A many number of yous may be wondering what Kubrick is. Well, back in the days – Kubrick was the default theme that came with each WordPress install. I decided to create my own version, call it – Kubrick on Crack – because it was essentially the same layout, but better. Today, I’m releasing a slightly tweaked out version of the old theme, and its aimed to please the traditional blogger. Let me tell you why:

A Kick Ass Rotating Image Background

That’s right. If you haven’t noticed, the background cycles through different images. Now if this doesn’t entice your precious visitors I don’t know what else will. The images fade into each other setting different moods as your readers go through your posts. Just a little eye candy that will give your blog that Wow factor.

How to Use:

Installing the theme is just like any other WordPress theme. Simply go to the “Appearance” > “Install Themes” section in your admin panel. Click the “Upload” link – browse to the theme .zip file and “Install Now”.

Adding Post Thumbnails to your Posts:

To add images to your posts you can use the Post Thumbnail feature of WordPress. Simply go to the post in “Edit” mode. On the right side of the page – click on “Set Featured Image“:

This will trigger the image uploader. Upload your image and as soon as that’s done, click the “Use as Featured Image” link:

How to change the background Images:

Even though the theme has nice imagery for it’s rotating background – I’m sure you’d want to use your own images. The easiest way to do this is by going into the theme > images folder, and replace the images named b1.jpg, b2.jpg (up to b7.jpg). Note that you have to go through an FTP software, to get access to the theme folder.

Changing the Logo

You can add your own logo by uploading the image through the WordPress uploader (see above) and grabbing the absolute path to the image file. You do this by clicking the button “File URL” as soon as the image uploads, and copying the value in the input field:

Now you can use this value to paste into the “Header Logo” section of the themes options page. This is found in under “Appearance” > “Kubrick-on-Crack Options“. Note that you can also update your Twitter and RSS button, Google Ad Sense and Analytics code from this page. See this page for more information.

Thickbox, Widgets and Numerous Bug fixes

This new version now has default thickbox for all images. The footer area has now been widgetized, as well as post thumbnails are added vs custom images in the old version (you can still use both). Javascript and PHP updates have been applied as well as the infamous Timthumb security bug is now fixed in this version.

Conclusion

You can download Kubrick On Crack V2 for a low price of $10. You can still use the old .psd files for free – just in case you want to do some customizations. I have discontinued the download of the old version – because of, well, of this new version. So please update and let me know what you think in the comments below:

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