Metallurgy is the theme currently powering bashelton.com. It was created by me off and on during the week of October 11th, 2009. I’ll be releasing a copy of it soon for download along with some instructions.

Metallurgy provides 5 separate “sidebars” in the form of:

• 1 sidebar for the primary nagivation; appears on the right.
• 3 sidebars individually configurable that are displayed in the footer. You can place whatever widgets suit your fancy here.
• 1 sidebar that provides an area to inject Copyright text (or any additional text you want in the footer) without having to edit any files.

Several different types of plugins are also supported by Metallurgy. These include Breadcrumb NavXT and most comment manipulation plugins. It has been tested with a variety of widgets and most should work. If they don’t, feel free to contact me.

Also, Metallurgy provides a custom 404 page that will link to YOUR_DOMAIN/contact/. I may look into supporting the contact link if and only if one of the various contact form generators are enabled. Currently, I’ve only tested it with Easy Contact, but Contact Form 7 should work, too.