Morning,
Quick quesiton… When you created the forum images did you do so in color and then greyscale them? If you did create them in color is it possible I could have the original psd files?
Thanks for all the help and support you both are providing to everyone!
Oh goodness! Yes and No. Some of these started life as greyscale and that prompted me to keep that as standard. I didn’t ‘create’ many of those although I do sometimes modify third party images. Most came from royalty free icon sets. Many came from bigger originals that were then resized and cleaned up. They did not, in short, all come from the same source and I doubt I have original psd’s for the vast majority.
Sorry!
I have done quite a lot of custom icons for my (soon to go live) test forum Dave and was doing so in minutes.
I used a package called Axialis Icon workshop. Check it out it is excellent and not that expensive.
Have a look at a few of them here:
Thanks Conrad. I have Photoshop and Icon Workshop. I just didn’t want to have to reinvent the wheel – so to speak – and it’s often hard to come up with something cohesive for something like this.
Don’t I know it!
Er… community developed icons and themes always welcome by the way 🙂
OK, here are what I’ve done tonight! Light blue, similar to the sky-blue overlay which my theme is based on.
Included are all the icons I could figure out where they go and what they do along with several for plugins that display info on the forum frontend.
I will say that there needs to be a change in plugin image storage, maybe storing them in the active theme’s icon directory. Too many locations and a very high chance of overwriting your work during an upgrade to a plugin.
AAAAHHHHH. No zip uploads!
Nice. We would love to be able to offer these and any others users create – when V5 is finally ‘gold’ released.
I am not sure why we didn’t add zips to the upload. I see no harm in that and we will talk that over.
Now – you raise the question of storage/locations. We allow for users to move/copy a plugins CSS file to their theme but don’t currently allow for the same options with icons and images. This is an oversight really and I have opened a ticket to allow this to happen as well.
So for custom theme makers, they can create custom icons for plugins that would also be safe from updates.
Any update on zip uploads? I’ve finished my icon pack and was going to upload it to share until there was a formal method.
guess I missed this whole topic… no discussion has occurred, but will ensure it does today…
DDave H said
Any update on zip uploads? I’ve finished my icon pack and was going to upload it to share until there was a formal method.
Can your icon/graphics program do bulk color changes on the icons you made? It would be cool if there were a few different color sets. Gray, Red and some shade of yellow. If so I would be interested in what program you have that can do that.
OK, Blue Icons version 1.0!
Extract and open the Theme_Images folder. Copy the contents (backup the originals first) into wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/YOUR THEME NAME/images. You will be overwriting the original theme icons, so if asked you will have to allow. Once the icons are copied into the correct location you will then need to FTP the folder to your host server.
Included are a few plugin icons, which you can copy into the theme/images folder also and they will take take precedence over the default plugin icons.
A few examples:
