At the time Stephanie Meyer had just released the third book in her debut series, the “Twilight Saga”, and I had admired the book covers while browsing through my local Chapters bookstore.

There are so many books that hit the shelves these days that covers just start to blend together into one big mottled wallpaper. So it was a mild surprise when I encountered the stark black and minimalist cover designs.

The Twilight Theme

Inspired by this, I decided to design and develop a WordPress Theme based on the book covers.

Variations

I thought I would have been satisfied with using only one of the book covers as inspiration, but the more I worked on it, the more I felt that I couldn’t settle with just one. On top of that, I think anyone who would have been interested in using the theme would likely have a favourite cover graphic other than the one I preferred most.

Here are some variations of the same WordPress theme. It didn’t take much (CSS is awesome), and I even went as far as to allow customization with quick modification of one of the theme files.

Now WordPress authors can use either one of these themes. There’s a fourth book that is coming out: “Breaking Dawn” which I will try to add to this series at a later date.

Download

Okay, so I’ve rambled on enough, Download the WordPress – Twilight Theme v2.0.1.

Notes

BIG FYI: It looks like the comment’s code is missing from this build. I will work on getting that re-implemented tonight. My applogies for the inconvenience!

If you want to modify the graphic to achive either of the variations above, all you have to do is find the file “settings.php” in the Twilight theme folder (includes/settings.php), and edit the following snippet at the very beginning of the file:

// use either "twilight" or "eclipse" or "newmoon" to customize which graphic to show
$THEME_GRAPHIC = 'eclipse';

This theme is built on the same basic framework as my current Lemon Twist Theme. As such, you will likely want to install a few WordPress plugins that work with this theme, so take a look through this README file.

If you are running into errors when applying the theme, it is likely that a plugin is missing and is causing the problem. If you encounter this, check out the “includes” directory and modify any of the offending includes in the “sidebar” sub directory.

Still at a loss? Contact me.