The RevvedUp theme for WordPress

Ever wanted a theme for your WordPress blog that is beautiful, customizable, standards-compliant, business-friendly and light on your (and your readers’) bandwidth? This is the theme you were looking for!

It’s a fully original piece of artwork, and it’s free for you to use in your blog. And there’s another theme, based on this, called Burnin’ R! As if this wasn’t enough, the latest version not only supports Widgets, but supplies a few great widgets of its own (availability conditional to activation of certain plugins).

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Latest version: 1.5.7 (changes)

RevvedUp features

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Here’s the lowdown on RevvedUp:

  • fully laid out using semantic HTML and CSS stylesheets — no tables used
  • business-friendly: ready for Google AdSense and others, with strategic positions in your blog that can be enhanced with banner ad code through the WordPress administrative interface — no need to edit files at all
  • Widgets-compatible: you can drag-and-drop items in your sidebar (through the administration panel) to reorder them, and you can add extra items. Plus, the most popular WordPress plugins have been Widgetized so you don’t have to edit files at all.
  • semi-fluid three-column layout (content plus two-column sidebar)
  • heavily tuned and optimized for search engine relevancy: page titles are always relevant (the front page even shows your blog’s tagline), post content goes first in the HTML source, and semantic markup is used everywhere
  • validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • its visual style is completely driven by stylesheets — the theme’s layout can be altered substantially by changing a few lines in the main stylesheet, and users can choose (at least in Firefox) to use the default stylesheet or none at all
  • every page carries an explanation (even error pages)
  • font sizes are not fixed — even on Internet Explorer, your readers can resize the fonts to help them read better
  • it makes use of elegant semitransparent PNGs
  • includes shortcut icon and custom pages for directory indexes, Apache error pages, and a complete archive page (these pages automatically integrate themselves when the permalink structure is updated, and show the right hyperlinks, whether URL rewriting is active or not)
  • several WordPress plugins have been conditionally integrated — if a plugin is available and enabled, its features will appear automatically, no editing needed
  • enhanced with JavaScript events (and still, it does not require JavaScript from your readers)
  • well-organized stylesheets for you to peruse and edit
  • distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2
  • compatible with WordPress 2.0.4 and later versions
  • plugins supported out-of-the-box: (not included with the theme)
    • bsuite
    • Days since birth
    • FancyTooltips
    • Fold Page List
    • Gravatars
    • Bread Crumb Trail Generator
    • LMB^Box Comment Quicktags
    • Optimal Title
    • Recent Comments
    • Related Posts
    • Search Reloaded
    • Subscribe me
    • Rudd-O’s Wordspew (and Jalenack’s Wordspew too)
    • WordPress XHTML validator
    • WP-Sociable
    • Creative Commons configurator
    • AutoMeta

Installation, post-installation and notes

This theme requires WordPress 2.0.4 or later.

As you can see, a lot of work has gone into this theme. RevvedUp is free, for you to download and use in your blog. If you like this theme a lot, and you end up using it, please consider donating a small amount of money to fund its continued development. Especially if you plan to use this on a commercial endeavour (fair enough, isn’t it?). If you cannot make a donation, please state in your blog that you’re using a derivative of this theme, and place a link to this post so others can use it as well.

After downloading it, you can install it on your WordPress installation and activate it directly from the administrative interface. To enable the theme’s complete archive page, shorcut icon, directory indexes and error pages, follow the instructions written in the included README file after installation.

You can instantly know when this theme is updated by subscribing to the RevvedUp theme’s live newsfeed.

I can help you customize this theme if you’re interested. Contact me to get detailed information on how to contract me for these affairs.