Styx

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Styx? What’s that?

In short: Styx is a stylish, beautiful theme for WordPress.(1) You can get it here.

A bit longer: I’ve been working on this WordPress theme for a very looong time. The end result is laying around here. I decided to share it with everyone who likes it. A cool, blueish elegant theme for WP with many improvements and customizable options. Usability was an important part of the designing process. Styx utilizes the famous Silk Icons from Mark James to get a fresh look and also help to easily identify page elements. Thanks for him for the great work!

Version 2.00 is the first public release of Styx, but the game won’t stop here. I will continue developing Styx. My plans are to enable a page in the admin section to let you customize every aspect Styx’s appearance. Also I’ m planning to release several other color versions of Styx, the next probably would be a light colored Spring version :)

General info

Styx has 4 widget-ready blocks. One on the right — the well-known Sidebar, and three other in the footer. You can use any widget anywhere to give your site the best look! Also I included a Styx Search widget to use it in place of the original Search widget. Mine looks better with Styx ;)

Styx is fully ready for localization! At this moment Styx is available in English (default) and Hungarian languages. If you want to help me a lot with translating Styx into another language I would be very pleased!

Styx benefits from the Custom Fields that you can apply to any post to customize its look and some other things. If you don’t know what Custom Fields are, just take a look this page. For the available Custom Field keys also visit the Custom Fields page.

The menu is fully css-based, no javascript at all! It can be utilized for 5(!) levels. That would be far enough :) All of the menuitems can be customized with a mini icon via the icon Custom Field key.

Styx is compatible with most of the WordPress plugins. There are also a few plugins that Styx supports more with custom style to match their appearance with the design of Styx. There are also some plugins that has been rewritten for Styx. I will release them soon. See the Plugins page for more info about plugins.

Important! - IE7 OK. IE6 not.

Although Styx produces Valid XHTML and Valid CSS it is not displaying properly with Internet Explorer 6. That is because IE doesn’t follow standards and doesn’t support some important displaying functions.

Styx is displaying correctly on Internet Explorer 7. Probably it will display correctly in IE8 (not the beta).

Development

I haven’t stopped developing Styx. If you have a good idea on making better Styx, don’t keep it! Share it with me, and I will implement it to Styx. Also I’m trying to set up a version tracking system to easily track changes. Also if you notice some bug or error, please immediately notify me to correct it. I hope I will get many feedback on Styx to make it better and better.

Styx is free!

For personal use. But don’t forget that someone worked a lot on Styx. If you like it please consider a small amount of donation through PayPal.

If you want to use Styx on a For-Profit site, you are allowed under some circumstances. For more info please contact me.


You are allowed to modify Styx but you shouldn’t publish it under your name, the footer text with the links must remain intact!

Get noticed!

If you are using Styx as your site’s theme, please let me know so I will credit you with a link to your site!

Below is the list of websites that are using Styx:

(1) In Greek mythology, the “River Styx” (Greek: Στύξ) was a river which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld (Hades). It circles Hades nine times. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron and Cocytus all converge at the center of Hades on a great marsh. The other important rivers of Hades are Lethe and Eridanos. Styx was guarded by Phlegyas, who passes the souls from one side to another of the river. In other versions, Phlegyas guarded Phlegethon, one of the other main rivers of Hades. Sometimes the ferryman was called Charon. [via]