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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February 12, 20088:18 am
February 12th, 2008 8:18 am
Jay
I want to add adsense content to my website. Is there any way to make the background transparent, so that the ad would fit nicely.
It would also be great if you could tell me how to add adsense content as a widget in the yellow part.
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February 12, 200810:53 am
February 12th, 2008 10:53 am
jez
jay, I see you are using the old version (v1), if you upgrade to the latest version you have widget-support can add it to the widget-area. If you still want to add adsense to it to other areas I’d advise to add a new container by using CSS. Hope that helps!
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February 15, 20085:05 am
February 15th, 2008 5:05 am
Jay
Hi
I love your feather theme. I got many things working, including the adsense. Thanks for your previous answer.
I have another question. Why is the site messed up in IE 7? I have the latest version of feather downloaded this month from this website. I checked in my account. It is v3.0 English.
Please let me know what can I do to fix this.
Thanks
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February 15, 20089:19 am
February 15th, 2008 9:19 am
jez
jay, if you love my theme then I don’t get two things:
first of all, why do you rip my credits of? it explains the need for link very detailed, also there is this license the theme came with. You can except no help or love from me when you act in SUCH A LAME WAY. I put hours of work in there and you just go here with your amateur css/html web-knowledge, badly mess with the code, remove my credits and ask me why it is looking funny? That is quite sad and disturbing.
Secondly, if you had read through the manual, which is linked at the very top of the page and ALSO INCLUDED with every install, you would have known what is going on. I am not going to help you since you acted like a total jack. Think about those two points and if you want, feel free to reply, else you look like a clown on my blog.
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February 21, 20084:24 pm
February 21st, 2008 4:24 pm
Gerard
First of all, you made a nice theme!
Hi there, you state that a Dutch version is in progress? Is this going to be released soon and if not, I guess the translation has to be done within the code?
Cheers..
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February 21, 20085:39 pm
February 21st, 2008 5:39 pm
jez
groetjes Gerad, thanks for your kudos and inquiries concerning the dutch version. While my dutch is rather limited I have not yet someone to help me out with the translation. If you were to get the excel file listed at the very top of the resources and add a column with the dutch translation I would appreciate that a lot. Of course you will be credited and mentioned.
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February 21, 20088:50 pm
February 21st, 2008 8:50 pm
Gerard
Hi Jez,
I will have a go at the translation. I will let you know when it’s finished.
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February 27, 20084:01 pm
February 27th, 2008 4:01 pm
Robbie Yee
haiz, i was wondering if the clicking of pages happens to be a bug. let me explain
when ever someone clicks on ABOUT on my site, it loads up just fine. However, the title of the ABOUT page, which happens to be ABOUT, does not appear, instead, the 1st post of the blog shows up?
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February 27, 20085:31 pm
February 27th, 2008 5:31 pm
jez
hello robbie,
first of all welcome to my site and thanks for leaving a comment.
have you read the manual PDF yet?
I assume not, because you have two bold errors on your page.
First of all you should be using EITHER (this is the OR part in the readme) lightbox OR slimbox. The theme comes with slimbox by default. so to fix the biggest errors DEACTIVATE the lightbox plugin (not the ADD to lightbox, but the LIGHTBOX plugin that ads the code to the header). You will notice after a reload that it will look nicer and work out of the box.
for your strange about issue: have you checked the code in page.php (top area with the query part?) ? have you changed parts of the code?
Hope you appreciate THIS FREE SUPPORT,
yours
jez
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February 29, 20083:20 am
February 29th, 2008 3:20 am
Robbie
thanks!
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March 8, 20089:50 pm
March 8th, 2008 9:50 pm
Prof Kienstra
Great theme, will definitely give it a test run!
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March 25, 20086:01 pm
March 25th, 2008 6:01 pm
Brock
Came across your page on Weblog Tools Collection. The theme looks amazing. I hope to spend some more time looking at it and whatever else you have here. Thanks!
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March 25, 20087:03 pm
March 25th, 2008 7:03 pm
jez
thanks for your comment, I highly appreciate any feedback, if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me. even though I have limited time left for web activities at the moment due to university term papers I am always interested in helping everyone out (or at least pointing in the right direction).
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April 10, 20089:09 pm
April 10th, 2008 9:09 pm
Phill
I’m using your Rainbow Feather theme, and I love it (The pink part, not so much, but I’m going to be changing that to a more reddish color).
I do see a minor bug with the theme in IE7 (Under Windows Vista). When you’re using the default Search widget, the widget below it gets moved up right beside it for some reason
I’ve tested this on my Mothers computer (Running IE7 under XP) and it does the same thing, and at work (XP running IE6), where it works perfectly.
heres a screen shot: http://www.aceman67.com/glitch.jpg
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April 11, 20088:32 am
April 11th, 2008 8:32 am
jez
hey there,
I just checked the screenshot and your site, however I cannot explain this specific issue. looks fine on my setup here (FF+IE7+IE8+Safari), you’d probably best up to add some css yourself if you are concerned, sorry for the trouble mate.
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June 14, 200811:47 am
June 14th, 2008 11:47 am
pquadrat
Versuche gerade auf Basis Deiner fantastischen feather-theme eine personalisierte Variante zu basteln. Habe nur ein Problem mit der Post im Head-Bereich. Wenn ich hier nur Bilder einfüge werden diese nicht angezeitgt (liegt wahrscheinlich ander VOrschau funktion). Gibt es da eine schnelle Abhilfe?
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June 14, 200811:55 am
June 14th, 2008 11:55 am
jez
@pquadrat: hi, die meisten problemchen sind echt easy zu beheben: zum header steht im readme.pdf dokument etwas; konkret- der loop oben im header gibt einen excerpt aus; im excerpt wird nur text angezeigt. abhilfe bietet das excerpt_reloaded plugin (link auch im pdf), damit kann man den excerpt manipulieren. freu mich auf dein ergebnis, bin immer interessiert an kreativen umsetzungen! beste grueße aus Duesseldorf!
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June 14, 200812:16 pm
June 14th, 2008 12:16 pm
pquadrat
Also jetzt aber mal wirklich vielen Dank. Schneller geht es ja nicht^^. Denke Du hast mich genau auf die richtige Spur gebracht. Dank Dir hab ich mir wohl ne Menge Codepflückerei ersparrt. Übrigens muß ich Dir mal bestätigen das alle Deine Arbeiten ein außergewöhnlich hohes Niveau halten. Top
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June 14, 200812:30 pm
June 14th, 2008 12:30 pm
jez
@pquadrat: “thanks for the kudos”, wie der englaender sagen wuerde… viel spass beim umbauen! ich muss leider wieder an ‘die zahlen’, bzw. ist es nur eine frage der zeit bis ich wieder dadrueber einschlafe :) – in den nächsten wochen stehen klausuren an, danach gibt es wieder frische themes!
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June 14, 20085:23 pm
June 14th, 2008 5:23 pm
pquadrat
Nur mal kurz zur Info, tatsächlich war mein Problem noch viel einfacher zu beheben, nämlich wie unter http://faq.wordpress-deutschland.org/keine-bilder-keine-links-im-archiv-the_excerpt/
beschrieben, mußte “das excerpt_reloaded plugin” also garnicht verwenden.
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June 14, 20085:56 pm
June 14th, 2008 5:56 pm
jez
@pquadrat: oh- ja klar, das behebt auch das problem, jedoch sieht es bloed aus, wenn der post doch mal laenger sein sollte. daher hab ich testweise the_excerpt_reloaded genommen und die zeichenlaenge auf 250 chars gesetzt, jedoch den < img > tag erlaubt.
deine loesung geht natuerlich auch; erfordert jedoch immer das verwenden des “more” knopfes (manueller seitenumbruch/break),
regards,
jez
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June 14, 20088:25 pm
June 14th, 2008 8:25 pm
pquadrat
Auch hier hast du natürlich 100% recht, wenn ich so in ca. 2-3 Wochen die Seite fertig habe, wirst Du ja dann sehen können, warum bei mir die Verwendung von “excerpt_reloaded” so in etwa einem schiessen mit Kanonen auf Spatzen gleichzusetzen ist. Jetzt will ich Dich aber nich länger vom “büffeln” abhalten. Grüße aus Frankfurt/M. und nochmals vielen Dank!!!
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June 15, 20088:21 pm
June 15th, 2008 8:21 pm
Ben-Inside
Hi,
ich wollte gerade das Theme in der lokalen Xampp-Umgebung testen, aber wenn ich den Ordner der Zip-Datei in den entsprechenden Wordpress-Theme-Ordner schiebe, wird dieser von Wordpress nicht erkannt, sprich, ich kann das Theme nicht auswählen.
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June 16, 20086:21 pm
June 16th, 2008 6:21 pm
jez
@Ben-Inside: hi ben, vielleicht stimmt was mit der ordnerstruktur nicht. beim extrahieren baut winrar manchmal bockmist. du solltest nach dem extrahieren (z.b. auf C:) nur einen ordner haben. dieser sollte “feather” heißen oder so. nicht z.b. feather/feather/rainbow feather oder sowas. du kannst alternativ auch alle daten in der zip datei mit strg+a selektieren, dann mit strg+c kopieren und einfach in den “default” theme ordner (wp-content/themes/default) reinpacken. bitte wohl vorher diesen leeren… schreib morgen die letzte klausur dieses semester, danach kann ich sicher mehr helfen-
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June 16, 20088:07 pm
June 16th, 2008 8:07 pm
Faizi
Nice themes. A bit colorful to me though. Thank for sharing, and keep up the good work!