Introducing Fastway 2.0 – Wordpress Theme
As you may have noticed by looking at several of my themes, not to mention the current design on this site, I like whitespace. I like the way whitespace allows focus on text and images, and Fastway 2.0 is another great example of that. It has enough color to add flavor, but retains a very clean look.
Fastway 2.0 is an upgraded version of my Fastway theme, and is a huge improvement over the previous version. Among those improvements are a more sleek and refined layout, and error-free XHTML and CSS code.
What Happened to the Checkerboard?
One thing you’ll notice that’s gone in this version, is the checkerboard background at the top above the header. I noticed that a large portion of people using the first version were interested in removing that, and so I decided to leave it out of version 2.0. However, if you like the checkerboard background, there is one little option in this theme that you may like. I have a red/dark red checkerboard background pre-installed for the header for those who would like to use it. If you would like to make this change, here’s how!
Open the style.css file(stylesheet), and scroll down to to the header section. You’ll see this code:
background: #BB0000 /*url(images/header_bg.jpg)*/;
Now, all you have to do is remove the / and the * off of each end of the image code like this:
background: #BB0000 url(images/header_bg.jpg);
Now, save your changes and take a look at your blog. Here’s what you should see…
Fastway 2.0 comes with an XHTML Sitemap
With Fastway 2.0, you also get a styled-to-match XHTML sitemap as a standard feature. Follow these instructions to set it up.
Log into your Wordpress admin, and click on the write tab. Here we’ll write a new page, rather than a post. Simply name the page “Sitemap”, then over to the right side of the screen there is a drop-down menu for “Page Template”. In this drop down, choose “Sitemap”. Save the page, and you’re good to go!
Fastway 2.0 is widget ready and Wordpress 2.3 compatible.
Hi, I have a new project going on at http://big12talk.com. I love your fastway theme but for some reason I can’t get something to work. The widget titles on the right side for some reason aren’t styled like the ones on the left are. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
- Jake
“error-free XHTML” … now there’s a concept I need to work on. When I finished my latest Zoomstart theme I checked it and the error list was about a mile and a half long.
Nice work as always Anthony!
Jake,
I emailed you a replacement file that should fix the issue. I originally had the line that adds the widget capability above the opening of the main unorderd list rather than below. Sorry about the trouble.
Shane,
Thanks. Yeah, getting rid of XHTML errors can be a real pain, but usually, if you go through and fix the first few, the rest disappear.
This is one of the nicest WordPress themes I’ve run across. As soon as I saw it on your website, I knew I wanted to use it. Thanks for some great work!!!
You’re welcome, Ken. I’m glad you like it , and hope you get some good use out of it.
Nice theme i used it on my blog.
Keep inovative and creative
But how to make the total post on categories shows not in the same line with category name
Sorry Plugie, I’m not sure what you mean.
Hey, I wanna make a translation for this so great theme. I don’t so like changing every English expression to my language in the code, so my question:is there any opportunity to include a pot file, or should I rather start doing the mentioned way? Thanks!
John, I’m afraid I’m not familiar with a pot file…sorry.
Anthony ,
There is 10 px wide blank space above the header by viewing Fastway 2.0 in the latest Firefox. IE6 and IE7 weren’t affected. Is there any easy fix for that?
Thanks a lot.
Mikhail,
That space is actually there on purpose. To do away with it, all you have to do is open the stylesheet and adjust the wrapper margin.
Change this:
margin: 10px auto 10px auto;
to:
margin: 0 auto;
Anthony,
you are the best,
Anthony,
Neither Tags Cloud Widget nor simple code for tags cloud works in that theme. They just listed alphabetically like categories, for instant. By switching in default theme, the cloud appears as it must be. I guess there is something in CSS preventing tags cloud from being working as intended. Is there any way to fix that?
Gee-whiz, I’m really not sure. I’ll look into this when I can. When you have support questions, Mikhail, I would appreciate you leaving a link to your website.
Sure. Yeah, I removed “display: block;” in Left Sidebar CSS section.
Thanks for your great theme, Anthony
Great! Glad you got it working, and thanks for teaching me how to do it
Can you give the size of the header image? I’d like to insert a custom header into your theme. Thanks for the theme, it is very simple and easy to use.
http://www.weirdthingsthathappened.com
Debbie,
Actually, Fastway doesn’t have a header image by default. The red space at the top is actually just filled in with the color(#BB0000). An image can be added, but it will require both HTML and CSS changes.
Thanks for that info and all the other good stuff on this site. If I were to add a custom header image, do you have a recommended size?
I’m trying to get the author byline to show up on posts on the home page. It shows up when I click through to a post but not on the home page. I’m guessing this is the way wordpress has set it up. Was wondering if you know a work around.
http://www.360prblog.com
Also thinking of upgrading to 2.5. Does fastway 2.0 work well with wordpress 2.5?
Thanks for a great theme!
Ian
Thanks Ian. In the theme files, index.php is the page that’s pulled up when you are on the front page of your blog. When you click the post title, the same information comes up on a different template that includes the comment form. This template is the single.php file. In both of those files, you’ll find the “post info” underneath the post title. You can copy the “post info” code from the single.php file into the index.php file, and you’ll have the same results on both pages. If you aren’t familiar with the code, it’s pretty easy to identify it when you see it. Definitely take a look and see if you see it. Hope that helps you.
As for WP 2.5, I have looked the theme over on 2.5, and haven’t found anything that wasn’t working right.
Anthony -
Love the Fastway theme. I am looking forward to seeing Fastway 2.0 as a download again in the future… In the meantime – I am wondering how I “replace the entire” header image with a custom header.
I LOVE everything else about the layout and setup of the design – just hoping to switch out the red banner and checkerboard (leaving the nav bar underneath).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rory
Hello,
I have put up your theme on my wies blog and it is working great except from the wordpress blog statistics as soon as I activate fastway theme the statistics stops regestring do you have any ideas??
I do not want to have to go through another theme search now when she has found the perfect theme.
//Hans
Hans,
I don’t have a clue about this. Will try to look into it when time permits.
can I use your template?thank you
Hi I have been using your “old” design for a few months now and do not want to change it as I find it to be the one I like the most, but there is one feature I miss. Do you have any plans of adding drop-down menus at the top? or is that feature something I in pcinciple should have been able to add (you can safely assume that I am useless at html-writing)
heri
Actually, drop down menus are a lot of extra code. I don’t have plans of adding them at this time. There are tutorials on the web of how to do this, which I would have to study up on.
Anthony,
I am trying out your Fastway 2.0 – I like the clean layout!!
I upgraded to WP 2.7.1 before I loaded the theme.. I see a few things I am not sure how to fix..
I cannot see the XHTML sitemap function that you mention in this thread.. is it in a different place in 2.7.1?
And I have a custom link and the blogroll link categories – they show on both the felt and right side… in your demo it is only on the right side.
Is there a setting for that or does the theme have a problem with 2.7.1?
oops… in the above read “left” where it says “felt”
Walle –
On the blogroll issue…..are you using widgets? My guess is that you have a blogroll widget placed in sidebar 1, which overwrites the original contents of the sidebar. And maybe you don’t have any widgets placed in sidebar 2(the right side), so the original contents are showing. I could be wrong, but that’s my guess.
The sitemap should work the same in 2.7.1. I have tested the theme on 2.7.1, and all seems to work fine for me. My sitemap page wasn’t coming out with the style of the rest of the site though, so I’m gonna email you a new sitemap page that you can upload to your theme directory.
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