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Awesome work my friend :)

Thanks for sharing!

nice grunge, but its looks complicated, too much images. I love simple style

Very nice, and I think as we’re in 2008 we shouldn’t be so stuck up about “graphics heavy” most of us have broadband, and hosting costs are getting cheaper and cheaper, I’d rather see 2 graphics heavy sites that look great than 200 similar looking boring “quick loading” sites. Either way, nice work.

Ich finde es klasse, mal nicht so 08-15 wie die meisten Themes. Tolle Arbeit!

What a grungily beautiful theme. I am tempted to use the graphic logo on my own blog.

looking good!

Nice theme! The stock illustration you used is everywhere though.

I’m having trouble installing the theme – Word press reports: WordPressFun/style.css is not readable. I’ve reuploaded the file, even checked it in a text editor and it looks fine. Anyone got suggestions?

Great looking theme! Thanks!

Hello,

I am the designer of the theme. The stock image was bought. The design was bought by Smashing Magazine via SitePoint.

Best wishes,

Maleika

Hi, i found the header image on a tumblr site. mini.jtale.com It’s the same designer?

Wow, this is really amazing! Thank you! (:

exquisite work ：）

Très jolie

Anyone else struggling to get it working? I’m having STYLESHEET IS MISSING errors.

Genius. Thanks. Great work.

Awesome ! I love this theme so much :x

Really great finition… a little too complexe for me too but still a really good work… great…

Hi, wonderful theme , no doubt ! I have just one question : i’d like to translate the theme ( no other modifications ) and place a download link of the translated theme on my site… do I have the permission to do so ?
Thanks

Really, is Smashing Magazine in violation of the copyright if the istockphoto vector image by redistributing this?!?

Istockphoto:
“For greater certainty, the following are “Prohibited Uses” and you may not: incorporate the Content in any product that results in a re-distribution or re-use of the Content (such as electronic greeting card web sites, web templates and the like) or is otherwise made available in a manner such that a person can extract or access or reproduce the Content as an electronic file;”

Big thank

Great theme indeed. Thanks!

The theme is great!I like it!

controversial theme!

Awesome theme guys! The best free Wordpress theme so far.

Not bad, but I am not fan of the grunge look. I totally loved the featured content on the side though.
Is anybody away of any minimal style theme with the featured content on the side, (just like above).
I think the designer will do us a lot of service by giving us a less grungy version of this theme.
Please help.

Calítoe: 800×600? Come on now… When Yahoo updates their front page to 1024, it’s time for everyone else to catch up.

Are you still rocking a 56.6kbps modem too?

Awesome theme – added to my site. The boy graphic is very easy to edit. I changed mine around quite a bit.

http://www.lordofthetechs.com

Matthew

never post befor, my 1st… just like to say thanks.. i love smashingmagazine..

i had bought a pro theme but switched to this one … i wasn’t a regular visitor of smashing magazine but now i thinking to join the fan club of smashing magazine :) it’s pro theme and it was supposed to be little complicated… contact form is useless and i disabled the plugin and it’s working fine. the only thing that is lacking in every free theme is ‘ support ‘ i think many people would love to switch to this theme provided one is out there to solve their issues, it has little compatiblity issue with ie6 logo does not appear despite png transparent fix coding…. anyway best theme for personal blog thumbs up!!!

Nice theme, thanks!

Nice design, a little too dark for me.

That’s really nice!

So cool…Thanks !!!!

Absolutly Awesome Theme!!! I love it!! Please more Ai cartoon style WordPress Theme. Really Thanks

cool!

grunge n cute at the same time .. nice!

Nice theme! Thank you.

Great Theme, I can’t wait to try. Thank you! :)

Nice job…. =)

Absolutely amazing theme, great work.

Too full, too charged, too complicated!

A lot of “buggy” things (the un-transparent “page fold” in the footer) and unesthetic things!

You can do better, much better!

How do i go about having an image in the posts image placeholder?

Hello, hello.

Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone for their comments and criticism, good and bad alike, so dankeschön, gracias, thanks, merci, grazie, and … can’t think of any other languages right now. :)

In response to comment #31:

Jeff: Add the absolute path to the images locations in your /themes/WordPressFun/images/ie.css folder and it should work.

In response to comment #41:

Jeff: That is correct. Thanks for the heads up. The archive page needs to use the archive template page.

In response to comment #45:

Ankit: Thanks muchly!

In response to comment #51:

Mike, the fonts are Georgia and Arial. As these are “mostly” installed on every computer, I have not included them.

In response to comment #57:

Ty, By viewing the source file, you can view the HTML skeleton which is not WordPress dependent.

In response to commment #59:

Matthew, the design was not created with a right sidebar column, so unless you’d roll up your sleeves, change the visual layout via the .psd, the CSS, and the HTML as well as the WordPress theme files, it is not possible.

In response to comment #66:

Matthew, it is explained in the readme file. If you still have issues, do let me know.

In response to comment #86:

jCoote, do you mean the image thumbnails? If so, you will find the instructions in the readme file.

In response to comment #87:

dogday, have you installed the theme as outlined in the readme? If you are still experiencing problems after that, do let me know and I’ll be glad to help.

If I have forgotten anything or neglected to respond to someone’s particular installation issues, do give me a shout.

Best,

Maleika

One more question i have is how do i change the text shadow in the header?

Maleika Attawel

Hi Dude,
nice theme btw.

first thing: How do you make an image appear in the column-one/php section (featured)
In your post you have one but even with the custom field in, nothing show’s up.

Second: the image.php files doesn’t work properly. when you attach an image and have check post url (brings /?attachment=id) the design gets skrewed up.

Thanks for this nice theme.
Cheers

Very nice designed, but are we limited to 4 menu options ? How will the design behave when we had 6 or 8 options?

Great work

Thanks for your support Maleika.

Im still fighting to make this theme look like the screenshot.

Another question: I have changed some texts and translated other in the psd file. How do I export only the needed zones of the full .psd image to fit the images into the /themes/WordpressFun/images folder (to overwrite them)?

Thanks in advance again.

yes, nice theme

but i cant access to that website :(

hello
i wont to use the theme but i’m not able to see the image in the home page. How can i see the imge of article in the index. i see it on the article but not in the home page. where i have to change to insert a thumbuline in index?

Wow !!! very hard work.

I will try to rebuild the image using the images in /themes/WordpressFun/images folder. After that I wil use fireworks to try to make a template.

Its much more easy to make changes this way.

Thanks again for your support.

Sorry don’t understand how to put in the archive page :(

OMG! i can’t believe this theme is free! Thanks

if you interested in this theme but 2 column only you can get it at slimmity.com

Very nice and creative WP theme! i like it.

Thanks for this beautiful theme. The illustration of the cartoon on the header is superb.

Hey Maleika Attawel,

Another wee little thingy, i dont understand what you guys mean by selecting the archives page? Sorry. Can you explain?

Gr.
Friso

Friso,

the unordered lists in the footer area (below the fold) have a fixed height, meaning if you nest another list within it, it will inherit the height of your parent unordered list. So, if you want to have a hierarchical list, change the code in the stylesheet (/themes/themename/style.css). Alter the following code:

.sub-container .category ul {
padding:0;
height:20em;
}

To this:
.sub-container .category ul {
padding:0;
}

That should fix it.

If you create a page, you can choose which template you want to use with it. In the dropdown, there is a page entitled “Archives”. Use that one. :)

great for your part!!!!!!!!!! thanks a lot for be there!! saludos desde españa!!

Awesome theme!!! Does anybody know where I can see a live preview of it and not just the image?

What a beautiful WordPress theme and it s free! Props for that, Smashing Magazine!

Hello, I love the theme, but I’m getting an error message under the most discussed area:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_mostcommented() in /….removed…./wp-content/themes/WordPressFun/extra-content-two.php on line 7

Is there another plugin needed or something I need to enable somewhere?

That’s a great theme, I love it very much…
thanks for sharing~~

Hi Peeps,

Thanks Maleika(she makes awesome looking themes, check out the ones on Sitepoint) for making this theme, ChinHang Chung, and Smashing Mag for giving it out for free!

How do you get an image to appear in the Featured section…? Can’t make it work. I put one @ the beginning of my post but that didn’t work…

The contact form is not aligned… is there an easy way to fix this? And I have those “bookmark me”(Social Bookmarks Plugin) graphics/links… under Featured they balloon up and show up vertically… check out http://yoonhoum.com and you’ll see what I mean. Guess I’ll go with ShareThis or use the other bookmarking plugin…

Thanks again
God Bless,
Yoon

thanks a lot!

hmm.. thank you very much. usefull information

I love this theme – I’ve played with it a lot to get it looking more like I want, but now I have a major problem – there’s no “Leave a Comment” or any way for readers to comment on my blog! I’m not sure what I messed up, but is there a way to fix it?

http://www.motherhood-unscripted.com

busy dog sun trust tree yahoo ocean see sun

Well I do want someone to clarify this before using the theme, because if it’s Violating copyright laws then I dont want it, but I love it actually.

kari, there is no violating of copyright laws. please don’t post false accusations. (Editor)

Having problems with this theme not loading some background images (bg, and div bgs), I’ve checked and double checked the files uploaded properly and CSS links are correct. Hmmm… :-/

wow.. nice theme. i luv it.

but the featured post section looks dull.. unlike the post on the right section..

thanx for sharing! :)

Thanks for share it :)

I seem to have the same issue as Beatnik. I just cannot get the thumbs to work.

I have followed the instructions in the readme file and
1) created a custom field withe the key thumb
2) created the following value:

And when i go to the page i only see the alt text “test” in thumb area.

What do i do wrong here?

Thanks in advance

David

Happy to not be alone David ;)
I’ve try a lot a things and no thumb finaly….The guy who find the solution will be the king of this topic!

Well, I use this theme, but when I come to the page 2 the thumbs already me do not turn out to be alone the bottom(fund), the images thumb disappear can see it, give click here
http: // psdcreativo.com/page/2/
But in my principal page
http: // psdcreativo.com/here if the thumb appear
Which can be the problem?

I have the same problem as Dario.

my thumbs dissapear when going to older entries – page/2

how can one fix that?
thanks a lot, i love this theme

For the images beside the posts, do we have to use custom fields? and if so how? are there any specifications etc? cheers for sharing guys, its a great theme!

Really thanks to you! Beautiful theme! I enjoy it…)

I have problem with stylesheet missing too…

I can not get posts to appear in the left hand side featured section to appear either. I created a category called “Featured”, and assigned three posts to that category, and I am using the default code in the column one php:
but nothing is appearing. Anyone know whats up?

forget post 164 and 165…I figured it out…I had a punctuation issue. but not sure about #163

Also, I have been working on this for awhile and can not figure it out. HOw do I limit the number of posts ont he home page. I want to have a limit of 5, and then a button to go forward to page two, and a button backwards as well. Any advice on how do I do that?

thanks Rafal….I knew that had to be easy. Any odea how to get images to display in the featured left sidebar with the featured posts?

Thanks guys! Great, great theme… easy to modify to fit my needs, and just beautiful! As a designer I never even take the time to work on my own personal site, so I’m always so very happy when I find a theme that I like enough to change things up!

Thanks again!

Hi;
How can be display the thumb image?
I did all the steps, but the thumb image for all posts, not showing?
can anyone help me?
thanks.

Hi نويل
What is your site address?

Great theme. Thanks for sharing

I just started at Digital Design at my local university, and my group is using your theme. It’s pretty cool, good job. It’s a bit on the heavy side, but it looks good.

Great theme, but … (you take criticism right?)
Now that I have used it, I think it was only the graphic and layout that drew me to this wordpress theme. If it’s going to be called a “pro” theme, can you make it compatible with widgets? Also, this theme never executed the wp_footer() action. As a result a few important plugins didn’t work without my intervention.
Still, I love your magazine!

thanks for your replay angie. I do that, and I DO get the little thumbnail on the main home page, BUT there are no images in the left column one left sidebar. IS there a different key for that?

It appears that is controlled by “.asides .featured-post img {” in the css.

dave, when does this occur? when you access the web page, or when you access a certain function?

Awesome theme. Love this!

The header is a png file. How do I modify it? Does photoshop work for creating the file?

The source files are available for download at the top for Photoshop.

Try *reading* the *readme* file…. you need to download a plugin to get it to work

Has anyone figured out how to get the image to show up in the Featured column on the far left?
The ‘thumb’ custom field only works for the middle column. Is there another custom field we can use to make the image display in the Featured column?

The featured column only shows the excerpt by default so you would most likely have to embed it or edit the template file to include an image from a custom field.

John, I finally got it to work!
The only thing you need to edit (I think) is column-one.php
After this line:
?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?>

or actually, just as long as it is with the div class “featured-post”

You need to insert this code:
?php $key="post"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>

Then, in your post, create a custom field with the key “post” and make sure it is 300px wide and everything should work!

also check your style.css file to make sure you have this code
.asides .featured-post img {
width:300px;
padding:6px;
background:#6f5931;
border:2px dashed #826a3e;
}

let me know if this doesn't work and you need anymore help.
http://www.countrymusicgoodness.com

ps. you also need to make sure you have the carrot before the ?php, I just couldn't get this comment to include it. if anyone has advice on how I can make sure the full code is included in a forum post I would appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi,
Thanks for great work. Theme is amazing. I have a question, when I add categories, tags or ads (160×600) under the featured section using sidebar1 and sidebar2 none of the widget is appearing. I don’t want to put them in bottom section.

Any suggestion?

Thanks again!

This theme needs a wiki it’s so damn complicated!

Thank you Jason of #197 for posting that code, I’ll use that when I’m ready to post a picture in the featured sidebar. I assume you use the same img src code as needed for the single post thumbnails (which is just a normal img src tag without the size parms for those who haven’t figured that out already), but how do you get the post excerpt itself in the featured sidebar in the first place?

@Jason: Thanks! I didn’t read that ‘trick’ anywhere. I appreciate it!

I was waiting to diagnose your line count situation once I got the feature sidebar working on my site, but now that I, my short post has the same amount (5) in the center and in the featured section. If I find out, I’ll post it here. Thanks again. btw: where did you read that about the category name? TIA,

HEYHO,

J have a problem. How can I switch to the full view of the similar articles. I want to see the full article at the mainpage, without clicking on every article.

I hope, you understand my poor english!

Using this theme right now..I love it!!
thanks a lot!!

Great work, but…how can I change the link color in the post? I hate the underline and yellow background in all my links. If I can change it, tell me wich line is in the template, please.

Sorry for my english, I only want to change my link color :P

Can someone help me in adding an image to the post?

I read the readme file, but I can’t understand what “A normal post contains a custom field. The name of the custom field is “thumb”. When writing a post, create a custom field with a key of thumb and a value of the image path” means… Where is the THUMB FIELD?

Thank you all

I was using the Sociable plugin. The images for delicious etc got distorted. Obviously theres something automatically resizing the images in that Featured column? Is it simple enough to disable that feature?

I don’t like cartoons themes ,,, it’s look like children blog ,lOol .. But it’s nice ,,, I like your blogs so so so much ;)
Keep it up and heavy
C YA Ezz

I have make a drupal version of this good theme, see DrupalFun Link. If someone want it send me an email to michel AT ziobuddalabs DOT it. I need to fix something before to release it to all.

Hello,

I noticed in the comments above that users of this theme were discovering some trouble with posts in the “Featured” category on the left-hand side of the page when using the sociable plugin.

I’m having the same problem. Which is a shame, because the “featured” posts are typically your better posts with solid content that you want visitors to focus on, and it would be nice if visitors could share the content of these “better” posts socially to gain you some additional traffic.

Has anyone figured out a way to keep the little social plugin .pngs from stretching in the left-hand “featured” column? If so, I would love to hear from you.

Joseph Hollak
hollak AT gmail DOT com

Hello!

I update my word-press to 2.7, and the site was crashes IE7. Any chance to update the theme?

Thanks!

latest firefox update stops displaying the navagation. (about contact and such) any ideas looks fine in IE and safari
http://www.daddydayone.com

For some reason the columns on the bottom do not expand when there are more then a certain amount of links and categories added. Anyone know how to fix it so the links do not stretch over the column boxes?

Hi There,

The theme is great and I am just starting to use it out.
I manage to make a post in the fetured Area as well as putting an image ( thanks a lot Jason # 197) !
My problemis that the post in the feature category also show up in the news categorie the last post… How could I fixit in order thatthe post under the featured category only appear in this area ?
My blog here

It realy look nice, but it gives below error.
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_mostcommented() in /home/wordpres/public_html/wp-preview/wp-content/themes/Wordpress Fun Theme/extra-content-two.php on line 7″

How can it be fixed?

Hi Guys

If you get this error I have good news for you:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_mostcommented() in /home/www/legoguru.com/wp-content/themes/WordPressFun/extra-content-two.php on line 7

Go to the following site and download the plugin:

http://www.wp-plugins-db.org/plugin/wp-most-commented-posts/

and follow these instructions :

HOW TO INSTALL?

* Unzip archive into your plugins directory /wp-content/plugins then go to your Wordpress administration menu, and choose Plugins tab then activate the WP-Most Commented Posts plugin
* In your sidebar.php add these lines:

Most Commented Posts

* You can change the ammount of displayed posts by editing plugin and changing number in line eleven:

function get_mostcommented($limit = 10) {

where limit = 10 means number of posts.

hope this helps!
http://byteandpixel.com

cool…

Why won’t the contact form work?
Also why does the text at the very bottom stack up
one word after another in IE???

Hi

Some of my guests have problem with commenting.

They say, page slides up and they can not comment.

When they try to read the topic, they can’t go down the page, because it slides up

Is there any solution known ?

Thanks

I really like this theme but it would be so much better with a right sidebar. Can someone please post a writeup on how to implement a right sidebar with this theme? I need a place for adsense and widgets.

awesome looks, but a very restricted theme…readme says “You must have at least 5 categories & 5 comments for this theme to render correctly”…

for me, a theme should be very much flexible with the blog content so am not a fan of themes which rely on images and psd modifications…

Awesome theme. I’ve added it to my list of 11 best magazine style themes. http://www.moonsaildesign.com/branding/11-awesome-free-wordpress-magazine-style-themes/. Hope you get lots more downloads.

Thanks!

Hello, I find that this template is really wonderful.
Hum..Can I adapt this to another support blog ? Like Pluxml.
And after can I release my modification on the Pluxml’s template gallery ?
Moreover a link would be present in the footer and the support’s link would re-aimed towards here.

I hope you have understood that I’ve write because I can’t write english very well =)
You can answer to me thanks to my e-mail^.
Thanks a lot!

By far, the optimal theme I have ever come across. Sleek, simple, not resources hungry, cool, and most important, FREE! Thanks for creating and sharing with all of us. I am happy to give you an honorary mention on my site: Life is Delightful. Visit it within a few days and spread the publicity! :)