This Wordpress theme is the third version of the all-time famous and beautiful Rainbow Feather theme.
Rainbow Feather is a fluid one-column wordpress theme. As the name suggests the colours in this theme are rainbow-ish. From blue, baby blue, to yellow, orange, white, blue gradient and pink, barbie pink to evil pink. Cool features include: Fancy web2.0 like headings (wet graphics), custom badges “read on†and “continue readingâ€, matching color scheme/palette, Login area that shows logged in users (well it shows you and gives you options).
This version includes many bug fixes and modifications, specifically it can now boast with unmatched cross-browser compatibility in regard to such a complex design and piece of Wordpress code: Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6 and Safari render the site identically. Another great feature is the added widget-support. This version of Rainbow Feather is now 100% widget-ready. This means you can drag & drop most widgets into the pink footer.
Improving the usability of this theme was a major goal that is why in addition to the changes described above, I have contacted many people to help me out with the localization of the theme. As by the time of writing this manual the Rainbow Feather v3 theme is available in German, English, Portuguese (Brazilian), French, Turkish and Romanian. Plans to release Dutch, Italian and Danish localized versions are in progress. I need to thank everyone involved and the 100+ mails I have received to date as well as the 70+ comments on the theme itself. It is you, the people, who have motivated me to put extraordinary amounts of time and love into this project and to love ‘designing and programming’ again.
Thanks everyone!
Demo (use drop-down theme switcher on bottom of page) at themes.h4×3d.com
Are there resouces, Photoshop files (PSD), etc? YES!
Here is a quick teaser video (Windows Media File) that shows how beautifully the widget-support is built-in, as well as the native Lightbox/Slimbox support, but also the cross-browser compatibility. Rainbow Feather is now looking all the same in every modern browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Safari). Also, I added more php-fanciness to auto-cut long titles, a (currently) four pages manual and even more… please stay tuned and don’t hesitate to bug me/leave a comment.
Overall Preview (21MB WMV) | Show video online (new window)
Cross-browser compatibility (16MB Flash) (new window)
Remark concerning the “possible” XHTML Invalidness: Rainbow Feather is XHTML Valid if it wasn’t for the fancy widgets. Don’t worry – it displays all fine in all major browsers, see screenshots blow (click to enlarge).
The theme page of the initial release is here (this page’s old content so to speak)
Widgets Screenshots = Same Design
Widgets Screenshot
Firefox Screenshot
Internet Explorer 7 Screenshot
Internet Explorer 6 Screenshot
Compatibility Screenshots = Same Design
Firefox Screenshot
Internet Explorer 7 Screenshot
Internet Explorer 6 Screenshot
Safari Screenshot
Slimbox Screenshots = Built-in and works
Firefox Screenshot
Internet Explorer 7 Screenshot
Internet Explorer 6 Screenshot
Safari Screenshot
Lightbox Screenshots = Can be used, too
How to activate Lightbox Screenshot
Firefox Screenshot
Internet Explorer 7 Screenshot
Internet Explorer 6 Screenshot
Safari Screenshot
RESOURCES I decided to put them on a separate page to not increase the clutter on this page (even more)
* Icon credits on this page: nato-kino
From the latest Rainbow Feather manual
h4x3d.com does not host any illegal content. Links/Files referred to are for educational purposes only.
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September 8, 20076:44 am
September 8th, 2007 6:44 am
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v2 in my firefox, the left column, the Crative Common terms of use mess up with other words, overlapping (based on what i see from yr Live Demo, I not yet install). Plz have a check and see.
Abt the first column which is yellow, could u plz make it easier to edit in Dashboard? Rather than mess up with the php files.
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September 8, 20073:07 pm
September 8th, 2007 3:07 pm
jez
xin, with all due respect I can not make sense of your post.
The error you specify cannot be duplicated by me or any of those people that checked the theme so far.
Concerning the sidebar, what do you mean?
If you don’t like it, don’t use it – everything I offer here is free and I do not get paid.
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September 9, 20078:22 am
September 9th, 2007 8:22 am
taggy
hey ! isnt this widgetized ? i see widget preferences page but making changes to it doesnt get reflected at all :(
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September 10, 20075:28 pm
September 10th, 2007 5:28 pm
jez
taggy: I am sorry for the confusion, but this theme is currently not widgetized. I must have carried over the function from one of my old themes that are widgetized!
Widgetizing this theme is currently scheduled for 2-3 weeks when I will have another vacation. (As you can see I am working on themes for free and spend a great deal of free time bringing you those high-quality wordpress themes for free)
xin’s issue has been sorted out via e-mail: he had the font-size set to x-large in Firefox
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October 1, 20078:14 pm
October 1st, 2007 8:14 pm
plasebo
it’s still lack transparency hack on IE 5x and IE 6. Try the IE hack script from Edwards Dean. Good Luck!
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October 7, 200712:32 pm
October 7th, 2007 12:32 pm
Mike
great theme, jez! thank you very much!
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November 13, 20076:53 pm
November 13th, 2007 6:53 pm
Terence Sy
great theme, thanks for sharing but I have a problem where and how can I place the adsense scripts?
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November 13, 20077:24 pm
November 13th, 2007 7:24 pm
jez
hey terence (cool site you run), it depends on where you want them to be.
you could put them into a div layer and have it displayed absolutely (z-index), or you could use a 336px rectangle version that really pays out well and position it just before the_content(); look at the source and see if you find it (php files).
hope this helps,
yours jez
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November 16, 200711:29 am
November 16th, 2007 11:29 am
bluEyez
can u provide psd files for this theme ?
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November 16, 200711:37 am
November 16th, 2007 11:37 am
jez
Well, I do have them, but I never give out PSD files, as this is my general doctrine.
If you really want to make efforts changing the theme to meet your needs, you wont mind spending an extra squeeze of brainpower about how this can be done.
Using a PSD file is not the easiest way to go, I assure you (had to port many designs for companies last summer holiday).
what do you need help on?
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November 19, 20075:05 pm
November 19th, 2007 5:05 pm
KK
hey, thanks for the cool theme, but i have a problem with it, my sidebar has been crashed, and texts in sidebar are overlapped, can u plz kindly see my website and give me a suggestion :)
http://blog.kamalkumar.com.np
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November 19, 20077:37 pm
November 19th, 2007 7:37 pm
jez
KK, I will kindly offer my help, but the site does not load and returns a parse-error.
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November 20, 20077:53 am
November 20th, 2007 7:53 am
KK
hey,thanks for reply, the site returned error due to maintainence (upgrade to wordpress 2.3.1) now its stable, but I am still having similar problem on your theme, can u plz help me
http://blog.kamalkumar.com.np
kamalkumarlmc@gmail.com
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November 20, 20079:26 am
November 20th, 2007 9:26 am
jez
hey, easy fix KK:
dont have that much content in the top post. it uses the EXCERPT(); function.
the area there is only intended to show a limited amount of text, not that much as you put there.
maybe line breaks at your site (or your input in this post) break it.
once you have only 4-5 sentences there (you can add the “more” from within wordpress admin -> post “more”), it is all fixed. now that was easy, init? =)
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November 20, 20071:06 pm
November 20th, 2007 1:06 pm
KK
thanks, it worked :>
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November 20, 20072:09 pm
November 20th, 2007 2:09 pm
jez
and for the off-set sidebar: there is a css class for the div that says where it should be placed. since you added a picture of yourself, you might need to adopt the height of the container.
I plan to have this done automatically, but as you can read in my latest post, I am really short on time. I reckon this will be done as early as end of december.
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November 20, 20076:04 pm
November 20th, 2007 6:04 pm
KK
hey is there any way to show my sidebar widgets? i have noticed that my widgets are not visible in this theme and offcourse thanks alot for continious support, i am really glad :)
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November 20, 20077:10 pm
November 20th, 2007 7:10 pm
jez
unfortunately, not in this release, I seem to have put up the neccassary functions (functions.php), but forgot to implement it to the php files correspondingly. also, widget css is missing for now. if you were to add it manually it would work flawlessly though (edit the files as you used to do 2006 =) another thing to improve, thanks for noting!
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November 27, 20071:23 am
November 27th, 2007 1:23 am
MaX
I like the colors of this one … although I’m not so thrill about pink … :) .. the texts also hard to see in this section .. maybe something orange or green instead?
Is it possible to make the width fluid instead of fixed? people have wider screen these days and fixed width kinda seems restricted some how. … just a thought
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November 27, 20079:34 am
November 27th, 2007 9:34 am
jez
hey max, thanks for your valuable feedback. In case you dont entirely like the pink, I can understand that =) you should get the modification mentioned in the article above, “my centershock” or search my page for it. It is more “mature” and less pink. for the fluid width: it is not fixed, but only semi fixed. the elements dont break if you are surfing at a larger screen resolution. I myself use 1600×1280 and it looks quite okay and not out of shape. Care to post a screenshot mate?
thanks again,
jez
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November 29, 20071:45 pm
November 29th, 2007 1:45 pm
Wii
The theme looks beautiful on images but the demo site opens up default theme.
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December 2, 20074:07 pm
December 2nd, 2007 4:07 pm
jez
fixed, thanks for reporting
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December 2, 20075:52 pm
December 2nd, 2007 5:52 pm
Matt
Awesome theme you have here, and thanks for informing me about the update. It was much appreciated.
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December 23, 20071:44 am
December 23rd, 2007 1:44 am
zero
Is there any way to show up the images from the post under the Archive of some category? for now it shows only the title and the text…thx