Caribou has possibly the most versatile navigation system of any WordPress theme. It’s simple to use, but there are a few things to learn first.

You have a navigation bar that can be switched on or off, and with various selectable options. Then there’s a footer into which page links can be placed, and a set of tabs along the top right of the page. All in all, a lot of power. The screencast below will help you to see these navigation options in use.

When you want a front page to be a complete section like in the Caribou demo, you need to define a section called something like ‘Home’. You do this by writing a new page, setting the Page Template to be a Section layout, setting the appropriate navigation options and saving. You then need to set options in Settings | Reading, which will allow you to define this page as your site’s front page. To see how it’s done, follow the instructions in the screencast below.

Our Caribou Theme has introduced the concept of Sections to WordPress. To learn how to create these Sections we’ve created the following screencast. Audio track coming soon.

After a two month gestation, Caribou is finally ready to be downloaded!

This theme’s been something of a major job for us - we decided to introduce a whole raft of new technology… you have completely configurable navigation with tabs, a menu bar and footer navigation as well as the usual widgets.  But you can set it to be automatic too.

Similarly, we’ve introduced the concept of sections.  A category can be assigned to one or multiple sections, meaning that you can have a sports section separate to a news section, for example, or even ten different sections… all with their own colour for the mini-bullets and lines.  And of course, what would colour coding be without an easy to use colour picker?

We believe Caribou is the most flexible and powerful WordPress theme on the market - it allows WordPress users to create fully featured news websites quickly and efficiently.  The code is ultra-clean and fast, placing a light load on the server, so there’s plenty of scope for extending and customising.

There’s a demo already available, albeit with a few tweaks still waiting in the sidelines, but you can already download Caribou and read all about it in the Caribou News Theme page.

We’re pleased to announce that the Caribou demo is now online.

Caribou is probably the most flexible, powerful and yet easy to use WordPress theme available today. It’s very much a platform theme and will form the basis for other premium themes for Interconnect IT. It’s designed to be easy to work with, fast to load (important for a busy news site), fast to render and be light on the server.

“Caribou’s development has cost us more in both money and man-hours than any other theme we’ve built, including client work - it introduces new concepts to WordPress while at the same time maintaining standard functionality, working on multiple installations and being tolerant of server issues. It really is a tour-de-force and will be the basis from which many varied designs will come.” — David Coveney

We also test all our themes with real data. Not carefully selected, carefully trimmed excerpts that just fit a certain space perfectly, and Caribou is designed to look good even if you have a team of writers who know nothing about layout, html or design. “It Should Just Work” is a guiding principle at Spectacu.la.

Beta Download †

Caribou-beta1.zip

† Please note that this theme is for members only, and may lag behind the demo in terms of features and design.