New York – Free WordPress Theme Release

I am once more so excited to release our new theme ‘New York’ the main excitement reason is that i am giving away something to WordPress community which usually people sell. I believe New York is good enough that anybody with personal blog or any kind of blog (it depends on liking) will be willing to use it. New York comes with a lot of stuff, full features are listed below but you need to see Live Demo in order to feel it. Grungy/Urban/Transparent/Elegant everything is here with a lot of practical features

Current Version 1.2 – Fixed ‘title headings not showing multi language characters’ issue

Current Version 1.3 – Updated New York with Awesome Junction Font.

Full Feature List:

• Modern & Elegant look
• Grungy and Urban style
• Fast loading structure
• Sidebar 125 x 125 ads support
• Twitter, RSS, Facebook and Delicious Bookmark buttons
• Stylized sticky post
• Featured post with Thumbnail
• Email subscription form available
• Supports comments threading and paging
• You don’t need to edit PSD files for logo, Thanks to Cufon
• Preloads necessary images silently for better user experience
• Fully WP 2.8.5 support
• Premium Quality
• Fixed Width
• 2 Columns
• Left Sidebar
• Many theme options to control everything, you don’t need to edit files at ALL
• Free of cost

What can I adjust from Admin Theme Options??

• Sidebar 125 x 125 ads: You can tune sidebar ads from inside your theme options just enter banner URLs and enter link for them.
• Twitter, Facebook and RSS buttons: You can enter your twitter profile link, Facebook profile/fan page link, feedburner feed address.
• Email Subscription form: You can Setup your sidebar Email subscription form within Admin theme options.
• About me box: Change your About box picture, text and link.

Admin Options Screenshot:

(click thumbnail to see full view)

Installation:

• Extract the new-york.zip file in a convenient location
• Copy the ‘new-york’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
• Log in to the WordPress Administration Dashboard
• Select the ‘Themes’ sub-menu from ‘Appearance’ tab
• Select the New York theme from the available list of themes to preview
• Activate the theme.

Where are Admin Theme Options??

• After Activating New York theme
• Look for ‘New York Options’ tab in sidebar menu

How ‘Featured’ post works?

• Creat a new category named ‘Featured Articles’
• Upload/attach any image to the post (more than 300px wide recommended)
• While publishing post select ‘Featured Articles’ category along with others.
• You are done. First Attachment image from the post will be used as thumbnail.

For people having problems with Featured post thumbnail:

• Download this file, rename it to ‘header.php and replace it with the original header.php in New York theme directory.
• While writing a post upload an image and copy Image Url.
• Now add a custom key with name: thumbnail and value: image url
• Make sure ‘cache’ folder found in theme directory is CHMOD 777 on your server.
• Still having problems? Its probably your server does not support GD Library. Which is so rare IMO.

People having problems with Featured post thumbnail hosted on Hostgator:

1. Login to your Hostgator control panel and contact Live Chat Support.
2. Ask the support technician to white list your thumbnail generation file for mod_security . You will need to give your file name and path.  The file name mostly will be timthumb.php . You can find this file inside the WordPress theme folder. An example file path wp-content/themes/new-york/cropper.php

Source

The theme is released under GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php).

If you have any feedback, bug reports, feature requests e-mail me  or comment below.