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New Free WordPress Theme – Independence-Day

The WordPress Theme for the Fourth of July Yes, here it is, what everyone has been eagerly anticipating, the next free WordPress Theme from JTk. Okay, I’m kidding, I am not nearly that arrogant – but I do like cranking out the free WP themes when I can, and this is my latest.

The new theme is called Independence-Day – you can see it in action here or you can just go ahead and download it over here.

  • http://www.libertynow.org/blog/ Mike K.

    Thanks JTK! This is now the new look of LibertyNow.org. I’ll be sure to add a link back to imjtk.com. Hope things are going well.

    -MK

  • JTk

    Hey Now Mike K –

    Great to hear from you, and great to see the new theme out in the wild!

  • Justin

    Great Theme, Thanks. Your free themes are better then many pay WordPress themes.

  • Ralph

    I LOVE this theme, but I do have one question – what is the deal with that red bar under the menu? Is that just design?

  • JTk

    Ralph – Hey Now, thanks for the kind words. That red bar under the menu is for sub menus. That is, if you have a page that has sub-pages then red bar area will be auto-magically filled with a menu of those sub pages.

    Okay – I am sure that there is a better way to say that then my scrambled prose, but hopefully you get the idea.

    Cheers,

    JTk

  • http://www.aamofo.com Leroy

    Great theme, fits my WordPress site nicely! Thanks for the awesome design!

  • http://clockinfo.com/ Bill

    I am starting a new blog and chose your very attractive “Independence Day” theme. In my WordPress 2.2 installation running PHP 5.2.1, when I installed the theme, I received the following error message: Warning: array_merge() [function array_merge]: Argument 2 is not an array in: …/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 53. Based on the comments on this post:

    http://www.gudlyf.com/2005/01/14/wordpress-plugin-technotag/feed/

    I changed line 53 of widgets.php to:

    $sidebar = array_merge($defaults, (array)$args);

  • http://clockinfo.com/ Bill

    A follow-up, as the end of my post was cut off:

    The change casts argument 2 to the array type, and seems to work fine, but is there a way you can change the theme itself so the fix is not necessary?

    Thanks for this beautiful theme.

  • http://imjtk.com JTk

    Bill – Hi, the problem is that widgets are implemented differently in WordPress 2.2 – they are actually in the codebase and no longer widgets.

    If I changed how widgets work in this theme so that they work in WP 2.2 then they won’t work for the rest of the earlier versions of WP.

    So, as of now, I am up in there air about how to proceed.

  • http://clockinfo.com/ Bill

    One more change I made to this theme: An ordered list was being displayed with bullets, and an unordered list was being displayed with numbers; so I swapped the definitions for .post ul li and .post ol li in style.css

  • RF

    I love this theme’s look . Simple and functional. Do you have plans to release a 3 column version or one that is compatible with WP-2.3?

  • JTk

    Hey Now – I’ll get around to upgrading it to work with all the 2.3 features but I have no plans to release a 3 column version of it. If you wanted to commission a 3 column version of it I am sure that I could do it at a very affordable price.