Suffusion

Welcome to Suffusion, my first experiment with a WordPress theme! Suffusion is a free Open Source package distributed through the official WordPress themes site. The theme is licensed under GPL version 3.

Suffusion is updated very regularly and the changes from one release to another might throw you off. I make honest attempts to capture a decent change log, which documents what has changed. So it might be a good idea for you to subscribe to the theme news. It will also preempt posting of any queries on the support forum that might have already been answered through this site.

Suffusion is a multi-featured theme with several customizable options:

1. Multiple “skins” out of the box
   Suffusion has 17 pre-defined color schemes for you to choose from. Moreover you can pick a skin and customize the colors further based on your likes and dislikes. 
   
   

   United Colors of Suffusion - 16 Canned Skins to Choose from

2. Widget areas and widgets
   Suffusion provides you with 19 different widget areas to place your widgets. These widget areas let you define a theme with one column, two columns or three columns, and have the added advantage of letting you define widgets above and below your content. Suffusion also comes with bundled widgets for Twitter, Social media, Category Posts etc that you can set up.
   
   

   Pick your own Twitter icon from the set provided

3. A terrific Featured Posts section
   The theme leverages the amazing JQuery Cycle plugin to build a featured posts section. What’s more – it lets you pick a transition effect from JQuery’s entire array of effects: fade-in, slide-up, slide-right etc.
4. Tabbed Sidebars
   Suffusion lets you define a static tabbed sidebar, a.k.a. tabbed widgets. The standard WordPress widgets can all be included amongst the tabs, so go ahead and use this feature! In addition you can make some of your sidebars themselves tabbed dynamically.
5. Exceptional control over most features that you can think of
   This is best illustrated through examples:
   1. A multi-level drop-down navigation bar
      1. Can explicitly select which page and category you want to show.
      2. Exclusions work perfectly. If you decide to exclude a page or category all its children are excluded too.
      3. WP 3.0 menus are supported, too.
   2. Control over which type of page you want excerpts to show up
      1. Explicit excerpt settings for each kind of page.
      2. Ability to define a thumbnail for a post that will be shown in the excerpt.
      3. Automatically fetched thumbnail images for your excerpts if not explicitly defined, etc.
   3. Fine-grained control over pagination options
      1. Support for the popular plugin WP-PageNavi.
      2. Alternative pagination approaches provided if the plugin is not being used.
      3. Pagination is supported both for posts and for comments.
   4. Comment control
      1. You can separate trackbacks and pingbacks from comments or hide them altogether
      2. In your “separated” mode you will have pagination for each type of comment
   5. Lots of other such features, including but not restricted to header look and feel, custom footer etc.

I have tested the theme for the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer:
  • 7.0, 8.0 – Works fine, but doesn’t show rounded borders or shadows (CSS3 features).
  • 6.0 – Some sidebar layouts are broken, such as the Single left, Single Right sidebar. Otherwise almost everything renders fine. Given Microsoft’s IE6 Countdown program and WordPress’ dropping of support for this browser there are no plans to fix the broken layouts.
  • 5.5 – Doesn’t show rounded borders or shadows (CSS3 features) and shows extra space below the navigation bar. I haven’t had much time to debug for a fossilized browser.
• Firefox:
  • 3.0, 3.5 – All features work as designed.
  • 2.0 and below – Haven’t tested, but I think it should be okay for everything apart from the rounded borders or shadows.
• Safari:
  • 4.0+ – All features work as designed on both Windows and Mac
  • 3.2 and below – Haven’t tested, but I think it should be okay for everything apart from the rounded borders or shadows.
• Opera:
  • 8+ – Works as designed, except for rounded borders and shadows
• Chrome:
  • 2.0 – All features work as designed.

The theme is XHTML 1.0 compliant. Please feel free to pitch in with comments and bug reports by posting them on the forum.

Please don’t use the comments here any more for reporting issues or for support queries. Please use the support forum instead. This will help you track and search issues better.