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Looks like an awesome theme! I still prefer my liquid layout though :)

Thanks for the theme.

I do have a question though. I’m trying to teach myself css and i really want to pick this bad boy apart. Is there a way to view these php files in dreamweaver from my computer. I don’t really want to put them on my server I just want to see any changes I make to it.

Great post. Didn’t mean to highjack it :S

Hello, a really really beautiful theme there.

Anyway I can obtain the PSD source for this?

Hi, nice theme, thank you.

How do I get the “read more” function to work? If I have a long post at the top it overflows into the lower sections and messes up the layout.

Thanks

@Adam – You control that through your normal Wordpress admin. There is a “read more” button you can click to insert a read more tag in your Post controls when you’re writing a post.

awesome thanks so much guys, this is a little ripper

Nice theme.

But why a “Share-alike” license, if I am “forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both the designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission” and to release a modification, I need ask your permission first?

@yeah – maybe you can install Apache like XAMPP and test ride it before loading up your server – Cheers http://www.haobam.com

This theme has a great look but when I installed it on my blog, it breaks the how blog look. The featured post breaks how my latest post look and it breaks the whole view and consistency of my blog(Image 1). I have a sideblog widget in my blog, this theme also breaks it(image 2). Also RSS button is at the bottom of the side bar. I think that’s not a good practice when you want more subscribers to your blog. There are some other formatting problems. I think it’s better someone can put the fixes to those problem. It’ll help new users to tweak there blog to work with this nice looking theme.

@yeah
You can use this article: http://max.limpag.com/2006/06/07/how-to-edit-wordpress-design-using-dreamweaver/

Excellent theme. Can’t wait to use it.

nice theme…. thanks

nice theme

all those great themes in the past are very stylish and are really outstanding. as a daily visitor of sm i have to say im very thankfull and happy to get such great designwork for free.

what i miss, on nearly every theme that was released in the past is – a great archive page.
all designers were concentrated in the layout and the look of the first page. i think a perfect view in a archiv ( archive-page ) is needed too. what do you think?

my english isn´t the best, please excuse me :)

i would rather use a nice styled archive page then a flickr plugin in the mainpage. i would rather use a lifestream plugin then twitter alone….

but this work is smocking hot and i really really love it. aggregado is still the best. thx you ftl and thx sm

I like it! Nice idea & fresh inspiration – thanks!

I thought all WordPress themes are released under GPL license – WordPress authors didn’t make a license exception for themes or plugins. There was a long discussion about this on several blogs and conclusion was that you can create and use a theme without having to release it under GPL (because GPL applies only on distribution) but if you want to sell or release a theme, you need to stick to that license. Of cource, this doesn’t apply to design/artwork.

This is beautiful! Thank you!

Superb. I can see a lot of influences over here… and the combination is, like I said, Superb!

in 2 weeks half of the blogs will be dressed with this theme.

I installed the theme but I’m getting this error -
Call to undefined function the_title_attribute() – referring to line 6 on index.php

Can anyone help? I’d really like to get the theme to work on my blog. Thanks.

Whoa – great looking theme! Good job!

beautiful,
News about psd file?

Thats a good thing isn’t it ;) The featured Item isn’t really a featured item – its the latest item. The size for that is a little too small, since most blogers use a few images on the top – makes things look nice.

Please try to increase the height of the feature post div.

I love Smashing Magazine :) Perfect Theme. Thanks

Agreeing to Dan

Really love this design. But things need major lookups.

Search page is.. a mess
Category Archives posts does not have Post Title

Have no tried to validate either pages, can someone add ?

Ok, I just had to put the theme down (very bad of me)

Too buggy to put in the main blog. I tweak a fix for the “Category Archives posts does not have Post Title”

Add after line 31 ( div class=”post” ):

<h3 id="post-"><a href="" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ">

potentially high-quality – You bet !

I love the design – big time. But as you mentioned, a few fixes are needed here and there. And then we come in, adding more glue to it.

By the way, the png images are quite bulky. Is that normal ?

I will stop thinkng of ie6 issues. IE6 users does not deserve to see good looking websites !

It’s a shame, really, that most wordpress themes are so bland and uninventive. Design-wise, I mean. They are basically all the same, with a few good exceptions but that’s it. It’s practically impossible to find something to work upon outside premium themes.

Still, SM manages to provide us with dozens of extremely good and incredible themes from the hundreds covered here :P This is not the case, IMHO…

Mmm, are the problems going to be fixed or should I go about trying to do it myself :) ?

I like the way you do it guys there. I believe that you must have a pretty much of nice template submissions :)

@Rob

I’m not want to sell this theme, but, according to this post, apparently I can’t redistribute it free and I can’t launch a modified version of it without first talking to the author. So they disabled totally the “share-alike” part of the license. This can be confusing for some. Would be easier to choose a “no derivative works” license.

wow, really nice theme, lovely design, I’ll definitely try it out.

Thank you very much for this.

I am not going to worry about the licensing part. This is a pure work of art (on the UI part..) and if I designed it I would not want people to make a few “changed” and distribute it.

yeahhh! great theme

cooool design!!! :|o|

fantastic!

thanks for this theme…..

Thank you very much guys at FreeThemeLayouts and SmashingMagazine!
I can now play and edit with the PSD source.

Really .. this is a great design….

I’ll try to convert this into Joomla template.

Thank you so much!!!!!!

An awesome theme! Its really nice to see some great professional freebies out there. Great for learning and seeing what is possible.

@Chris
Was wondering how to test out Wordpress locally on my Windows machine. Didn’t expect to see a solution so readily available here, but I’m glad I did. Thanks!

Not working on WordPress 2.7 beta 1
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_comments() (previously declared in /home/bodek/public_html/test/wp-includes/comment.php:178) in /home/bodek/public_html/test/wp-content/themes/colorpaper/functions.php on line 37 :(

@Matt – The PSD is now in the original post, just below the live demo link. Thanks.

The problem can be “Evermore” Plugin…???

I’m also having the issue “BoDeK” covered in comment 81, I’m running 2.7-beta2-9571 (which as of the time I write this comment, is the latest nightly build of the 2.7 Beta.)

Any ideas as to what is causing this issue? This is my favourite theme as of now, but not being able to use it is… a downside.

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I’m currently using this great theme right now at my blog (www.lylesantos.com). Overall, I am very happy with it except for one thing.

I tried adding a Google Analytics code and a Technorati code (to claim my blog)… the code was successfully added but can’t be crawled (detected) by Google and Technorati.

I tried inserting the code in the header, footer, main index, sidebar… still unsuccessful. Anyone here had the same experience?

Alright, I worked through the IE6 issues…just wondering, has anyone been able to get the style switcher to work?

I really love the look of this theme! If I could fix the style switcher it would be perfect for me! :)

Hi! I’ve fix the ‘featured post’ area in this colorpaper theme. You may found the ‘featured post’ area have problem with long post. Check the solution here; http://aizuikmal.com/2008/11/wordpress-theme-colorpaper-fixed-version/

I’ve tried what Aizu made to fix the featured post, but it doesn’t work for me. So I’ve made a trick. I’ve added this line
php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt()
instead of the content () in the index.php file and it works fine. You can see it at my blog Miss Lunatic

I had by-passed the problems i met !! And i’m now using (See it here ) this great theme with a lot of pleasure !! Want to thank the authors for that good job !!

Hi there,

I wish to release a Drupal version of Color Paper.

You can use the theme freely for all of your projects, without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both the designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.

However, I’ve tried e-mailing the authors and Smashing Magazine, but I have not received any reply from them.

Whats the point of stating this when they don’t reply to e-mails?

Didou, what did you do to solve the problems?

This theme is now available for Drupal.
Visit my blog at http://kahthong.com/color-paper-theme-for-drupal

This theme doesn’t work with wordpress 2.7 RC1, it appears this:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_comments() (previously declared in /home/andandos/public_html/wp-includes/comment.php:180) in /home/andandos/public_html/wp-content/themes/colorpaper/functions.php on line 37

Anyone knows how to make work this theme?

Marco, for WP 2.7 :

Open the file colorpaper/functions.php and delete (or comment) lines 23 to 37


function get_comments($limit = 7, $stops = 65) {
global $wpdb;

$getcomments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 0,".$limit);

foreach($getcomments as $thecomments) {
if ( strlen ( $thecomments->comment_content ) comment_content;
} else {
$comment = substr($thecomments->comment_content, 0, strrpos(substr($thecomments->comment_content, 0, $stops), ' ')) . '...';
}

echo 'comment_post_ID).'">'.$thecomments->comment_author.' said '.$comment.'';
}
}


Nice theme !

Matthieu:

Thanks, now the color paper theme works fine in wordpress 2.7.

Marco, see http://www.noggin.co.za/2008/12/wordpress-is-upgraded/ for a fix on your problem.

Great!

Thank’s Matthieu, now everything works fine with Colorpaper.

a.

To fix this theme for Wordpress 2.7, just wipe out lines 23-37 in the function.php file. See a full description at My Blog. Good Luck.

Hi all,
despite the problems most of you are experiencing, when i upgraded to 2.7, my site simply show a white page both external side and administration side. Correcting as mercurtion and other before suggested will resolve this issue?

I have the same problem as Sconfinare. When I click on a theme in the admin panel, it shows the blank (white) preview. And when I activate the theme, only white pages, both admin and front, are shown. Any tips for solving this?

My client ozge.issiz.org started using it. Thanks guys.

I’m a little confused with what you guys say on this page and what I read in the CC license page, so could you please clarify? I see this template has been ported to blogger already, but I wouldn’t wanna use it on my blog if it’s not ok. The links back to Smashing Mag and the author of the template were both kept in the footer, so this is how I found you guys. So, as long as I keep these links on my footer, crediting both Smashing and the original designer, is it ok for me to use this template on my blog, even thought it’s not a Wordpress blog? OMG, please say it’s ok! I’ll credit both, GLADLY, in bold type. Thank you!

Amazing for a free theme.Thanks for sharing

Great theme, but there is a big issue with IE6!!!

As said before, in IE6 the sidebar is pushed down… under the end of the content!

Some people said that they founf the solution to that!
Can someone share it, please?

Thanks

i have the same problem with flickr. it doesn’t show up!

Excellent! Eξαιρετικό (in Greek Language)! Can somebody tell me if it’s compatible with Wordpress 2.7 ???

i think the theme is great overall but I’m having trouble customizing it.

The Archives, the Search Box and the RSS Feed button are all “always on” by default. I can’t switch them off and they don’t show up as active widgets (activating any of them makes them double up). This isn’t a massive problem with Search or RSS but the Archives are going to really stretch the pages out once I’ve imported all my Blogger data. How can I get rid of them without messing things up?

Also, the Color Switcher is a nice touch but how do I change a colour? Alter the default colour? Or, better yet, just disable the Switcher?

Using WP 2.7 by the way.

Hi guys,

Does anyone have a solution to the IE6 style issue? my right menu seems to go all the way down.

Thanks!
AJ

Wow! Thanks a lot!

WOW thanks so much for this design. I have been searching everywhere for just the perfect one and I LOVE THIS! Check it out on my school blog :) thanks again

I’m using wordpress 2.7.1 and most everything seems to work fine. However, its seems that I’m also getting the sidebar pushed down the page when viewed in IE6. Any solutions for this?

Also, anyone trying to use a sticky post with the color paper theme? It’s not displaying correctly for me. Any help is appreciated!

The problem of the right sidebare being pushed down is created by the button you have to insert. When you insert it, the sidebare gets pushed down, when you don’t insert it the text of the first post is running over the text of the second post. etc..

anyone got a solution for this?

I just translate this theme in French, you can download here => http://www.wpthemes.ch/2009/04/07/color-paper-theme-original-avec-un-magnifique-design/

Thanks a lot for this theme, it’s very nice !

Beautiful theme, but is there a German translation out there?
Thanks a lot!

Can’t get the flickr stream to show and ajax tabs won’t work either.

WP 2.7.1 …. any help?

I love this template! I uploaded it to my current Blogger blog-www.eatliveshop.com- the other night and it shows up as shown above when I’m signed into Blogger but looks very different on other people’s computers. Most of the time my readers are seeing just a beige/grey background and there are no layers or wood background. Please HELP!!!

Very Beautiful!

Hi, the live demo is pointing to a different layout

Nice theme. Unfortunately it does not work under WP 2.8 …