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WordPress Club Themes

Afterburner Free WordPress Theme

Afterburner Afterburner is the fastest WordPress theme ever and is completely free. The theme balances speed and search engine optimisation with a full feature set. The theme is based on the standard SEO layout used in club templates, and is therefore fully dynamic and collapsible.

An assortment of 8 preset styles, both light and dark also accompany the template.

Features and Screenshots


Afterburner Preset Styles Front Page Widget Positions Every Other Page Widget Positions
  • Speed Optimisation
  • SEF Optimised Layout
  • Advanced Colour Selection
  • Suckerfish Dropdown Menu
  • 8 Preset Styles - Light / Dark Variations
  • 14 Widget Positions
  • FF3.5, Opera 9.6, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
  • W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Fastest WordPress Theme Ever

Afterburner has been optimised to perfection, holding performance and speed at its heart, without compromising on much needed features. The size of the frontpage of a default WordPress install is dramatically lower than other WordPress themes. The difference is staggering, resulting in an ultra lean, fast loading and high performance theme that still retains the features and functionality of a quality theme.

Search Engine Optimised Layout

The structure places the main content before the side columns in the code hierarchy which is beneficial for SEO purposes as your primary content is crawled first by the search engines such as Google.

Afterburner Documentation

Get started using Afterburner with a wide variety of tutorials explaining installation, configuration, widgets, and much more More Details...

Installation


Downloading the Theme Files

To install the theme, you only need one file:-

  • Afterburner Theme (rt_afterburner_wp-(version).zip) – This file is the theme package you will use to install your theme into WordPress.

There are other files that you may wish to download that accompany the release, but are not required for the theme to work.

  • Afterburner Sample Content (rt_afterburner_wp-sample-(version).zip) – This file contains XML file with sample posts, comments etc. and the "wp-content" directory with all images used in our sample content.
  • Afterburner Source PNG(s) (rt_afterburner_wp-sources-(version).zip) – This contains all the Adobe Fireworks PNG source files for the theme, and if applicable, the logo font.

Using the WordPress installer

  • Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
  • In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Add New Themes → Upload
  • Select the Choose File button
  • Locate the rt_afterburner_wp-(version).zip file on your computer
  • Click Install Now
  • On the post-install page (with the theme name, description and thumbnail), select Activate
  • Afterburner will now be installed

Using FTP

  • Extract rt_afterburner_wp-(version).zip
  • Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla
  • Upload the rt_afterburner_wp-(version) folder to the http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes
  • Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
  • In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Themes
  • Click Activate underneath the Afterburner section

Importing Sample Content

This allows you to copy over the data from the Demo so that you can match our setup
  • Extract rt_afterburner_wp-sample-(version).zip
  • Upload the “wp-content” folder using your favorite FTP client to your WordPress main directory.
  • Locate sample_data.xml
  • Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
  • In the left menu sidebar, go to Tools → Import
  • Select WordPress from the numerous options
  • Click Choose File and select sample_data.xml from your computer
  • Click Upload File and Import
  • Now you can create a new author for sample posts or map it to existing user.
  • Press the Submit button and let the Wordpress do the rest.
Please DO NOT check the "Download Attachments" tickbox as it won't download anything. All images from our demo are provided in a zip package with sample content.

Frequently Asked Questions


Where can i find theme settings?
  • Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
  • Select the Appearance tab on the left of the dashboard
  • Select Afterburner Settings from within the tab
How can i add posts to "Showcase" section?
All posts displayed in the Showcase section have to be assigned to the "Showcase" category. If there’s more than 1 post in that category, posts will be displayed randomly.
If you haven’t installed our sample content please remember to change the Category in Afterburner Settings to the category you created to use for your "Showcase" Posts
How to remove "Showcase" section?
Just go to the Afterburner Settings page in admin dashboard and next to the Showcase Category → choose None

Alternatively to remove the Showcase section please unassign all posts from category you assigned for your Showcase posts. If Wordpress detects no posts in that category it will automatically hide that section.
How to change "Showcase" section assigned category?
If you haven’t installed our sample content you can easily enable Showcase by changing its assigned category :-
  • Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
  • In the left menu sidebar, go to Posts → Categories and create a new category for your Showcase posts
  • Assign your posts to that category
  • In the left menu sidebar, go to Appearance → Afterburner Settings
  • Change the category next to the field Showcase Category to your newly created category