Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized parent theme, featuring several custom page templates and multiple widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.
Like WordPress, this theme is completely free and open source. You can use it for your client work or for a blog about your grandchildren. It is continuously being developed and has a community growing around it.
Looking for the Hybrid Core Framework? Let me point you to the correct page: Hybrid Core Framework →.
Support
By joining the Theme Club as an exclusive member, you’ll get the benefit of access to the tutorials and documentation and complete read/write access to the support forums.
Professional support
If you’re in need of professional customization of a Hybrid-based theme, check out the services page. There’s plenty of people that are available for hire.
Add-ons
Additional plugins and downloads that are specific to the Hybrid theme.
- Hybrid Tabs Plugin
- Hybrid Hook Widgets Plugin
- Hybrid Hook Plugin
- Page Templates Pack (direct download)
- Language Pack (direct download)
Hybrid in your language
Hybrid has now been translated into 20+ languages. If your language is listed below, feel free to download the language pack. If you want to translate the theme, we have instructions on how to translate.
- Arabic – ???? (ar)
- Brazilian Portuguese – (pt_BR)
- Bulgarian – ????????? (bg_BG)
- Chinese – ?? (zh_CN)
- Danish – Dansk (da_DK)
- Dutch – Nederlands (nl_NL)
- French – Français (fr_FR)
- German – Deutsch (de_DE)
- Hebrew – ????? (he_IL)
- Hungarian – Magyar (hu_HU)
- Indonesian – (id_ID)
- Italian – (it_IT)
- Javanese – (ja_ID)
- Malagasy – (mg_MG)
- Norwegian – Bokmål (nb_NO)
- Persian (Farsi) – ????? (fa_IR)
- Polish – Polski (pl_PL)
- Romanian – româna (ro)
- Russian – ??????? (ru_RU)
- Spanish – Español (es_ES)
- Swedish – Svenska (sv_SE)
- Turkish – Türkçe (tr_TR)
Tutorials & Documentation
While I do encourage people to ask questions and participate in the support forums, it’s always a good idea to check here for your answer first. There’s loads of useful information about using the theme.
The basics
Although Hybrid is an advanced parent theme, it’s not really hard to use if you understand the basic philosophy behind how it works.
- Getting started (set up the theme)
- Child themes (customize the smart way)
- Supported plugins
Working with theme settings
Want to know what all those theme checkboxes, input boxes, and select menus are for? Well, check out these tutorials.
- Theme Settings
- Post and page settings
- Settings page meta boxes (how to create them)
Overriding Hybrid’s defaults
Although Hybrid takes care of nearly everything, there are times when you want to change how something works. The theme’s advanced action and filter hooks system makes it highly extensible.
- Hooks (what hooks are and how they work)
- Action Hooks (reference list)
- Filter Hooks (reference list)
- Shortcode-Aware Hooks (using shortcodes with filter hooks)
- Contextual Hooks (how to use them)
- Modifying text (changing text strings)
Setting up your widgets
Hybrid is packaged with widget areas. They’re all over the place.
- Widget Areas (where widgets go)
- Widgets (using widgets)
Miscellaneous
Great tutorials that I haven’t found a spot for yet.
- Directory structure (how the files and folders are structured)
- Images (how images work)
- Translating (how to translate the theme)
Navigation Menus
Tutorials on how to customize and manipulate your site’s navigation mens.
- Menus (WordPress 3.0+ nav menus)
- Navigation (old menu system)
Design & Style
These tutorials are dedicated to the visual aspects of Hybrid and how you can mold your child theme into something greater.
- Styling Content (semantic classes)
- Visual Overview (theme structure, classes, and IDs)
- Stylesheets (available CSS files)
- Logo (replace the site title in the header)
You can read the general overview on attachments or view a specific tutorial below.
Templates
WordPress’ templating system is what makes it so unique among other platforms. It’s partially what allows Hybrid to be such an advanced theme — it takes advantage of this templating system.
- Template Hierarchy (which file is used and when)
- Post Templates (using and creating them)
- Categories (category archives)
Page templates
There are 15 page templates with this theme. You can read the general overview of page templates or follow a guide for an individual template below.