But what use is a load of blurb when you can simply go to the theme demo and find out for yourself?  Try it, come back, and you’ll see where we’re coming from!

• Easy multi-page highlight items from the Write Posts Options
• Automatic image resizing for the highlight spots and thumbnails
• Front page/section slider for top spot items
• Time saving features for busy WP users
• Uses its own WordPress Taxonomy for control
• Sophisticated colour picking controls
• Section & Category colouring for navigational clarity
• Multiple Javascript highlight spots
• Light server & bandwidth load - a full section page can be under 200K
• Great WP compatibility, will not break your WordPress install if you uninstall
• Incredible browser support - works in all browsers we can find, even phones
• Fast rendering even on older computers
• Multiple section support with colour coding for large sites
• All the other stuff we do, ease of use, MU compatibility, and fast loading

Caribou is only available for download to Spectacu.la members and cannot be purchased from any other site.  If you find others selling this theme, please let us know!

Screencasts

We have created a series of screencasts for Caribou, with more to come:

• Creating Sections
• Setting Up Your Home Page
• Setting Up Navigation

The screencasts are currently subtitled only, with the voice track to be added soon.

PHP5 Only

At the moment it’s worth noting that Caribou is designed to take advantage of PHP5 features.  If your server is running PHP4 you need to ask your hosts to switch you over.  PHP4 is no longer supported and there may no longer be security patches issued this could seriously compromise your server. Caribou now works fine under PHP4, I’d still advise everyone to move over to PHP5.

01^st May 2009: The theme has been temporarily withdrawn.
As the club is now 100% GPL we are having to re-work some elements to be compliant. Sorry!

01^st July 2009: Caribou is back and 100% GPL compatible.

27^th July 2009: Caribou 1.0.6 released with a new ‘wide post’ scheme available to those of you who like more space for your content - this puts the post-meta information below the post rather than in the small sidebar to the right.  The commenting engine is now based on our popular javascript based system which is configurable and flexible.

23^th December 2009: Caribou 1.0.7 released with updates for Wordpress 2.9 and improved features. Replaced the highlight image picker with a new ajax arrangement that should make assigning thumbnails to posts a lot easier.

Whatever you want from your theme - a static site, a blog, or both, Blend lets you quickly and easily change the way your site is presented.

• Power without fiddling with php hacks
• Switchable sidebar - on, off, left or right
• No pain configuration
• sIFR support - use any font on headlines
• IE support for transparent pngs in your logo spot
• Works straight out of the box in standard blog mode
• Works with standard WordPress functionality
• Options on a page by page basis allowing you to hide pages, or choose navigation locations
• Highly compatible, tested on every modern and quite a few ancient browsers too!
• MU Compatible and tested
• We’ll support the theme for a minimum of two years

Blends features include sophisticated admin controls, sIFR fonts allowing stronger branding and a smoother more professional look to your headings, drop down menus coded without javascript, a configurable contact form, a sidebar that can be hidden by page or moved left or right, page menu options and so much more that we think your best option is to try out the demo and read more there. We’re sure you’ll be stunned.

Not only that, but you get the source images in Fireworks format, meaning that if you use this excellent software you’ll be able to easily change the look and feel of your Blend theme in an astonishingly short time. We’ll be releasing a how-to video soon.

With Blend you’ll have a theme that’s already in use in a number of professional sites, helping to promote businesses and which is famous for its search engine performance.

Blend Variations

It’s not a case of getting what you’re given. Blend comes with a number of styles straight from the box, and we’re adding more as time passes:

To find out more about Blend, view the Demo site.