Adventure Journal WordPress Theme

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Share your adventures with the world!

Adventure Journal is a free, fun, highly customizable theme design that takes full advantage of all of WordPress’s newest features. Adventure Journal allows you to select header art, backgrounds, and a one, two, or three column layout from the comfort of your Dashboard – no coding required!

Features

Customizable layout – choose between 1 column, 2 column sidebar right and 2 column sidebar left
Custom header graphic – easily upload your own images for the header
Custom background graphic
Visual editor
WordPress 3.0 custom menus
Separate sidebars for Pages and Blog Posts
Custom font – Volkorn Regular

Works with:

IE7, IE8 & IE9
Firefox
Chrome
Safari

Designed for WordPress 3.0+

License

This theme is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2).

Download

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Frequently Asked Questions

> How do I get featured images to replace the site header?

First, go to Appearance > Adventure Journal and ensure the option for Use featured images as custom site header, if available is checked.

Next, navigate to the page or post you would like to set a featured image for. Remove any existing featured image, and click “Set Featured Image”.

Now, upload a new image from your computer to use as the featured image (it must be at least 940px wide). Set the new image as your featured image and everything should work.

Note: If you already have featured images uploaded and they are at least 940px wide but aren’t showing in your header, we’ve heard from numerous users that the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin can miraculously make your featured header images work. Give it a shot!

> Can I disable the Browser Update Helper?

Absolutely. We understand that some people are forced to browse the internet via carrier pigeon and stone tablet, usually by overworked, underpaid corporate IT people… so we’ve included an option for easily disabling this feature. Here’s how:

From your admin, go to Appearance > Adventure Journal
Scroll to the bottom of the page and uncheck the option Make the web a better, safer place
Click “Save Changes”

That’s it!

> How can I use a different layout on specific pages?

Yes. As of 1.6, several page templates are included for changing the layout of specific pages. Simply edit the page you want to change, and select a new Template item from the Page Attributes box. When you save the page, it will have the layout you specified.

Please keep in mind that not all page templates are compatible with all layouts. If you select page template that contains more columns than your selected Site Layout, the extra sidebars in your page template will be empty.

> How do I remove or delete the paperclipped site title from header graphic?

As of 1.4 this can easily be changed from your site’s admin. Simply navigate to Appearance > Adventure Journal to choose this option.

> How can I make the crinkled paper background show up for ALL the posts not just the stickied posts?

As of 1.5 this can be easily set from your site’s admin. Simply navigate to Appearance > Adventure Journal and choose this option.

> My website seems to be running slowly after I installed the theme, what can I do?

Adventure Journal has been tested extensively on low end and shared web hosts so it’s likely another reason that your site is running slowly. We recommend you read this excellent page on troubleshooting or improving WordPress performance issues.

> How do I adjust the size of the header graphic?

As of 1.4 this can easily be changed from your site’s admin. Simply navigate to Appearance > Adventure Journal and choose this option.

> My category listings are showing &hellip at the end!

This was a bug in AJ 1.4. Please update to AJ 1.5 and this issue should be fixed.

Support Update (June 15, 2011)

Don’t worry, we’re going to keep developing Adventure Journal. We think it’s an awesome theme and have a huge list of improvements to add in the coming months. That said, the amount of basic WordPress questions here is getting overwhelming. Currently, we are very heavily tasked and just don’t have the resources to answer every support question while doing the work that pays the bills. If you have a really pressing question, please feel free to post it on the Official WordPress Forums as well. If I’m not personally able to respond to you right away, someone else might be able to. That’s the great thing about the WordPress Community – it’s full of friendly, knowledgeable, caring, helpful people… and that’s precisely why we’re dedicated to giving back.

Thank you for using Adventure Journal, and being the generally awesome people you are.

-Matt