Pears for EE is an ExpressionEngine theme conversion based upon Pears by SimpleBit and was originally a Wordpress theme.
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- ExpressionEngine 2.x+
- Tested in 2.4.0
For EE2
- Un-zip a fresh copy of ExpressionEngine to your dev server.
- Place pears theme folder
themes/site_themes/pearsinto yourthemes/site_themes/directory. - Install ExpressionEngine and select Pears as your theme from the “Choose your Site Theme” dropdown on the installer settings page.
You can create a new entry, set it’s category, add in the title, html and css and your done.
If you want you can also create a new category and it will show up in the menu with entries of said category.
You can manually add images to an entry by using {theme_folder_url}site_themes/pears/img/yourimage.jpg and placing the image in the img folder of the Pears theme or you can put them in your prefered location{site_url}some/image/folder/yourimage.jpg
I’ve included a 404 template though, if you turn it on in Templates→Global Preferences the theme won’t work properly. I have tried to mimic Pea.rs url structure as close as possible though, that caused some issues due to the fact that everything is using the defualt index.html.
I’ve swapped out what appears to be Proxima Nova from typekit for PT Sans from Google Web Fonts. The original theme didn’t include any fonts but, the Pea.rs website did so, I’v added a font which is similar.
This theme doesn’t use any add-ons by default and the template isn’t setup for performance or things of that nature. There are many practices which were used here that could be done different or even better though, for sake of simplicity, being a theme, this is the way I have gone about it.
Mar 16, 2012: 1.0.1
- Moved the CSS from the head to content area so you can live edit.
Feb 27, 2012: 1.0.0
- Initial Release
- Figure out if there is a way to achieve the current url structure and have 404 template.