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Michael Hyatt inspired child theme for Standard Theme 3
Jason Bradley
posted this on June 18, 2012 09:15 pm
Hey guys. I have been working on a custom child theme for a client that draws inspiration from Michael Hyatt's (http://michaelhyatt.com/) site. The basic design is all laid out, but the content is a work in progress. Thought I would at least share with you all. It features creating a category menu above the content and relocating the social icons next to it. It also has the borders around the content area as well as the footer widget area touching the bottom of the content area. I may have some rewrite when the final release comes out for Standard Theme 3, but it shouldn't be too bad. Here's the site: http://oxygen-plus.net
Let me know what you guys think!
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Looks great, JBrad! You've done a nice job and I'm looking forward how your work turns out when we see the final release!
Geoff
http://www.geoffsnyder.com
I like it. In fact, I came here to find a child theme or designer to help me come up with something similar. Will this be part of the Standard Theme 3 release, or a separate product?
William Beem : :
This was developed and created by me personally. I do not believe that 8BIT has any plans on releasing a Michael Hyatt inspired theme. If you are looking for someone to help you get a similar look, contact me via my contact form on my site http://www.everchangingmedia.com/contact/
Wow. That looks pretty close, alright.
Michael Hyatt : :
Your site design has probably been the most requested on the forums and has inspired a few FAQ's and Tutorials as well. I'm not really sure how to gauge your response via your comment, so if you could elaborate, please feel free to send me an email to me jason.bradley@me.com
Thanks!
Jason
If there is demand, I am thinking it might be worthwhile to develop an official child theme. I am thinking through that now. If you have any input, Id’ love to hear it. You can also e-mail me at michael@michaelhyatt.com. Thanks.
Michael,
We'll be sending you an email as well about this and our perspective.
:)
john
Michael has a beautiful design on his site. Speaking for myself, I would like to use it as inspiration - not mimic his site. Fresh out of the box, the Standard Theme just isn't colorful and easy for an end user to configure. Having looked at the custom.css file on Michael's site, I can tell that the designer put a lot of thought and effort into crafting that design.
It's been a long time since I was a programmer. The issue isn't that I don't have the capability to dig into CSS and this theme to learn how to do it. Time is the issue. I just don't have the time to do it myself and the theme does not lend itself to helping folks like me.
All I want to achieve is to change some colors and fonts. I don't have the time to do it myself. How can the next version of Standard Theme help folks like me to impress our own personality on our sites?
I as well would vote for a Child Theme of Michael's site. I agree with all the comments above.
JBrad,
What are you using for the e-mail subscription?
Any progress on releasing a premium child theme or something along those lines?
Got a client who wants it. I'm beginning to wonder if the magic of some Unicorn Snot had something to do with this site design. There is just something magical about the how Michael Hyatt customization. :)
(Trust me when I say I'm not downplaying the content as part of that "magic". )
I wonder how michael hyatt got the continue reading link where it is. I would love having it like that!
Tomb Svalborg : :
One Michael Hyatt's site, the Continue Reading link isn't actually the "more-link". It is just a link to the full post, it won't scroll to the place that you left off from the home page. If you are fine with that functionality, there is a way to do this with Standard Theme 3 with your child theme. If you look at the posts in ST3, there is a little link image in the bottom right hand corner. It basically does the same thing. Now if you are wanting to swap that out with the text "Continue Reading", let me know and I can help you out.
I love the Michael Hyatt menu above the posts and social icon placement. Is there tutorial on this forum?
Paul Povolni : :
There isn't currently a tutorial on how to do this for Standard Theme 3. I spent quite a few hours working on this and is not something that I personally will not be creating a tutorial on. If this is something you would like for your site, please contact me (http://everchangingmedia.com/contact) and we can talk outside the forums about this.
the reason i purchased a standard license was the promised selling point to make available a monthly theme ...
this has never happened ...
a good start would be a Child Theme of Michael's site ...
so i'll vote for that ...
I don't recall any promise of a monthly theme.
Saul Markowicz && Ray Edwards : :
The monthly child theme was part of the older version of Standard Theme 2.0. I believe that due to the number of detailed tutorials, 8BIT decided to continue with those, instead of working on these child themes. I am not sure what they will consider doing for 3.0, but I know nothing has been promised as of yet.
I would love to see some of this theme integrated into standard. I can't even change fonts! Michael Hyatt's theme is great, and I would like to know how a few of the customizations are done. Go for it 8bit, I think we all want it!
What a great forum post ...!
I too would love to have access to a Michael Hyatt Child Theme for the purpose of inspiration and also agree, I would not desire to mimic it entirely.
As for the older agreement for monthly child themes, I don't recall that either but, no one provides better support and quicker solutions that this developer and YOU amazing members of the support team. Thanks for all you do!
JBrad, did you have to re-engineer the S3 quote format to put the source outside the bubble like Michael does, or am I just missing something obvious in the creation of the post. I can't for the life of me get this one figured out and I've read everything I can find here. I have a sticky quote that I want to use on http://Attorney2PointOh.com.
All input appreciated!
Oh, I crack myself up! I hadn't added a title to the post because I didn't want it in the stream. Now that I do, I see that the post attribution is right where I want it. Now I guess I'm off to look again at the forum discussions related to the topic of fixing the title. Didn't know they were relevant the first time I saw them. =-)
How do you get the category menu bar at the top? (Leadership, Creating Energy, etc. from OP's blog) (Leadership, Productivity, Publishing, etc. on Michael Hyatt's blog)
Is this a separate plugin that I'm missing?
Thanks!
How do you get the category menu bar at the top? (Leadership, Creating Energy, etc. from OP's blog) (Leadership, Productivity, Publishing, etc. on Michael Hyatt's blog)
Is this a separate plugin that I'm missing?
Thanks!
That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the reply!
A tutorial would be awesome!
I second Josh's vote on the tutorial, JBrad. =-)
I've got a Michael Hyatt inspired site in Standard 2 - freshly built and about to launch in the next few days or so. I really had hoped that it'd be easy to port over to Standard 3, but I can't seem to even get close.
I guess I'm stuck with Standard 2 for a while
http://www.TheSlowRide.com
Cheers, Rick
I should add - my theme design was borrowed from Charles Specht's theme that he used quite a few months ago - I've just been tweaking ever since...
http://www.TheSlowRide.com
Cheers, Rick
A tutorial on this for the categories and social icons would be awesome!
I would think that designing a downloadable child theme that emulates Michael Hyatt's would be an additional revenue stream for 8BIT, Michael Hyatt and the developer.
ThatGuyKC : :
I cannot speak for Michael Hyatt, or for any other developers out there, but I can share some discussions we have had around this at 8BIT. To summarize, you forgot the other "additional" in the equation... Additional time.
Time to plan, time to coordinate, time to develop, time to design, time to test, time to support, and time to rinse and repeat. We have been there and we have done that.
In case you have not noticed, we have sold off all our other themes (ie. Live Theme, Pro Photo Theme, and Dev Theme) to intentionally narrow our focus. We are passionate about publishing and we are working hard to create the tools that are extremely focused on doing just that. Solely focusing on Standard is just our first step towards that vision. There is more to come, and anything that does not fall into alignment with that focus, no matter how good the idea may be, is merely a distraction from our goals as a team and business.
This idea is an example of that. It is a good idea and we are more than confident that people would eat it up! However, this does not fall into line for us at this point in time. In the future? Perhaps, but not now.
And in the mean time, we have released a ton of extra stuff to facilitate the community creating awesome stuff, such as this, with our plugin, child theme, and extras repositories we opened up last week.
For now, we are too focused on greater things yet to come...
Helpful comments. As I bought the Standard Theme only, I appreciate 8BIT's narrow focus on making it better.
RE: category menu: My solution: I hired a guy on ODesk (an online contracting site) to do this for less than $6 an hour. I told him the category headings I wanted listed and which posts to pull when a user clicked on a heading (i.e. show all posts tagged "leadership" when a user clicks the "leadership" category). He had it done and working well in less than 3 hours.
+1 to @michael's comment.
We are so thankful for this type of community to hear about these neat opportunities and ideas... keep them coming!
Rick Couchman:
Awesome job on the child theme!
Thanks for sharing,
Craig
http://5minaday.com