Here are the combined blog entries for trying Coraline by Automattic:
20100805 105257 PM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 19 October, 2011 @ 14:52
Whoa! What’s this! WordPress.com has yet another theme! This time I’m trying: Coraline by Automattic.
A squeaky-clean theme featuring a custom menu, header, background, and layout. Coraline supports 7 widget areas (up to 3 in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for posts and pages). It includes styles for print and the Visual Editor, special styles for posts in “Asides” and “Gallery” categories, and has an optional full-width page template that removes the sidebar. Read more about Coraline →
I tried the dark version but it hurt the eyes. The light color is default to basic white and black.
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20100903 093638 AM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20111019 at 14:48:21 PM PDT
I’ve changed the WordPress.com theme. This time it’s: Coraline by Automattic
What I like about this particular theme (sans my preferred TIME STAMP) are the `Theme Options`:
- Two color schemes of either `light` or `dark`.
- Five default layouts of `contents` and `sidebars`.
- Two categories for `aside` and `gallery`.
For the background, one could choose to upload an image or display a color, which is a soft-buttery yellow for mine. Yummy, butter!
For the header, one could choose to upload an image of 990 by 180 pixels or choose from three images:
- water-drops (of blues and greens);
- limestone-cave (of blacks and golds); or
- cactii (of browns and yellows), which I choose.
Plus, the theme `auto-adjusts` for smaller screens, which is currently squooshed to hide my addiction at my SLOW-paced temp job from hell.
There is a widget for displaying a `featured text`, which contains my golden-disk `gravatar` of golden yellow and orange, along with a description of my blog. There are four bottom widgets, too!
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20101030 073440 AM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20111019 at 14:42:42 PM PDT
I’m trying another WordPress.com theme. This time it’s: Coraline by Automattic.
I didn’t like how the sticky post was “in the way” and on top of the most recent post entries. So, I placed my “Gravatar widget” in the “Feature Widget Area”, set the default layout to three columns with two sidebars placed to the left of the content and selected the “light” color scheme for darker fonts against a lighter (or yellow) background color.
The “Aside Category” is set to “rant”, which is ALL of my posts. The post titles to each blog entry is eliminated when viewed from the front/home page. The “Gallery Category” is set to “images”. I’ve yet to find out how this feature works out.
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20120627 070133 AM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20120627 at 21:20:50 PM PDT
I’m trying the Theme: Coraline by Automattic again.
This time I’m being meaner than ever: The “Aside” feature has been applied to ALL my posts (labeled “Uncategorized”). The clutter is minimal, meaning NO tags, categories or post titles are shown.
The “permalink” and “comments” appear underneath the content. My precious “time” stamp appears as a hover-over the “date” stamp, which is really a “permalink” to the post.
The current color scheme is lighter and makes reading that much harder. I figured “BROWN” would closely compliment the default header of “ORANGE”.
I like the “infinite scrolling” feature, the four footers, the primary, secondary and feature widgets. Let’s see: The description to each “CATEGORY” is displayed. GALLEY and IMAGE display thumbnails.
Overall – nice.
BUT, the only post formats supported are Standard, Aside and Gallery. Oh, well. I’ll keep looking. Sh^t.
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