Free CSS Gallery Theme

January 30th, 2008 Posted by Shabu, filed under Blog

Recently I have started a CSS Gallery site by a customized script; I bought that script form Maxiscript.com by $100. The script did not meet my expectations, it shows same image for detail page and thumbnail (by manual size compression)!

I knew that there are a lot CSS showcase site powered by WordPress but I had no idea how to do that with WP. I’m a newbie on WordPress.

Last week I thought of trying WP for CSS Gallery theme like I have in my CSSDaddy.com. So, I started to work on it and within 2 days my gallery theme was ready to use.

Though it was in WP But the problem was same like the script I have bought; it was using same image for thumb and detail page. It will take time to load a main page and detail page can’t use a bigger image.

As I started thinking to release this theme for free! But People won’t like it, if it takes time to load. So, I started to search that how can I show a thumbnail on main page and a bigger image for detail pages. I found a lot of blog posts about custom field in WP. Also found a great post with details PHP code for implementing custom field on theme.

I found a great door to make the CSS Gallery theme for public release

After completing the theme, I was thinking of using it in my site OS Designer. OS Designer was using a custom script since 2006 for template downloads. So it had many extended features. After a lot of research I have added extended functionality in CSS Gallery theme and made it ready to use in OS Designer!

Right now OS Designer is using WordPress! Not to mention that maximum features are done by custom fields!

Special thanks to bloggers:

Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page

Change Default Thumbnail Size in WordPress 2.3 (I have a couple of comments there)

Special thanks to friends:

Iceberg, Titu and Rezwan: They were asking everyday about the release day of CSS Gallery theme!

46 Votes, Rating: 4

22 responses so far!

• 1 Steven Snell ~ Jan 31, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  Where is the download link?

• 2 Shabu ~ Feb 1, 2008 at 6:46 am

  Where is the download link?

  Here you go:
  http://www.osdesigner.net/wordpress-themes/css-gallery-theme/

• 3 Arun Pattnaik ~ Feb 1, 2008 at 9:08 am

  can i have that maxiscript script please?

• 4 Shabu ~ Feb 2, 2008 at 2:21 am

  can i have that maxiscript script please?

  Of course, go to Maxiscript site and buy it

• 5 Changing Blog Themes | zetrys.info ~ Feb 11, 2008 at 4:17 am

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• 6 20 Specialty WordPress Themes | Vandelay Website Design ~ Feb 11, 2008 at 7:51 pm

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• 7 jonsonroth ~ Mar 11, 2008 at 4:01 pm

  The trackback above (from moneyblog) is from an article that was actually published at Performancing:

  http://performancing.com/blogging-tools/48-unique-ways-use-wordpress

  For some reason, the latter doesn’t show as a trackack. Instead, the site that copied it does.

• 8 Shabu ~ Mar 11, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  @ Jonson

  That post is invalid now, I have removed that trackback. Thanks for the link, nice article there

• 9 jonsonroth ~ Mar 15, 2008 at 9:56 am

  There is a recent article at Performancing.com that uses your Gallery theme to build a web directory. I understand that there are a couple more articles coming that use your gallery theme. Keep an eye out there.

  Just curious - How did you get this blog working with your Gallery theme? Out of the box, using “blog” as a category does not do it.

  (1) Did you have to tweak your code?
  (2) Did you have to use a different template file?

• 10 Shabu ~ Mar 15, 2008 at 10:12 am

  I have seen your post, thats a great idea. I know a site that is acting as a web directory - http://www.webmasterlink.co.uk

  I have added blog category and using a different templates for this category. Regardless to say that I had to make another category templates for my others category.

  Let me know if you need this tweak, I’ll be happy to help you. Email me pls

• 11 Duane ~ Apr 5, 2008 at 10:24 pm

  Hi,

  I love the concept of this theme, but am having a lot of trouble getting it to work.

  I’ve created a post, but I cannot get any images or text content to show up? I’ve tried to follow the link for adding a thumbnail with custom fields - but no luck?

  Any help?

  site: http://www.my-wp.com/premiumshowcase/

  Thanks!

• 12 Shabu ~ Apr 7, 2008 at 12:45 am

  I think you did not used custom fields, email me your WP admin pass. I’ll add one post for example.

• 13 Hoang ~ May 24, 2008 at 9:57 am

  Can i download and share here: http://freewebtemplates247.com ?

• 14 Shabu ~ May 24, 2008 at 11:51 am

  Yes, you can.

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• 16 Darlanne ~ Jul 28, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  I can think of 8 different web projects of mine coming up that this theme will fit perfectly for. Thanks for the theme and the terrific instructions too!

• 17 Css Gallery ~ Sep 13, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  It is great to see someone has finally come out with a free css gallery theme. Now with small potato of wpdesigner closing up shop, this is one of the last best foundations for a css gallery across the web. I assist css galleries in their creation and wanted to provide TopCSS.com to upstart css galleries showing what it takes to be a top Css Gallery. At TopCSS.com, you will see a list of only the most successful css galleries each receiving awards for excellence in popularity and Css Design. If you’re building a Css Gallery then you should know what it takes to succeed as a Css Gallery. Enjoy and good luck!!

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• 19 william ~ Mar 18, 2009 at 8:27 am

  wonderful theme, have you tried it on wordpress 2.7?, does anybody know if there is any compatibility issues with the last version?

  thanks great theme

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• 21 kamal ~ Jul 24, 2009 at 10:08 pm

  Hi,
  I have tried this but wonder how to get the website images.Is it automatically capture and we upload manually.Anyway i made my website and you can test.

• 22 chandan ~ Aug 25, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  ShiftThis | Thumbnail Size

  where is this plugin ?