Celestial Aura: Free 3-Column WordPress Theme from dkszone.net
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Celestial Aura is an SEO-friendly free three column WordPress theme with left and right sidebars. They can accommodate blocks of Wide Skyscraper width (160×600). It has a beautiful cosmic header with a slick menu bar elegantly blended in a sky blue background. The article area is suitable for a adsense banner ad of 468×60 pixels.
Celestial Aura is based on one of the five elements of nature, Sky. This free three column template is highly customizable and optimized for maximum compatibility with all browsers.
The favicon of this theme can be easily replaced with your own (Details can be found in README.txt). Every one is free to download and use this theme, as long as they give credit to dkszone.net.
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Live Demo of Celestial Aura
Version: 2.1.5
Tags: custom-header, custom-colors, theme-options, fixed-width, three-columns, blue, white, light, left-sidebar, right-sidebar
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Theme Customizing Options
We provide various customizations of this theme with a nominal fee.
- New Header Design good for your website.
- Theme width changes
- Sidebar width changes
- Tweaking any other areas
For a quote “Contact Us” with details of changes you need and we will be happy to respond.
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Version History
V2.1.5 [3rd Nov 2009]
- Fixed image frame not appearing when center aligned.
- Fixed post content wrapping beneath previous post’s image on the index pages when there is not enough text problem.
- Fixed other Minor Issues.
V2.1.4 [14th Oct 2009]
- Fixed layout issue which appears when “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”
option is checked in Comment Settings.
V2.1.3 [12th Oct 2009]
- Included border-bottom for Navigation Bar
- Removed pipeline in browser title bar when blog title is not available
- Excluded child categories from Navigation bar and other minor fixes.
V2.1.2 [9th Oct 2009]
- Fixed Search Box padding problem.
V2.1.1 [7th Oct 2009]
- Added Admin Options for custom header, custom background color, display of search box, post meta data, RSS Icon and other enhancements.
- Easily turn on/off display of Search box and RSS Icon in Header.
- Easily turn on/off display of Date/Time, Author, Categories and Tags.
V2.0.1 [23rd Sep 2009]
- Fixed Navigation Bar image padding.
V2.0 [14th Sep 2009]
- Major Update with revamped CSS.
- Trackbacks and pings added to comment list and other minor changes.
V1.0 [2nd Aug 2009]
- First version of Celestial Aura released.
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Hello dkszone,
Could you please inform us how to make a little bit "customize" the header? We plan to change the picture background and make the header a little but higher.
Thank you very much for your attention.
= the energyers team ==
Hello dkzone,
Cool Template!
I think I will use it, but can I change the blue color of all the boxes til another color?
Thank you for your answer and have nice day
Quick question – I am installing Celestial, changing the custom header image. How do I remove the default blog name text which is still being displayed behind the new image? Thanks
Hi, I love how easy it was to install my own header. That is a great feature! But, I don't know how to eliminate the words in white, they are still there on top of my header. The readme.txt is not working on my copy.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Hi PennyB, I just noticed you solved your issue with the white lettering in the header, canyou tell me how you accomplished that? thanks for any help.
Hi again, I just figured out how to remove the white lettering, Thanks for the free theme! Awesome!
@brittavojens
For customizing the sidebar header color you need to do two things.
First, replace the image "sidebar_bg.png" in the images folder to another image (of desired color) with the same name and dimensions.
Secondly, in style.css file, look for #sidebarLeft h2 and #sidebarRight h2 and give a background-color which suits your new image.
For example, the code for #sidebarLeft h2 looks like this:
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#sidebarLeft h2{
font-size: 13px;
text-align: left;
padding: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
background:url(images/sidebar_bg.png) repeat-x;
background-color: #083a56;
line-height: 14px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", Verdana, sans-serif;
}
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In the above piece of code, replace 083a56 (blue background-color) with a color of your choice.
Repeat the same for #sidebarRight h2.
I love your theme but when you click on a post the page for the specific post has too problems–the background color behind the post itself is the color you choose for the background color (this doesn't happen on the homepage where the post background remains white. Also, the right sidebar slides weirdly down on post pages. I'd give you my url but I reverted to my old theme because otherwise my site was unreadable. Is this fixable?
To clarify my earlier query–if you choose a dark background color, then post text isn't readable on post pages.
Strange. We never faced this problem and neither any users of the theme have reported it. The problem might be from your end. Try downloading the latest version of Celestial Aura from the Getit! Button above and apply it. Let us know if you still face the same problem.
Nice to hear that you love the theme.
I think we might have a compatibility issue with WordPress 2.8.4. The problem – and full diagnostic information – can be viewed here: http://www.economatix.com/
I am not a WordPress newcomer. I've been installing and configging WP since versions 1.x forward. This one has me stumped.
Help would most definitely be appreciated.
Thanks for using our theme. We noticed that the default widgets in it caused the problem. Add any widget in any of the sidebar and everything should work fine. We have already fixed this problem and released V.2.1.2 a few days ago. You can download the latest version at our site : http://www.dkszone.net/2009/08/celestial-aura-f...
This should solve your problem.
Folks,
I just want to say a couple of thank you's…..
- thanks for a prompt response which solved the problem
- thanks for a really lovely looking theme
Sorry, I thought the wordpress gallery had the most recent version, I never
thought to compare version numbers on your site and WP themes gallery. My
bad.
Warm regards & MANY thanks (man, I love this theme!)
-Colin
How do I change the fonts in the "text" widgets for both the right and left sidebars? I want small text withing the widget.
It doesn't look like my comment posted when I registered. Anyway, what I like to know is how to change the font in the widgets, specifically the "text" widget, in both the right and left sidebars. I would like the text to be smaller.
Just to make sure I understand, using the latest version will resolve the problem of the background color appearing in the post box on the post pages and solve the problem of the right sidebar changing location on the post pages when using the latest version of wordpress? Do you plan to upload the latest version of Celestial to the WP library or does it need to be manually downloaded and uploaded?
@L.Marshall
The latest version should solve the problem. The latest version is uploaded to WP library, but they take time in making it live. It may take another 4-5 days for the 2.1.3 to show up in WP library. We recommend you to download 2.1.3 from the above link and apply it manually. Good luck.
@fellowsbj
Please note that we offer free support only for bug fixing and it's discussion. We are bound to take this step due to time constraints and hardly any donations. For theme customization, please go through the Theme customization section above.
Thanks so much, probably won't be able to work on this again until the weekend but if they don't have the new version up I'll do it manually.
This is to inform you that Celestial Aura is updated to 2.1.4. This is an important update. Please download the latest version from above and apply it to your website asap.
Gee, I activated your theme, and now there is no place for me to login on my own site, lol.
When I apply this theme to my site the static "pages" don't function properly.
It works on BaseBalldaddy.info but not on Sheerbetting.com
Installed the theme but posts are displaying on every page, not just on the home page. How do I stop this? Very nice theme otherwise!
Please download and use the latest version 2.1.4 from the download link above. Your problem should vanish.
How do I get rid of the extremely large margin above the top of the page?
normally this would be done thus in html:
that
s what I want to di with celestial aura.
Would be nice to be able to put my own navigation bar below default navigation bar.
Hi dks, i have two little questions related to this template:
1º How can i center the navigate bar (buttons)?
2º After centering the buttons how can i expand those?
Keep the good work
I love celestial aura. I am brand new to this and it is very gentle and patient with me. thanks
Question – I really like this theme, one problem however is the drop-down menu. On my website the menu home page (Reno Gazette- Journal) has a few subpages that are not showing up – why?
I really like this theme, but I am using a custom header and would like to remove the white lettering (blog name & info), I’m not being able to figure out how to do that and keep the RSS icon in the upper right corner at the same time. Can anyone help? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your theme. I just have one question. How do you change the favicon? It’s telling me to upload the favicon to the images folder, but I have no idea where that is. Any help would be appreciated.
Replace your favicon with the existing one in the theme folder.
Hi dks!
I really love Celestial Aura. Its the perfect one for my site! But i currently have a problem: when the home page of my site is opened on IE, the right navigation bar disappears. Though all the other pages work out just fine. Can this be resolved? My site is http://perfectrenders.com, check it out on IE.
Hi,
Looks like you are using an old version of Celestial Aura. Try to upgrade and see if the problem still exists.
Is there a way to adjust so that the entire post doesn’t show? Basically can I change it so only a paragraph or so appears on the actual homepage?
On the home page you can show only part of the posts by using the ‘More’ feature of Wordpress while publishing the article.
I am using the latest 2.1.5.. why is it, I can test a button background color in FF dev tools, though when I try and change the style.css to the color – while the change takes, the color does not in the actual website. Strange.