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Fauna In A Nutshell: Extensible, Simple, Cleanish. Plus Good Looking

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Fauna is a free Wordpress 2.3 theme (and it’s finished and done!). It’s pretty good looking, really extensible and rather simple to use. If you’re already convinced, download the theme right now and get started. Otherwise, here’s a quick bulletpointed list of reasons why Fauna is worth your time:

  • Clean templates. Engineered to allow you to hack the hell out of them.
  • Simple. All features have been weighed carefully: if it’s not clean and out of the way, it’s not in Fauna.
  • Like theme options? We’ve got plenty. Press Page Down for details.
  • Don’t like theme options? Throw out functions.php. I dare you.
  • Want your own design but a clean base to build off of? Throw out the CSS and build your own styles.
    That was the quick introduction. Here’s the real one.

Say hello to Fauna

Default

Want it dark? Pick one of the bundled styles:

Nocturnal

There are in fact, plenty other bundled styles, including Frost, offered by co-fauna-developer James Huff.

The style selector looks like this:

Style selector

Fauna comes bundled with dozens (3, actually) delicious headers.

No header is also an option:

No header

Do you speak arabic? Fauna loves you! It comes bundled with an RTL theme:

RTL

Want to upload your own header image? Fauna does that using pushable buttons.

Custom header

In fact there are many options:

Options

  • Custom style (drop style in styles/ folder)
  • About text (Textile enabled)
  • Sticky note text (Textile enabled)
  • Rename the “blog” tab
  • Side bar position (left or right)
  • Scale mode (liquid or fixed)
  • Noteworthy icon (text-symbol or image)
  • Enable popup comments
  • Show trackback body text
  • Show author link in posts
  • Enable archives page
  • Custom header (select between no header, several bundled headers and custom uploaded image)
  • Header height
  • Rounded top corners on header (uses JS, applies even to your own uploaded images)
  • Custom background

There are lots of other great features such as both “aside” and “sidenotes” support, built-in hooks for all sorts of commonly used plugins and so on. You can gorge in the features on the dedicated features page. You can even look at more screenshots if you want that.

Remember: Fauna is charityware. Be nice to the moose. It’s a really kind animal, just like Fauna. Join the happy friends charity club today and start spreading the message: world moose in our time!

Fauna

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Comments

  1. James said December 14th, 2007:

    Thanks for the link to Frost, and congratulations on wrapping up Fauna 1.0!

    Fauna is really a great theme. It’s fully-feature, but very lean and easy to customize. I’d recommend it to anyone looking to get away from WP’s default theme.

  2. khaled said December 14th, 2007:

    Love it. It’s been a long road, but this is how to release a theme. Easily one of the best things in the Wordpress theme community. Congratulations Joen and everyone else involved.

  3. Jorgen said December 14th, 2007:

    This is a great theme, simple yet good looking.. Good work!

  4. mo said December 14th, 2007:

    YES!!!
    congratulations Joen, this is a HUGE achievement !

    Go Moose GO!!!

  5. Bayounette said December 14th, 2007:

    Thank you so much for your theme !!!!!

    So customisable, so fresh (with the headers’ colours ), I love it ^^

    But…where did u get this plugin which gives an icon per category ????

    (sorry if my english is bad ^^ )

  6. Shaun said December 14th, 2007:

    Hello friends,

    I love Fauna… I just installed it tonight and I’m loving the design, the ability to customize this theme beyond belief and the simplicity of the entire package. It’s just great. Thanks for releasing something so brilliant!

    I’m not sure if it’s an error on my end or if I’m just looking for something that’s not there but my sidebar is invisible, even when I change its position.

    Any help with this would be splendid, and thanks again for this great download.

  7. Shaun said December 14th, 2007:

    I just noticed the support forum, woops.

    Sorry!

  8. crcw said December 14th, 2007:

    hi,Joen.
    first thank u for ur so great style.My gf like it very much. and now Ｉ have a problem with the font size. The font size is too small

    Counld u tell me how to change the font size to large?

  9. Joen said December 14th, 2007:

    hi,Joen.
    first thank u for ur so great style.My gf like it very much. and now Ｉ have a problem with the font size. The font size is too small

    Counld u tell me how to change the font size to large?

    Yes.

    Open the file called “style.css”, and add the following:

    body {
font-size: 150%;
}

    If that’s too large, write 120% or something.

  10. crcw said December 14th, 2007:

    @joen, Thank u for ur help. I have changed the font size.
    zhaojingjing.com/blog

  11. Sean said December 14th, 2007:

    Nice theme, I really like the custom style option. You’ve done a great job, keep up the good work.

  12. nargile said December 14th, 2007:

    Hey,

    That’s the nice themes. I want to translate this themes to Turkish and wanna share. Is it possible?

  13. Joen said December 14th, 2007:

    I want to translate this themes to Turkish and wanna share. Is it possible?

    Yes, that’s possible, and very welcome, as long as you keep the open source license intact.

    You might want to look at this article:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

    which explains how you can translate all the text in the Fauna theme without editing any of the PHP files.

  14. abdullah said December 14th, 2007:

    hi , first of all tnx for a very beautiful theme..
    there is a default.pot and default.po files. I changed some of english words to turkish but how can I entegrate it to my theme files.. after I change it to turkish my theme dont get turkish.. pls help me..

  15. Joen said December 14th, 2007:

    there is a default.pot and default.po files. I changed some of english words to turkish but how can I entegrate it to my theme files.. after I change it to turkish my theme dont get turkish.. pls help me..

    You need to edit your wp-config to tell it where to find the new language:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Language_and_Language_Directory

  16. Milo said December 14th, 2007:

    Thank you for creating this theme! We are now using it on our website and think it looks fantastic! :)

  17. Brian said December 14th, 2007:

    Good stuff, using it on my blog right now. If you get the chance let me know what you think of the changes.