Anaconda, Ultimate 3 Column WordPress Theme, Released
Published by angsuman September 1st, 2006 in 3 Column Theme, Anaconda
I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.
Anaconda uses flexible 3 column layout which is designed entirely with CSS. The center column and left sidebar are flexible and adjusts to browser size.
Anaconda comes with inbuilt support for 15 popular WordPress plugins out of the box. The theme is designed to work perfectly with these plugins. We have tested them for you so you don’t have to.
Anaconda provides 17 WordPress widgets for you to extensively customize your site without writing / modifying a single line of code. We have tested it with 20 widgets overall. We have widgetized all inbuilt functionalities of K2 theme.
Anaconda works without any configuration out of the box. It is also extensively customizable for those who need it. You can even include your own stylesheets, known as schmes. Two sample schemes are provided including vader.css.
Customizations can be easily done using the Anaconda Options control panel under Presentations menu.
Anaconda theme has built-in support for inline and sidebar asides. It optionally supports Ajax commenting, Live search, fixed width layout etc.
Contents
Plugins
Anaconda supports 15 popular WordPress plugins out of the box:
| Plugins | Version tested |
| Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro | All versions |
| Ultimate Tag Warrior | 3.14 |
| Related Posts | 2.02 |
| Nybble’s Sidebar Modules | 1.0.1 (comes integrated) |
| Quoter | 1.1 |
| Edit Comments | 0.3 |
| Brian’s Latest Comments | 1.5.8 |
| Noteworthy | 1.0 |
| WordPress Widgets | 1.0 |
| FlickrRRS | 3.0.3 |
| Extended Live Archives | 0.10beta R18 |
| Time Since | 1.1 |
| Gravatars | 1.1 |
| Favatars | 2.0 |
| Subscribe to Comments | 2.0.4 |
Widgets
Anaconda is 100% widgetized aka widget enabled. We have even widgetized the inbuilt functionalities of K2. Anaconda has been tested with 18 popular WordPress widgets:
- About Widget (built-in)
- Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (Plugin & Widget)
- Archive Widget (built-in)
- Aside Widget (built-in)
- Calendar Widget (built-in)
- Categories Widget (built-in)
- Delicious Widget (built-in)
- Flickr Widget (built-in)
- Links Widget (built-in)
- Meta Widget (built-in)
- Pages Widget (built-in)
- Recent Comments Widget (built-in)
- Recent Posts Widget (built-in)
- Related Posts Widget (built-in)
- RSS Widget (built-in) - You can create upto 9 RSS feed widgets in sidebar.
- Search Widget (built-in)
- Tag Cloud Widget (built-in; requires Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin)
- Text Widget (built-in) - You can create upto 9 text widgets to include your custom text in sidebar.
- Google Search Widget (comes with widget plugin)
- Del.icio.us Widget
You can place them on one of your sidebars by simply dragging and dropping them from your sidebar widgets control panel.
To use widgets, please download and activate the widget plugin.
Heritage
Anaconda is based upon very popular K2 WordPress Theme and equally popular Mollio Web template. K2 is known for its rich, but complex, functionalities. K2 is based on Kubrick which has been modified to create the default WordPress theme. Mollio is known for her (someone has to be a female so why not the good looking one?) stunning good looks.
We have taken both of them, ripped them apart and made them work together, which was a big task by itself. We took all of K2’s functionalities and widgetized them and added our own. We fixed lot’s of defects and pesky layout issues, enhanced the look and finally we present you with the Anaconda Theme.
License
Anaconda comes with GPL (GNU Public License). Both Mollio & K2 are released under GPL. The only thing we require is that you keep the attributions and linkbacks in the footer without any change.
Download
Download Anaconda Theme
Installation
To add a new theme to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:
1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains. You should preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files. It should create a directory named anaconda.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, upload anaconda directory to wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. All your Anaconda theme files should be in wp-content/themes/anaconda after the upload.
3. Follow the instructions below for selecting the new theme.
To select Anaconda theme for your site:
1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Select the Presentation subpanel.
3. Click on Anaconda to activate it.
4. To view the new look, click View Site at the top of the Panel’s screen.
Your selection should immediately become active. Enjoy!
Support
We will provide paid support only for Anaconda theme at this time. Our rate is 30$ / hour. Please contact support[at]taragana[dot]com with your support requirements and for an estimate. All payments are to be made by PayPal to sales[at]taragana[dot]com.
However if you can find good defects or provide good suggestions for enhancement then we would be happy to solve your problems pro-bono (for free) 
Note: I decide what is good. It will be fair.
We will soon introduce a forum for Anaconda self-help.
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Looking forward to your comments and feedback.
Very nice theme but I wonder where to edit the content wide because I want to move the space between sidebar and content closer.
Very professional theme with it’s plugins. I think i will use it on my lyric website thank you for this theme
I like your theme a lot. So much so, that I’ve decided to keep using it for the time being. I think it’s one of the best around.
Now I need to find out how to customise it just a little bit, changing the colors, put back in my header image…
Thank you for sharing this theme with us.
Extremely Wonderfull !!! I think after modifying it a little bit to integrate few plugins which is already installed on the current theme, im going to switch into this Anaconda theme.
Btw it’d be great if there’s an update notification on admin dashbar about anaconda update
Thanks and keep up the good work
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/4547/wrdcx0.jpg
Wow, this looks great, Angsuman!
I’ve been thinking about going back to my original three-column format, but I wasn’t comfortable with what’s available. I’m definitely going to try this.
I like it! I’ll try customizing it tomorrow but for now I will let it sit in all of its default glory right here:
http://www.nudecybot.net
Thanks!
Many, many thanks for this wonderful theme!
Thanks for a really great looking (and well behaved!) theme. It rocks. This is the one I was looking for.
Gentlemen, your theme forum is *much needed* and eagerly awaited. Please consider bringing this resource online sooner rather than later!!
Colin,
Thanks for the suggestion. We will add the forum next week.
– Angsuman
Love the theme mate thank you. Looks good and seems easy to use. One question though: from the list of supported plug-ins above, how do I download them? There seem to be no links?
Keep up the good work.
Zee
thank you, it is very nice. i will be playing with it here http://anamorfosis.net/
an interesting option would be to let the people choose to put the sidebar widgets in the left or in the right column.
Love your theme and all that you did with it. Thanks for an awesome layout and construction.
Need help with tag warrior. The tag cloud that is created is placed in the left collum. How do i get it in the Footer? Please help, as I had plans for that area in the Left collum.
Thanks
Gracias por el tema
Clean, simple, and easy. thanks for theme
Hi,
Thanks very much for making the Anaconda theme available.
Thought you’d want to know that the Google ads on
http://anaconda.taragana.net/ push the left column
into the middle column at 800×600.
Hello angsuman,
The theme is very nice. I love how stable it is in the different browsers.
There is an issue I like to put forward.
The Performancing Metrics script (see below) needs to be just before the closing body tag.
In this theme the footer template is not a good option since the sidebar is called after the footer template then comes the closing body tag.
At what file(s) needs it to be for the easiest usage?
Regards,
Erno
display_name . “\”;\n”;
echo “z_user_email=\”" . $userdata->user_email . “\”;\n”;
}
?>
z_post_title=”";
z_post_category=”cat_name;?>”;
I found it. I have added the code to the main index file and there is a PMetrics plugin. This combination causes the Stack overflow. So, I have deleted the code in the index and now I am just using the plugin. And works fine.
Thanks for the help
@Caroline
I am using Google ads on my left sidebar without any problems.
Love the theme very much…
Further updating, since this is still beta, would be accomodation of sub-pages on the top menu…
Currently, when you add a sub-page on your wordpress site, your sub-page will not be visible even if you click on the main parent page… thus, you still have to add a sidebar for your pages….
If you want to have sub-pages (which is the key to keeping an organized look) then this theme is very much lacking…
But all that aside, this is still one of the best, clean looking, professional, and pleasing to the eye themes around..
Hey i like this theme…thanks alot…i cannot wait to try it!!
There seems to be no forum yet?
I’m trying to do something that seems like it should be relatively easy: changing the color scheme of the header, sidebars, etc, not the text. If someone can point to the right file, the right section of code, I’m likely good from there. Many thanks ~
Great theme! And the very first I was able to get a specific plugin to work with, I can finally use my now reading plug in, the css was so easy to find to fix the page I needed. I hope to learn to customize it a bit but I’m loving it.
Sorry for the delay in creating the forum. I have now added a forum where you can discuss about this theme.
I found this theme very useful and the built in support for certain plugins is nice.
There is one bug though (at least in IE6, at least on my computer); the reply box suddenly
expands way beyond the screen sideways and you cant even scroll there (no scrollbar appears
when this happens).
I can’t seem to change the sidebar widgets when this theme is activated. I’ve been able to drag widgets in Firefox, Camino, and safari using other widget-enabled themes, but when I select Anaconda, the widget-dragging stops working.
I like the theme. Mollio is a great design, and you did a great job copying it.
There are a few things I’d like to see in it, like the default statement that appears at the bottom of each post (when you are reading the actual post page), saying, “This post was made on {date} at {time}, yada yada yada…”
Other than that, it seems fairly stable. I have it up on my site.
Looks a great theme,
I hope to install it sometime today.
Thanks!
I have been using Anaconda since it was released.
Having previously tried many themes (none were exactly what I wanted) I could hardly believe my good fortune.
Thank you!
eu quero ver a anaconda 3!!!
as pessoas vao gostavam a anaconda 3!
eu ja vi a anaconda 2.a anaconda 2 é muito bom!
eu quero ver anaconda 3!
obrigado!amigo!
Hello,
Am I allowed to and if yes, how can I, translate this theme to Dutch?
Thank you in advance.
Rob
Really a great looking theme. Will use it in its default form for a few days before I start playing around with it. http://www.achuzine.com
I was looking for a neat 3 column layout to replace the Almost spring template. I replaced that with Anaconda today and made some changes to the styles. It looks good so far. I may change the colors a little bit later. But so far, so good. Thanks for the excellent template.
I’m using the them in more of a CMS mode at the moment. I love it’s overall layout and cleanness. I also love the interchangeable css. Or, at least I hope I’ll love it… have not tried it yet. This will give me an opportunity to tweak it to what fits my site best: http://www.gregladen.com.
Great job!
GTL
How can I add a register like you have placed on your template here.
I’ve problem when using IE to open your theme. I guess your ie.css might have bug or problem. The msg as:
Internet Explorer can’t open inthernet http://www.techblogy.com.
Operation Abort.
Is it IE problem or something else?
I use firefox no problem.
Please help. Thanks.
What ‘register’ are you talking about. Can you please elaborate?
Thanks for the great theme! I’ve been using it on both of my blogs and it’s been working well. I like the fact it supports widgets. Cheers and have a nice day!
My comments on ideas for the next upgrade on the theme:
First, I have posted on my own site a set of questions (and I’m using Anaconda theme) on web layout, so you may end up seeing some useful remarks there:
http://gregladen.com/wordpress/?p=541
Here are a few comments:
I’d like the option of turing on/off/ the graphic in the left side comment boxes. It does not look right with google ads, etc.
The formatting on the left side column text could be better … I’d like to see better, cleaner separation between list items. A list (such as recent comments) on the right looks great, is hard to read when it is on the left side.,
I would like to see the difference btween non-clicked on and clicked-on links be less different than it is now. Maybe, for instance red turns to a slightly different red, or black to grey, rather than red to grey.
(I know I can do a lot of this on my own … and probably will .. but you asked!!!)
Also, I just got this comment, that you may be interested in: (more of a bug than a design issue):
“I have come recently to your site. It has some really interesting information and links. At present is readable and funciontal. There is one problem. On my computer when I reply there is no right side to the box. This means when I come to the end of a line I cannot see what I am typing - it just continues on forever out of site.”
this is a good template with optimized adsense place to get more click
Registration on the forums doesn’t seem to be generating a response with password. Has this been fixed yet?? I wanted to post a question/reply or two, and attempted to register. Never got a reply. I know you got a lot of forum spam and had to disable some stuff, but it would be good to be able to join in on the forums!!