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Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall

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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.

Release in Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall

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.

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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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  1. 1
    Brandon
    July 10th, 2009 1:23 pm

    Great article.

  2. 2
    Evan Riley
    July 10th, 2009 1:27 pm

    Amazing wordpress theme. Thanks!

    and what is up with people saying first?

  3. 3
    Omer
    July 10th, 2009 1:27 pm

    Thank you.

  4. 4
    Jash Sayani
    July 10th, 2009 1:29 pm

    Another great theme…

  5. 5
    pete
    July 10th, 2009 1:32 pm

    Good job!!

    Can we get also the .psd file if there is one?

  6. 6
    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.

  7. 7
    micka|services
    July 10th, 2009 1:40 pm

    Nice!! I want more :)

  8. 8
    Web Design News
    July 10th, 2009 1:53 pm

    nice one

  9. 9
    Mikael
    July 10th, 2009 2:06 pm

    Well done!

  10. 10
    Desizn Tech
    July 10th, 2009 2:41 pm

    This is really a nice theme. Thanks for sharing

  11. 11
    ESD
    July 10th, 2009 2:42 pm

    just beautiful !

  12. 12
    Curtis
    July 10th, 2009 3:01 pm

    That looks like a great theme. Nice design elements!

  13. 13
    Simon Harlinghausen
    July 10th, 2009 3:02 pm

    Great theme. A psd would be perfect.
    Thanks.

  14. 14
    vectorss
    July 10th, 2009 3:48 pm

    great design. Thanks share

  15. 15
    Jamie Northrup
    July 10th, 2009 5:26 pm

    Very 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.

  16. 16
    Melayu Boleh
    July 10th, 2009 5:32 pm

    very 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.

  17. 17
    LaunchTulsa.com
    July 10th, 2009 6:30 pm

    I like the theme a lot. It seems to have a bulky header though.

    I would like to see more 3 col themes released.

  18. 18
    Andrew
    July 10th, 2009 7:31 pm

    Thanks!

  19. 19
    Hastimal Shah
    July 10th, 2009 8:54 pm

    Great Design. Nice theme :)
    Thanks

  20. 20
    Truffle Apps
    July 10th, 2009 9:10 pm

    Nice
    Well done

  21. 21
    Shachii
    July 10th, 2009 9:53 pm

    Truly a beautiful theme! :)
    Much appreciated.
    Thanks for having it up for free…

  22. 22
    bee
    July 10th, 2009 11:19 pm

    Really beautiful, thanks a lot!
    I think I’ll use this one :)

  23. 23
    Smashing Editorial
    July 10th, 2009 11:22 pm

    The .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

  24. 24
    Klodian
    July 10th, 2009 11:28 pm

    cool, I will make a template like, for blogger

  25. 25
    Doug Neubauer
    July 11th, 2009 2:05 am

    Very nice theme. It would be great for an artist’s website.

  26. 26
    Jennifer
    July 11th, 2009 2:52 am

    Anyone else having trouble downloading the theme? I’m only getting the read me file.

  27. 27
    Jason
    July 11th, 2009 3:49 am

    Nice!

  28. 28
    Paul
    July 11th, 2009 3:51 am

    looks nice, thank you!

  29. 29
    rup@m
    July 11th, 2009 5:13 am

    Hai! its nice…

  30. 30
    Grafiko
    July 11th, 2009 6:52 am

    Nice,

    Where was this six months ago when I was looking for something like this for my site..

  31. 31
    Bilal Aslam
    July 11th, 2009 7:09 am

    hey 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

  32. 32
    Artisan
    July 11th, 2009 7:24 am

    Thank you !
    Really nice and creative.

  33. 33
    Chris McCorkle
    July 11th, 2009 7:49 am

    I think I’m the only one that doesn’t dig these “desktop” themes…

  34. 34
    铁蛋骑士
    July 11th, 2009 8:06 am

    Thanx very very much,I will try.

  35. 35
    pavobe
    July 11th, 2009 10:02 am

    Hi!

    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.

  36. 36
    @23Kazoos
    July 11th, 2009 10:50 am

    I love Smashing Magazine and this Wordpress Theme is awesome! Thanks!!

  37. 37
    Elena
    July 11th, 2009 11:09 am

    thank you for the theme, i use it!

  38. 38
    Ritesh Jahha
    July 11th, 2009 11:36 am

    Theme 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!

  39. 39
    Harnish
    July 11th, 2009 3:27 pm

    Nice theme!

  40. 40
    Larson
    July 11th, 2009 7:50 pm

    having the .psd files for all the logos would be nice, otherwise I can’t use it, nice design though

  41. 41
    Kevin Althaus
    July 11th, 2009 8:34 pm

    Thank you to the designer and Smashing for this great theme.

  42. 42
    webmaster9
    July 12th, 2009 12:19 am

    beautifull! I’ll use it on my girlfrien’s blog ;)

  43. 43
    Senol
    July 12th, 2009 3:29 am

    I installed this theme. Very beautiful. But comments are not coming up on the “pages”. Why? How can i show the comments on the pages?

  44. 44
    pavobe
    July 12th, 2009 4:21 am

    Text widgets broke sidebar panels.

  45. 45
    Mya
    July 12th, 2009 6:47 am

    Good looking theme!

  46. 46
    Michael Arnaldo
    July 12th, 2009 4:20 pm

    Amazing Design! I personally love the attention to detail’s on the shadows of the folds and such! Great work! Bring us more freebies ^_^

  47. 47
    Gurcan
    July 12th, 2009 9:25 pm

    great, thank you.. will use immediately :)

  48. 48
    Torsten
    July 13th, 2009 5:43 am

    Wow, it looks great.

  49. 49
    desginerplus1
    July 13th, 2009 10:36 pm

    Thx a lot for the theme and I am going to use it in my bolg

  50. 50
    Fechy
    July 14th, 2009 5:36 am

    Nice template! BTW live demo isn’t working.

    Regards

  51. 51
    Rox
    July 14th, 2009 6:18 am

    This 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

  52. 52
    Arun
    July 14th, 2009 6:24 pm

    Thx, Nice Them.

  53. 53
    ilFrittomisto
    July 15th, 2009 2:19 am

    Hi, 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

  54. 54
    Nehalem
    July 15th, 2009 2:25 am

    it’s a great looking theme but it’s code it’s wasted. has a lot of errors. you have to code it again :)

  55. 55
    ilFrittomisto
    July 15th, 2009 2:49 am

    Can you help me for add Wordpress Stats?
    Only this not run. Other plugin are ok.

  56. 56
    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.

  57. 57
    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?

  58. 58
    Rox
    July 15th, 2009 8:38 am

    It 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.

  59. 59
    Dvir
    July 15th, 2009 4:12 pm

    Amazing !.. it’s will be ok if I translate it to hebrew ?

  60. 60
    Template Blog
    July 16th, 2009 1:40 am

    awesome, thanks

  61. 61
    ilFrittomisto
    July 16th, 2009 1:46 am

    @Rox: i have found the problem. Thanks for answers!

  62. 62
    AaronMoody
    July 16th, 2009 2:02 am

    Thanks alot.

  63. 63
    Ryan
    July 16th, 2009 9:24 am

    super useful. great to have all these wonderful tools under one roof!

  64. 64
    Joe
    July 17th, 2009 12:06 pm

    Hey 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

  65. 65
    Ritesh Jagga
    July 18th, 2009 7:33 am

    @Rox: Thanks a lot. I did the same to resolve that.

  66. 66
    Fred
    July 21st, 2009 3:38 am

    Fantastic design, really like it. Thumbs up from me.

  67. 67
    Stefan
    July 22nd, 2009 7:18 am

    everytime 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!

  68. 68
    Maksin
    July 22nd, 2009 1:06 pm

    Really nice looking theme. Thanks. :)

  69. 69
    Ritesh Jagga
    July 29th, 2009 10:48 pm

    I 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.

  70. 70
    Melvin Neo
    August 5th, 2009 4:26 am

    I 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.

  71. 71
    JD
    August 6th, 2009 8:03 pm

    Is 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

  72. 72
    Maye
    August 11th, 2009 6:44 am

    there’s still something wrong with my widget, bg images won’t load. what to do? LINK

  73. 73
    Soso
    August 13th, 2009 3:01 am

    Great Thank you

  74. 74
    Vivek Kumar
    August 15th, 2009 1:32 am

    Loved your work I become really a fan.

  75. 75
    Jorge
    August 18th, 2009 5:19 pm

    Lovely theme design, thanks for share it

  76. 76
    samprocess
    September 11th, 2009 10:21 am

    fantastic theme

  77. 77
    Michael P.
    September 12th, 2009 1:57 am

    Thanks for the theme, i use it on my new Blog :D
    See it on Action on

    I <3 smashing mag

  78. 78
    Dan
    September 13th, 2009 1:14 am

    Did 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

  79. 79
    Dan
    September 13th, 2009 2:16 am

    Oh, no need – turns out it was user error. Wordpress needed to be updated!

  80. 80
    Thangaraj
    October 15th, 2009 3:34 am

    Great theme! question: Will this work in worpress mu?

  81. 81
    Fahim Murshed
    October 18th, 2009 12:02 am

    Fantastic theme. Very nice and colorful design. Can i change Footer.php?

  82. 82
    Carlos Raminhos
    October 23rd, 2009 12:04 pm

    I’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.

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