Which themes do and do not have Tabs?

5700words · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 2:13 am
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I did look at the FAQ first. My question was not answered there.

Is there a page that shows features of each wordpress.com theme? Or would one have to click onto each theme and look for the answers?

Specifically, which themes have or do not have the Pages in Tabs? I have been working on Jentry and just now realized that there is no header and therefore, my Tab question is moot. But if I switch themes, then the qustion gets unmooted. :-)
~Lorna

Another key question: Are all Tabs by definition Pages? Only a Page can make a Tab? Are there themes that give the *choice* of having a page up there as a Tab, or in the vertical sidebar?

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panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 7:49 am
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In Design>Themes you can click on each theme and preview what your blog would look like without actually activating the theme.

There’s also a detailed theme review here:

http://internetducttape.com/tools/wordpress/wordpress-theme-reviews/

As for your questions at the end:

– Yes, all header tabs are pages, except the “Home” or “Front” or “Blog” tab which some themes have as a built-in navigation feature.

– All themes except the few that aren’t widget aware will display pages in the sidebar if you add the Pages widget. You don’t really have a choice: if the theme doesn’t have header page tabs, you need the widget; if it does, you don’t. (If it does, you can’t choose: the header tabs will show regardless of whether you do or you don’t have the pages widget, and having both is redundant.)

An exception to all these is “child” pages: the header displays parent pages only.
rosclarke · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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Have a look here too: http://wpthemes1.wordpress.com/about/

All the current themes are tagged by feature (number of columns, flexible width etc, so you can easily see which ones might suit you).
rosclarke · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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I think this is the list of themes with page tabs: http://wpthemes1.wordpress.com/tag/page-navigation/
panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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That new blog is not to be trusted (not yet, at least): in Design>Themes>page1 alone there are 11 themes with header tabs, and he’s only tagged 2 of them.
zeynel1 · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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I copied the tags from the backend Design–>Themes. After reading this question I realized that there was no tag for tab and no tab, so I decided to add them and I guess you (panaghiotisadam) just looked at the blog while I was still working on it. Most of it are added now.

Thanks to both for mentioning the blog, with suggestions like this I’ll keep improving it.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 6:47 pm
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@zeynel1: No, I checked the link rosclarke gave, and I checked it again now. As I said, in the first page of Design>Themes there are 11 themes with header tabs and you only mention two of them (because you rely on their brief descriptions instead of getting first-hand knowledge of them).
zeynel1 · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 9:21 pm
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Ok, I see now what happened. I didn’t realize they had the tag as “page navigation.” (I started doing this before I saw rosclarke’s post) so I inspected each theme one by one and tagged them as “tab” and “no-tab.” So now I have changed them back to “page navigation” (30 themes) and “no page navigation” (34 themes).

I just realized that The Journalist does not use the tagline so “Find blogs with your themes” does not show on this theme.

Thanks again.
vivianpaige · Member · Nov 29, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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Hey – how come the two Sandbox themes aren’t on the list?
zeynel1 · Member · Nov 30, 2008 at 7:50 am
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I’ve added them. Thanks.

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