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I am releasing my MiniCard theme for wordpress which supports hCard/vCard microformats, tonnes of social networks, showing some portfolio items (optional), and more – all controllable from its own Theme Config page. This theme is free and licensed under GPL – there is also a premium pack available with many theme variations, and the footer feed functionality.

Read more for more information and the download links. I hope you find this theme useful and spread the word

About the Theme

MiniCard is a social network/business card WordPress theme inspired by Tim Van Damme’s excellent website. The theme lets you add links to all the social networking sites you may be a member of, and post useful information such as bio’s and contact details. It also has built in hCard support and (optionally) lets you offer a vCard for visitors to download your contact information.

Another useful feature, for those with portfolios, is the ability to set up a portfolio category in which you can set up items to feature below your card. These items are shown as thumbnails/galleries and pop up in a lightbox when clicked.

To control all of the features of MiniCard the theme comes with a useful admin panel for setting up your networks, theme options, and contact details for your hCard.

Since this is only a lightweight mini theme, widgets are not supported. You can however run a mini blog and make posts – these are all styled and fully supported.

To summarise:

• MiniCard is free to download and licensed under GPL
• Loads of social networks supported
• (Optional) Ajax Loading of main navigation links
• Portfolio functionality with lightboxes
• Theme Config section and instructions in WordPress admin
• Built in hCard/vCard support
• Comes with the default theme
• Each theme contains several variations – burst, diagonal stripe, horizontal stripe, vertical stripe, tartan.

Setting up the social page

If on the Settings > Reading page you have ‘posts’ shown on the front page, the social networking page will show by default. Otherwise if you are setting the front page make sure you give it the ‘home’ template.

About the Premium Pack

The MiniCard theme itself is free, however I have created a premium pack which simply ‘slots in’ to the free theme. This pack contains:

• Feed functionality – pull in RSS feeds or your choice, for example your own blog and your twitter posts. Loaded in using AJAX so the page loads faster.
• Several sub-themes -
  • Blue Anvil Blue
  • Black
  • Grey
  • Pink
  • Helveticard (minimalist theme based on Jon Hicks’ design for Helvetireader)

You also get a warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing that you have helped support the author (me).

Screenshots

Demo

I personally set up my MiniCard Theme to demonstrate the theme in use. You will notice the feed below my card – this is part of the premium pack.

Download MiniCard (free)

Download MiniCard from the WordPress Themes Directory →

Purchase the Premium Pack (£25)

Support

Questions? Bug Reports? Feedback? Contact me – priority will be given to premium pack purchasers.

Licence & Donate

The MiniCard theme is licensed under GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). You may remove the link back in the footer, but I would appreciate if your attributed my work. Remember, the more popular the theme becomes, the more likely it is maintained and updated in the future.

If you wish to make a donation because you like this theme, you can use the ‘Buy me a coffee’ link below, buy the premium pack, or both

XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is a microformat which represents relationships between people with hyperlinks and the use of a simple HTML tag.

They can represent colleagues, contacts, sweethearts, friends and more!

Based on the XFN icon set by Wolfgang Bartelme I have created a small set of mini icons (9×10 pixels) to represent these links between people. I have also made a CSS file which shows the relevant icon when the correct XFN rel tag is present.

How to create an XFN link

XFN links are very simple to create, they simply list the relationships in a ‘rel’ tag in the anchor, for example:

<a href="http://blue-anvil.com" rel="me">Blue Anvil</a>

The above example show a link to my site, therefore marked as ‘me’ in the ‘rel’ tag. To create your own, you can use the official XFN creator which is a very nice, simple, tool.

My Icons

First off, the icons. As i said before, i based them on the icons by Wolfgang Bartelme found on the Microformats icons website.

Download the icons here. – Downloaded 846 times.

My mini-icons are free to use, just don’t claim them as your own, and a link would be nice

My CSS

My CSS file, basically, looks for a present REL tag, then styles the link based on the present styles. It cascades, picking out the right icon depending on the rel tag.

It works with modern browsers that support CSS pattern matching.

Download the CSS file here. – Downloaded 769 times.

See it all working

I have set up a demo page showing the icons and css file, which you can view here.

I hope you find my icons prove useful!