ThemeFlood

Blank is now hosted on GitHub and released as an open source project under the MIT license: https://github.com/willwood/Blank-RapidWeaver-Theme

Version 8 of Blank has been published today. Changes in this major update include the following:

Removed support for banners, to improve page loading speed and avoid gaps at the top.

Removed the background colour picker, so it no longer conflicts with certain CSS libraries.

Removed the %sidebar%, %sidebar_title% and %plugin_sidebar%, as these were seldom used.

Disabled automatic theme updates, owing to unreliability and high bandwidth costs.

New attribution and theme details shown in a comment block, at the top of the source code.

Simplified the HTML markup for the content container. We are now only using a tag.

Adds support for picnic.css as a new and alternative CSS library. Updated Bootstrap Icons to version 1.11, giving you over 300 new icon designs.

Adds support for LaTeX.css. A CSS library which makes a page look like a LaTeX document.

Cyberweek Special

20% off all RapidWeaver themes between Friday 29th November and Friday 6th December 2024. Including Cyber Monday. No discount code is required. The discount is automatically applied at the checkout.

If you add 3 or more themes to your cart, the discount rises to 33%. Likewise if you add 5 or more themes to the cart, a 50% discount gets applied to your entire order. Obviously for multi-buy discounts to take effect, you must checkout all the themes you want in a single transaction.

The normal terms, conditions and refund policies apply. Try before you buy, and all that same-old malarkey...

An important consideration: This could be the best ever opportunity you have to stock-up on quality themes from a reputable developer. Big changes are coming in 2025, which means your choice of themes and this amount of discount is highly unlikely to be repeated again.

Everything listed on the website is good to use with RapidWeaver 8, RapidWeaver Classic and Stacks 5. Support and updates for these will continue for as long as they still work for us.

By popular demand, I'm doing a little Black Friday promo. Simply 33% off all themes and stacks between now and 1st December 2023. Use the free demo version links on the website, and if you like what you see in RapidWeaver, just checkout in the normal way. No minimal spend or promo code is needed. Everything is RapidWeaver Classic and Stacks 5 compatible.

By request, I’m offering a discount off all my RapidWeaver themes and stacks. Anything purchased from Stacks4Stacks and ThemeFlood between 22nd November and 30th November will have a 22% discount applied at the checkout.

To keep things simple...

The 22% discount is already applied at the checkout for you. There is no promo code you need to enter yourself.

No minimum purchase value or quantity. So you can mix and match themes or stacks of any value.

Free trial versions remain available for everything. Just be sure to complete your purchase before 30th November if you want the discounted price.

Fast and friendly support remains available if you have any questions about themes or stacks.

As mentioned before, I’ve never been a big fan of Black Friday events. I get the impression they were invented by big US retailers to clear all their unsold inventory piled high in warehouses, prior to more container loads of throw-away junk coming in from China for the next year! It’s not really a business model I think suits RapidWeaver add-ons all that well. I already provide more free add-ons and support than any other RapidWeaver developer does, making discounting hard to justify. But the reality is that just about every retailer now does some-sort of promotion about now, so it has come to be expected.

So to compensate, I’m offering anybody who has purchased any themes or stacks from me (at their full, non-discounted price) in 2022 free copies of the new NavGrid and TouchNav stacks. Just a small way of saying “thanks” for your support and longer-term loyalty. Just contact me (via email, Discord or Mastodon) on the support page, attach a proof of purchase and a covering note. If you’re eligible, I’ll get copies of both stacks sent over to you.

Changes in this update include:

Updated Font Awesome Icons to version 5.15.2.

Updated jQuery Javascript to version 3.6.0.

Updated Bootstrap to version 5.0.2.

Added a checkbox in the theme miscellaneous style settings to hide my designer credit, if you have already paid a mandatory donation.

Moved the ExtraContent previewing option into its own group of theme style settings, to improve consistency with other themes.

Updated the project file for Eclipse to include some more examples of the social media buttons in ExtraContent 2.

Links in ExtraContent 2 are no longer underlined.

A continuation of what I discussed on Twitter a couple of weeks back.

I was challenged to take an "ancient" RapidWeaver theme (Japanese Fantasy) by a user, and totally overhaul and redevelop the theme to modern standards. The new Zen theme is the resulting outcome of this coding experiment. Since then, a couple of other people have reached out to me for a copy, and told me it worked brilliantly for them too.

Key features of Zen:

Fully mobile responsive and compatible with all newer web browsers.

Coded to the very latest HTML5 and CSS standards.

3 accent colours red (default), green and blue.

Supports dragged and dropped banner images in the Page Inspector.

Several sizing options for things like breakpoints, padding and font sizing.

Change the positioning of titles, slogans, navigation and sidebars.

10 ExtraContent containers.

Bootstrap 5 and Font Awesome Icons included.

Kaushan Script embedded fonts for headings.

Excellent accessibility standards for end users.

Compliant with important privacy laws, like GDPR & DSVGO.

Zen is provided as a free download. But if you like the theme or you want to disable the credits, please consider making a small donation to compensate for my time. Zen is almost an entirely new theme with few elements, graphics, or code reused from the original Japanese Fantasy theme.

Changes in Elite 3.2 for RapidWeaver include...

Bootstrap 5 support.

Updated Font Awesome Free icons to version 5.15.2.

Updated jQuery to version 3.6.0.

Any links with a class of 'social-link' will no longer receive text underlining.

New miscellaneous style setting marked 'Title / Slogan Below Banner, On Desktop'.

New miscellaneous style setting marked 'Nav Menu Below Banner, On Desktop' (pictured below).

This is a free update for recent Elite theme users. You can download it from your Paddle account, via the Waterfall plugin in RapidWeaver, or RapidWeaver itself may prompt you to install the update. Alternatively get in touch with a copy of your receipt via email, if you are still looking for the update.

Like using the Elite theme? Please consider giving it a "like" and a quick review on the RapidWeaver addons website.

I'm pleased to announce the re-release of the Qube theme for RapidWeaver this morning; formally designed and developed by Jonathan Head of Nimblehost. Quite a number of changes have been made in this newest Qube version, including the following...

Bootstrap 5 support.

Updated Font Awesome Free icons to version 5.15.2.

Updated jQuery to version 3.3.

Removed page loading effects to improve addon compatibility.

Various improvements to the theme navigation.

Change 'last published' and 'currently viewing' footer labels more easily with CSS.

Renamed and reordered a few theme style and colour settings.

Colour pickers now support RGBa transparency.

More page width settings to choose from.

New checkbox option to apply RW banners to the page body and ExtraContainer3.

The latest version is available to download from your Paddle account, via Waterfall, or via automatic updates in RapidWeaver (if this works for you). Eligibility for free updates outside of those methods requires email proof of purchase, a link to a published website made with Qube and a review on the RapidWeaver community addons website.

To summarise, Qube is a solid, conventional RapidWeaver theme. It puts emphasis on making highly-polished websites quickly; taking care of all the complexities for you, while still giving you a lot of creative freedom. It really is a bargain at only $30; especially when you factor-in the level of technical support available too!

Changes in this free theme update for RapidWeaver include:

Content and sidebar now use CSS flexbox positioning, with improved options to customise the placement of the sidebar on mobile and desktop.

Added a text label of 'Menu' alongside the hamburger menu icon, to improve usability. This can be disabled in the theme miscellaneous style settings if not required. Or you can change it to read something different, by following the instructions I wrote on the Retract theme product page.

Moved the option to preview theme ExtraContent containers into its own group.

Updated Font Awesome Icons to version 5.15.3.

Updated Bootstrap to version 5.0.2.

Updated jQuery to version 3.6.0.

You can download this theme update from your Paddle account or using the Waterfall / RapidWeaver theme update checker. Alternatively, send me an email with recent proof of purchase attached.

Let's try to end 2020 on a high! Two new themes have been added to the ThemeFlood website, just in time for Christmas.

Simplicity

The Simplicity theme does as the name suggests in offering an extremely minimalist theme design. This would be great to use for a photography portfolio, creative writing websites or even a simple e-commerce setup. Various style, layout and font options exist in this theme. Simplicity provides you the choice of placing the navigation bar at either the top or bottom of the page, with ExtraContent1 providing a perfect space for social media buttons.

Table

The second theme is called Table. It's a rather old fashioned theme design, but one that is coded to modern standards and still holds a lot of relevance in various projects. Like Simplicity, it has a wide choice of style, colour and font settings. 12 style presets are built in.

40% off all themes and stacks.

Use the optional coupon code blackfriday at the checkout (watch how) if you want this discount.

Owing to the reduced income and difficult lockdown predicaments many of us are trapped under, this year the promotion is slightly different and will run continually until 1st January 2021.

Plenty of brand new and freshly updated addons for you to go and explore too! Some exciting things including…

AnchorPoint v2

AlertConfirm

Mirage v6

Tungsten 1

SlickSlider v2

LavaLamp

Gateway v3

Paper

BackToTop v2

Modally

PuzzleStack

LiquidGallery v2

Expander

Composition v7

Panorama

Creamy v8 1

MouseReveal

ProGallery v3

Torrent

MultiPlayer v2

QRGenerator

TableBuilder v2

CSVToTable v2

TimeLine v2

HeadCount

Masonry v3

Have you purchased something from me at full price sometime between 1st January 2020 and 27th November 2020? I don’t want you to feel disappointed seeing it on offer today. Please forward a copy of your purchase receipt via email and a covering note. I’ll gladly send you a 100% coupon code for MouseReveal, LoremUtility, ActionHost and Torrent (a combined total of stacks and themes worth $75).

Plus, have you been made redundant or considering changing your career as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic this year? I have 50 copies of the Exposure theme up for grabs, on a first come first served basis. A great theme for building your own “personal brand” webpage, to get the attention of future employers or clients. And lots of other uses besides. Please email me for a special coupon code if you are interested. All I ask for in exchange is you write a review about the theme or share a link to what you have made with the theme on social media.

The Paper theme was released a short time ago. Another free RapidWeaver theme added to the ThemeFlood collection.

Key features include:

Subtle textured background, for a “less flat“ appearance.

Crimson Text embedded font face.

Over 20 colour pickers, with RGBa support.

Modern, mobile-first, CSS flexbox page layout.

Sticky footer, useful for pages with little content.

Latest versions of Bootstrap and Font Awesome Icons.

10 ExtraContent containers.

Compatible with Stacks and other simple page types like styled text, HTML code and Markdown.

For RapidWeaver 8 and above.

This theme is very novice friendly! Paper could be a good canvas to create a personal homepage, a simple webstore or an online showcase.

The demo site shows an example of a stack called MouseReveal. This stack isn’t currently for sale yet, but will be released soon.

An ideal theme to use in conjunction with e-commerce plugins like RapidCart Pro. Now more than ever, many businesses are having to quickly shift retail to online storefronts.

Boutique is a theme for RapidWeaver 7 and above. This theme is specifically optimised for building pleasant online shopping experiences in a fraction of the time and cost that comparable design systems would take!

Boutique 4 is a free update for current users of the theme, available from your Paddle account or Waterfall. The focus of this update has been to modernise some aspects of the theme , make things a little easier to setup and add some requested features.

Changes in this update include:

Updated Font Awesome icons to version 5.13.1.

Updated the Bootstrap framework to version 4.5.0.

Text labels (like the mobile button) can be changed with CSS, details of which can be found on the product page.

Sticky footer bar by default. This means that on webpages with less content, the footer is always "stuck" to the bottom.

Horizontal block containers are now "content aware". This simply means that when you use one of these ExtraContent containers, the theme will automatically detect the presence of your extra content and apply padding, margins and widths etc. There is no longer a requirement to go-through the theme style settings to manually switch on the horizontal block containers you want to use. Faster and easier setup for all users.

Bootstrap buttons are now correctly coloured in horizontal containers and support Font Awesome icons.

Major improvements to the accessibility of the navigation bar. For example, you can now use your keyboard tab key to navigate through the whole menu, including subpages.

Navbar function no longer get displayed in a footer navigation bar, to preserve space.

Removed page loading effects, because these sometimes broke other addons and were causing too much support.

Tided and updated most of the theme jQuery Javascript code.

The online demo site for Boutique, sample project file and download trials have also been updated today.

A major update for the Bootstrap RapidWeaver theme today.

Visually not a lot changes with this update. However some of the underlying codebase has been improved and this update also amalgamates every single feature request that uses have sponsored.

The update is available in the normal ways; via RapidWeaver updates, Waterfall or as a direct download from your Paddle account.

Changes in this update include:

Updated Font Awesome and Bootstrap libraries to the latest versions.

Renamed and reordered a couple of theme style settings.

The 'currently viewing' and 'last published' text labels are now set with CSS, making them easier to change.

Edited the theme Javascript to remove things that are no longer needed, like Nivo lightbox and responsive video.

The theme has a "sticky" footer, so the footer bar is always placed at the bottom on shallower pages.

Removed support for 'scroll back to top' buttons. These can still be accomplished using the Back To Top stack (https://rwextras.com/backtotop/)

Theme designer credit can be toggled on an off. On is the default.

Colour pickers should support RGBa opacity in RapidWeaver 8.

New sidebar options for mobile and desktop.

Ten colour style presets added and now available for selection within the theme style settings.

Rearranged some of the theme Miscellaneous theme style settings and added some new ones.

Added a new option to make the navigation bar 'sticky' at the top of the page on desktop.

Improvements to the accessibility of the desktop navigation menu, particularly in regards to tabbing subpages.

Various other under-the-hood minor tweaks and optimisations.

A little reminder that if you enjoy using this theme, please make a small donation. Every donation goes directly towards covering the hosting costs and helps offset the development time required to continue providing these theme updates. Or if you cannot afford to donate, please rate and review the theme here on the Community Addons website.

A dedicated RapidWeaver theme for building support / knowledge base websites. Optimised for educators who need to present content in a clean and consistent manner.

This theme loads quickly and complies with all necessary website accessibility guidelines. A somewhat timeless, conventional theme design, but one that's equally smart.

Supporty works with all RapidWeaver page types, including Markdown, Styled Text, HTML Code, Blog, Contact Form and Stacks.

You can easily change aspects like the colour scheme or supply your own custom banner images. A bountiful choice of ExtraContent containers allow you to add items like social media buttons, links, search boxes and other items elsewhere in the page.

A simple split-navigation layout and breadcrumb links make it easier for users to find their way around. And a flexbox-based framework ensures things reflow to fit on smaller screens.

During the current Covid-19 crisis, Supporty is provided as a free download. Normally it would retail for $20 USD. I imagine this theme could be of use to people diversifying their businesses or moving learning activities online during the coming months. But if you like using it and can afford to, please consider making a small donation.

The main change in this update is that support has been added for dragged-and-dropped RapidWeaver banner images. This offers a quick solution for getting a static image embedded as a body background. Simply drag-and-drop a suitable JPG image into the banner drop zone, within RapidWeaver (supported by RapidWeaver 7 and above). Then in the theme style settings, change the Body Background and Colours setting to RapidWeaver Banner.

By default, an attractive image of a pond water surface is shown (pictured above). However you can replace this image with your own. Outline would be a good theme to use for a more distinctive photography website or advertising site. The Outline theme has always been a very unique theme in how it looks and works.

Alongside this major change, we have taken the opportunity to update Bootstrap and Font Awesome icons to the latest versions. Plus a couple of other insignificant tweaks to the inner-workings of this theme.

This update is available in Waterfall or from your Paddle account.

Learn more about Outline by clicking here.

The purpose of this major update for Xense has been primarily to add support for dragged-and-dropped banner images in RapidWeaver 7 and above. This makes the process of adding a static background image a whole lot easier. Although this was previously feasible with a code snippet, we feel the drag-and-drop approach lends itself better to the processes many of our customers were already using in other themes.

While working to update the theme, we have also made some other small changes. Most notably;

Removed the lang=“en“ attribute, so RW8 can write its own into the page.

Updated Font Awesome Icons to version 5.10.0.

Updated Bootstrap to version 4.3.1.

New sample images bundled with the theme.

The remainder of the theme codebase and settings remain unchanged from earlier versions. This will make upgrading as seamless as is possible.

This theme update is available via Waterfall, via automatic updates in RapidWeaver and via your Paddle account. If updating from a much older version of the theme, you can purchase this latest version from our website.