Meet Monte Cristo - Your Friendly Wordpress Theme

It seems that every website you see has some form of a slide show in the home page. So it plagued me for a while whether or not I should put one…like my three year old son would say: “what the heck” – so I did anyway. This is my newest WordPress theme Monte Cristo. He has a dynamic slider, a zooming effect for all pictures, different color styles and a theme options panel in his back end (that didn’t sound right).

Features

The slider in the home page templates are dynamic. Meaning – they are actual posts in your blog that you set in a specified category (i.e. feature) – so they show up in the slider. You can set it to run automatically and are allowed up to eight slides. The slider uses CSSGlobe’s “easy slider“. All images that link to other images automatically loads “FancyZoom” – which which is the amazing javascript zooming effect you see in many modern websites. Monte Cristo also comes with four different “characters” or color schemes: Jacopo is the gray and burgundy guy, Danglars swaggers in brown and taupe, Mondego likes it purple and green while Dantes is different shades of blue.

monte cristo2 Meet Monte Cristo Your Friendly Wordpress Theme

Why Friendly?

Monte Cristo has a built in options panel where you can set your preferences. Friendly because this way – you don’t have to know HTML, or Javascript to tweak the code. You can set which character you want from the options panel, set the slider categories, automatic or not, plugin your logo files – just about all that you need to customize Monte Cristo to fit your website.

Why Buy?

Monte Cristo is up on sale at ThemeForest.net for a measly $25.00. You can check out the live demo from this link. Why buy if I have been giving away stuff for free? Oh I don’t know – maybe because since I spent a whole lot of time making this theme that I figured I might as well try to make money off of it. Maybe since I give away free support once you purchase is another reason. Or maybe if I make enough money from this that I can now spend more time with my son – teach him not to say bad words like “what the heck“. Of course, its completely up to you.

Updated to Version 1.3 – Drop Down List Support for the Page Navigation!

For those of you who have asked for a drop down list for sub pages – the update is here. I will be glad to send you the update files if you contact me. If you already have Monte Cristo running and have made some edits to the css files – contact me, and I will send you the code to paste in the css files.

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Get the Updated Files Here!

Monte-Cristo-Update.zip – This download IS NOT the whole theme! It only contains the files needed to convert the page navigation to support child pages in a drop down style menu: Header.php and the css files.

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http://engagedmed.com/ MattCurylo

We are trying to get the rotator on the index of the site with no luck.
Is there a variable to apply to the homepage?
Thanks
- http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano
  
  You have to create a new page, name it “home” then apply the page template (either slider with recent posts, or slider with random images) to it.
  The slider will automatically pull posts under “featured” category and rotate them.
  - karina
    
    Hi, Michael. Sweet work :-)
    
    Sorry to bug you. I’m having the same issue as Matt. I already created a page, named it ‘home’, selected the template. The layout is fine, the issue is that the index page keeps defaulting to the blog section.
    
    Thanks.
  - http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano
    
    Go to wp-admin
    
    under “settings” (left sidebar)
    go to “reading”
    
    where it says: front page displays:
    
    tick “A static page“, then select “front page” – select the home page
    then under “posts page” – select your blog section
    
    hit “save changes“
http://www.jonproeber.com J. Franklin Proeber

Michael, great site. If I purchase through themeforest do I have full rights to the code for the site. If I wanted to put banner ads in the “alternate home page” new posts section, and also some 125×125 above the widgets in the blog section. Is that possible?
- http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano
  
  yes. you have full control over the code for monte cristo when your purchase.
  you can edit the code and put banners in the pages. the sidebar supports widgets as well.
http://www.howannoyingisit.com Jason Hague

Hey Michael. Love the theme. It’s beautiful. I’m using the alternate homepage (slides with latest posts), but underneath the slider, my entire posts are showing up rather than just excerpts. I have a feeling I’m missing something easy… Can you point me in the right direction?
- http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano
  
  Yes – real simple. You have to use the more tag where you want your post to break.
http://www.tastyplacement.com Michael

Pretty, but: is there no template to create a static front page?
- http://www.tastyplacement.com Michael
  
  Sorry, let me be a little clearer–I want to create a static front page that displays the slider AND one single page–not a post, or posts–of content. I can jimmy it around but it creates some duplicate content.
http://www.ayewonder.com Mike

Michael,
Is there a way to remove the twitter feed? I’m not sure if I will use it.
Thanks. Great Work!!
http://monarchshouse.com Mike

I love this theme and use it on my site. My one question is, do you plan to use drop downs for sub-pages? I would find this immensely helpful. Thanks so much and great work.
- http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano
  
  Yes, a drop downs for the pages would be a better. I’ll work on the code and release it soon.
  - http://monarchshouse.com Mike
    
    Hey Michael,
    Thanks for the quick response. It really is a fantastic theme.
    Mike
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http://winampskin.ru Momx

Very goooood job.
I love WP ^_^
Jenny

Hello –

Really like the look of your Monte Cristo site for my online portfolio. One question — are videos supported in the portfolio section? I work in TV news and want to display stories…

Thx,
Jenny
- http://fearlessflyer.com michael soriano
  
  I’m sorry but it wasn’t made to support videos. it can be custom coded though.
kazuhito

hi this is amazing. by the way, i am putting image on each post, but image does not come up to slide. do i use thumbnail or something?(but no seen on dashboard to control it)
- http://Gozly.com Gozly
  
  I have the same question with you!
andy

how to show the slidebar on front page?
I had already setup one page with portfolio style and another with slide with image template. but the slidebar can not show. please give me a hand, thank you a lot.
Gustavo

Hi Michael!
How do I activate the menu?
I want to create more pages, but do not want them to appear on the menu.
Thanks for the theme!
http://www.arifwachyudin.com arif

nice theme..! so sweet..!

Meet Monte Cristo – Your Friendly WordPress Theme