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Ultimate Baseball Theme for Wordpress Released
Posted by Darren in Wordpress Themes on 04.08.08

Description

Ultimate Baseball comes pre-skinned for the Boston Red Sox (our bias is showing), but built-in control panel options let you change imagery and scorecard info and blog for any team!

Plus, no need to fuss with custom fields — Ultimate Baseball comes with a custom upload/resize tool.

Go Get It!

Live Demo | Download Theme | Download PSD

Features

  • Control panel options for lead story and masthead photo configuration
  • Control panel options for RSS scorecard and Flickr Photos
  • Subcategory dropdown menus
  • Author-highlighting and gravatars in the comments section
  • Custom archives page
  • Dynamic subpage menus
  • Additional print.css stylesheet
  • Widget-enabled sidebar

Requirements

Worpdress 2.5+

Additional Screenshots



Getting Started

  • If you don’t already have a /wp-content/uploads/ folder created, make sure to create it manually and set permissions to 0777.
  • To create a lead story image, visit Design->Ultimate Baseball Options and upload your picture. A script should automatically upload your image to /wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball/, but if your server does not allow it, the folder will have to be created and set manually.
  • To change your Flickr images, visit Design->Ultimate Baseball Options and set the username or tagname and number of photos your want to display.

FAQ

  • Q: How do I activate the custom ‘Archives’ template?
    A: Open your control panel and click Write->Page. Select ‘archives’ from the Page Template menu in the right sidebar, click Publish and you’re done!
  • Q: How do I change the masthead photo?
    A: Open your control panel, click Design->Custom Image Header and you will see options for uploading and cropping.
  • Q: If I change teams, how do I change the scoreboard info?
    A: Scoreboard info is taken and parsed from a great service called Totally Scored. Browse their site for your team, copy the RSS address into the field under Design->Ultimate Baseball Options and click Save.

  • Q: What happens when the season is over?
    A: The scorebox disappears when there are no new scores to report.
Comments

Looks great!

But I am going to modify it so that it suits my personal blog :)

Raj on 04-09-08 at 4:54 am

Great themes man.

You guys are doing a wonderful job of releasing free niche themes with their psd file. Myself, I don’t fall in any of the niches which you’ve released so far but all the same, it is great work and I know many people are enjoying your themes and a lot will be able to use them

Matrich on 04-10-08 at 1:29 am

wow.. really sharp looking theme.. and smart too!! Great work!!

Jeff on 04-10-08 at 10:48 am

Question.. If you activate a widget in the sidebar, it takes the ‘Latest Scores’ and ‘Latest Images’ predefined template widgets away. Is there no way to use these in conjunction w/ other wordpress widgets?

Also.. how do you change the text color for the site heading and tag line only? My picture is mostly white so I need black text.

Anita on 04-11-08 at 3:48 pm

You can open sidebar.php and move all the hard-coded stuff outside the “if ( !function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’)” conditional so that it’s always there, with or without widgets turned on.

On the second issue, open the stylesheet and edit this:

h1 a, h1 a:visited {
color:#FFF;
}

Darren on 04-11-08 at 5:30 pm

Question:

I have been able to change most of the links on the page to a different color. However, the links in the most recent post will not change over. I can not find where and how to make all the links (post title, comments, and category) the most recent post to change to a different color. Where and how do I change the color?

Thanks for your help and support in advance.

O.F.T on 04-12-08 at 10:44 am

Darren:

Great theme. I figured out the answer to my previous question.

However, I have one question about the lead story image. I did go to Design->Ultimate Baseball Options and uploaded a picture. The script did automatically upload the image to /wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball/ and the image is showing up within my admin screen. However, for some reason, the image is not displaying on my page. Is there anything else that I need to be doing or any restrictions to the image?

O.F.T on 04-12-08 at 12:04 pm

Looks like a great theme, only I cannot get Word Press to recognize it upon upload. Any ideas?

Keith on 04-12-08 at 8:17 pm

Hmm, nevermind, I think I figured it out. Wordpress 2.5 has a bug. If you install a new instance without any themes, it will not recognize themes you drop in, unless you first let it see the default theme. Silly.

Keith on 04-12-08 at 8:39 pm

Hi !

I also have a question, maybe a dumb one:
The tabs on the top of the page are post categories now right?
Is there a way to make it so that the tabs link to pages instead of posts?
Great theme BTW !

Thanks !

Lex

Lex on 04-13-08 at 6:41 am

Darren:

This is a great theme. Neat, clean, and orderly.

I did figure out the issue with the lead story image. I found the solution on the timthumb page at darrenhoyt.com. For some reason, the cache directory was not created and I had to go create one in the directory where timthumb.php was located at and set permissions on that directory to 777.

Also, I have the wp-cache plugin installed and I had to dump the cache everytime I made a significant change to anything. That was also part of my problem when I could not see the changes even after I had refreshed the page.

In your index.php page you had this piece of code in the ‘masthead’ section

For some reason, neither links nor the “” command in the write section of the admin station would not work properly within the masthead section (but links would show in the permalink post). To get links and the “” command to work, I replaced the excerpt code with this code below:

Thank you once again for this excellent template

O.F.T. on 04-13-08 at 10:54 am

I think this will be a wonderful theme for any kind of sports. I love the easy scoreboard widget. Another fantastic theme from you, guys. Keep it up. I’ll include it in my WordPress theme gallery.

Dulce on 04-16-08 at 1:23 am

Quality template guys!

I have a little league team website and would love to have the scoreboard on the sidebar reflect our game scores. Not really interested in going the hard code route (that’s what software’s all about, right?).

I have tried, in vain, to get sidebar.php to parse our site feed and post scores to the sidebar. I just can’t seem to get my feed (title, I guess) to reflect the needs of sidebar.php. (Perhaps pubdate is the issue - using 2.5?)

Alternatively, I have tried (a bit) to figure out whether using the new “custom fields” in 2.5 would be possible.

Any thoughts or advices on an approach would be greatly appreciated.

Patrick on 04-24-08 at 1:38 pm

Got my Scoreboard working. Changed title to description and the sidebar was able to parse the cdata from the excerpt in the feed.

Thanks for the outstanding template.

Patrick on 04-25-08 at 12:05 pm

Great to hear. I was just going to comment that you may need to change some of the XML/RSS tagging to make it work.

Darren on 04-25-08 at 12:08 pm

A Very Impressive Theme. I guess it might be much better to include the Youtube video option too like in Probama. Video for match review/preview.

Ade on 05-02-08 at 2:41 am

Love the template. However, I cannot get the lead picture to work. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Andy on 05-02-08 at 1:13 pm

I think there is something unusual in the image style. Just a tip, If you are using many images in a post like making a tutorial, the images will be stacking up and messy.

.entry img {
float:left; <<deleting this entry will be helpful.
margin:5px 14px 6px 0;
border:4px solid #FFF;
}

Ade on 05-02-08 at 1:15 pm

Darren… looks like carrusel are mess now, the second picture are up to the right arrow. Also this happend at the zip code too.

Check it out if you have time

Great theme again

Cranko on 05-02-08 at 9:39 pm

Darren, i would like to ask about this :
1. How to add “Read More” on leading story?
2. Is there any chance to have a Link Page Template.

Thank you so much.

Ade on 05-05-08 at 9:17 am

1) AFAIK, the ‘read more’ token doesn’t work in WP if there are other query_posts on the page. I will test and see.

2) Not sure what you mean

Darren on 05-06-08 at 9:18 am
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