Thu 7 Apr 2005
Some options to “Connections”
Posted by Patricia Müller under Themes , WordPress | 8:30 am[18] Comments
I have been receiving many emails from people who, in the past days, have either customized or ported the Connections theme to another platform. I would like to share some of these with you, as they might be useful either as a reference to customizing your own or, in case you use another blogging platform, you might benefit from the ported versions:
- Teo, from http://mindtrick.net/ has ported the theme to Movable Type
- John Cox from http://wyome.com ported over to Xaraya
- Eddie from http://dhtmlnirvana.com/spiritual/ has worked on a complete customization of the theme and was kind enough to let me know about it. He named it “Nirvana“. The theme can be downloaded from here.
- Matt from http://schinckel.blogsome.com is using it at Blogsome, so for those of you who need help setting it up there, he might be able to help.
- Kahpeng from http://kahpeng.com/weblog/ has customized the sidebar with expandable sidebar items. Looks really good!
Please comment on this post if you have made your own customization to the Connections theme. Even if you have just changed the top image, this could serve as inspiration to others. Thanks much! 
April 7th, 2005 at 9:41 am
I just wanted to clarify that I didn’t actually port the theme to xaraya. That was done by John Cox at http://wyome.com. Just thought I would give credit where credit is due.
April 7th, 2005 at 1:19 pm
Hi, Kristofor, sorry for the confusion and thanks for clarifying. I will edit the post to reflect this. Thanks!
April 8th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for your beautiful theme!
April 10th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
Actually, there is one edit I have made that I think is better than the original – I moved the ‘|’ in the navigation links out of the a href tag. This makes the spacer bar seperate to each of the links.
April 10th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
thx patricia for adding nice link back to my site, i’m just a normal blogger that like to see your theme in more nicer & customable style, hehe anyway i’m not pro compare to other people that customize ur theme
i just add expandable sidebar 
but i’ll try to catch up with php codes
April 11th, 2005 at 10:26 am
Just a quick note to share my own Connections “tweak.” Now if I can just find a plugin that will let me list recent posts in the sidebar…
PS – My site’s Grand Opening will be May 1st. I’m still tweaking the code underneath.
April 11th, 2005 at 10:26 am
Oops – guess the URL would help: http://www.heygrownupscomics.com/
April 11th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
Hmm. Phil, I’m using Blogsome, and the following code added in puts recent posts in the sidebar:
{foreach from=$lastposts key=id item=title}
{$title|truncate:20:"..."}
{/foreach}
I’m not sure how you’d go about it in PHP though.
April 15th, 2005 at 6:14 pm
I love the title graphic and overall colour scheme. However I have made some minor revisions:
Changed the CSS for the font and background for a slightly plainer look.
Added some code to display links categories
Rearranged the sidebar a little
April 22nd, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Thanks so much for the theme, Patricia. I’ve used it as the basis for a new blog at http://goringe.net/theology/ – though you’ll see I’ve done a fair amount of fiddling.
I still have some tweaking and testing to do, but I think it is coming together.
I’ve had all sorts of trouble trying to modify the styling of the #topnav menu, but I think that’s my incompetence rather than any problem with your css. Thanks again for a fantastic theme.
April 24th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
I have customized the connections theme on my website. I have added some custom pages for links, feedback, and the inspiration page uses the child_of method for pages. I have also added a custom home page.
May 5th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
Thanks for such wonderful theme.
I have ported the connections theme for pLog(http://www.plogworld.net).
The template connections for pLog can be download from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/plog/connections.zip
DEMOSITE http://163.21.6.11/plog/index.php?blogId=41
Really thanks such a good theme.
May 7th, 2005 at 10:08 am
Yeah I’ve commented on another post accidentally. I’ve changed the banner on my page, and made a skin for menalto gallery based on connections. Check ioannisverdelis [dot] com
May 8th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
i have made my own customization to the Connections theme. it s a wonderfull theme. thanks a lot.
http://fiyonk.net
May 23rd, 2005 at 11:37 am
I love your theme, I modified it to have a darker look to complement the black and white photo of myself in france that I wanted to have at the top. Hope you like it.
http://www.imightbeinatree.com/blog
michael
August 28th, 2005 at 11:42 pm
Just started using your theme, I am still working with to get it right I wish there was undo button when you edit
Thanks for the great platform. Hope you will be able to help me with the other questions I ask about your site.
May 30th, 2006 at 1:52 am
Hello I just wanted to say this was the nicest WordPress theme I could find I hope you don’t mind at the changes but it’s a mix of Connections, Green Track, and some work of my own! But you have a great Theme!
Thank you!!
Aquilo
http://www.xtram.net
August 27th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I thought I had left a message somewhere else on this site, but could not find it.
I have used your theme on two blogs, http://www.wisnaes.com and http://www.wisnaes.net , and both have been modified a bit. Both have new headers, wisnaes.com has a header that change every time you reload it, and wisnaes.net has a header based on flashfader that shows a slideshow.
I customized some colors on wisnaes.net and most colors on wisnaes.com.
One reason why I love this theme is how well it is structured in the way that everything is not in one big file, but logically separated. It is especially easy to change the sidebar.
But I am not a programmer, and I have a little difficulty in finding a way to change the sidebar of the single posts. I will try to make anothe sidebar.php and include that one in the the single posts template instead of having it all there. Any ideas for a better way to do it is welcome.