Brought to you by the developer of the Graphene theme, the Antiaris theme draws upon the vast experience and countless feedbacks gained from the development of the Graphene theme. As a result, Antiaris is really a premium theme made available for free, as a gift to the WordPress community.

Its design and configurable options are specifically implemented to make the theme suitable for use as both a blogging platform and a corporate website.

This theme has been tested and confirmed compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Internet Explorer 7 and above.

Features Highlights

  • A choice of one-column, two-column, and three-column layouts
  • All the WordPress 3.0+ goodies, which means: Custom Header, Custom Background, Custom Menus, Post Thumbnails
  • Lots of widgetised areas. Left sidebar, right sidebar, footer (with customisable number of columns, which means even more widgetised areas), and header.
  • Alternate front page widget areas, giving you the option to have a different set of widgets displayed on the front page than the rest of the site.
  • The Site Summary Panel. This feature is best seen in action.
  • Full-width front page slider, or medium-width slider which is displayed in the Site Summary panel.
  • A total of 3 custom menus, primary navigation in the header, secondary navigation below the Site Summary Panel, and a footer navigation.
  • Customisable site title structure trough the theme’s options page.
  • Includes an author page, which displays the author’s details, latest posts, most commented posts, and then displays a paginated list of all of the author’s posts.
  • More than 50 configurable options, with presets that allow you to quickly configure the theme for first-time use.
  • Custom CSS in the options page, which allows you modify the theme’s looks without resorting to a child theme.
  • Built-in AdSense placement. All you have to do is enter your AdSense code and activate the feature through the theme’s options page.
  • Built-in social sharing button placement. Use any code from popular social sharing sites and activate the feature through the theme’s options page.
  • Supports threaded comments, with comments separated from trackbacks and pingbacks.
  • Pluggable function definitions, so that you can easily override or add functionalities to the theme easily by using child theme, leaving the theme’s codes unchanged so that your modifications won’t disappear next time there’s an update to the theme.
  • Helpful 404 Error page. Instead of just displaying an error page with arcane message, the theme displays a friendly message telling the visitor what happened and provides a search box. It even does a courtesy search for the user automatically based on the url!
  • Supports translation. All texts in the theme are wrapped in gettext function call so that you can translate all the strings from the theme’s antiaris.pot file.
  • Properly formatted HTML elements. I spent a lot of time formatting every single html element that you might use, including all the headings from h1 down to h6, blockquotes, code, table, and even dt! I know the default browser styling is ugly, so I leave nothing to it. Having said that, if I miss any element do let me know!
  • Uninstall option. When you decide not to use the theme anymore, you can use the uninstall button in the theme’s option page to delete all the theme’s options from the database. I’ve been using WordPress for a few years now, and I know orphaned database entries are not desirable, so I make sure the theme I coded do not leave any orphans!
  • Properly commented codes, so you can understand what’s going on and help facilitate modifications.

Demo

Visit the theme’s demo site.

Languages

Antiaris theme has just been released to the public, so there isn’t any other languages available yet.

If you want to help, see how you can translate the theme. The instructions are written for the Hybrid theme, but the steps are mostly the same. The default strings are provided in the file antiaris.pot, from which you can use POEdit to create a new catalog.

If you have translated the theme and would like to include your translation with the theme’s package, please contact me so that I can include your translation with the theme.

Support & Feedback

I always love feedback, so keep them coming! Especially if you have any suggestions on how the theme could be improved. If you found any bugs or have any technical difficulties, do let me know as well.

For support, feedback, bug report, feature suggestion, or even simply to show off, please go to the support forum.

Support the developer

Developing this awesome theme took a lot of efforts and time, weeks and weeks of voluntary unpaid work. Its features rival many of those paid premium themes available out there.

In fact, I meant for this theme to be treated as a “free premium theme”, which is like a premium theme that you can test-drive indefinitely, and affordable to all as you decide the price yourself, if it’s worth your hard-earned money.

If you like this theme or if you are using it for commercial websites, please consider a donation to the developer to help support future updates and development.


Changelog

Version 1.0

  • Initial release