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There are 2 fantastic themes I’d like you to meet:

Meet Arjuna

Meet Jishnu

A few minor differences (I suppose I should have changed the title in the 1st one, mind you), but really, don’t they kinda look the same?

…how about now?

Arjuna Waterfall

Jishnu Waterfall

I’ll get to the point: Arjuna X (by SRS Solutions) was a fantastic theme. And like many other users, I was disappointed when parts of it broke in WordPress 3.5 and it wasn’t updated. After getting those issues worked out, I decided to start tuning things, and rewriting much of the layout to use CSS instead of images. It took a few hundred hours, but I think you’ll agree that I managed to get it looking pretty darn close to the original, and maybe even a little better in some areas.

At some point around the 100 hour mark, I decided I’d turn my little project into a fork so that others could benefit too. Hence, Jishnu was born.

From there, I began fixing other bugs, and adding a few features – mainly stuff that I wanted myself and figured others might too. Some bigger things – for example, it’s many times more customizable than Jishnu was – you can choose from any number of colors, and Jishnu will calculate gradients (and in some cases, color-schemes) on-the-fly. This is done in a fairly simple manner so that in many cases you can select 1 color and a whole bunch of other colors will automatically be calculated for you (though you can use custom CSS if you really want to be meticulous about it). You can read up on a few of the differences on the Jishnu/Arjuna comparison page.

 

A quick look at the Jishnu Customizer (video):

 

Some smaller levels of customization are available too – like if you hate the “Powered by WordPress using the Jishnu theme” stuff in the footer, there’s a setting to replace it with whatever you want, right in the Jishnu Advanced Options – no need to manually edit the theme file. I actually added a lot of “i wish i didn’t have to edit the theme file to do X…” stuff.

As for speed, it’s pretty snappy on it’s own but there are quite a few things you can do to speed up Jishnu even further (and really, just about any WordPress theme. I’ve got a few examples listed on the Speeding up Jishnu even further… page.

 

I know, I know, you’re waiting for the bad news. To start with, IE6-9 don’t support CSS3 and thus, they get a lot of “fall back” support (they’re not technically supported, though IE10 is). IE9 misses out on some of the gradients, the header design, and gets a few square-instead-of-curvy borders. IE7 and 8 don’t get any curved borders. IE6 was broken so badly that the theme all-out disables a couple menus if an IE6 user stumbles upon the site. I do have a “known issues” section with further details there.

 

Download link:

jishnu-1.0.7.zip – Jishnu v1.0.7 (Jan 29, 2013)
-minor adjustment (1 px) to mid-left and mid-right sidebar widths related to below

jishnu-1.0.6.zip – Jishnu v1.0.6 (Jan 29, 2013)
-bugfix for sidebar mid-left and mid-right widths
jishnu-1.0.5.zip – Jishnu v1.0.5 (Jan 25, 2013)