Free WordPress Theme Like the NEW Lifehacker, Gawker Template
Last week all the blogs in Gawker network like lifehacker, gizmodo got a new-design concept which surprised lot of people. Somehow it didn’t create buzz as it failed to impress people leading to criticism.
But in case if you are one of the very few like me who liked the new lifehacker wordpress theme, then you can try out QAWKER, a new WordPress theme that is a fully-working, and free to download clone of the Gawker/Gizmodo/Lifehacker/Kotaku redesign.
QAWKER : Free Lifehacker, GizModo Worpress Theme Clone
Links: Qawker Demo | Download: qawker.zip
The code written by Sahas Katta of skattertech.com, is entirely open source, so feel free to make changes or improvements. It works perfectly with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.
Like the original, his template features a two-pane interface with a full article on the left and a list of scrollable recent posts bar on the right. He used jQuery to get all the instant loading features working without the need to refresh pages. Nice
Note: I noticed thats jQuery dynamic content loading is not changing the URL in the address bar unlike the lifehacker etc theme. Now this will stop Google Bot etc from Crawling the Site properly. Also it might trigger a sitewide Penalty. So I think one should wait for this theme’s developer to release a bug free version.
Also See : Create Question Answer Website with WordPress Theme
Post by Debajyoti DasNext »
8 Responses »
Vikram : Nice theme for gadgets blog.
JK : Hi, thanks for sharing this great news! I really liked this template.
SK : Hey Guys, Saw things link pointing in so I thought I'd make a comment. Qawker works with Google perfectly. It is actually a standard WordPress theme just like this one behind the scenes. Each and every story has it's own permalink page, which Google can visit and index. The only trick is that the jQuery takes over in your browser so links appear not to change even though they are in the background. Each click of a new story even counts as a new page view with Google Analytics for example. I'd just add a share this button to let people send the page to others without having to worry about figuring out the URL of a page.
Debajyoti Das : @SK: Thanks for stopping by... Nice theme you've made.... Thanks
Dinesh : This theme looks fine. But the theme does not update the url as original Gawker themes do.
Debajyoti : @Dinesh: Thats not a problem for indexing... but ya lack of url is a bit confusing
YourTubeTheme : Great use of AJAX in this theme, however it need a lot more work to be more suitable for everyday use, thanks for sharing. I might work out my own version of Qawker someday :)
DailyBlogTricks : nice template, but when i tried to download it, it is giving some error, please make a check in it and don't avoid us from this beautiful theme.
ยป Leave a Reply