Potassium. A soft, silver, yet austere and Web 2.0, interface. A design for the Sandbox theme – requires the theme to be installed first.

Sandbox - Potassium

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Potassium a design for the highly semantic and primitive Sandbox theme. It was also my entry for the Sandbox Designs Competition in mid-2007.

Features

  • Valid CSS!
  • Two columns – sidebar to the right
  • Liquid layout
  • Designed for Sandbox, but you knew that
  • <pre> classes support GeSHi language codes
  • Standard WordPress widget class support: little icons appear at the bottom of specific widgets
  • All icons (except RSS) designed just for this
  • Some usage of Sandbox’s dynamic CSS classes

Download Sandbox – Potassium

The current release is version 1.0.5.

MD5 (.zip) 0b501cbe77c258c9f3c80aca6fe8e46b
MD5 (.tar.gz) 5bb3075e5a581f285aa5c0cfbb7d5079

Since you need Sandbox first, if you don’t already have the latest version, please download it first. To install Sandbox, extract the single folder /sandbox into your themes folder, i.e. /path/to/wp-content/themes. Head to Admin Panel > Design and Sandbox’s screenshot should appear in your list of themes. Click on the screenshot to activate it. If it’s working smoothly, you’re ready to install this design.

It’s just CSS and images, so you can just extract the single folder, /sandbox-potassium, into your Sandbox theme folder, /path/to/wp-content/themes/sandbox, then comment everything in Sandbox’s style.css and replace it with:

@import url('sandbox-potassium/style.css');

If Sandbox was activated earlier, you should see the effect kick in immediately. And there you have it, Potassium. No, it won’t explode when you splash on it; the hard drive in your server that keeps it will ;)

Changelog

Potassium 1.0.5 (July 20, 2008)

  • Potassium does not depend on an external file for layout structure anymore. This should satisfy both Sandbox 1.5 and 1.6, and possibly any older or newer versions.
  • Changes made to the CSS of the blogroll widget list items.

Potassium 1.0.4 (April 2, 2008)

  • Made compatible with Sandbox 1.5 by altering some theme-specific CSS classes.
  • Hence the introduction of Gravatar support!
  • With some new CSS classes being introduced in newer versions of the Sandbox theme, Potassium’s use of attribute selectors has been cut slightly. That means a bit more IE6 support – but who cares?
  • Adjusted display for some widget options, like displaying categories or archives as drop-down menus.

Potassium 1.0.3 (November 8, 2007)

  • Cut down blank lines wherever I could but still left the code readable.
  • Included <pre lang="mysql"> GeSHi syntax for SQL highlighting.
  • Made compatible with Sandbox 1.0.0 by altering some theme-specific CSS classes.

Potassium 1.0.2.1 (October 27, 2007)

  • This release was made available for the sole purpose of fixing a typo of the widgets CSS class in WordPress 2.3.1. It also retains the erroneously-spelled CSS class for backwards compatibility with WordPress 2.3.

Potassium 1.0.2 (September 30, 2007)

  • Altered the stylesheet description to remind you that Sandbox is required.
  • Support for tag cloud widgets introduced – the tag icon should now appear in these widgets as you can see in my own blog.
  • Added .left and .right CSS classes… just in case.
  • Tweaked .center so text in paragraphs and such are centered as well.
  • Padding added to <div>s inside sidebar widgets.

Potassium 1.0.1 (August 6, 2007)

  • Added a font size and line height to #footer because that gloss line in the background can serve as an interesting line margin.
  • Added more margin between posts.
  • Fixed .nav-previous going over and knocking down .nav-next, occurring most frequently with long post titles. It’ll still not work on IE6 though.
  • Fixed .required so it inherits the background color instead. Didn’t seem necessary since Potassium has a white content background, but if you think about it a little longer…
  • Fixed lists inside comment/trackback lists so they display as normal lists instead of looking like comments or trackbacks.

Potassium 1.0.0 (July 29, 2007)

  • Initial release.

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