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Compositio: Clean, Beautiful and Free WordPress Theme
In comments to our recent freebie releases you asked for a simple, clean and beautiful WordPress-theme; the theme should be easily customize for different purposes and in a variety of settings. We’ve been listening to you and we heard you: and today we are release (hopefully) exactly what you’ve been asking for.
In this post we release Compositio – a simple, clean and user-friendly WordPress-theme, created by talented Elena Gafita for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Compositio is a two column theme, made to for those who want to put their content at the front with a unique light blue design. Random square shapes are the defining graphics of this theme. They are used throughout the background, bringing a special rhythm to the theme.
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Compositio: A Free WordPress Theme
A special feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Compositio theme and name it logo.png. You can also use the PSD Logo Template in the source folder of the Compositio Theme. (Image limitations: max is 590px/85px). If you want to activate this option go to Administration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.
The theme is widget-ready, so you can use it as you like. Also Elena customized the CSS for the default widgets to match the site style better. The theme is using a couple of plugins, with some already integrated into functions.php, so there is no need to install them. The only plugin you need to install manually is FlickrRSS (FlickrRSS plugin is in the theme folder) (see the demo).
This work is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This means that you may use it, and make any changes you like. Just leave the credits on footer if you respect the designer’s work.
- full image preview
- live demo (the server experiences some problems)
- download the theme (mirror) (.zip, 0.2 Mb)
- release post on DesignDisease’s blog
Thanks for the truly great work, Elena, we really appreciate it.
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Suggestions for particular themes?
What themes would you like to be released on Smashing Magazine next? What are you looking for? Or, more importantly, what kind of themes shouldn’t we release any more? We appreciate your input in the comments to this post!
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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February 18th, 2009 7:43 amSexy … Maybe the sidebar could be a little nicer but over all pretty good.
- 3February 18th, 2009 8:00 am
Overall a really good work but it seems the Widgets in the Sidbars couldnt be displayed (to me?)…
Already installed ;) … psychologie-net.de - 4February 18th, 2009 8:05 am
demo url is not valid
- 5February 18th, 2009 8:05 am
it looks like the live demo link is broken
- 6February 18th, 2009 8:09 am
The preview link is correct – apparently, Elena’s server has some problems right now. Please be patient and try again in a couple of minutes.
- 7February 18th, 2009 8:12 am
I would love to have this template in blogger, and I hope that some bloggers converts will do this.
- 8February 18th, 2009 8:12 am
Hi, the Live Demo doesn’t work. Can you fix it please?
- 9February 18th, 2009 8:28 am
Cheers Smashing but this has been on Digg for a few weeks now.
Love the how clean the code is.
- 10February 18th, 2009 8:29 am
Nice and Clean….. Remind me old days :)
- 11February 18th, 2009 8:32 am
Hey demo isn’t valid.theme is nice!
- 12February 18th, 2009 8:40 am
Deluxe -I agree with you since I started with Blogger for my blog but it has so many limitations. I had to create multiples blogs to mimic a site with multiple pages…. I am thinking to migrate from blogger to WordPress.
- 13February 18th, 2009 9:00 am
It’s clean and elegant. I like this kind of theme.
- 14February 18th, 2009 9:09 am
Check the footer in the theme,it says brought to you by PremiumThemes.com
- 15February 18th, 2009 9:27 am
Very nice indeed, I think could be an idea to go even simpler though!
- 16February 18th, 2009 9:34 am
Wow another quality release from the Smashing Magazine and Design Disease. Looking forward for the results from last Smashing Magazine Poll about users interest… :)
- 17February 18th, 2009 9:49 am
thx sm! this themes so elegant… simple and nice….
- 18February 18th, 2009 10:32 am
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- 19February 18th, 2009 10:52 am
Looks awesome. One of the best themes posted here.
But there´s a small coding bug at the comments form. The labels for each input link to the author field. This should get fixed, because it´s irritating ;-)
- 20February 18th, 2009 11:09 am
pretty nice:)worth to be digg=)
- 21February 18th, 2009 11:24 am
Got this on WPMU 2.6.3:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() - 22February 18th, 2009 11:29 am
Reply comments link?
Just revamped the dilectio theme i guess. None the less. Looks nice.
- 23February 18th, 2009 12:07 pm
CSS/layout not checked in Safari?
Update: I stand corrected. This one looks OK in Safari, I clicked on one of the other themes on DesignDisease where the search graphic was mucked up in Safari.
- 24February 18th, 2009 12:09 pm
awesome theme
- 25February 18th, 2009 12:30 pm
PremiumThemes.com is run by DesignDisease. That’s probably the reason for the link. Great theme!
- 26February 18th, 2009 1:03 pm
seems to be a nice theme, very lightly but I don’t like the design too much. I prefer rounded corners more :) Although romanian web designers and developers are very good and creative :)
- 27February 18th, 2009 1:22 pm
nice theme, but a bit too minimalist for me. Good job designdisease.
- 28February 18th, 2009 1:26 pm
Hey, i’ve translated this theme to Brazilian Portuguese, if you want me ask for it, i can send you. I’ll put it to download in my blog, giving the right credits, ok ?
See ya !
- 29February 18th, 2009 2:17 pm
With the “read more” bit the arrows (I think they are meant to be arrows) show up as symbols.
Great looking theme though!
- 30February 18th, 2009 5:06 pm
I’d really appreciate seeing more themes that were not for Wordpress. Perhaps zen cart, oscommerce, or themes for another open source eCommerce solution. Really, anything besides Wordpress would be nice. No offense to the lovers of Wordpress of course.
- 31February 18th, 2009 11:12 pm
WoW! It’s really simply clean, nice job :)
- 32February 18th, 2009 11:34 pm
huh? why is the order of the poll questions changing after you vote? confusing…
nice theme, tnx!
- 33February 18th, 2009 11:37 pm
wonderful job! loved the theme!
- 34February 19th, 2009 12:48 am
Really nice, clean look and feel but…
On Windows 2000 Pro, IE 6.0 (no comments on that! it’s a corporate machine ;-), screen resolution 1280 x 1024 sidebar drops down, down the page … - 35February 19th, 2009 3:01 am
This is a great theme. Also on my blog ;)
- 36February 19th, 2009 3:38 am
Very nice. It would be a very good idea to have new templates for photoblogs, whciha re today very few. Mine (http://www.maxbelloni.com) is based on WP, YAPB (specific plugin for photoblogs) and Grain (theme for YAPB). Having the possibility to choose more themes for this specific (and not so easy as it looks to be) would be very welcome.
- 37February 19th, 2009 4:00 am
The site designdisease.com seems to be down for me right now :(
- 38February 19th, 2009 4:06 am
Love to see the nice and clean theme. good work
- 39February 19th, 2009 5:09 am
A lovely theme! I’ll use it in my blog. Congratulations, Smashing Magazine, as perfect as always.
- 40February 19th, 2009 5:31 am
simple and elegant….good wrk…
- 41February 19th, 2009 9:23 am
Great theme
- 42February 19th, 2009 9:38 am
I don’t like this template… I LOVE IT!!! I will use this as a framework for my blog redesign. Hopefully everything will be great. Thank you for this.
- 43February 19th, 2009 11:12 am
As usual, great info and useful resources. Thanks guys.
- 44February 19th, 2009 11:15 am
What a excellent, great wordpress theme!
Thanks so much!
I’m using it now on my own blog (a bit tuned, though).
Peace, - 45February 19th, 2009 10:58 pm
Wow. I always love his design. (^^) Thank a lot.
- 46February 20th, 2009 4:41 am
Wow. and clear layout
- 47February 20th, 2009 7:19 am
Not to be a bitch but it looks just like any other free wordpress theme.
I liked the left side, but the sidebar is just too “normal”.
I’ve seen that sidebar in a lot of themes so there is not any improvements or dramatic changes.It’s like the blue version of the Dilectio wordpress theme.
With the really cool features or plugins available in the WP universe I believe the sidebar could have been a lot better.
Images for categories may’ve been a really good choice.
Just a thought.
SIlla!
- 48February 20th, 2009 7:21 am
great theme !
just a question, what is the purpose of the function trackTheme() in functions.php ? - 49February 20th, 2009 9:44 am
Compositio are not a clean theme. Maybe a strange Theme or a pre-clean-theme, but, right now look some caothic theme. Need more work on it to become simple and clean.
- 50February 20th, 2009 1:35 pm
A theme like Smashing Mag will be aswesome to have
- 51February 22nd, 2009 4:30 am
@Jim,
It looks to me like if the ie.css file is missing from your theme directory it emails them and tells them your site is using their theme …
Are they actually calling that function somewhere? It seems like an awfully odd function.
- 52February 23rd, 2009 6:54 am
Great theme
- 53February 24th, 2009 10:10 pm
This one is cool but the previous themes from Design Disease were really awesome
- 54March 5th, 2009 1:06 am
The best wordpress theme ever from design disease. I wish they come up with few themes for blogger platform too.
- 55March 8th, 2009 6:18 pm
I really like this theme and am grateful to Smashing Mag and Design Disease for making it available. I am a bit curious about the trackTheme function, located in the functions.php file. This function is called apparently on line 48 of index.php.
I’m not a php coder, but I think this function appears to check for the presence of ie.css (a css file with only comments and no actual styles), and then send an email to a gmail account. I believe that the email would contain the hostname, the path to the theme’s directory (which would include my username at my web host).
This seems like an odd thing to include in a theme, perhaps it is an unintentional remnant from coding/testing. I’m wondering if it would send an email each time the page is loaded, and whether it would break any functionality if I just removed the trackTheme function altogether. If anyone has noticed this or has any suggestions, I’d be interested.
Thanks!
- 56March 25th, 2009 9:38 pm
I converted this theme to a Drupal 6 theme.
Available here: Compositio for Drupal 6
- 57March 29th, 2009 6:55 pm
Sexy is an understatement!!!
- 58April 20th, 2009 8:34 pm
This template is beautiful and inspires me to blog even more. Thanks so much. :)
- 59July 7th, 2009 11:15 am
Lovely theme, too bad that as John remarked before me, this theme “phones home” with som dangerous server info. I love that this theme has been made available to us for free, but this leaves a bad taste.
- 60July 30th, 2009 8:35 pm
Very nice theme, thanks for sharing! Did any of you find a work around to remove child pages for the main navigation menu? It seems that is broken; when you add a page and make it a child the page is just added next to the parent page there is no way to remove it. Any help will be appreciated.
Regarding the trackTheme function it will be good if Smashing Mag or Design Disease can explain its purpose to the community. All previous comments on this matter were ignored.
- 61November 19th, 2009 11:53 am
Very powerful theme, Very easy to use and translate. I am using it on my blog (www.nevnevi.com).
Thank you Design Disease - 62
- 63November 27th, 2009 5:16 pm
i like it best.
thanks a lot~ - 64January 2nd, 2010 4:24 pm
Hi, tks for sharing but, i have a question. With that theme the newer and older entries its broken dont appear… its the wptheme ok?
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