Features

  • Highly cleaned up template files.
    Relevant re-used code snippets such as the post loop is separated out so you only need to modify it in one place. Comments template is also simplified this way, and makes debugging much easier.
  • Weblog author is automatically highlighted in the comments.
  • The Fauna Install package comes with all the regular Wordpress templates, including specific category templates, search templates, page templates, date templates, and comments-popup templates.
  • In addition to the default templates, Fauna comes with a pre-made page template for Archives. As such, it’s a breeze to quickly get an archive up and running.
  • Fauna is engineered to take maximum advantage of the Wordpress admin configured variables. For instance, category descriptions are used in the category-view sidebar as meta information. The admin email is used to highlight weblog author in the comments. The bundled Archives Page template shows weblog post statistics, and much more.
  • Fauna is designed with usability and accessability in mind. Pages are described for the benefit of search engines and new visitors. Font sizes are scalable using plain browser controls.
  • Fauna is designed with web standards in mind, and the XHTML validates.
  • The CSS and XHTML has been optimized to work in browsers Firefox 1, Safari, Opera 8.5 and Internet Explorer 6. It’ll even work on Internet Explorer versions 5.0 and 5.5 for Windows.
  • Fauna has built-in support for “Sidenotes” and “Asides”. “Sidenotes” are tiny posts that exist in the sidebar, whilst “Asides” run in between your main posts but are visually smaller, insignificant in layout and perfect for stray thoughts. Simply create a category, and make sure the Category Slug is either sidenotes, asides or dailies. (Dailies are the same as Asides).
  • Fauna supports an easy way to add content to your sidebar. Simply add a Custom Field with the key sidebar, and type in the value field to your hearts content. Supports the built in WPTexturize filter to add curly quotes or HTML. Even better, if you’re using Textile or Markdown, it’ll use that instead.
  • Fauna has built-in “Noteworthy” support. Simply file an entry in a category called “Noteworthy”, and a small heart will be added next the entry.
  • Fauna Archives distinguish regular categories from “special” categories such as Noteworthy or Sidenotes. These are shown separately, if available.
  • When leaving comments, detailed formatting information is close at hand. When Textile is activated, Textile syntax will also be shown.
  • An options page allows you to customize various aspects, without changing the code. Want a new header? Click!
  • When commenting, you have the option to quote other comments with a single click. Or, you can select text, then click the quote button to quote only the selection.
  • Textile support is built-in to most aspects of Fauna, including text added in the options page and text added to sidebars.
  • Author pages that show AIM, YIM and Jabber information are spam-protected by a built-in email scrambler.
  • Remember my-hacks.php? Enter functions-custom.php. In the Fauna theme, functions entered into functions-custom.php are available to all theme files, which makes it easy to keep hacks and custom code clean and tidy.
  • Use the options page to write a “sticky note”. This will add a yellow box on the homepage with your message.

Note: See also the documentation at Google Code