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Glassical: A Free WordPress Theme
We love our readers. We respect the hard work of designers and developers across the globe. And we do our best to make the web design community stronger and the Web a little bit prettier. Therefore we ask talented artists and creative professionals to showcase their skills and release something unique and beautiful as a gift to the community. And when designers agree, impressive works see the light of day.
Today we are glad to release Glassical — a free professional Wordpress-theme created by Abdullah Ibrahim. This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity. Hopefully, you will be able to use it in your projects or at least use it as a foundation for your next projects. The theme is released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download the theme for free!
The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish. The theme supports the WordPress 2.8 nested comment system and it is also customized for the WP Pagenavi plugin. Also, Cufón is used for embedding the Nevis font into the theme.
- large preview 1 (front page)
- large preview 2 (post page)
- download the theme + PSD source (.zip, 2.1 Mb)
- Blogger version: Demo, Release post (incl. download link)
- release post
[Offtopic: By the way, did you know that Smashing Magazine has a mobile version? Try it out if you have an iPhone, Blackberry or another capable device.]
Screenshots
Below you’ll find more screenshots of the theme. You can click on an image to see the enlarge version.
“Filed under” and “Comments”-section
“Categories”-section
Design of a <blockquote>
Last but not least…
Thank you, Abdullah! We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
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 want 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.
You may be interested in the following free Wordpress-themes as well:
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
(31 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5)
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November 7th, 2009 1:29 pmAwesome, awesome theme.
Thanks! - 3November 7th, 2009 1:29 pm
Cool theme!
- 4November 7th, 2009 1:30 pm
it looks just okay…. not very cool
- 5November 7th, 2009 1:30 pm
Looks great. We’re setting up a quick CMS and this certainly will help with the pretty-enough look of things.
- 6November 7th, 2009 1:49 pm
Thanks for this. Is awesome.
- 7November 7th, 2009 1:51 pm
Holy crap. LOVE it! LOVELOVELOVE it! <3
- 8November 7th, 2009 1:57 pm
Good theme. Anything free is good.
- 9November 7th, 2009 2:04 pm
Awesome theme. Thanks SM!
- 10November 7th, 2009 2:08 pm
I really appreciate that you guys give this things away for free, and this is beautiful as always…
but is there anyway we could get some for Drupal? It seems there is more of a dire need for Drupal themes then WP (even if it’s less popular) because there are less good ones out there…Thanks SM!
- 11November 7th, 2009 2:14 pm
Wow – simple themes really are the best. Thanks for this!
- 12November 7th, 2009 2:14 pm
I like the theme but it looks like Twitter-inspired theme. The color scheme and layout looks like a Twitter blog to me.
- 13November 7th, 2009 2:34 pm
Loving it!
- 14November 7th, 2009 2:35 pm
Awesome! I’m going to convert it to blogger template and link it back to you guys. hope you don’t mind. Great stuff..
- 15November 7th, 2009 2:36 pm
awesome theme !
- 16November 7th, 2009 2:41 pm
Awesome theme. Loving it!
- 17November 7th, 2009 2:41 pm
Love it, clean crisp lay-out. An excellent starting point for developers, but also great for people who are just looking for a simple theme.
- 18November 7th, 2009 2:48 pm
Not bad… looks like Twitter.
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- 20November 8th, 2009 11:58 pm
That website.. the background is copied from tutorial9.net
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- 21November 7th, 2009 2:54 pm
Hi ! Great theme, thx u very much !
Can you help us with Cufon and iso-8859-1 collation ? I can’t display accentued character with the default file of cufon in the theme.
And very thx for u works
- 22November 7th, 2009 4:04 pm
Nice! Super good starting place for a simple clean theme, that’s not just black and white.
- 23November 7th, 2009 4:31 pm
GREAT THEME!!!!!
LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!! - 24November 7th, 2009 4:38 pm
Awesome theme, thanks <3 !
- 25November 7th, 2009 6:28 pm
It’s very simple and nice theme.
- 26November 7th, 2009 7:06 pm
(SM) Thank you, Ben! The file is corrected already! Please download the new version.
This is a nice clean theme, I like it. Though it has a few validation errors out of the gate (9) The good news, it only took 3 fixes to correct them.
1. In the sidebar.php file there is an erroneous closing h3 tag for an opening h2 tag (above “archives”) I think
2. Then also in sidebar.php the ad image does not have an alt attribute.
3. Then in header.php there is also a missing alt attribute for the rss icon in the main nav bar.
Thanks for the theme. :)
- 27November 7th, 2009 7:07 pm
Edit: 1. In the sidebar.php file there is an erroneous closing h3 tag for an opening h2 tag (above “archives”) I think
(SM) The file is corrected already! Please download the new version.
- 28November 7th, 2009 9:09 pm
hot glass :-) I like its simplicity
- 29November 7th, 2009 11:10 pm
Amazing! Great! I haven’t words… :-D
- 30November 8th, 2009 12:15 am
Really fantastic work, love it!
- 31November 8th, 2009 2:00 am
Thank you everyone for liking the theme. Its a great pleasure listening people praising your work :).
- 32November 8th, 2009 3:27 am
How do I deactivate Cufón? It does not work with other characters than english.
- 33November 8th, 2009 3:40 am
@Martin,
In the footer.php on lline 18 you will find
Cufon.replace(’h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6′);Delete this line and you’re done.
- 34November 8th, 2009 4:06 am
Perfect! Looks great even without Cufón. Thanks for the quick reply.
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- 35November 8th, 2009 3:42 am
@Martin > Open /glassical/footer.php in your text editor
1. Comment or delete lines 13 (cufon-yui.js) and 14 (nevis_700.font.js)
2. Comment or delete line 18 (call to cufon.replace() function)That’s it ! You will have default police on title and others special characters you need.
You will note have Nevis font, but it’s the price for the moment to display titles with special characters. I’m waiting help on Cufon to solve this probleme by another way. I have just delete the problem, i’m not solving it ..
You can see results here (i have another probleme with Disqus but i will work on it) :
http://www.taggle.orgThx SM !
- 36November 8th, 2009 4:20 am
Nice article and theme, I gave a remark on themes website.
- 37November 8th, 2009 9:21 am
Thanks ROB, for pointing the error. I have updated the package, please re-download the theme from http://www.smashingthemes.com/downloads/glassical.zip
and the button will work fine.
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- 38November 8th, 2009 6:31 am
It’s simple & elegant…
- 39November 8th, 2009 7:13 am
naaaiiiiceeee…
- 40November 8th, 2009 9:45 am
Simply amazing.
- 41November 8th, 2009 9:49 am
SIMPLE, CLEAN, USEFUL, COOL…
Thanks guys!! - 42November 8th, 2009 10:31 am
Hi,
nice work is it UTF-8 compatibel ?
- 43November 8th, 2009 1:07 pm
As told by sid on above comments,
Open /glassical/footer.php in your text editor
1. Comment or delete lines 13 (cufon-yui.js) and 14 (nevis_700.font.js)
2. Comment or delete line 18 (call to cufon.replace() function)That will make it UTF-8 compatible.
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- 44November 8th, 2009 3:14 pm
Hi,
Some of my comments are missing. How do I get it back?
For example in this link:
http://testi.iluvislam.com/aduan/
it should have 191 comments but only one comment left.
Hope anyone could help :)
tQ
- 45November 8th, 2009 11:09 pm
Hi Imran,
Have you enabled the comment paging?
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- 46November 8th, 2009 3:28 pm
nice one! simple could be good!
- 47November 8th, 2009 4:29 pm
converted it to blogger on chethstudios . net guys :) do check out and download. credits go to smashingmagazine for such a neat theme.
- 48November 8th, 2009 7:41 pm
Hey great theme, thank you. However, it looks awful in IE6 & IE7 (didn’t test IE8) as well as in safari. BTW I only viewed the theme from the demo link on those browsers.
- 49November 8th, 2009 8:20 pm
Thanks for this new Freebie Theme, is really awesome!! :D
- 50November 8th, 2009 10:36 pm
I don’t see what the big deal is about the theme. Yes it’s simple and clean. But is it “awesome” or “wow, I’m stunned” ? What makes it so?
Also, the use of the word Elegant is getting slightly overused when talking about design, yes?.Me shrugs.
- 51November 9th, 2009 4:32 am
Nice Work Abdullah keep it up!
- 52November 9th, 2009 11:23 pm
Hi Abdullah,
great Theme. Very good work. But I have a slightly problem. If I try to comment a post I get a blank screen and the comment is not saved. My Wordpress-Installation is in the subfolder /wordpress. If I copy the Wordpress-Folder and files to the Root-Directory all works fine.
Anybody knows this problem?
- 53November 16th, 2009 2:03 pm
I had the same problem and was able to fix it. I’m not sure if this is the cleanest way but here goes…
my blog was in a subdirectory, ie mydomain.com/blog. On line 67 of comments.php inside the theme i changed
to
I’m not sure if you can do the same with subdomains but it works for subdirectories.
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- 54November 10th, 2009 1:05 am
Am i wrong or is this theme not IE6 compatible?!
THX anyway. Like it a lot!
- 55November 10th, 2009 2:52 am
Hi Mike,
I think this is time when we should ditch this IE 6. Being a developer, I find it very hard to make a website very hard that is compatible with all IEs.
Only broken websites can make users upgrade to IE 7 or 8..
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- 56November 10th, 2009 2:18 am
this is a cool template…I liked it so much that I converted it for blogger…http://bit.ly/4tI98
- 57November 10th, 2009 9:28 am
I’ve just fixed a few bugs reported by users, please download the latest fixed theme from
http://www.smashingthemes.com/downloads/glassical.zip - 58November 10th, 2009 7:38 pm
This theme seems to be lacking the <?php wp_footer(); ?> and the Recent Posts & Recent Comments widgets are aligned to the right. But nice theme by the way.
- 59November 11th, 2009 9:54 am
Hi Dino,
I’ve fix this and other issues. Download the new version at
http://www.smashingthemes.com/downloads/glassical.zip
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- 60November 11th, 2009 2:29 pm
Hi, I loved this theme but I’ve had some problems with it… I installed and activated the theme but when I go to the homepage it looks like:
and in a single post:
I have no plug-ins installed by the way.
Site url: http://thegoldstar.no-ip.org/w2/
- 61November 12th, 2009 11:04 pm
Seems like, something went wrong when you were uploading the theme. Try reuploading the theme.
- 62November 18th, 2009 9:18 am
just replace short php tags <? with <?php
Nice theme btw.
- 63December 9th, 2009 10:42 pm
Thanks a lot, did this in the header and footer.php files and that fixed it. Why use “<?" instead of "<?php" if it can cause this problem?
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- 64December 9th, 2009 10:35 pm
I have the same problem, tried re-uploading the theme, still have this error. Wish I knew enough PHP/Wordpress to even diagnose what’s going on. Oh well.
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- 65November 12th, 2009 12:04 pm
Wow! This is really fantastic! Thank you!!
- 66November 13th, 2009 12:02 pm
nice job “Abdullah Ibrahim” and thanks for the new version ^^
- 67November 15th, 2009 9:29 pm
Sorry but i’ve downloaded your last revision for the theme (from the comments here) and now the tags didn’t appear on my posts U_U
- 68November 21st, 2009 9:27 am
Dear Smashing Magazine,
Have I told you lately how I love you?
Thanks for this one and all the rest :-) - 69November 23rd, 2009 11:08 am
Great Theme Abdullah Thanks very much .These theme is better than most premium themes .
Cok tesekkürler Abdullah .Çok guzel bir tema böyle güzel temaların devamını beklerim bu tema cogu premium temalara tas cıkartır .
- 70November 23rd, 2009 1:52 pm
In IE7 titles of pages and text in blockquote doesn’t look properly.
How can I fix it? - 71December 6th, 2009 6:59 am
Hi
I have a big bug with this theme
I upload it many times but i stil have the same problem. It’s like there is no pictures and no css code.
Could you help me plz ? I love this theme ! - 72December 25th, 2009 5:26 am
Awesome. But you really should update the urls not to use “/” but bloginfo(’url’) since this theme won’t work out of the box with sub directories.
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