Free Dark and Clean WordPress Theme: Designpile
In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme, a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies. It can be used for portfolios and blogs as well as corporate webAs usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects.
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 want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.
- live demo
- large preview (1.2 Mb)
- installation guide and documentation
- download the .zip-package (.zip, 0.9 Mb, includes instructions files and required plugins)
- download mirror for the .zip-package
- release on designers’ site
Features
Here are some of the features of the theme:
- Widget ready (footer and sidebar),
- Easy to setup, the Theme Options Page has 3 color styles,
- Custom homepage,
- Simple Post Thumbnails Plugin,
- 125×125 ads section with enable/disable option, using “WP125″ plugin,
- JQuery Lightbox,
- JQuery Forms,
- AJAX-based based contact form,
- Live form email validation,
- Theme Requirements: WordPress 2.9.1+
Sidebar
Content, overview
“About the author”-section
Comments
Categories archive section
Thank you, Gabi Schiopu and the Site 5 design team! We appreciate your work and your good intentions!
Complexitii
September 16th, 2010 10:01 pmError upon installation
Warning: unlink(D:\Hosting\2720171\html\blog/wp-content/uploads/designpile_wp2.zip) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in D:\Hosting\2720171\html\blog\wp-admin\includes\class-wp-upgrader.php on line 155
Installing the theme…
Theme installed successfully.
Warning: fopen(D:\Hosting\2720171\html\blog/wp-content/themes/designpile_wp2/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\Hosting\2720171\html\blog\wp-includes\functions.php on line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\Hosting\2720171\html\blog\wp-includes\functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:\Hosting\2720171\html\blog\wp-includes\functions.php on line 4171
Complexitii
September 16th, 2010 10:01 pmError upon installation
Warning: unlink(D:Hosting2720171htmlblog/wp-content/uploads/designpile_wp2.zip) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in D:Hosting2720171htmlblogwp-adminincludesclass-wp-upgrader.php on line 155
Installing the theme…
Theme installed successfully.
Warning: fopen(D:Hosting2720171htmlblog/wp-content/themes/designpile_wp2/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:Hosting2720171htmlblogwp-includesfunctions.php on line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:Hosting2720171htmlblogwp-includesfunctions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in D:Hosting2720171htmlblogwp-includesfunctions.php on line 4171
Nirmal Gyanwali
September 21st, 2010 2:48 amgreat theme!
Nirmal Gyanwali
September 21st, 2010 2:48 amgreat theme!
Angela
October 15th, 2010 10:16 pmI tried all the suggestions in the thread to get the thumbnails to display and they’re still not working for me. The folder structure is there, I’ve got WP125 installed, I tried linking via Photobucket instead of uploading, I tried using Custom Fields to highlight a featured image (which I get, but it’s just a giant image at the top of my post, which I don’t want… and still no thumbnail), and I tried using the Featured Image feature.
Nothing has worked. I LOVE this theme (my second Smashing Mag theme — I use another one for another site), but I don’t want to release my new site until I have those thumbnails working.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? I’d so appreciate i t!
Angela
October 15th, 2010 10:16 pmI tried all the suggestions in the thread to get the thumbnails to display and they’re still not working for me. The folder structure is there, I’ve got WP125 installed, I tried linking via Photobucket instead of uploading, I tried using Custom Fields to highlight a featured image (which I get, but it’s just a giant image at the top of my post, which I don’t want… and still no thumbnail), and I tried using the Featured Image feature.
Nothing has worked. I LOVE this theme (my second Smashing Mag theme — I use another one for another site), but I don’t want to release my new site until I have those thumbnails working.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? I’d so appreciate i t!
Angela
October 15th, 2010 10:36 pmBoo-hoo… my Categories are also not displaying properly. The categories themselves overlay the “Category” heading in the sidebar.
Angela
October 15th, 2010 10:36 pmBoo-hoo… my Categories are also not displaying properly. The categories themselves overlay the “Category” heading in the sidebar.
Angela
October 16th, 2010 8:58 amI got the Categories to display properly — here’s what I found out. The WP125 ad plugin *must* be downloaded, installed, and activated. If you don’t want to use it, set it to “0″ ads with a single column — nothing will display. But the banded Category headers do not display properly unless this is done.
Also, they would not display properly when I had a Text widget with my Paypal “Donate” button at the top of the Categories, Recent Comments, and Recent Posts widgets. Whichever of those that displayed *below* the Text widget would not show the banded heading and appeared corrupted, as if something were wrong with the stylesheet. When I moved the Paypal Text widget to the bottom of the list… everything displayed properly, and that’s all I cared about.
I still have not figured out the thumbnail issue, though, and I feel like I’ve looked under every stone I can find to sort it out. :(
Angela
October 16th, 2010 8:58 amI got the Categories to display properly — here’s what I found out. The WP125 ad plugin *must* be downloaded, installed, and activated. If you don’t want to use it, set it to “0″ ads with a single column — nothing will display. But the banded Category headers do not display properly unless this is done.
Also, they would not display properly when I had a Text widget with my Paypal “Donate” button at the top of the Categories, Recent Comments, and Recent Posts widgets. Whichever of those that displayed *below* the Text widget would not show the banded heading and appeared corrupted, as if something were wrong with the stylesheet. When I moved the Paypal Text widget to the bottom of the list… everything displayed properly, and that’s all I cared about.
I still have not figured out the thumbnail issue, though, and I feel like I’ve looked under every stone I can find to sort it out. :(
alicesmile
November 12th, 2010 10:53 pmNot sure why all the snobs are complaining. Most of the works robably wouldn’t make the MoMA, but definitely worthy of a blog post and some friendly exposure.
Not sure why people continue to try to judge that which can’t be judged. Art is in the eye of the beholder.
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alicesmile
November 12th, 2010 10:53 pmNot sure why all the snobs are complaining. Most of the works robably wouldn’t make the MoMA, but definitely worthy of a blog post and some friendly exposure.
Not sure why people continue to try to judge that which can’t be judged. Art is in the eye of the beholder.
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Rachael
November 25th, 2010 3:00 amGreat theme… perfect for the style of my blog.
Rachael
November 25th, 2010 3:00 amGreat theme… perfect for the style of my blog.
qwertyu
December 13th, 2010 4:20 amVery good! Thanx :)
qwertyu
December 13th, 2010 4:20 amVery good! Thanx :)
Alec
December 16th, 2010 12:18 pmAbout the thumbnails problem: This theme doesn’t use the simple thumbnails plug in anymore! Here are the details, it worked perfect to me
http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=29839
Alec
December 16th, 2010 12:18 pmAbout the thumbnails problem: This theme doesn’t use the simple thumbnails plug in anymore! Here are the details, it worked perfect to me
http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=29839
Ashley
December 22nd, 2010 8:19 amI’m trying to set this theme up but I’m having a rough time since I am new to WordPress. The layout is beautiful by the way! What I am stuck on currently is the right side menu. I wanted to use Google ads instead of the wp125 but I can’t seem to find out where I can add padding or a margin to the ad to push it away from the center column. Also, I’m trying to set up the categories on the right hand menu but the pretty pink banner is not coming up for the title “Categories” like it is shown in the preview. If someone could help me, I would GREATLY appreaciate it. Thank you. Oh, here is the link to my blog in progress…http://girlyfashiontrends.com/
Ashley
December 22nd, 2010 8:19 amI’m trying to set this theme up but I’m having a rough time since I am new to WordPress. The layout is beautiful by the way! What I am stuck on currently is the right side menu. I wanted to use Google ads instead of the wp125 but I can’t seem to find out where I can add padding or a margin to the ad to push it away from the center column. Also, I’m trying to set up the categories on the right hand menu but the pretty pink banner is not coming up for the title “Categories” like it is shown in the preview. If someone could help me, I would GREATLY appreaciate it. Thank you. Oh, here is the link to my blog in progress…http://girlyfashiontrends.com/
Cristian
February 6th, 2011 6:09 amHey I have a problem with this theme.
It looks like this : http://grab.by/8NLo , the lines are not aligned. And I have no read more button , how can I fix this problem.
Also if I put it to 8 articles per page , this is how it looks like :
http://grab.by/8NLx
Please help me with this.
Thank you!
Cristian
February 6th, 2011 6:09 amHey I have a problem with this theme.
It looks like this : http://grab.by/8NLo , the lines are not aligned. And I have no read more button , how can I fix this problem.
Also if I put it to 8 articles per page , this is how it looks like :
http://grab.by/8NLx
Please help me with this.
Thank you!
farman
March 21st, 2011 8:30 pmNice Theme
farman
March 21st, 2011 8:30 pmNice Theme
Jasmine
April 22nd, 2011 1:46 pmI am sad because the theme is damaged =’(
Jasmine
April 22nd, 2011 1:46 pmI am sad because the theme is damaged =’(
kira
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crashsiphone
May 22nd, 2012 7:26 pmzip file is missing css style sheet. Won’t install with out it.
Danelle
July 23rd, 2012 6:22 amI just installed this theme but cannot get my logo to show up. Does it have to be in a certain format/size? Can someone please help?
graham
November 6th, 2010 11:45 pmah, the “featured” tag had the slug “featured-2″ which caused the problem
graham
November 6th, 2010 11:45 pmah, the “featured” tag had the slug “featured-2″ which caused the problem