Free WordPress 3.0+ Theme for Portfolios and Magazines: JournalCrunch
In this post we release a yet another freebie: JournalCrunch WordPress 3.0+ theme, a theme for magazines or portfolios with an integrated journal. The theme was designed by Site5 and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely 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 (.jpg, 0.7 Mb)
- full installation guide and documentation
- download the .zip-package (zip, 0.3 Mb)
- download the .zip-package from a mirror site (zip, 0.3 Mb)
- release on the developer’s site
Features
- Widget ready (footer and sidebar)
- Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
- Custom Homepage with 2 different views (featured posts or slider)
- WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled
- WordPress 3.0+ Menu Management Support
- Latest Tweets Built-in Widget
- Built-in Pagination
- 9 shortcodes
- Grid and standard posts listing
- Ninvo Slider, easy to setup from Admin panel
- JQuery Drop-down menu
- JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
- JQuery Forms
- Ajax based contact form
- Live form email validation
‘Featured posts’ view (large preview)
‘Latest tweets’ widget (large preview)
Live form validation (large preview)
‘Normal’ listing (large preview)
‘Options’ page (large preview)
Single page with comments (large preview)
Slider items with custom post types (large preview)
Thank you, guys. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
Lukas
December 9th, 2010 1:51 amThank you guys! Nice addition to your free WP theme collection – thanks to site5!
Imran Khan
December 9th, 2010 1:56 amoh its a great theme!!! its gonna help a lot of us.. and even we can customize it a bit… Thank you Site5 and SM =)
andrew
December 9th, 2010 1:58 amThank you :)
Adrian Demian
December 9th, 2010 1:59 amAlways appreciate the free & quality stuff. Keep up the good work.. I have my eyes on you Smashing Magazine :)
Zuchri
December 9th, 2010 1:59 amlooks premium indeed :)
Rukomojnikov Maxim
December 9th, 2010 2:05 amNice and functional template. Thanks Vitaly.
360Signals
December 9th, 2010 2:09 amWow that’s amazing thank you so much!
Matt Berridge
December 9th, 2010 2:10 amAs if someone would just give this away! Amazing
Ryan
December 9th, 2010 2:14 amHello, It’s a nice theme. I like the overall design. Anyway, how to get the .psd? are you guys willing to share this?
Thanks
Urge
December 9th, 2010 2:16 amClean, crisp, cool…. love it!
Lizard Wijanarko
December 9th, 2010 2:17 amlive demo error “Service Temporarily Unavailable” , or just me… get troubeled with the country restrict?
dissapointed.. T.T
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edited :
I can see it now. Thanks, for quick resolve.
kysfmhd
December 9th, 2010 2:18 amcool :D
mihaiteo
December 9th, 2010 2:20 amGreat theme, thanks guys.
Chris
December 9th, 2010 2:36 amBonza!
Mikael
December 9th, 2010 2:39 amIt’s this a link-bait… and a very good one :)
Prabaharan
December 9th, 2010 2:40 amlooks clean and elegant…. nice work… & thanks for the free release.. because it looks like premium templates… thanks again
ahmed alttai
December 9th, 2010 2:41 amthanx,
very nice theme!
Anees
December 9th, 2010 3:03 amThis is cool! Thanks…
Spencer
December 9th, 2010 3:10 amAbsolutely stunning, great job guys! Could’ve done with this last year :)
zulsdesign
December 9th, 2010 3:23 amYeah! i love this theme :) simple
greg urbano
December 9th, 2010 3:30 amwowo i have been looking for just this type of template, thanks!
Angga
December 9th, 2010 5:09 amAbsolutely loved the theme. thanks to SM and Site5 for this wonderful theme !
AMYunus
December 9th, 2010 5:56 amat a glance, this theme is so awesome. Thanks for share. I hope I will do the same.
*switch blog theme immediately
Michael
December 9th, 2010 6:02 amNice looking theme, but is it really GPL? There are usage restrictions in the license.txt which seem to indicate otherwise.
Capi Etheriel
December 10th, 2010 5:18 pmSmashing Magazine publishes Site5 WordPress Themes all the time, telling people they are GPL’d whne they are not. I have commented a couple times about it, but the editors at Smashing Magazine won’t answer…
Capi Etheriel
December 10th, 2010 6:23 pmbrief update: the files have been updated and cintain a copy of the gpl license: https://twitter.com/twsepper/status/13414035231866880
Alex
December 9th, 2010 6:07 amI have made a Twitter Feed Plugin for WordPress, just in case anyone wants to use something similar to the “Latest Tweets” widget this theme offers:
http://pleer.co.uk/wordpress/plugins/wp-twitter-feed
codee47
December 9th, 2010 7:44 amNice theme, thanks for sharing.
Gunjan Jaswal
December 9th, 2010 7:53 amThanks for the share!! :)
Tony Lea
December 9th, 2010 9:03 amCool looking theme! Thanks for the post ;)
Jacques
December 9th, 2010 9:15 amnice & simple, Thanks!
Prabu
December 9th, 2010 9:36 amVery neat and professional theme. Good job site5.
Giorgi
December 9th, 2010 12:59 pmAnybody have bulleted list demo? Thanks
nott
December 9th, 2010 4:59 pmawesome! thanks for the generosity :)
Vishwakumar
December 10th, 2010 1:18 amCool Theme..!!:)
Thanks Guys…
Angus Fretwell
December 10th, 2010 2:50 amBeautiful theme, but I’d love to see the post content in a larger font size, even in a serif perhaps. Content is supposed to be king, and I feel the posts are drowned out by the sidebars, etc.
John Braine
December 10th, 2010 2:54 amI switched to this theme on a total whim. Looks good but having lot of trouble with homepage config, thumbs & sliders and what not. And yes I checked with host about GD support. Might just switch back for now.
comment edit – scratch that, the alternative permissions on cache folder worked, as suggested by the guide.
Chris
December 10th, 2010 4:01 amLooks awesome. However, I got a whole bunch’o'errors after installing. Any ideas?
Warning: fopen(…wp-content/themes/journalcrunch/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …wp-includes/functions.php on line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in …wp-includes/functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in …wp-includes/functions.php on line 4171
Paweł Kata
December 10th, 2010 4:28 amThanks! I’ve just switched to the theme and it’s AWESOME!
Wesley
December 10th, 2010 5:55 amAmazing, one of the best free themees I’ve seen here.
Nikki
December 10th, 2010 7:55 amAwesome… I love the theme!! Thanks for sharing :)
Chris
December 10th, 2010 11:40 amSolved my own problem above, which turns out not to be specific to this theme. Upload the theme by FTP folks, don’t use the “install themes” function on the WordPress control panel. Simples.
herupermana
December 11th, 2010 5:24 amIzin Download Om Smash
Siddharth Ashok
December 11th, 2010 11:40 amBest free theme ever seen. Site5 guys are great- Thanks.
Solana
December 11th, 2010 12:45 pmInteresting that I have only been able to get the download link on the Site5 page to work but cannot access the Live Preview or the Documentation links nor have I been able to for several hours now.
What’s going on with that?
Luis Lopez
December 11th, 2010 4:11 pmExcellent theme, I thinks the guys of 5sotes make some great free themes with a premium style.
Sharon Milne
December 12th, 2010 7:24 amDownloaded – been looking for a good portfolio type theme for a while :D
Let’s see if I can work this one out :D
Jorge
December 13th, 2010 5:52 amthe font in (cufon) dont support spanish chars like: á,é,í,ó,ú…. badly :(
Also the installation of theme give me this error:
Warning: fopen(…wp-content/themes/journalcrunch/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …wp-includes/functions.php on line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in …wp-includes/functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in …wp-includes/functions.php on line 4171
but is a good theme, i mean is working, and im making more changes inside it 8i mean replacement for fonts and colors…
If the theme creators, can fix these errors, will be great for everyone =)
Nirav Dave
December 13th, 2010 8:05 amWow! Thats one of the best I have seen in ages! Good one guys!
Jennifer
December 13th, 2010 10:46 amThis is amazing. I just wish there was also a way to integrate a blog as well!
Chris Raymond
December 13th, 2010 10:51 amQuite a nice theme that balances portfolio and blog (even allowing you to not have blog posts on home page if you don’t want them). Needs a bit of refinement in the typography settings, but overall, nice work!
flashpixel
December 14th, 2010 12:13 amThanks, it helped a lot on a small project of us :) u guys rock!
vinoth
December 14th, 2010 8:24 amthe best theme which made me to comment for the first time.
javiriko
December 14th, 2010 11:37 pmJorge, instalalo via FTP que anda bien.
Thanks for the Theme, is fantastic!
Connie
December 15th, 2010 8:23 amdoes this theme support language files?
I hope so, but I do not see this on the feature-list
come on schmaschers, accept that the world is not onelingual, there are some allophones around ;=(
Gabi
December 16th, 2010 5:45 amVery nice theme, but the link to the documentation does not work and it seems that thumbnails never show, or there is something I didn’t get?
Any help please?
Chrs Gosling
December 17th, 2010 12:11 amA nice-looking new template, but commercially unuseable due to no ad placements. Needs to have at leaset a header banner and a widgetised sidebar each side to make it useful.
Chrs Gosling
December 17th, 2010 12:13 amApologies – found the sidebar . . but still need something in the header . . .
Wahyudi Pratama
December 17th, 2010 5:40 amnice theme…thanks :)
aritoni
December 19th, 2010 3:39 amWow! Better than paid premiums
Julius
December 23rd, 2010 2:23 amHello,
i really enjoyed the theme preview. The preview and design itselfs are awesome! But once installed i got the “Call to undefined function: add_theme_support()” error – I didnt find anything in the documentation.. anybody out there who has fixed this error?
Regards Julius
Marco
December 28th, 2010 12:39 am@GABI:
You need to check on the right side of the post, when you are writing, there is a block there called “Featured Image”, you can set one there.
Then it will show up.
Dreb
December 28th, 2010 10:48 amWow. Really cool. Agree that it is better than paid themes. Simple but can rock your blog. Got to grab this one. Much appreciated the share and thanks guys!
Locutus
January 5th, 2011 10:19 pmUnfortunately, I’ve had lots of issues with this theme that I did *not* have with my previous theme. There are 1) the lack of a back button on the front page, 2) the SexyBookmarks plugin doesn’t work (probably an issue with the plugin, so I won’t discount it), 3) the 404 page is hard to customize, and 4) going to another page of a category redirects to my About page. All in all, good but no.
Olivier
January 7th, 2011 7:27 amGREAT stuff !
I’ve got some questions / remarks …
1- if you use the featured option, then the widget on the right hand side disappear, so the navigation is less easy (I’ve added the tag cloud, categories, … at the bottom of my page)
2- if you use the featured option (again), have anyone managed to only display two featured articles, but add a slider option to browse to all the featured articles? How difficult would it be?
wadoko
January 10th, 2011 2:31 pmso final yes or no question: are you allowed to remove the “theme brought to you by site 5″ footer or not ?
MountainDan
January 13th, 2011 3:00 amFor a free theme, why would you want to?
wadoko
January 13th, 2011 5:21 amwell, I simply want to use the template to convey information on my site. I don’t use banners or links to any other company on my site – therefore I neither want a link to site5. In the readme file in the package it’s not clearly said whether you are allowed to modify the template, just to use it. So does that mean that I am allowed to remove the link or not ????
gabs
January 13th, 2011 8:01 amYes, you are.
Steff
January 16th, 2011 12:23 amThere is one issue in CSS. CSS #conent needs “images/bk_vertline.jpg”, but there is no image. I cheked live demo too.
Also there is wrong social icons image link in header. It’s ico_(name) but should be ico_social_(name).
David
January 19th, 2011 8:33 pmtets means “first” in the Gibberish language
hitesh
January 22nd, 2011 2:39 amwow!!! very fine this theme.
Janusz
February 3rd, 2011 12:45 amPagination doesn’t work
evan
February 8th, 2011 11:48 amHi,
we’ve just released JournalCrunch for Drupal 6 and 7. It’s available through drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/journalcrunch
At http://www.drupalizing.com you can also check some other awesome free themes released through Smashing Magazine, which we’ve ported to Drupal as well.
There’s a question for you over there: which theme would you like us to port next?
Go grasp the chance :-)
Thx
Mithun
March 30th, 2011 4:39 ampagination is not working in journalcrunch wordpress theme. please help
e11world
March 1st, 2011 4:12 pmOne of the best themes I’ve seen this year! WOW! I cannot believe it is FREE!
Asep
April 3rd, 2011 12:17 pmWonderfull. This theme for blogger with images taste. Good incoporating blog and pictures
Tấn Việt
June 10th, 2011 12:04 amThe theme is very wonderful, but it doesn’t support UTF-font, when I wrote the title on Vietnamese language, it was showed the incorrect characters.
Person265
June 14th, 2011 12:38 pmNice theme – but not loving the copyright notice in the file: “All references and links to Site5 included in the Theme shall remain throughout any modifications made to the Theme.” Can’t use a theme that has their branding and links everywhere.
delish
June 19th, 2011 8:02 amI can’t get the images to work at all, changed permissions and still no joy? Can someone please help me urgently?
Mike
June 24th, 2011 5:08 amCan anybody help me, I give tag “featured” to two of my posts and nothing show up, what am I doing wrong?
ianemv
June 24th, 2011 7:48 amI love the theme. but my host doesn’t like timthumb and I hate them for that. Anyway, I’ll just alter the part that uses timthumb script with WP’s image thumbnal support.
andri
October 11th, 2011 4:11 pmmantaaap!!! thks…:)
Amber
November 15th, 2011 9:02 amI can’t get it to show more than 6 posts on the homepage, despite the fact that I’ve got it set for 10 to show up. Can someone help me with this?
Alaia
January 24th, 2012 11:41 pmI had an issue installing. Here’s the error I got:
“The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
Theme install failed.”
Kelley
February 18th, 2012 4:17 amThis the th theme I’ve been searching for
Bit I have the same problem with Alaia
.I get the following error
Installing the theme…
The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
Theme install failed.
I’m using WordPress 3.3.1
Please, help. Thanks.