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Anaconda, Ultimate 3 Column WordPress Theme, Released

Published by angsuman September 1st, 2006 in 3 Column Theme, Anaconda

spacer I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.

Anaconda uses flexible 3 column layout which is designed entirely with CSS. The center column and left sidebar are flexible and adjusts to browser size.

Anaconda comes with inbuilt support for 15 popular WordPress plugins out of the box. The theme is designed to work perfectly with these plugins. We have tested them for you so you don’t have to.

Anaconda provides 17 WordPress widgets for you to extensively customize your site without writing / modifying a single line of code. We have tested it with 20 widgets overall. We have widgetized all inbuilt functionalities of K2 theme.

Anaconda works without any configuration out of the box. It is also extensively customizable for those who need it. You can even include your own stylesheets, known as schmes. Two sample schemes are provided including vader.css.

Customizations can be easily done using the Anaconda Options control panel under Presentations menu.

Anaconda theme has built-in support for inline and sidebar asides. It optionally supports Ajax commenting, Live search, fixed width layout etc.

Contents

  1. Plugins
  2. Widgets
  3. Heritage
  4. License
  5. Download
  6. Installation
  7. Support


Plugins
Anaconda supports 15 popular WordPress plugins out of the box:

Plugins Version tested
Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro All versions
Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14
Related Posts 2.02
Nybble’s Sidebar Modules 1.0.1 (comes integrated)
Quoter 1.1
Edit Comments 0.3
Brian’s Latest Comments 1.5.8
Noteworthy 1.0
WordPress Widgets 1.0
FlickrRRS 3.0.3
Extended Live Archives 0.10beta R18
Time Since 1.1
Gravatars 1.1
Favatars 2.0
Subscribe to Comments 2.0.4

Widgets
spacer Anaconda is 100% widgetized aka widget enabled. We have even widgetized the inbuilt functionalities of K2. Anaconda has been tested with 18 popular WordPress widgets:

  1. About Widget (built-in)
  2. Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (Plugin & Widget)
  3. Archive Widget (built-in)
  4. Aside Widget (built-in)
  5. Calendar Widget (built-in)
  6. Categories Widget (built-in)
  7. Delicious Widget (built-in)
  8. Flickr Widget (built-in)
  9. Links Widget (built-in)
  10. Meta Widget (built-in)
  11. Pages Widget (built-in)
  12. Recent Comments Widget (built-in)
  13. Recent Posts Widget (built-in)
  14. Related Posts Widget (built-in)
  15. RSS Widget (built-in) - You can create upto 9 RSS feed widgets in sidebar.
  16. Search Widget (built-in)
  17. Tag Cloud Widget (built-in; requires Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin)
  18. Text Widget (built-in) - You can create upto 9 text widgets to include your custom text in sidebar.
  19. Google Search Widget (comes with widget plugin)
  20. Del.icio.us Widget

You can place them on one of your sidebars by simply dragging and dropping them from your sidebar widgets control panel.

To use widgets, please download and activate the widget plugin.

Heritage
Anaconda is based upon very popular K2 WordPress Theme and equally popular Mollio Web template. K2 is known for its rich, but complex, functionalities. K2 is based on Kubrick which has been modified to create the default WordPress theme. Mollio is known for her (someone has to be a female so why not the good looking one?) stunning good looks.
We have taken both of them, ripped them apart and made them work together, which was a big task by itself. We took all of K2’s functionalities and widgetized them and added our own. We fixed lot’s of defects and pesky layout issues, enhanced the look and finally we present you with the Anaconda Theme.

License
Anaconda comes with GPL (GNU Public License). Both Mollio & K2 are released under GPL. The only thing we require is that you keep the attributions and linkbacks in the footer without any change.

Download
Download Anaconda Theme

Installation
To add a new theme to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:

1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains. You should preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files. It should create a directory named anaconda.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, upload anaconda directory to wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. All your Anaconda theme files should be in wp-content/themes/anaconda after the upload.
3. Follow the instructions below for selecting the new theme.

To select Anaconda theme for your site:
1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Select the Presentation subpanel.
3. Click on Anaconda to activate it.
4. To view the new look, click View Site at the top of the Panel’s screen.

Your selection should immediately become active. Enjoy!

Support
We will provide paid support only for Anaconda theme at this time. Our rate is 30$ / hour. Please contact support[at]taragana[dot]com with your support requirements and for an estimate. All payments are to be made by PayPal to sales[at]taragana[dot]com.

However if you can find good defects or provide good suggestions for enhancement then we would be happy to solve your problems pro-bono (for free) spacer
Note: I decide what is good. It will be fair.

We will soon introduce a forum for Anaconda self-help.

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  1. 1 angsuman Sep 3rd, 2006 at 8:23 am

    Looking forward to your comments and feedback.

  2. 2 Joe Sep 5th, 2006 at 1:16 am

    Very nice theme but I wonder where to edit the content wide because I want to move the space between sidebar and content closer.

  3. 3 Lyrics Sep 6th, 2006 at 1:32 am

    Very professional theme with it’s plugins. I think i will use it on my lyric website thank you for this theme

  4. 4 Alex Boschmans Sep 7th, 2006 at 6:33 am

    I like your theme a lot. So much so, that I’ve decided to keep using it for the time being. I think it’s one of the best around.

    Now I need to find out how to customise it just a little bit, changing the colors, put back in my header image…

    Thank you for sharing this theme with us.

  5. 5 Reaper-X Sep 10th, 2006 at 11:38 pm

    Extremely Wonderfull !!! I think after modifying it a little bit to integrate few plugins which is already installed on the current theme, im going to switch into this Anaconda theme.

    Btw it’d be great if there’s an update notification on admin dashbar about anaconda update spacer

    Thanks and keep up the good work

  6. 6 Joe Sep 12th, 2006 at 10:46 am

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  7. 7 Bonnie Sep 12th, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    Wow, this looks great, Angsuman!

    I’ve been thinking about going back to my original three-column format, but I wasn’t comfortable with what’s available. I’m definitely going to try this.

  8. 8 Nudecybot Sep 13th, 2006 at 10:53 pm

    I like it! I’ll try customizing it tomorrow but for now I will let it sit in all of its default glory right here:

    www.nudecybot.net

    Thanks!

  9. 9 Amiante Sep 20th, 2006 at 4:59 pm

    Many, many thanks for this wonderful theme!

  10. 10 Colin Sep 22nd, 2006 at 3:13 am

    Thanks for a really great looking (and well behaved!) theme. It rocks. This is the one I was looking for.
    Gentlemen, your theme forum is *much needed* and eagerly awaited. Please consider bringing this resource online sooner rather than later!!

  11. 11 angsuman Sep 23rd, 2006 at 6:16 am

    Colin,
    Thanks for the suggestion. We will add the forum next week.

    – Angsuman

  12. 12 Scotty Zee Sep 26th, 2006 at 6:51 am

    Love the theme mate thank you. Looks good and seems easy to use. One question though: from the list of supported plug-ins above, how do I download them? There seem to be no links?

    Keep up the good work.

    Zee

  13. 13 S G Sep 29th, 2006 at 10:09 am

    thank you, it is very nice. i will be playing with it here anamorfosis.net/

    an interesting option would be to let the people choose to put the sidebar widgets in the left or in the right column.

  14. 14 bloggy Oct 3rd, 2006 at 8:16 pm

    Love your theme and all that you did with it. Thanks for an awesome layout and construction.

    Need help with tag warrior. The tag cloud that is created is placed in the left collum. How do i get it in the Footer? Please help, as I had plans for that area in the Left collum.

    Thanks

  15. 15 Oliver Oct 6th, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    Gracias por el tema

  16. 16 free blog Oct 7th, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    Clean, simple, and easy. thanks for theme

  17. 17 Caroline Letkeman Oct 15th, 2006 at 10:43 am

    Hi,
    Thanks very much for making the Anaconda theme available.

    Thought you’d want to know that the Google ads on
    anaconda.taragana.net/ push the left column
    into the middle column at 800×600.

  18. 18 Erno Hannink Oct 20th, 2006 at 2:08 am

    Hello angsuman,

    The theme is very nice. I love how stable it is in the different browsers.
    There is an issue I like to put forward.
    The Performancing Metrics script (see below) needs to be just before the closing body tag.
    In this theme the footer template is not a good option since the sidebar is called after the footer template then comes the closing body tag.
    At what file(s) needs it to be for the easiest usage?

    Regards,
    Erno

    display_name . “\”;\n”;
    echo “z_user_email=\”" . $userdata->user_email . “\”;\n”;
    }
    ?>
    z_post_title=”";
    z_post_category=”cat_name;?>”;

  19. 19 Erno Hannink Oct 20th, 2006 at 5:00 am

    I found it. I have added the code to the main index file and there is a PMetrics plugin. This combination causes the Stack overflow. So, I have deleted the code in the index and now I am just using the plugin. And works fine.
    Thanks for the help spacer

  20. 20 angsuman Oct 21st, 2006 at 11:49 am

    @Caroline
    I am using Google ads on my left sidebar without any problems.

  21. 21 Nicholas Oct 23rd, 2006 at 7:55 am

    Love the theme very much…

    Further updating, since this is still beta, would be accomodation of sub-pages on the top menu…

    Currently, when you add a sub-page on your wordpress site, your sub-page will not be visible even if you click on the main parent page… thus, you still have to add a sidebar for your pages….

    If you want to have sub-pages (which is the key to keeping an organized look) then this theme is very much lacking…

    But all that aside, this is still one of the best, clean looking, professional, and pleasing to the eye themes around..

  22. 22 Patrick S Oct 24th, 2006 at 2:18 am

    Hey i like this theme…thanks alot…i cannot wait to try it!!

  23. 23 Alanna Oct 24th, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    There seems to be no forum yet?

    I’m trying to do something that seems like it should be relatively easy: changing the color scheme of the header, sidebars, etc, not the text. If someone can point to the right file, the right section of code, I’m likely good from there. Many thanks ~

  24. 24 LuAnn Oct 25th, 2006 at 10:13 pm

    Great theme! And the very first I was able to get a specific plugin to work with, I can finally use my now reading plug in, the css was so easy to find to fix the page I needed. I hope to learn to customize it a bit but I’m loving it.

  25. 25 angsuman Oct 26th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    Sorry for the delay in creating the forum. I have now added a forum where you can discuss about this theme.

  26. 26 Mats Dagerlind Oct 28th, 2006 at 7:24 pm

    I found this theme very useful and the built in support for certain plugins is nice.

    There is one bug though (at least in IE6, at least on my computer); the reply box suddenly
    expands way beyond the screen sideways and you cant even scroll there (no scrollbar appears
    when this happens).

  27. 27 Marcos Nov 3rd, 2006 at 4:27 pm

    I can’t seem to change the sidebar widgets when this theme is activated. I’ve been able to drag widgets in Firefox, Camino, and safari using other widget-enabled themes, but when I select Anaconda, the widget-dragging stops working.

  28. 28 Dave Nov 9th, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    I like the theme. Mollio is a great design, and you did a great job copying it.

    There are a few things I’d like to see in it, like the default statement that appears at the bottom of each post (when you are reading the actual post page), saying, “This post was made on {date} at {time}, yada yada yada…”

    Other than that, it seems fairly stable. I have it up on my site.

  29. 29 Kate Nov 16th, 2006 at 2:35 am
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