I am happy to announce the release of the first group of themes in the new WordPress Modder Video Producer series. The themes in this group carry the subtitle of “Double Feature” and were designed in conjunction with the Show in a Box project and some of it’s members.
What is Show in a Box?
Showinabox.tv is not a service or business- We want to help bloggers, filmmakers, video artists, and documentarians present their videos in the best light with the most control. You make great videos, so why not have an awesome website without having to pay someone a lot of money or know how to code yourself? We aim for a decentralized network of videoblogs where you can still host your videos anywhere (like Blip.tv, Vimeo or Dailymotion ) but your site and its information remain your own.
Video Producer Theme Series Details
The Video Producer theme series will feature WordPress themes that are designed from the ground up to break the “blog diary” format and allow video creators to display their work differently from what is usually seen on most blogs, while retaining the flexibility and functionality that the WordPress core already provides. It is our goal to make use of specialized coding and integration of several video-specific plugins created by members of the Show in a Box team and others to help you, the video producer. Some of the techniques used in our themes are not new to the WordPress community and some are truly unique, but we believe that we’re putting the pieces together in such a way that will help you to connect with your viewers in a completely new way.
VP – Double Feature Theme Details
The main feature of the Double Feature themes is that they display two posts, from two different categories on the top of the main page, side by side. All other posts are displayed underneath. The posts that are displayed on top, are not duplicated below.
Dependencies
By default, these themes display one post from the “featured” category and one post from the “latest” category in these two top positions. This means that for this theme to work correctly, you MUST have a category named “Featured” and one named “Latest”.
The Double Feature themes’ functionality are partially dependent on at least two plugins to function like the demo. These plugins are The Excerpt Reloaded and vPIP (Video Playing in Place). Please see the readme.txt file for a full explanation.
Usage
Display post in left top – Simply check the checkbox next to the “Featured” category when publishing your post.
Display post in right top – Simply check the checkbox next to the “Latest” category when publishing your post.
Pretty easy eh?…:)
You may want to use different category names or even display more than one post for each category, and that is easily accomplished. Full instructions are provided in the readme.txt file included with each theme download.
Theme Support
I plan to support all themes released on http://wordpressmodder.org through the forums found here…
http://wordpressmodder.org/wordpress-modder-forums
Please direct all theme questions to the forums. I cannot answer theme questions through comments, my contact page, or email.
Theme Demo and Download
VP – Double Feature Dark Polished
Styled by Cheryl Colan
Stay tuned for more versions of this theme…
53 Comments
I was thinking of a good way to use this theme. As a video producer, I sometimes make videos that take a lot of work. So this theme would be great to allow that video to be featured on the front page for as long as I want. But now I could also keep posting shorter videos at the same time.
Anyway…this is a great beginning.
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I agree, we’ll be looking into this theme for our upcoming video project!
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I too really like it. I was thinking about a project that I’m finishing, and that I want to use pledge drive for. Have you guys added pledge drive to this – can you?
thanks,
Milt
Hi Milt,
Pledge Drive is still in development, but when it’s finished, I’d love to add support for it!
I completely agree with you. I’ll be looking into this theme for our upcoming video project. Thank you!
The theme looks very nice. Right now I am a newbie to video producing but I cannot wait until i fully learn
very useful information,thanks a lot
Any updates on this?
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@Bryan,
This theme has not been updated since it’s release. Is there a specific update or feature you’re looking for with this theme? I’d be happy to revisit this code and see what we can do.
Pretty good stuff Brian, thanks! I like the ability to publish 2 posts side by side on the home page. I’m actually trying to develop similar WP themes, but directed into real estate industry. It’s amazing what WP can offer a small businesses if you put it together right and at very low cost as well. Good job!
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That’s a great idea for a theme, well implemented. I think I can use this for a future blog that I had in mind.
Yes – I’ve been looking for video blog themes. Super!
This is great!! I love the double feature, it is so great to be able to publish two posts side by side and leave them up for as long as I want! What a great theme. Thanks also for the great support you offer.
All the best!
this very nice, thank you.
Hi, thanks for the great info on the Video theme.
Greetings from Spain
Thanks to all above, please feel free to link back here with your implementation of this theme, I’d love to see it in action!
Nice info, thanks. Lots of mods may be done if understand and use WordPress built-in functions (see WP codex). Of course, any necessary special functionality may be implemented with custom plugins.
Sounds like an interesting concept. I look forward to seeing this new theme in action. Should give the old blog look a new video make over.
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looks awesome. thanks.
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I’ve been looking for a theme for video site. will try this one out. It looks clean & simple.
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this theme looks very nice, i will try it.
This is all really great. It appears that a newbie won’t be one for long with this.
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So from what the demo looks like, videos can be added at the top of the page with regular posts below? Must the videos always be at the top of the page, or is there a way to shift them to other locations?
not bad, not bad at all.
thanks good text
Is this theme still available/compatible w/ latest WP? Cant seem to get a dl going…
That’s a great idea
simple and clean style. looks promising enough for me to try it out. thanks for the tip.
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Talk about a theme with nice video thoughtful video integration. Will be looking at this for an upcoming project.
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Coming back to the real estate theme, this can take ‘virtual tours’ of houses listed for agents to new heights! Right now homes are limited to basically panaramic still shots for the various rooms. Now how about video walk-throughs designed to appeal to the emotions?
As an independent filmmaker, this seems very cool! I can’t wait to play with it a little bit with some of my video.
excellent! i wish i had seen this months ago!
This is such a great resource. I will be using this in my upcoming video blog. It suits perfectly in my opinion. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers!
Excellent work, keep it up!
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Thanks Heidi, I really need to get back to developing more video friendly themes:) Also, you have a great site there!
Show in a Box sounds great! It will encourage more people to express themselves by removing the technical difficulty. I look forward to learning more about it.
I like it.It is simple and usefull..
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Looks really nice!
Can’t say how much i appreciate this site. For us noobs, wordpress is not as easy as it may seem to you pros, but this site helps me out a lot.
Keep it up!
You’re quite welcome! Sometimes once you get familiar with a piece of software, it’s hard to remember that it once looked completely foreign. I’m surprised you didn’t link to a WP-powered blog though;)
Wow, great stuff. Funny I didn’t come across this article earlier. But you’ve got an awesome blog here. Every post is so interesting and informative. Anyway I need to try this theme out in one o my blogs. Moved to WP few months ago and loving every bit of it. Thanks for the theme. Cheers
Awesome. Just what i needed. I’m still new to blogging and also to WP. Features and themes like this just makes me love WP more and more. I’m planning to implement a new blog. This will be the first theme for it. Appreciate the work.
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You’re quite welcome:)
Great stuff there Modder. Love the theme. Nice blog you have here to. Definitely will be back for another visit.
Thanks Cuff Daddy, most appreciated.
Cool Theme. Very different from others. I’ve been a fan of double feature themes from the beginning. And this theme to me is the most suited for my site. Thank you for sharing this amazing theme with us.
Looks like a great theme, but the silver gradient background doesn’t really look good to me. But overall a nice theme.
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Love the theme. Colors, the layout, the tabs and buttons everything is very professional looking. I was looking for a theme like this. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Nice post. Really nice theme. Like the features of it. Very very cool. Will definitely give it a try. Thanks a lot for sharing it with us. Really appreciate it. Keep up the good work mate.
Hmm interesting. I have never come across a theme like this. But it does look really cool. Love the darkness around the whole blog
) Thanks or sharing. I’ll check it out in the weekend.
Great theme. I love the look of it. Tried the demo and it’s awesome. Like the “Dark” touch to it, specially the colors. Thanks for sharing it with us. I was looking for something like this.
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