The Masonic WordPress theme for Freemasons, Masonic Lodges, and Freemasonry
This Masonic WordPress theme is built as a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework. Both the Freemasons WordPress theme and Hybrid are 100% free WordPress themes!
The Freemasons WordPress theme is highly optimized for fast, efficient HTML output, and compatible with all popular plugins. It has many useful functions and features, and is search engine optimized (SEO) to allow your site to gain ranking in popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.
Freemasons Theme Features
- Masonic theme with square and compass background and logo (you are free to customize this with your own masonic graphics).
- Easily add menu items with the WordPress 3.0 menu system.
- Distinctive square and compass favicon.ico (bookmark icon) automatically included on your pages.
- Automatically append a print style sheet so that printouts from your site are optimized for print media (optional).
- All the standard features of Hybrid. Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized theme framework, featuring 15 custom page templates and 8 widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.
Download Now: Freemasons WordPress Theme (version 2.0, .zip file, size: 27.23kb)
Installation:
- Install theme Hybrid from your WordPress administration console.
- Install the Freemasons WordPress theme by going the Themes | Install Themes | Upload. Click Browse, and select the freemasons.zip file. Click Install Now.
Plugin Recommendations
The Freemasons WordPress Theme is tested with, and recommended for use with the following plugins:
- Akismet – (Included with WordPress) Protects against comment spam – very accurate and efficient.
- WordPress SEO – a fully featured Search Engine Optimization plugin to give your website the competitive edge on Google and other search engines.
- W3 Total Cache – Speeds up your website – essential for site speed optimization.
- Clean Contact – adds a simple contact form, protected by Akismet to stop comment spam.
- Redirection – Allows you to redirect pages, and automatically adds page redirection if you can a post name.
- WP-Cleanup – Frees up space in your WordPress database by deleting article revisions etc.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Automatically adds links to related posts on your website.
The first three plugins (Akismet, WordPress SEO, W3 Total Cache) are highly recommended, and we recommend you install these on your WordPress site to improve performance.
Hi. Great site – used it to start our Lodge site.
Got a problem with password protected pages – IE does not open them. and Opera ignores protection and just opens page! Why can’t everyone use Firefox!!
Not sure if its a problem with the theme or with Hybrid.
Any help would be appreciated – I’m fairly new to WP.
Many thanks
Mark
I’m not sure where the problem comes from. I’ve noticed something similar on another website I run. It only occurred when copying and pasting the passwords into the password box. Typing them in worked correctly. I suspect it is a combination of factors (Windows, WordPress and web browsers, and possibly to do with UTF8 formatting of text). It is certainly not the theme or Hybrid.
Stay tuned, I plan to release a new, updated Masonic theme (or themes) based on Hybrid Core.