
It is here : walkwithyou.cn/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
Sadish
I wrote something into the ‘About’ page. However, when I visited my website and clicked the ‘About’, the browser returned that the About document wasn’t found in the server. What’s going wrong and how to solve the problem? I’ll be most grateful if you could give me a clue. Many thanks!
Very cool, I love it!
Cool design. Thanks. Will try it later. Just added in my themes collection.
Thanks nodethirtythree, for a great design and for coming over here to share your thoughts.
Just wanted to say thank you for converting my design to WP. You did an excellent job, Sadish
Hassan on comment#13 write:
I think the problem is in sidebar.php, on line 13:
we have: <? } ;>
try replace with:
<?php } ;>
should be fine, or at least for me works!
Thank you Sadish for this great theme!
Hi node33, This theme is very nice, I might use it for my blog for the SEO contest. Great Job.
hmm, great, added to my Wordpress theme collection
Thanks 
Sadish,
I copied and pasted the css for the footer in the theme css I installed from the latest version and it worked. Thank you.
Let me also add my compliments for a nicely done theme, I’m using a modified edition on my site: terra.incognita.ws.
And an additional thanks for keeping the theme updated and tracking changes. I modified the index, sidebar, footer, and header a bit, and don’t relish the thought of going to redo all changes with each update.
Thanks a lot for the quick response Sadish,
I’m an amateur in CSS & PHP. I customized the site by trial & error method (it took me around 3 days to do it). The bad news is I have no track of my customizations.
Could you tell me a simple way I can implement the fix instead of upgrading to the latest version.
Appreciate it.
Prajakala,
thanks for reporting it. I fixed it and updated the version 3.3
Please get the latest version, you will be ok.
Thanks,
Sadish
Hi Sadish,
I am sorry my site was down yesterday. My site had validation errors, it was because of a plugin, once I deactivated that plugin, my site is validated.
But my problem is with the footer, as I said whenever I take my cursor onto the links in the footer, the footer is sliding aside. In fact you need not test it in my site, it’s the same in your page too. http://try.wpthemepark.com/
Just point the cursor on the terrafirma link or wordpress theme link in the footer and you can see how the footer behaves. Looking for a solution from you. Thank you.
Sadish,
Great theme. I’ve modified it quite a bit (but kept credits at the bottom). The site is garysheehan.com
I’ve noticed in IE 6.0 that Justify text doesn’t work well with an image in-line with the text. Essentially, the first line is ended prematurely (or the text does not expand enough). It works fine in Firefox. Any ideas why?
Also, in Firefox, when going from Home to another page (other than About), the page jumps about 5 pixels to the right. It does not do this in IE.
Thanks for the great theme!
Gary
Prajakala,
I tried your site yesterday it didnt work.
try validating your site at http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fprajakala.org and see if that helps with your problem.
Rita, I will take a look at that, use the ‘contact’ page that you can find in the top navigation of this website and send me an email.
Thanks
Sadish
For the most recent version of TerraFirma, it appears to me that on the Theme Options page, the feature where you can …
Specify how those pages should be listed. alphabetically ? by order number ? or the date of creation ?
… is not working right. I’ve got four pages, all with order numbers 1-4, and the theme is not placing them in correct order.
Sadish, you have a login established if you want to go in and look at it…
Hi! Thanks for the cool design, I modified it a little bit and am using it for my site. I noticed that the whenever I take my cursor onto the links in the footer, the footer is sliding aside. Is there any way we could fix this. Waiting for your response. Thank you.
You were right – it was set up as asides – now fixed! Dead easy – thanks.
Thanks for your patience with newbies.
Mel,
to answer the second question, they are the pages used by wordpress to handle user’s requests.
say for example, if the user clicks on the “october 2006″ monthly archive link from the sidebar, then archive.php will be invoked and similarly if a user typed some link that does not exist in our site, then 404.php will be invoked.
the pages you create, using wp-admin/ Write / Page , are the pages that you want to display to the users. like an about page, contact page etc.
these will be controlled by terrafirma options page.
Sadish
Mel.
I think those posts are treated as “asides”. thats why they are displayed with no formatting.
try to go to TerraFirma Options page and see if that category (personal development) is set to be an Asides category. if yes, then change the dropdown to choose ‘not selected’
you should be ok. else report back.
Sadish
Great theme – thanks, Sadish. Two issues …
1. I copied all my posts to it from blogger etc. when posting direct the formatting doesn’t display on the home page although it does on the individual post page. Not sure what I’ve done there.
2. How do we invoke the archive, links and comments page and 404 etc? they don’t show in Presentation/Terrafirms options.
Am running V3.1 on WP2
and I forgot to mention, there are changes in index.php and header.php too.
Selective upgrading is not intended to work for good for everyone.
Its always the best to get the latest version of the theme installed and then bring in your changes.
Thanks
Sadish
Rita,
Most of the changes are done in the functions.php , style.css and in contact.php
I do not keep track of the individual changes yet.
Thanks
Sadish
Is there any easy way to install TerraFirma 3.1 update over TerraFirma 2.0 without losing all my modifications to the theme files? Maybe you could specify what the changes are at the top of each modified theme file so I could copy those into my existing files that are now customized?
If I knew what the changes were, I might be able to manually copy over the required files for the update.
I would hate to have to start over from the beginning in order to get the updates I need. Help!
Thanks,
Rita
I’ve got the left and right positioning – my question is about padding. I want to add padding or hspace / vspace around the pic. That’s what I meant….
Louis,
There is nothing you need to add to the style.css.
just open up the post, and add class=”left” or class=”right” to the ‘img’ tag within the post.
if you have WYSIWYG editor within wordpress, click on ‘xhtml’ button at the top, to see the actual source that will show the img tag.
if you want to get that image on the leftside, add class=”left” or class=”right” for putting the image on the right side. the text will flow around it.
Thanks.
What would I need to add in the CSS to add padding or margins to images contained within blog posts or page content?
Rita,
the theme now has the link to the feeds in the sidebar. Thanks for reporting it.
Sadish
Why haven’t you included an RSS feed in your footer or sidebar for this theme? Could that be added, and if so, how?
Thanks.
Hassan,
did you modify anything on the sidebar.php file ?
Sadish
“Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENDIF in F:\wamp-server\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\terrafirma\sidebar.php on line 59″
how would i fix it!
Very advanced and nice theme. thanks for the V3 of this theme. keep rolling!
check out the new version (version 3.0) with the theme options page, released today.
Mario
You can redesign it as you like…
but when you are releasing your version, it should keep the credits in the footer intact. Thats All.
Thanks.
Great work!
Can I use and redesign this theme? I can’t find any information about the terms of use (only for private use?).
Thanks!
Cute. I may use this theme in a future project.
Very nice design mate.
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Very nice theme! I love it!
Nice work, it’s a clean design.
Looks good.
It’s a very cool theme.
Thanks!