Feb
1
2011
On popular demand I decided to post the version of Arthemia Pro that powered this blog for a few month. What I liked about the theme was it’s magazine style…
Here are some installation notes and I also included a short screencast that shows how to set things up…
The theme offers you to show a limited set of categories in the middle category bar. It is designed to show 5, more usually do not look that good. For categories that you do not like to show here, simply go to the blogengine.net dashboard and add a leading colon (‘:’) to the description of the category.
Once logged on as administrator, Arthemia offers you to configure a Headline category in the page
If no category is selected then it simply shows the latest post, but this post gets replicated right under the categories bar.
I changed the code in Arthemia to hide all posts from the Headline category in the actual post list. My workflow was that I removed that category tag from the post as soon as I wanted to feature another one but yours might differ.
The excerpts of the posts are generated from the posts body unless you provide a custom excerpt. Sometimes I did just that in order to feature videos on the front page or have a custom picture showing. Speaking of which: Arthemia generally shows the first picture it finds in the post. If this is a smiley then it looks a bit strange as their resolution is not high enough which causes a boxy look.
For the features stories widget on the right hand side you’ll need to select which stories to show. You’ll find some information on that widget here: http://www.primbs.de/post/2011/01/23/BlogengineNET-Widget-Featured-Stories.aspx
Installation
Theme in blogengine.net are installed by copying them into the \themes folder of you blogengine.net installation. Since my version of the theme additionally uses a version of my featured stories widget the ZIP also contains that. Widgets belong in the \widgets folder. If you just extract the arthemia zip into the root of your blogengine.net installation everything should be working.
Compatibility
I tested the theme with blogengine.net version 2.0
Important notes
Arthemia had originally been designed by Michael Jubel and ported to Blogengine.NET by Antonio Chagoury. Please make sure that you check their blogs as well!
By downloading this bits you agree that you’re on your own and that there is absolutely no right for support. I’m not responsible for anything that fails or works unexpected after installation of this theme nor am I willing or able to spend time fixing any bugs that might still be in there.
In very short terms: It’s free, be happy with it, but if something goes wrong: Don’t blame me!
Arthemia Pro 2011 (200kb)
Short screencast on how to set things up: