WordPress Club Themes
Hybrid WordPress Theme
Hybrid is the May 2011 theme release, featuring a rich, vibrant and adaptable design. The theme is divided into several independent color zones, for a truly dynamic appearance.
The design has 12 header styles, 12 footer styles, and 5 body color & accent styles, allowing for great diversity in stylistic possibility. Configure these via the Gantry Administrator. Hybrid's beautiful appearance rests on the powerful Gantry Framework and our other standard features such as Fusion with MegaMenu.
Features and Screenshots
- Gantry Framework
- 15 Preset Styles
- 12 Header and Footer Styles
- 5 Body Color and Accent Styles
- Fusion with MegaMenu & Splitmenu
- 75 Widget Positions
- 16 Widget Variations - 21 Combo Possibilities
- RocketTheme Plugins Styling
- Custom Typography
- FF 3.6, Safari 4, Opera 10.x, IE7-IE8 Compatible
- Limited IE6 Browser Compatibility
- W3C XHTML 1.0 / CSS 3 Valid
iPhone Specific Theme
The theme supports an iPhone specific version for view in the mobile platform.
- Theme: iPhone specific theme, combining pre-existing template elements with mobile specific styling.
- Aliases: Assign current widget positions to mobile equivalents such as mobile-header → header-a.
- Reszier: Avoid unnecessary scrolling by the automatic resizing of content images.
Gantry Framework
Hybrid is the built with the Gantry Framework, which includes powerful features such as menu item control, RTL support, custom presets and many more. This is all on top of the first generation features, making Gantry the most noticeable, and far reaching feature of the template.
Gantry is, as a basic definition, A framework used for assembling, building and maintaining a RocketTheme theme. It is an advanced platform for dramatically extending the capabilities of the entire theming system of WordPress.
Please visit the link below to find more details and referrals to more extension information on Gantry
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15 Presets: Header, Footer, Body, Accents Styles
The theme is divided into 4 major style areas: Header, Footer, Body and Body Accent. These denominations control the styling for each area, as selectable from the Gantry Administrator. There are 15 style variations to choose from, by default, which offer a range of color schemes, demonstrating the stylistic versatility of Hybrid.
- Background Level: High or Low
- Body Level: High or Low
- Header Color Style: Style 1 to Style 12
- Body Color Style: Style 1 to Style 5
- Body Accent Style: Style 1 to Style 5
- Footer Color Style: Style 1 to Style 12
Fusion Menu
Fusion is javascript-based dropdown menu system, with extensive functionality. The menu itself is built on the rewritten core of the latest revision of RokNavMenu, the core application behind all RocketTheme menus.
Fusion offers a series of new abilities ranging from Menu Icons, Subtext support and much greater controls over the Multiple Column ability for dropdowns. More Details...
Installation
Downloading the Theme Files
To install the theme, you need two files:-
- Hybrid Theme (rt_hybrid_wp.zip) - This file is the standalone theme package you will use to install your theme into WordPress.
- Gantry Plugin (gantry_wordpress_framework.zip) - This file contains the Gantry Framework Plugin and it's required in order to have our themes working.
There are other files that you may wish to download that accompany the release, but are not required for the theme to work.
- Hybrid Source PNG(s) (rt_hybrid_wp-sources.zip) - This contains all the Adobe Fireworks PNG source files for the theme, and if applicable, the logo font.
- Hybrid RocketLauncher (rt_hybrid_wp-rocketlauncher.zip) - The RocketLauncher pack is a full WordPress install that contains all the demo content, including plugins and the theme.
Using the RocketLauncher
- Download the Hybrid RocketLauncher Package (rt_hybrid_wp_rocketlauncher.zip) from the Hybrid theme downloads section
- Unzip the zip packaged onto your computer to reveal the rt_hybrid_wp_rocketlauncher folder
- Upload this to your site using your FTP client
- Direct your browser to the installation such as www.yoursite.com/rt_hybrid_wp_rocketlauncher or to whatever directory your uploaded to
- Follow the standard WordPress installation, after which the theme and gantry framework will automatically be activated, along with the sample content.
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_hybrid_wp.zip file on your computer
- Click Install Now
- Hybrid will now be installed
- Click Activate under Hybrid Theme
Using FTP
- Extract rt_hybrid_wp
- Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla
- Upload the rt_hybrid_wp 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 Hybrid section
Installing Gantry Framework Plugin
Using the WordPress installer
- Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
- In the left menu sidebar, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload
- Select the Choose File button
- Locate the gantry_framework_plugin.zip file on your computer
- Click Install Now
- Gantry Framework Plugin will now be installed
- Click Activate under the Gantry Plugin
Using the FTP
- Extract gantry_framework_plugin.zip
- Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla
- Upload the gantry folder to the http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins
- Login into the WordPress administrator dashboard (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/)
- In the left menu sidebar, go to Plugins
- Click Activate underneath the Gantry Framework Plugin
Frequently Asked Questions
- Login into the WordPress administrator at http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/
- Select the Hybrid Settings tab on the left of the dashboard
