04.08.08
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Ultimate Baseball Theme for WordPress Released

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!

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

104 comments

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  4. 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

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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;
    }

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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?

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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

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  14. 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

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  18. 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.

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  19. 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.

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  21. 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.

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  23. 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;
    }

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  24. 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

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  25. 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.

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  26. 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

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  31. Nice theme however, I installed it on wp 2.5 before seeing your site (wpzoom.com is my source). Now, I see nothing, no control panel (dashboard), not web site. I didn’t create the “uploads” folder before installing the theme. Any idea as to what may have happened and what I need to look for to find the problem? This has never happened to me so, I have no idea. Thank you.

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  36. Really like this theme…but wish I had a baseball site for it! I am going to try though to maybe incorporate it into something else? Will see :)

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  37. Hi! This is a great theme, thank you.

    There’s a problem with the lead image though. I have manually set a new directory (0777) in wp-content folder but I still get the error message:

    Unable to create upload dir manually, please create:
    and
    Unable to upload file. Unable to save to the following location:

    I have also uploaded a lead image manually but that doesn’t work either?!

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  38. Got it workin now.. for some reason. Downloaded functions.php, made some changes re-saved as original, uploaded.. worked. But the image does not show. What wrong.

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  39. Can I ask though – how did you get this picked up and into google news?

    Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?

    Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..

    The baseball greats you should write about next!

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  40. I love the theme , my only issue is getting the lead image to work , anyone have any solutions.

    Thank you for the great theme.

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  44. Hi

    This would certainly be a great theme, but it will not show up in my Design-Area to be picked. I never see the theme and therefore can never explore it … ?

    The problem is coming up under the URL http://new.ozweb.de/ where I have a testblog running to perform tests on new themes. As I am running a Baseball blog in Germany, the theme would probably fit (even though I am happy with wonderful Mimbo theme as well ;-) ). But if I can not test it, I will never know …

    Kind regards
    Ralf

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  47. Hi there, we are using your template for our Little League Baseball team and so far love the design and layout and how well it works with the teams needs.

    One problem we are having is the Lead Image Upload.
    It keeps trying to upload to
    /home/lancas9/public_html/wp//home/lancas9/public_html/wp/wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball/Spinners18.jpg

    i created a cache folder and the ultimatebaseball folder in the folder containing timthumb as suggested but still getting the error. the permissions are right, im just baffled as i am not the best at this stuff.

    any info please feel free to email me at philhall83@gmail.com

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  62. I’m working on a site for a small local baseball team and I can’t seem to get the tabs at the top to show the post I place in their category any help?

    Great theme by the way!

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  74. I’m having trouble with the Lead Image and the Flickr function…can you help…i followed all your instructions but it doesn’t seem to cooperate. thanks!

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  79. Hi !
    Great Theme ! Thanks for your work.
    But i need some changes :
    - a smooth-gallery at the index-page. there where is actually the image of the featured post.
    - a multi-level page-menu under the featured-post at the index-page
    If you could do this changes for me, i will extend your theme with WP-Translation-Tags and will add a german translation.
    regards
    ralf

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  82. Graphics for this theme are awesome! I really like the three dimensional look of the players and the color of the sky. Now if I can just get one of these for the NFL I would be very happy.

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  84. Hi
    can i increase the “masthead” text line ?
    and can i use them each image and text post in the home page post ? ( in past 6 posts i see just title ,date and comment )

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  87. I uploaded the theme into my theme folder, but I can’t see anything. It’s like it’s not reading the css file or something. Any help is appreciated.

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  89. OK here is what I found to fix the lead image error, when I went to upload a photo I noticed a set of // just before the ultimatebaseball directory. This told me the URL was not being correctly inserted from the template at upload so I went to the function.php file and added the following
    define( ‘HEADER_IMG_DIR’, ‘wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball’ );

    adding the wp-content and uploads now give the template the proper upload url and tah dah the picture now works and uploads..

    Hope this helps

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  91. I am using a static front page but am getting the “HOME” page (static page) listed 2 times in the menu? I thought I saw code to eliminate the 2nd listing but cannot find it on the site!

    thx–love it so far

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  96. I love this template. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get the lead story image to work. How is this fixed? I have gone on the server and made sure that the /wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball/ folder is there and that the permissions are set correctly. the picture does show up in the wp-admin panel but shows as a broken link on the website. Please can anybody help me with this?

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  97. My son is using the template Ultimate Baseball Theme for WordPress on his blog, TheRealJohnnyBravo.com and the image to the left of the main headline doesn’t load in most browsers. When you try to look at the image URL itself, you get the error “Invalid src mime type: unknown”.

    I’ve made sure there is a directory at /wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball, but nothing seems to get written there. the path of what it’s looking for in the HTML is http://www.therealjohnnybravo.com/wp-content/themes/ultimatebaseball/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/ultimatebaseball/&w=276&h=195&zc=1

    I’ve sort of looked around, but haven’t seen a solution. Thoughts?

    For now, I’ve removed the code so the error doesn’t show up.

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  99. I am having the same image problem from the timthumb.php file. I have tried several different ways but still have the broken link. Any help would be great.

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  100. Fixed. Here is how:

    In index.php you will need to remove the following after echo “BLOG_REL_PATH .”:
    Old
    echo BLOG_REL_PATH . get_option(‘upload_path’) . ‘/’ . HEADER_IMG_DIR . ‘/’ . get_option(‘lead_story_img’); ?>&w=276&h=195&zc=1″ alt=”" />

    New
    echo get_option(‘upload_path’) . ” . HEADER_IMG_DIR . ‘/’ . get_option(‘lead_story_img’); ?>&w=276&h=195&zc=1″ alt=”" />

    This fixed my site

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    • Try this! In index.php file:

      OLD
      echo BLOG_REL_PATH . get_option(‘upload_path’) . ‘/’ . HEADER_IMG_DIR . ‘/’ . get_option(‘lead_story_img’); ?>&w=276&h=195&zc=1″ alt=”” />

      NEW
      // write the inicial path manually
      <img src="http://www.sss.odo.br/” alt=”" height=”215px” />

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