Infinity: A Free WordPress Theme
If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free — among other things we presented high-quality free fonts, free WordPress themes, free wallpapers and, of course, free icons. You can find many of them in our section Freebies.
Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.
Today we are glad to release Infinity — a free professional WordPress-theme. The theme has 3 fixed columns, thumbnails integration, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design. The theme was designed by Zhang Yichi, the creative mind behind Vikiworks Studio from Shanghai, China especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download the theme for free!
You can use the theme for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission — please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish, but if you are planning to release your modification, please ask our permission first.
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- Download the theme (.zip-package, 2 Mb)
- Download PSD-sources (.zip-package, 7 Mb)
Features of the theme and Development Kit
- 3 fixed columns design
- Thumbnail covers style
- Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration
- not widget-ready (see the development-kit below)
Currently Yichi is working on an extended version of the theme presented above which will have a style switcher, integration with social networks and a number of JavaScript-based animations. However, at the moment it is quite buggy and he needs your help to get the theme done.
The theme (which is called Mashup) works eventually, but has some strange bugs — for instance, sometimes it freezes for some reason. Please get in touch with him to get the theme done or modify the theme directly:
- Mashup development kit
(similar to Infinity, but widget-ready and with a style-switcher)
Motivation behind the design
Here are some insights about the design process and development from the designer himself.
“Thanks to Vitaly for this great opportunity! I have to admit that I’m not very good at telling stories, basically it’s always been hard to explain every detail on how I get it done and why I did this and that… Partly the idea for this theme is based upon my own theme which has a slightly personal touch and uses vibrant and appealing colors. With some rambling designs and fancy head imagery, I’ve tried to put all pieces together to make the theme literally stand out.
Among other things, the start page window of the Infinity theme has thumnails and offers delicious-integration.
I tried to keep it as simple as possible, unlike regular post entries style, with WordPress custom filed functions. I’ve used them to show off image titles next to the thumbnails. This design decision is intended to catch reader’s attention in a better way, and it could be a huge advantage for portfolios where designers want to present their photos or design works.
I hope you enjoy this theme and I would love to hear any comments you have about my new theme, and for more information please visit my website. Or feel free to ask any questions regarding the theme in comments to this post — I’ll do my best to answer them!”
Posting preview of the Infinity theme
Thank you, Yichi. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
Special requirements
- The theme has no problems in modern browsers and also works fine in Internet Explorer 6.
- WordPress 2.5 or higher is required.
- Some plug-ins are required for the theme to work (all of them are included in the download-package).
Last but not least…
We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists. You may not know it yet, but we might feature you in one of our upcoming posts.
If you would like to release a high-quality free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers or an icon-set please contact us — we would like to support you (both financially and with the broad coverage on Smashing Magazine).
You may be interested in the following free WordPress-themes as well:
Chris Bennett
January 29th, 2009 7:58 pmI’m getting a error with IE7. In IE8 I see this as an error and it does not load the menu’s on the left of the page. [www.omgitschris.com] anyone have any clues?
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GoogleT5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1)
Timestamp: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:57:16 UTC
Message: Could not complete the operation due to error 800a03e8.
Line: 31
Char: 13
Code: 0
monkey
February 14th, 2009 11:34 pmThanks a lot! I really don’t care if it works in IE or not. IE can go to hell.
Neeraj
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Matt
March 15th, 2009 4:10 amCan’t you languify your themes with po-files so it’s easy to switch language?
jide
March 19th, 2009 11:59 amOkay, I got the same error as a few others regarding Flickr. I changed themes then got this error: [Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_flickrrss() (previously declared in... var/www/vhosts///httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/flickrRSS/flickrrss.php:15) in /var/www/vhosts///httpdocs/wp/wp-content/themes/Mashup-theme/theme/functions.php on line 481].
I (mistakenly) thought my already installed version of FlickrRSS would work and moved the one inside the folder of this theme to my plugins folder. I copied back into the themes folder the plugins that came with this theme. How can this now be fixed? I cannot login to the dashboard.
Mira
March 19th, 2009 4:04 pmI embedded a video in one of my post and it appeared in both the post and my mainpage, when i check the html code there was no such code at the main page source, can anyone help ? i dont want the video to appear at the mainpage
James
March 20th, 2009 2:07 amHey, great theme. Not sure how I stumbled on to it, but after looking at way too many themes I finally settled on this one. It’s great and after a small amount of customization even better. The one problem I have is with the Twitter feed. When the page is loading it will stop loading anything else if twitter is taking a while to respond. Is there anyway to get around this? I hate seeing nearly all the navigation on the right two columns not load until Twitter gets up to speed.
Thanks again for the great template and to anyone who can help with this issue.
James
March 22nd, 2009 1:36 amAfter customizing this theme a bit more I have two more questions. First, any recommendations to implement a search function? It certainly isn’t neccessary, but I wish there were an option to include it with the theme. Second, is there anyway to include thumbnails like on the main index page into the single post template so that at the end of a post the next and previous posts are displayed with their respective thumbs? As it is I am just using a variation of the following: . This works ok, but it would be great to have the images.
Tapho!
March 25th, 2009 2:06 amCool themes, thanks for sharing.
FrogDog
March 25th, 2009 3:36 pmI’m presently trying to adapt the infinity theme for use as a CMS template.
I am hoping someone can help me with the following – I need to increase the page text font and line height, but I cannot find the appropriate line to edit in the stylesheet.
Anyone have any ideas which lines of code within the stylesheet control these two options?
I would have left this as a comment, but the comments for the infinity theme seem closed.
Thanks!
sinema bursa
March 27th, 2009 3:39 pmwery nice themes now is dowloading.. thanks tou..
bursa sinema
shawn
March 29th, 2009 4:41 amhi, great template – one problem I’m having – under the “delicious bookmarks” I have additional text that says “My Delicious Bookmarks” and I can’t get rid of it – any ideas?
thanks!
shawn
March 29th, 2009 4:00 pmHi this is Shawn from response 215
if you need to change the Delicious issue I faced, do this:
go to http://delicious.com/help/linkrolls
and you’ll see the text ‘my delicious bookmarks’ in the display options -> title.
leave it blank
Teddy Cheezy
March 31st, 2009 3:37 amthe IE and Infinity Theme are like USA and CHINA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i installed this theme and previewed it in both , IE and Firefox , it look good in FF , but the IE kills it :s and makes it too slow while scrolling
Sincero7
April 1st, 2009 7:24 amI am trying to make the width of my left toolbar wider so my twitter fits better. Any help?
Mp3 İndir
April 18th, 2009 1:20 amMp3 İndir
erwin15155
April 20th, 2009 7:08 pmcool…
Aaron
April 28th, 2009 6:42 amWe’ve had a blast using this theme to teach ourselves wordpress. Still some issue with our delicious stream running into its header. Suggestions?
-Aaron
Aaron
April 28th, 2009 11:27 amFigured it out. As well as alot of other tweaks. It’s turned out amazing! thanks Yichi!!!
Perfectionist Gal
May 3rd, 2009 10:06 amHow can I change my original theme into this new theme? After I’ve downloaded Infinity, there came “WinZip” files. I am confused, and I don’t know how to change themes that are downloaded from files.
audriena
May 6th, 2009 7:54 amMira (March 19th, 2009, 4:04 pm)
I embedded a video in one of my post and it appeared in both the post and my mainpage, when i check the html code there was no such code at the main page source, can anyone help ? i dont want the video to appear at the mainpage
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i have the same issue. please responds.
xiangyu
May 6th, 2009 9:10 pmcool
deru
May 23rd, 2009 11:24 pmnice,
Nicky
June 2nd, 2009 10:17 pmthanks a lot! will test it out 2day. One great thame. thanks again
MoNcHeE
June 5th, 2009 2:44 amThis is one of the best themes. I’m using it right now and I’ve modified a lot of things here. In my site, it’s widget ready, and it uses timthumb.php. So when you post thumbnails in the frontpage, you can see a bigger one on the single post. Furthermore, I’ve changed the background and some css. I’ve also added Facebook Connect and a link directory plugin. I’d like to say thank you for the theme designer and Smashing Magazine. I’ve really done lots of additions in this theme.. You can check the modified Infinity theme out in my website ’cause I’m using it.. http://monchee.me
Keiran
June 21st, 2009 4:28 amDammit – that is the best wordpress theme I have ever seen!
Claude
June 29th, 2009 10:14 amAnyone fancy to shared the files to widgetized this great theme?
Unfortunately I’ve been trying without any success ;-(
mensan
July 5th, 2009 6:26 pm很好，支持一下！！~
greg
July 16th, 2009 12:59 pmI’m using this theme its awesome. gregkeane.com I’m now trying to add google adsense, any help?
Joshua
August 14th, 2009 9:48 pmAny one have a problem widgetizing this theme? In Dashboard it says that it can’t use widgets. Any help? Let me know please.
Thank you,
Joshua
Jacob Fiint
August 17th, 2009 11:32 amThis theme is really smashing! I just downloaded it! Thanks for sharing about this Smashing Mag!
bursada iftar
August 24th, 2009 5:03 amhelpfull information :) thank you.
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Nits
August 27th, 2009 3:09 amIts incredible theme for the blog from vikiworks his best theme was viki5 which i am using for my blog.
TraXim
August 30th, 2009 7:07 amCan anybody Help mE to make the Sidebar widget Ready`!! My Site http://www.oh-sweet.de
Draucia
September 11th, 2009 3:54 amNICE !!! THEME
memojoker
September 25th, 2009 8:05 amhello! im using this template but have a problems with tumbnail covers link, when click its open a new window that shown jpg images that i post rather than show the link of my posting. how am gonna fix this? using blogger temple
Ansuz
October 6th, 2009 7:42 amPlease I’m having this error at the bottom of the theme page:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_flickrRSS() in ..wp-content\themes\infinity\ancillary.php on line 2
ajust
October 15th, 2009 7:02 amnot compatible WP2.8.4
ohsoawesome
October 22nd, 2009 4:58 pmWow, you guys do great work. I would love to do theme reviews or any other product reviews you would like to have done. My blog is dedicated to that. Send me an email if you would like to get some reviews done by us.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Xavi Creative
October 28th, 2009 3:19 amamazing theme ! congrats
kc
October 29th, 2009 10:34 pmhey great theme, but when i was trying to download mashup kit, its is asking me username and password, what to do now, how can i get toolkit?
please reply me
Sébastien
November 8th, 2009 6:33 amnice theme! Great work!!!
herupermana
November 11th, 2009 6:39 amTo yichi …. please I’ve got a problem! want to ask how to install Mashup Theme how? soalnya dah in trying to change the name of the folder themes emerged what remains ga, Thank you
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Obed
November 29th, 2009 12:46 amHi, I just want to know how to put my logo instead of my blog name?
Thanks
Rashid Rupani
December 25th, 2009 6:17 amVery nice theme.
Xajel
December 27th, 2009 10:21 pmI like it very much, and currently I’m customizing it for my blog.. but I’m having a small problem… I want to use a similar plugin like FlickRSS but for Picasa Web not Flickr… for two main reasons, one coz at home I use Picasa as my photo manager and it can upload to picasa web album only, second my phone ( Sony Ericsson Satio ) has a built-in app. that can upload directly to Picasa too… I found some plug-ins for picasa, but these are just not like FlickRSS…
blue
January 8th, 2010 8:12 amHi, is Mashup Theme still in developpement or have it been abandoned?
Marcielly
January 13th, 2010 10:48 amHi
it would like to ask for authorization to modify this theme for my site, moving the images, more with all the credits of the creators. since already obliged
lokster
January 18th, 2010 11:11 ami dont know how to get the tag cloud working or how to change the bottom background color.
Mariana
January 19th, 2010 4:24 amDoes anyone know how to convert the thumbnails code to the new thumbnail feature in wordpress? Tried a lot of stuff but didn’t work :(
Loftless
May 25th, 2011 12:01 amI didn’t get it working with the built-in thumbnail features, but I did a quick update that is quick-and-dirty and makes thumbnails work again. It requires FTP access to your uploads folder, and about 3 lines of code be changed. Let me know if you need it.
mohan
January 19th, 2010 6:00 amchange the back ground coior
miguelmonroy
February 1st, 2010 1:12 amany wan now how change the {0}
for nothing.
:S
thanks.
smocker
February 3rd, 2010 3:54 pmTo do that you need to open index.php file in theme folder and, on line 20, delete:
P.S Experiment this this line if it doesn’t work. It work’ed for me.
smocker
February 3rd, 2010 8:40 amHello,
I got a little problem with flickrRSS images.
1.I uploaded flickrRSS to plugin folder
2.I Activadet it throw plugin’s options in administration panel
3.I created set on flickr.com ant entered its number from url into flickrRSS setings, also ID Number from idGettr.
Problem: images dont upear on blog, I tryed everything, even reinstaled all my wordpress blog, but nothing works…
Help me please.
Phosfate
February 22nd, 2010 4:30 pmhttp://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/ -> This might help you. :)
It contains some instructions for editing the plugin.
Christian Martell
March 3rd, 2010 5:51 pmI am using the theme , and if you need help drop me a line …
Marlene
April 30th, 2010 3:33 amHello!
maybe you can help me…
I would like to have the small thumbnails line at the bottom, like on the preview…
have you got any idea how this works?
Thank you in advance!
Marlene
Dave Kelly
June 29th, 2010 6:01 pmTo Christian Martell – How do we get in contact with you to get your advice?
I think this design is wonderful but I need help with replacing the background picture.
Patryk Gagan
April 24th, 2011 8:12 amin style.css
/* Overal setup */
body { background:#040507 url(images/main_background.png) top center no-repeat; color:#bbb; font:12px/14px helvetica, arial,Sans-serif; }
and
/* Ancillary */
#ancillary { margin:0;padding:0;height:260px;background: url(images/rambling.png) no-repeat 100% 80%;}
John
August 31st, 2011 4:50 pmi want to know how thumbnail feature works.
thanks…
WPExplorer
March 1st, 2010 10:49 pmThis is a very beautiful theme..having almost 300 comments, this post speaks for itself. Like always great work.
Sudip
March 6th, 2010 10:36 pmHow do i integrate a search functionality ? Thanks
ant
March 23rd, 2010 1:46 pmDoesn’t seem to work on 2.9.2 :(
neo
March 27th, 2010 7:01 pmthanks, It is great design.
Adrianne
April 2nd, 2010 8:46 pmWow what a wonderful theme. I recently added it to my website and it looks stunning!
There is one problem though that I did search for on the net and I looked through these posts but have not found anything concerning the problem with posts right aligning instead of left align. How do I fix this?
For example, at my post page it will right align instead of left align – here is my website: http://csscandiez.com/2010/03/24/wp-coda/
If anyone could let me know how to fix this, that would be great.
Marlene
April 29th, 2010 11:47 pmHi there, very nice theme!
i would like to have the line of small thumbnails at the bottom,
like on the preview…
does anyone know some about it?
thanxx!
m.
Visualrhapsody
April 30th, 2010 8:56 amHola !
By any chance anyone still have the theme package/ installer. I have been trying to find and all the package has faulty style sheet.
Love this style very much. Wld appreciate any kind help if you may e-mail to visualrhapsody@gmail.com
Many thanks in advance !
Aders
May 8th, 2010 8:22 amdoes no work for the new wordpress :(
JS
May 8th, 2010 4:38 pmCool theme!
How can i change the blue backgroundcolors of “categories”, “tags” etc.?
Gabriel Mendes
May 31st, 2010 9:18 amOiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, baixei esse tema, é lindo, eu amo este site! Principalmente porque é de graça os temas lindo que eu gosto, kkkkk. Parabéns e continue assim… Fuiiiiiii.
qriozoom
June 17th, 2010 1:04 amThanks for sharing this great theme. I used it for my online portfolio qriozoom.com. Only with few changes:)
M
June 29th, 2010 10:32 ami wus leeching ur feeds but they render so badly…… =P =))) helllo
M
June 29th, 2010 10:32 amThe theme does look great …..thx a billion also check the psd’s at deviantart.com
午夜客
June 29th, 2010 7:00 pm的确很漂亮 。
很喜欢!
Fabricio Nascimento
July 14th, 2010 5:01 pmI was wondering how do I reduce the number of posts displayed on index.php. From 10 to 6.
carlos
July 15th, 2010 7:46 amHi Fellas
I’ve installed the Infinity template looks very easy to customize except the thumbnails on frontpage i’ve spent several hours to understand how i can ad pictures to the post to show them as thumbnails on front page how i can do it, im using the version of wordpress inferior of 3.0, i’ve downloaded an plugin called thumbnail post hunger to try to fix the issue of front page thumbnail but it still isn’t work
thanks for give me the quicksilver bullet to get this theme done easier and faster
thanks
cm
Lex
July 29th, 2010 1:36 amHi Carlos,
I have the same problem than you. Did you find a solution for the the thumbnail in the front page?
I was trying different ways but nothing works, I used other wp template that have a plugin that automatic upload a picture and resize for the thumbnail and you could setting the size.
But for this template I don’t know what to do
POG
November 1st, 2010 8:55 pmThanks for sharing this great theme. I used it for my online portfolio qriozoom.com. Only with few changes:)
michael
December 25th, 2010 7:45 pmhi i have this error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_flickrrss() in /home/michaelk/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/Infinity-theme/theme/ancillary.php on line 2
please help
Lana Oosthuizen
January 7th, 2011 9:39 amHi,
Awesome Theme, just a couple of things;
- When I remove the Twitter code the columns seem to break. I dont have an account with twitter and am not really interested in the feed. Is there a way to remove it?
- How do I replace the favicon? I’ve designed my own and uploaded it but it still displays the animated face in the Tab.
Thanks, any help will be very welcome.
Torben
January 10th, 2011 3:12 amHad also some of these problems.
Maybe this can help you:
http://www.themelab.com/2008/08/21/infinity-wordpress-theme-review/
Hammer
January 25th, 2011 12:19 pmHow can I make 3 images in a row. I have enough space but they still appear in two columns.
allan guersoni
April 11th, 2011 11:58 amVery crazy topic, but the plugin is not compatible Flickrss with WP 3.1.
:)
Nirisa
April 15th, 2011 1:05 amCan I use this as a gaming site? hope someone made it! Very brilliant theme for arcade site like andkon247.com/
Patryk Gagan
April 28th, 2011 1:46 pmwhat about translation
.PO files?
ePubChris
June 9th, 2011 11:37 amAmazing theme, followed the comments on here and learned how to get rid of flickrrss and integrate my twitter account.
Now I have a question hopefully someone can help me…The main page shows a bunch of broken images even though some of the articles have images in them…anyone know how to fix this?
yoyo
August 22nd, 2011 12:42 amwell nice themes, :D
samuel
October 5th, 2011 11:38 pmI saw this message while try to configure the widget
The theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions
Anyone know how to solve ?
Solo Life
November 7th, 2011 11:15 pmI will try this theme to my site, hopefully go well….^.^
jack
November 27th, 2011 8:43 pmCan you send a report on how to use this theme tutorial to my mailbox?
Martin Adler
June 16th, 2012 1:44 amfantastic…..
taner
May 10th, 2013 5:53 pmi am using. thank you..