The Morning After
Although it drives millions of weblogs all over the world, WordPress is a powerful publishing platform that is increasingly being used to power online magazines and other news-driven Web sites; sites that fall outside the domain of ‘blogs’. Contrary to popular belief, WordPress isn’t just a ‘blogging application’. It can be (and is being) used for a whole lot more.
The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme.
* Clean grid-based design
* Detailed documentation regarding installation, usage and customisation
* Support for WordPress widgets
* Three-column home page
* “Featured” post highlighting
* Associating images/thumbnails with recent posts (with automatic thumbnail generation)
* Customisable logo/header image
* Support for WordPress’s in-built image wrapping classes and galleries
* Threaded comments (WordPress 2.7+ only)
* Support for asides
* Support for Gravatars
* Option for readers to email posts to friends
* Option to switch to a print-friendly view to print posts
You can click here for a quick preview of the theme. Alternatively, you can also take a look at a couple of live Web sites using the Morning After theme: The Coveted, American McGee, Nyquist Capital, Cambridge University Press.
Detailed documentation regarding installation, usage and customisation of the Morning After theme is available at this location.
The Morning After theme is free for you to download and use. If you do like the theme and find it useful, and would like to give something back to show your appreciation, here’s how you can: If you have a Moneybookers account, please feel free to donate any amount you feel appropriate to arun.kale@gmail.com. If you would like to donate via Paypal or credit card, you can do so here.
Alternatively, you could buy me something from my Amazon wish list. Even if you wouldn’t like to donate, you could always just email me and say hi.
Support queries are only answered in the forums. Please don’t email me directly with support requests. It’s a much better way to catalog support requests and solutions to problems than comments, and it’s quite a nice place to hang out. Feel free to post feature requests as well.
The support forum that was in place has been overrun by spam. Until a new forum is in place, please avail of the official WordPress support forums.
As of February 14, 2009, version 1.4 of the Morning After theme is released under a Creative Commons License (Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike). Just to clarify what is implied by non-commercial use: you are not allowed to sell the theme or any derived works. You are, however, free to use the theme for commercial web sites.
Note: The Creative Commons License applies to the Morning After theme only, and not to the plugins included with the download.
The WP-Email and WP-Print plugins included with the theme are created by Lester Chan. The Post-Thumb Revisited plugin is created by Alakhnor.
The theme makes use of the Blueprint CSS framework and the Twotone and Silk icon sets.