New theme: Imhotep
chris lin posted in Themes, Wordpress on March 28th, 2005
First of, let's define who Imhotep was:
Imhotep was chief architect to the Third Dynasty King Djoser (2687-2668 BC). He is the first master architect we know by name, and was in charge of building the original step pyramid at Saqqara. This pyramid also set a precedent by including a collection of temples, pavilions, corridors, chapels and halls within the enclosure walls.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/imhotep.shtml
I'll let you figure out why I decided to name my theme Imhotep 
Demo: click here
Download: click here (1.01)
Instructions: Unzip and drop imhotep folder into wp-content/themes then activate
Notes: None, just a stock theme. Please check the demo url for the stock version of the theme. The one being shown on ATN is my personal modified version
Also, the blog header image was made with a camera set to 10 second exposure, then I took a flashlight and wrote the word blog in the air
March 28th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Cool theme. I like the colors you used here.
BTW, how did you made that “blog” header image?
March 29th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
SEXY!!! I’m a huge fan of the blog logo - how did you create the effect?
Lol, I’m not the first person to ask that (I didn’t read the previous comment until just now).
March 29th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
awesome!
March 29th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Looks jazzy to me. Nice, I like the gradients and the header image.
I thought imhotep was a priest from The Mummy?
March 30th, 2005 at 11:18 am
Wondering how you enabled the formatting for comments ….
March 30th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Cool. I thought it was Photoshopped. It was at RHCP’s Fortune Faded video when I saw something like that.
March 30th, 2005 at 6:39 pm
Damn… sexy!
March 30th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
You did a great job! I haven’t even begun redesigning my site. I suck.
March 30th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
Great theme, and I like your technique of writing the header text! Thought it was some graphics brush.
April 3rd, 2005 at 7:24 pm
Really beautiful theme.
What’s the procedure for adding new menu items?
– Steve
April 3rd, 2005 at 7:43 pm
It should be under the header.php around line 59-61
April 3rd, 2005 at 9:07 pm
I think I’ve found it.
Thanks, Chris.
April 3rd, 2005 at 9:53 pm
sweet indeed!
loving the new theme, as always. 
April 24th, 2005 at 2:40 am
Hi, I’m using your IMHOTEP theme for my blog. I’m new with word press and I wanted to know how you edit your theme so that the other categories for links that I put in is shown in my blog? I put in a new category but the link shows up in just one heading called LINKS.
Also, how do I put in the “recent posts” portion on the side bar?
Would appreciate your help.
Thanks!
April 24th, 2005 at 9:02 am
The Recent Post is a plugin gotten from http://meidell.dk/. The Link section outputs all links from all categories sorted by last updated. If you want to change the way it outputs the links, you can go here, read the parameters and go to line 14 of sidebar.php and change it to your liking.
Hope this helps.
April 26th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Thanks Chris. Will check those out.
May 13th, 2005 at 8:26 am
I’ve just started with wordpress, so I’m a bit skull-numb, forgive me. In your template, which I’ve added to my site, the “home” link in the header defaults to a *.com/demo/ page, rather then to the front page. I don’t have a /demo/ page, so this links to nowhere.
Am I missing something, and is there an easy fix?
Also, curiously, Parent and child “pages” will indent in the sidebar for IE, but parent and child catagories are all placed in line. Is this an IE problem, or a design in the template?
Either way, nice design!
May 13th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
Download the newest zip, it shouldn’t default to /demo/. Also, if you wanted to fix it, just open header.php with a text editing program like notepad and go to line 53 and change the url so it points correctly.
And the second one is a design in the template. I don’t like it the other way
July 29th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
i just installed this theme..and am a VERY VERY NEW USER.. i am very new with this..in fact this is the first theme i added on..i’d like to know how do i add on more tabs above?ie: home,archives,my blog…and how do i change the side?i am so bad at this,but i’d like to know how,to learn more so that i can use it in my blog!thanx a bunch!
July 31st, 2005 at 10:12 am
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October 14th, 2005 at 2:06 pm
Got me — why Imhotep? Did you see “Bubba Hotep”?
March 28th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
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April 13th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I’ve got a question about having more posts than the page displays.
Isn’t there an option to show “previous posts” or something? Or is that not part of this template? I have like 15 posts this month lets say, but only 6 show per page. Even when I show the archive, I only get 6 and the other 9 are lost and not accessible?
Did I miss something?