Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall
Today we are glad to release the Paper Wall WordPress Theme, an original, beautiful, high-quality WordPress theme, designed by Adrian Lazariuc from Indeziner.com exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme has a unique, colorful design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs and, if customized, can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog.
Download and use the theme for free!
You can use the theme for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The theme may not be resold, sublicensed or rented. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
- full-page screenshot (.jpg)
- live demo
- download the theme (.zip, 0.85 Mb)
- Blogger template release of the theme (.zip, 11.40 Mb)
- Paper Wall Blogger Template Release
More previews
Fancy navigation menu:
“Paper”-effect for the search
Paper board style for menu sections
Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designer herself:
Paper Wall is the first wordpress theme released by Indeziner and it was created especially for Smashing Magazine. We created this theme as a challenge for us to see if it will be accepted for these great guys and in this way to receive a reputation.
We have created the Paper Wall theme as an alternative to any classic wordpress theme from before. The idea for the design was our daily working desk. As designers we always put things on paper. We draw elements and organize our activities mostly on a simple piece of paper. A designer’s desk is full of writing instruments and sketches and this is why we tried to bring the same layout online.
We wanted to provide you with the possibility to be able to simply activate this theme in WordPress and everything should work just fine. This is why we did not build a lot of features or personalized this theme too much in the idea to be simple to use. This is why it is very flexible and will work with all standard plugins that you may install in the future. All elements can be changed easily and you can personalize your theme as you want.
The header menu is updated automatically with pages you create from WordPress admin area and so is the footer. We used a plugin WP-PageNavi for the pagination. Using it is optional and replaces simple WordPress pagination. We were inspired by WebdesignerDepot and WebdesignerWall’s design style.
Thank you very much, guys! We really appreciate your efforts!
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Brandon
July 10th, 2009 1:23 pmGreat article.
Evan Riley
July 10th, 2009 1:27 pmAmazing wordpress theme. Thanks!
and what is up with people saying first?
Omer
July 10th, 2009 1:27 pmThank you.
Jash Sayani
July 10th, 2009 1:29 pmAnother great theme…
pete
July 10th, 2009 1:32 pmGood job!!
Can we get also the .psd file if there is one?
Smashing Editorial
July 10th, 2009 1:39 pm@pete (#5): we just sent an e-mail to the designer, asking for the original PSD-file. Please stay tuned.
micka|services
July 10th, 2009 1:40 pmNice!! I want more :)
Web Design News
July 10th, 2009 1:53 pmnice one
Mikael
July 10th, 2009 2:06 pmWell done!
Gilberto
February 28th, 2012 6:27 amThanks for the head up, i’ve fegrot to add those styling. Try to add the following lines to the css stylesheet:.single-entry a {color:#FF7B0E}.single-entry a:hover {color:#fff}
Desizn Tech
July 10th, 2009 2:41 pmThis is really a nice theme. Thanks for sharing
ESD
July 10th, 2009 2:42 pmjust beautiful !
Curtis
July 10th, 2009 3:01 pmThat looks like a great theme. Nice design elements!
Simon Harlinghausen
July 10th, 2009 3:02 pmGreat theme. A psd would be perfect.
Thanks.
vectorss
July 10th, 2009 3:48 pmgreat design. Thanks share
Jamie Northrup
July 10th, 2009 5:26 pmVery nice and colourful design, I will be featuring this theme as the Free Theme of the Day on Monday July 13th at my website WordPressOfTheDay.
Melayu Boleh
July 10th, 2009 5:32 pmvery nice themes indeed..
love the color used with the themes..
just that post image was too big for me.
I wish I can adjust it for 100×100 or 200×200 for the post image at the front page.
LaunchTulsa.com
July 10th, 2009 6:30 pmI like the theme a lot. It seems to have a bulky header though.
I would like to see more 3 col themes released.
Andrew
July 10th, 2009 7:31 pmThanks!
Hastimal Shah
July 10th, 2009 8:54 pmGreat Design. Nice theme :)
Thanks
Shachii
July 10th, 2009 9:53 pmTruly a beautiful theme! :)
Much appreciated.
Thanks for having it up for free…
bee
July 10th, 2009 11:19 pmReally beautiful, thanks a lot!
I think I’ll use this one :)
Smashing Editorial
July 10th, 2009 11:22 pmThe .PSD-source is now available for download as well: http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/indeziner-paper-wall/indeziner-paper-wall-psd.zip
Klodian
July 10th, 2009 11:28 pmcool, I will make a template like, for blogger
Doug Neubauer
July 11th, 2009 2:05 amVery nice theme. It would be great for an artist’s website.
Jennifer
July 11th, 2009 2:52 amAnyone else having trouble downloading the theme? I’m only getting the read me file.
Jason
July 11th, 2009 3:49 amNice!
Paul
July 11th, 2009 3:51 amlooks nice, thank you!
rup@m
July 11th, 2009 5:13 amHai! its nice…
Grafiko
July 11th, 2009 6:52 amNice,
Where was this six months ago when I was looking for something like this for my site..
Bilal Aslam
July 11th, 2009 7:09 amhey guys I’ve converted this template to Blogger, check out the demo here:
Paper Wall Blogger Template Demo
and download from here:
Paper Wall Blogger Template Download Page
Artisan
July 11th, 2009 7:24 amThank you !
Really nice and creative.
Chris McCorkle
July 11th, 2009 7:49 amI think I’m the only one that doesn’t dig these “desktop” themes…
铁蛋骑士
July 11th, 2009 8:06 amThanx very very much,I will try.
pavobe
July 11th, 2009 10:02 amHi!
I just want to know how to add extra in 404 page.
I have been trying using many div combinantions and I still can’t get natural left padding…
Thanks for any reply.
@23Kazoos
July 11th, 2009 10:50 amI love Smashing Magazine and this WordPress Theme is awesome! Thanks!!
Elena
July 11th, 2009 11:09 amthank you for the theme, i use it!
Ritesh Jahha
July 11th, 2009 11:36 amTheme is really beautiful and I would be using it on my site http://www.paheliyaan.com/
When I activate this theme in wordpress (I am using wordpress version 2.6.5) I get an error which says: “Fatal error: Unknown function: automatic_feed_links() in C:\xampp\htdocs\teabreaks\break2\blog\wp-content\themes\indezinerpaperwall\functions.php on line 7″
I commented this line but I see another error in header.php, it seems as if some file is missing. I would appreciate if you could help in fixing this error. Many Thanks!
Harnish
July 11th, 2009 3:27 pmNice theme!
Larson
July 11th, 2009 7:50 pmhaving the .psd files for all the logos would be nice, otherwise I can’t use it, nice design though
Kevin Althaus
July 11th, 2009 8:34 pmThank you to the designer and Smashing for this great theme.
webmaster9
July 12th, 2009 12:19 ambeautifull! I’ll use it on my girlfrien’s blog ;)
Senol
July 12th, 2009 3:29 amI installed this theme. Very beautiful. But comments are not coming up on the “pages”. Why? How can i show the comments on the pages?
pavobe
July 12th, 2009 4:21 amText widgets broke sidebar panels.
Mya
July 12th, 2009 6:47 amGood looking theme!
Michael Arnaldo
July 12th, 2009 4:20 pmAmazing Design! I personally love the attention to detail’s on the shadows of the folds and such! Great work! Bring us more freebies ^_^
Gurcan
July 12th, 2009 9:25 pmgreat, thank you.. will use immediately :)
Torsten
July 13th, 2009 5:43 amWow, it looks great.
desginerplus1
July 13th, 2009 10:36 pmThx a lot for the theme and I am going to use it in my bolg
Fechy
July 14th, 2009 5:36 amNice template! BTW live demo isn’t working.
Regards
Rox
July 14th, 2009 6:18 amThis is great :) I just set it up and will start tweaking it.
@Ritesh Jahha: I had the same problem, but after I upgraded to the WordPress version it worked without a problem
Arun
July 14th, 2009 6:24 pmThx, Nice Them.
ilFrittomisto
July 15th, 2009 2:19 amHi, since i have use this theme, my wordpress stats not run.
I don’t see the smile image in my blog page.
It’s my problem or other people have too?
p.s. Sorry for my english
Nehalem
July 15th, 2009 2:25 amit’s a great looking theme but it’s code it’s wasted. has a lot of errors. you have to code it again :)
ilFrittomisto
July 15th, 2009 2:49 amCan you help me for add WordPress Stats?
Only this not run. Other plugin are ok.
Rox
July 15th, 2009 3:08 am@ilFrittomisto : did you add the code for the stats in the footer code? Because by changing the theme the code isn’t there anymore. Try to redo all the steps you took when you first installed the stats code.
ilFrittomisto
July 15th, 2009 3:16 am@Rox: I use WordPress Stats Plugin. But with this template it not run. I deactivate and activate many times, but don’t run.
What function use this plugin to add code in page footer?
Rox
July 15th, 2009 8:38 amIt says in the plugin Faq that “your theme must have a call to at the very bottom right before the tag.” Check if that is present, and if it isn’t add it.
Dvir
July 15th, 2009 4:12 pmAmazing !.. it’s will be ok if I translate it to hebrew ?
Template Blog
July 16th, 2009 1:40 amawesome, thanks
ilFrittomisto
July 16th, 2009 1:46 am@Rox: i have found the problem. Thanks for answers!
AaronMoody
July 16th, 2009 2:02 amThanks alot.
Ryan
July 16th, 2009 9:24 amsuper useful. great to have all these wonderful tools under one roof!
Joe
July 17th, 2009 12:06 pmHey guys, after I applied the theme to my blog, the search box doesn’t work anymore (can’t click or type anything in the search box), is anyone else having this trouble?
It seems like the wordpress default search box still works if I add it to the widget sidebar, but the one from the theme doesn’t work, can anybody help me with this problem?
Thanks
Ritesh Jagga
July 18th, 2009 7:33 am@Rox: Thanks a lot. I did the same to resolve that.
Fred
July 21st, 2009 3:38 amFantastic design, really like it. Thumbs up from me.
Stefan
July 22nd, 2009 7:18 ameverytime i add a picture to my posts (more than 5 paragraphs) the text flows round the picture, no matter if left or right, but after one paragraph the content stops for a while until the picture’s height is over and then continues under the picture. how come and how to fix that? see: http://stefanmaass.net/2009/07/10/japanisch-tutorial-ich-kann-sprechen/
in addition if i set a picture on top of the post there will be no text around the picture at all :/
can u please help me? thx so much!
Maksin
July 22nd, 2009 1:06 pmReally nice looking theme. Thanks. :)
Ritesh Jagga
July 29th, 2009 10:48 pmI have this theme working here http://www.paheliyaan.com/break2/blog/
This is the one of the coolest and wonderful theme I have ever seen and used. Many thanks to the creators.
I just wish that changing the word INDEZINER with tag line (in logo) could be easy than editing it in photoshop, which seems bit difficult for a novice user.
Melvin Neo
August 5th, 2009 4:26 amI have the same problem with Stefan. I’m using this theme template for my church missions site. Every time when I add a picture to my posts, the text flows round the picture, no matter if left or right, but after one paragraph the content stops for a while until the picture’s height is over and then continues under the picture. How come and how to fix that? Please see: http://missions.cscc.org.sg/ for a clearer picture.
Can someone please help?
Thanks.
JD
August 6th, 2009 8:03 pmIs anyone else having a problem downloading the PSD from http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/indeziner-paper-wall/indeziner-paper-wall-psd.zip ? Every time I get to 4.6Mb (out of 11Mb) and then the download dies… Is there an alternate link?
Thanks, love the theme…
JD
Maye
August 11th, 2009 6:44 amthere’s still something wrong with my widget, bg images won’t load. what to do? LINK
Soso
August 13th, 2009 3:01 amGreat Thank you
Vivek Kumar
August 15th, 2009 1:32 amLoved your work I become really a fan.
Jorge
August 18th, 2009 5:19 pmLovely theme design, thanks for share it
samprocess
September 11th, 2009 10:21 amfantastic theme
Michael P.
September 12th, 2009 1:57 amThanks for the theme, i use it on my new Blog :D
See it on Action on
I <3 smashing mag
Dan
September 13th, 2009 1:14 amDid anyone else get a fatal error when trying to use this theme?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: automatic_feed_links() in … /wp-content/themes/indezinerpaperwall/functions.php on line 7
If anyone knows how to get this working please let me know.
Cheers,
Dan
Dan
September 13th, 2009 2:16 amOh, no need – turns out it was user error. WordPress needed to be updated!
Thangaraj
October 15th, 2009 3:34 amGreat theme! question: Will this work in worpress mu?
Fahim Murshed
October 18th, 2009 12:02 amFantastic theme. Very nice and colorful design. Can i change Footer.php?
Carlos Raminhos
October 23rd, 2009 12:04 pmI’m a primary teacher and I’m using this beautiful theme in http://carlosraminhos.com/blog to publish pedagogical activities for children (in Portuguese). Thanks.
Kevin
November 13th, 2009 2:23 amhy guys!
great theme, i use it for a school and changed something on the graphics in the header. looks realy nice :)
but i would like to add a drop down menu for the exitisting site navigation in the header, because the homepage has a bigger structure. any solution or someone can help me, pls? :)
PS: sorry for my broken english :o)
you can also contact me via mail: suess@it-vertrieb-service.de
greetings
kevin
tomas
November 23rd, 2009 12:15 pmOla e o tomas.Espero que o professor melhore das suas dores.Beijinhos e abraços,Tomas.
Brian
January 20th, 2010 11:59 amI’m trying to figure out how to change the header to show my site’s name. I’ve downloaded Gimp and opened the file, but it’s over my head. Can someone help?
Brian
January 20th, 2010 12:46 pmAlso, does anyone know the name of the font that is used for the site name? Thanks.
Nina
February 19th, 2010 2:04 pmWonderful, thanks :)
Lee
March 25th, 2010 9:07 amGreat theme Adrian! We’ve found a great use for this!
natasha
April 6th, 2010 1:32 amI cant install the theme. There are error messages and it says theme is broken. I updated wordpress and still having this problem. Its annoying cause I really wanted to use this awesom looking theme.anybody else with this problem?
Nguyên Anh
June 27th, 2010 4:33 pmlooks nice, thank you!
senet
August 12th, 2010 7:28 am@natasha April 6th, 2010 1:32 am
Same problem here :-$