Free HTML 4.01/HTML5 WordPress Theme: Spectacular
Today we release Spectacular, a free WordPress theme that aims to provide a warm and pleasurable atmosphere for personal musings and ramblings. The theme comes in two flavors: HTML 4.01 and HTML5. Also, both German and English versions of the theme are included in the download package. The theme is cross-browser compatible and supports Opera, Safari, Chrome, IE7+, and FF. Support for IE6 is not available, though the theme works in IE6, too.
The theme was commissioned by Smashing Magazine and designed by Maleika Esther Attawel exclusively for Smashing Magazine. 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, 1.2 Mb)
- download the .zip-package (zip, 21.1 Mb, including instructions)
Screenshots
Front page area (large preview)
Table and content (large preview)
Front page area (large preview)
Thank you, Maleika. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
Feel free to suggest your ideas for the freebies you’d like to see on Smashing Magazine in the comments area below.
Christopher Anderton
January 10th, 2011 6:01 amStunning!
Marc
January 10th, 2011 6:06 amThank you for all the hard work. Looks good!
Rudy Azhar
January 10th, 2011 6:16 amWow, that’s great theme for free. I like it.
Sean
January 10th, 2011 6:25 amGreat theme, looks amazing.
Mohamed Jama
January 10th, 2011 6:26 amVery nice theme, well designed.
However its quite slow to load and very hard to read; Maybe increasing font size/colour could help?
Thanks for sharing :)
28inch
January 10th, 2011 9:53 amagreed!
ngassmann
January 10th, 2011 10:20 amIt’s the problem of ‘Myriad Pro’. Renders poorly in Chrome on my Win7 machine. Probably looks fantastic on a Mac though.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 11th, 2011 11:35 amThanks for your comments, Mohamed, 28inch, and ngassmann.
These issues will be addressed in the next update!
Maleika
smartuts
January 10th, 2011 6:40 amBeautiful theme..I like it..
i should download it and modified the color little bit..
Douglife
January 10th, 2011 7:18 amIt’s awful nice of you guys to offer something so nice for free. I appreciate you taking care of us in the community! Great work!
Dutch
January 10th, 2011 7:26 amI would delete the webkit-transitions on the more button/arrow (on the homepage) and the rss button in the footer. It doesn’t look nice with sprite images.
liebesiech
January 10th, 2011 7:36 amThanks for this carefully made template! Looks like a colour print on recycled grey paper. Also the round edges on the buttons and form fields are nicely made. Love it!
Vicki
January 10th, 2011 8:23 amOkay, this really *is* spectacular. Love the attention to detail. Far, far superior to most freebie themes.
Ananda
January 10th, 2011 9:03 amReally nice article (anandafit.info/)
Patrick
January 10th, 2011 9:10 amNow this is a great free theme.
Eric
January 10th, 2011 9:21 amHow do I “Change the permissions of the “uploads” folder to 777″? I’m trying to install this on our company intranet which we host internally.
Vitaly Friedman
January 10th, 2011 9:34 amI think that
chmod 777 uploads/should work.Matt Rittman
January 10th, 2011 9:26 amDang that is a sweet template for being free! Thanks so much!
Marc
January 10th, 2011 9:41 amThis is fantastic. Thanks so much…may become the backbone to the new blog I want to start…
Niki Blaker
January 10th, 2011 9:44 amReally love how much texture there is on this. Very nice!
Horst Schulte
January 10th, 2011 10:09 amDas ist ja mal ein echt netter Zug, dass dieses tolle Theme auch in deutsch angeboten wird :-) Herzlichen Dank!
Matt Velic
January 10th, 2011 10:10 amThis is a nice theme. Thank you for the hard work!
Brandon
January 10th, 2011 11:02 amDamn sexy looking theme. Thanks SM!
Amie
January 10th, 2011 11:18 amgorgeous! thanks for sharing such a nice free theme.
Mike
January 10th, 2011 11:39 amReally clean theme – this is why Smashing Magazine is so good! Keep them coming!
Lee
January 10th, 2011 1:30 pmContrast a bit low no, making it a bit unfriendly to read?
Andreas Ostheimer
January 10th, 2011 1:39 pmI love the looks of it but the readability of the text is bad in both IE and FF. I don’t know why one would use a this kind of font replacement as it really makes text almost unreadable.
Otherwise great work with stunning details!
Mike
January 10th, 2011 1:46 pmNice theme. I need to work more with WordPress.
Alex Crooks
January 10th, 2011 4:40 pmThe body text is pretty much unreadable on a windows 7 machine, I’m sure it looks fine on your Mac but you should probably check it out on a windows machine to see what I mean.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 11th, 2011 6:19 amHi Alex,
I’ve tested it on Windows 7 via Parallels and the text rendering displayed fine. Goes to show that I need a real Linux machine rather than relying on emulators. I’ll rectify the font-stack in the next update.
Thanks!
Jeprie
January 10th, 2011 6:30 pmNice. Love the texture but I think it need more contrast on the text footer. Overall, great design. I love how the position of the contact form, very easy for reach.
Tweeted!
Sam
January 10th, 2011 7:40 pmThis theme is AWESOME! I just installed it… and is it just me, or is it missing the ampersand (ampersand.png) graphic on the front page? I’m displaying a broken image icon and the ampersand graphic is nowhere to be found.
Still… amazing theme! Thanks!
Rohith
January 11th, 2011 3:05 amHi Sam,
i faced the same issue no (ampersand.png) also it comes from root. :(
Thanks
Sam
January 11th, 2011 6:59 amNot a huge issue, you can get the graphic here:
http://dev.rockatee.com/images/ampersand.png
Upload it to /images and you should be all set (or adjust the theme to look for it elsewhere). It would be nice to have this fixed in the download though…
Regardless, this is a beautiful theme! Thanks, SmashingMag!
Karine
October 2nd, 2011 9:11 am:))
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 11th, 2011 6:00 amSam and Rohith,
thanks for spotting that! There’s a path issue I failed to correct. My apologies.
In the theme’s index page (approx. on line 35), there’s this line:
<img src="/images/ampersand.png" alt="And">The image path to the WordPress theme file needs to be changed to this:
(just noticed I can’t post the code here, sorry). Please see this image for the code that needs to be added into the IMG tag: http://rockatee.com/temp/template_url.png
I’ll rectify this in the next theme update.
Thanks!
Sam
January 11th, 2011 9:47 amNice! Thanks for the fix! We’ll still have to upload the ampersand.png to the images folder, right? Because, as far as I can tell, it isn’t included anywhere in the download. Again, many thanks!
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 11th, 2011 12:48 pmSam, you’re right. I cannot fathom how that escaped me.
For now, please upload the image located at: http://dev.rockatee.com/images/ampersand.png
I’ll have the next update ready very soon and the image will be included.
Thanks,
Maleika
Rateddesign
January 10th, 2011 8:54 pmawesome!!
Posted here: rateddesign.com/web-press/
Maxim
January 10th, 2011 9:46 pmQue groso que sos amigo! Спасибо!
Venu
January 10th, 2011 9:48 pmThis is really a Good work, but the readability of the text is bad in both IE and FF (Windows machine).
Olli
January 10th, 2011 10:38 pmGreat theme. Like the background texture. Thanks
asaran23
January 10th, 2011 10:45 pmVery nice theme and cool writeup… Keep up the good work…
Dinesh Saini
January 10th, 2011 11:11 pmAwesome Theme
: Dinesh Saini
WebMaster
Rohtak
Jonny
January 11th, 2011 1:09 amIt might look nice but design is about more than that, i can’t help but think there will be some accessibility problems with the color use.
Andy Griffiths
January 11th, 2011 1:14 amAn other great FREE theme. Not sure I would use this theme as is, but would certainly look into the code and possibly use certain things.
Laura Hogarth
January 11th, 2011 2:09 amIt’s a lovely design – I really like the textures. I have to agree with some previous comments though that the readability of the text is quite poor (on a Windows machine at least).
Gokhan
January 11th, 2011 3:05 amFantastic, thank you for such a great work. I will benefit it for my next work that is already in progress…
Edwin
January 11th, 2011 4:06 amI love the design! Now if only it could have a photo carousel since I’m a photographer and i’m done. 8-)
netblonde
January 11th, 2011 4:11 amfantastic! thank you smashing magazine!
Herman
January 11th, 2011 4:23 amLike the textures you are using here!
Francesco
January 11th, 2011 5:03 amThat’s really wonderful! Thank you!
This note is really out of place, though:
“I do not recommend the use of the HTML5 version in production environments due to the fact that HTML5 is still in Draft mode and Internet Explorer not playing ball (with Javascript disabled). ”
Seriously? It’s 2011! :P
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 11th, 2011 5:42 amHi Francesco,
thanks for your comment. :) I personally am still a bit cautious with using HTML5 in production mode, which is why it comes in HTML 4.01 as well. This is just my very subjective opinion, however, and felt it was better to offer a version in the standard old HTML 4.01, thus leaving the choice to the user on whether he embraces HTML5 or HTML 4.01.
Achint Verma
January 11th, 2011 5:24 amNice one :)
Reza
January 11th, 2011 5:45 amIt’s smashing template. Can’t wait in Joomla! & Drupal version, if any.
chie
January 11th, 2011 10:01 amBeautiful theme! I’ve been looking & looking for a theme for a non-profit…and this definitely fits what I’m looking for. Thank you for all the hard work :)
jojomonkey
January 11th, 2011 1:20 pmso drab and boring. i’m sure the code is good :)
Anthony
January 11th, 2011 4:34 pmWOW! This is a beautiful theme, and I can’t believe it’s free. Fantastic, thanks for all the work that went into this!
Elicia
January 11th, 2011 5:55 pmNice! Thanks for sharing!
Alin
January 12th, 2011 4:55 amWhere can i find the psd file? I only see a Windows Theme File…thanks!
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 4:40 amHi Alin,
there should be three folders, the first being a folder named PSD. In there there’s a standard .psd file. Let me know.
Best,
Maleika
Bruno Ferreira
January 12th, 2011 8:29 amThanks! fantastic theme.
Stunning.
Jono
January 13th, 2011 3:25 amIs it just me, but when trying this I found that the Archives page has a problem:
http://nottinghamfrisbee.co.uk/archives/
The formatting seems to break – i’ve had a look through but can’t see what the problem is.
Otherwise, an exceptional theme. Well done Maleika, and thank you.
Jono
January 13th, 2011 3:43 amRight – sorted it – It appears to be a problem is the page slug is ‘archives’. Taken the ‘s’ off the end and it works.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 4:38 amGlad you sorted it out, Jono. If there’s anything else, let me know.
Maleika
Malmut
January 13th, 2011 3:30 amIt’s amazing theme, but i can’t load file after 93% (opera, ie, download master)… :(
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 7:04 amHello Malmut,
I don’t think I understand what you mean with load? Do you have problems downloading the theme or uploading it?
Malmut
January 13th, 2011 5:47 amThank you, Maleika… when upload theme something else… please comment this… :(
Randy
January 13th, 2011 5:55 amWhat beautiful colors and texture. Very nice job!
Rama
January 13th, 2011 5:56 amWow, very nice theme! Very nice work. Thanks so much for sharing.
Only thing that jumps out, the font and readability is not good. I’d change the font and increase it’s size.
Rebecca
January 13th, 2011 9:31 amhella sexy!
Leandro Caracciolo
January 13th, 2011 9:58 amVery nice job! Beautiful design!
Brad Pilcher
January 13th, 2011 4:24 pmI’m having some challenges getting the featured post excerpt to render correctly on the front page. It seems to be floating off and above the title of the post. I’ve combed the code, and can’t quite figure it out. Any ideas?
http://www.bradpilcher.com/
P.S. I’ve stripped out the content while I work on the implementation and design, so it’s all just dummy stuff, but that shouldn’t effect the template.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 4:36 amBrad, you seem to have fixed it? It looks fine from my end. Let me know if you need help.
Best,
Maleika
Kuldar
January 20th, 2011 11:16 pmI have same problem.
Brad Pilcher
January 13th, 2011 4:35 pmNevermind. I sorted out the issue. Now on to tweaking the source graphics and overall look/aesthetics. Fantastic work, however. Really solid all around template. And if I could take a moment, may I also complement you on the installation and setup instructions that came with it. Much more detailed and useful than the normal instructions that come with most templates.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 4:38 amDuh, I just read it after responding to your first comment.
Thanks, Brad! :)
Tommy
January 13th, 2011 5:21 pmHave I totally lost my mind or are the .psd files in both the Windows and Mac folders not actually .psd files?
BTW: As many have said just a flat out stunning theme all around!
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 4:37 amTommy, that is a normal layered .psd file. Let me know what issues you have opening the file and I’ll try to help.
Tommy
January 14th, 2011 2:26 pmNever seen this before Maleika. Even downloaded the installer multiple times. On a Windows machine and the file shows up as a Windows Theme File. A screen cap is here:
http://webranding.org/images/theme_file.png
Any chance you could give me a direct link to the .psd file so I could try that. I just love this theme and would like to make some tweaks and use it :). Also, thanks for your help.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 15th, 2011 10:06 amI am strongly suspecting that Windows treats this as a hidden file. I’ve renamed it now and will include it in the next update.
For now, please download the PSD file from here:
http://rockatee.com/temp/spectacular_theme.psd.zip
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Maleika
Aditya
January 13th, 2011 10:14 pmMind blowing ….. :)
Zeth
January 13th, 2011 11:35 pmThis is cool. Must take ages to get you head around stuff like this. Well written!
mojowebdesign.com.au
mandy
January 14th, 2011 1:24 pmI must be crazy – there is a “Windows Theme File” in the PSD folder and no PSD to be found.
Also, where is the “Feature Image” panel for the homepage post thumbnails? Is it somewhere in the Appearance panel?
Thanks, I really hope I can get this to work!
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 14th, 2011 1:51 pmHi Mandy,
the .psd file is included. I’m not sure why it doesn’t work. :/ I’ll have to look into that.
The featured image panel is located on the right side (below the “Post Tags” panel) in your Edit Posts screen.
Let me know if that helps,
Maleika
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 15th, 2011 10:08 amMandy, please download the PSD file from here:
http://rockatee.com/temp/spectacular_theme.psd.zip
There seems to be a conflict with my filename and Windows. The issue will be resolved in the next update.
Thanks,
Maleika
Alin
January 17th, 2011 5:17 amThanks! Now it works fine!…Great theme!
Flick
January 16th, 2011 7:49 am@Maleika: Just wanted to say that this is a beautiful theme! :)
p/s: Also – I know Firefox 2.0.x series is out of date, but just to let you know that the League Gothic font doesn’t seem to display in this browser for some reaso, so the default font type is used (which is quite large). This means that e.g. the title text stretches across the header, rather than just occupying the left space and the navigation menu at the top is also larger than in the demo.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 31st, 2011 11:07 amYes, it isn’t taken FF2 into account. Will think of supporting FF2 in the next update.
Thanks,
Maleika
harryplusk
January 18th, 2011 7:28 amThis is an AMAZING theme. Thank you.
Erin
January 18th, 2011 1:37 pmOh man, gorgeous work guys! I’m definitely about to try this one on my blog, thank you!!!
Tommix
January 18th, 2011 4:02 pmthat reddish color looks very annoying.. it’s better if it would be grey or white…
Maleika Esther Attawel
February 2nd, 2011 12:16 amThe PSD file is included (download from comments), so you can change the colors to your heart’s content. :)
Dreb
January 18th, 2011 6:36 pmPeople behind this awesome template must be so generous. Thanks for being so helpful and kind guys. This serves as an inspiration for beginners to design even better. Got to grab this one and experiment it.
Again, thanks!!
Joem
January 18th, 2011 7:17 pmThis is a super sweet theme — nice work. I really like the bones and the design is so retro. Beautiful. I started noodling with it to fit it with a drop-down menu. Using the Menu widget I created a sub menu and couldn’t get it to work.
Just a brief description of what I did. Created a new menu. I added all the appropriate pages and organized them. Added the menu to the primary location. Nada. It did however produce a gap between the parent page and the next link in the menu. Weird right? Did I break it or is there a drop-down menu cooked into the theme?
Thankx!
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 31st, 2011 11:08 amHi Joem,
there’s no pre-configured dropdown menu installed. But you should be able to do that manually. The theme won’t break, if you adjust the CSS accordingly, though I don’t know what CSS you’re using for the dropdown, but the CSS issues should be easily rectified. :)
Maleika
Will
January 20th, 2011 8:08 am@Maleika – this theme is lovely all over. Thankyou many times over. I’ve installed it on a site, but made one judicious change to the top image to make it more relevant to the content, but I hope it doesn’t mess with the whole aesthetic… Hope you approve..
I’ve also lightened the background gifs to make it more readable.
One problem I’ve come up against is that the category pages previous/next navigation don’t link to older indexed pages within the category – just specific posts. I’m going to try to be less of an idiot and work it out myself, but just thought I’d highlight it…
Again, thanks to you, and to Smashing, for this fantastic theme.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 31st, 2011 11:13 amHi Will,
I’ll look into this. Thanks!
Mina
January 21st, 2011 9:53 pmMaleika,
Another beautiful design! Again I’m floored by your work!
It looks great in Firefox and Opera using Linux and also FF, Opera and Safari in Win 7…IE8 is a bit problematic (when ISN’T it?) in that the blue shaded area in the featured image doesn’t show nor the graphic behind the category names in the footer. But since I rarely use either IE or Windows, it’s not a big deal to me. And I haven’t seen any problems with the readability either.
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 31st, 2011 11:14 amHi Mina,
hmm…shows for me in IE8. I have to investigate this further as it’s meant to support IE8. Thanks!
Nick
January 23rd, 2011 7:05 pmTheme is awesome but typography is not so good and take more than enough time to load.
[ pamela ]
January 27th, 2011 8:46 amAmazing, retro theme. Love it. Using it without a hitch so far…
Question for Maleika: Where is the one-column page template?? (no sidebar) – I saw this in the description on the Appearance Page for this lovely piece of work but it isn’t showing up in my page options….
Ever so grateful –
Pamela
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 31st, 2011 11:15 amHi Tari,
the theme currently doesn’t have a one-page-column. But great thinking. I might add one in the next update, so that it is closer to the options you have in the twentyten theme.
Maleika
Maleika Esther Attawel
February 2nd, 2011 12:18 amPamela, I meant to address you rather than Tari below. Sorry about that!
Tari Donohue
January 30th, 2011 4:02 pmI’m having the same trouble with the initial appearance of the index page being incomplete. I uploaded the spectacular PSD separately from the HTML4 install files, but not sure I copied it in the right folder, since I’m a WP beginner.
Can you help?
Maleika Esther Attawel
January 31st, 2011 11:17 amHi Tari,
don’t upload the psd file. It’s just there for reference. If you follow the instructions in the readme file, add some basic content (posts, pages, featured post, images, etc.) it should all come together. The naked theme without content will always look broken because many widths and heights aren’t fixed but extend with content.
Sebsemillia
February 1st, 2011 5:11 pm@Maleika: Thx for this swift wordpress theme!
One thing I spotted though is that the background of the introduction section (#introduction) is slightly too deep. The margin-top should be set to 1px to fit it. Maybe you could include this fix also in the next update.. ;)
Thx again for this beautiful theme!
Maleika Esther Attawel
February 1st, 2011 6:22 pmSebsemilla, thanks for spotting that! Yes, fix will be added. The updated theme will follow very shortly!
Best,
Maleika
amir_taiz
February 9th, 2011 11:07 amI can’t download the theme..
amir_taiz
February 10th, 2011 4:03 amMay be the download’s link is broken … the download process can’t be completed ….
Tarun
February 26th, 2011 7:58 amVery nice theme. Great work :)
fotoshooter
March 1st, 2011 12:15 amit’s looks nice!
jj
March 11th, 2011 5:30 pmBeautiful theme..would love to check it out but I can’t open the zip archive, unzip error says ‘End-of-central-directory signature not found.’ :(
idanka
March 13th, 2011 11:47 pmBeautiful theme..I like it..
but, no picture alignment (post – html5)
todd
March 14th, 2011 6:46 amwould love to check this out – download stops after about 4mb. any ideas why?
mebo
March 16th, 2011 1:01 amIt’s an amazing theme, i love it :)
But there seems to be a problem with adding a button more in excerpt body of posts. On the index page there are shown all posts in their actual posts lenght where it should be only 30 characters with … & more button, any ideas why is that happening?!
Debbz
March 17th, 2011 7:16 pmI’m always impressed by the quality of work I see at SM.
Thanks!
Adam Klawonn
April 1st, 2011 11:32 amGreat theme! One question, and I would love to hear others’ thoughts on this: If a magazine were to develop a new website in HTML5, would this language be compatible (and readable) on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets?
I work at a small magazine where we are trying to get involved with the tablet, and we can’t decide what to do with our existing (read: obsolete) website. It seems to me that if we found the right programming language for the website, we wouldn’t need to do a tablet app. We could offer a pleasant reading experience on almost any platform simply by having an HTML5 website that’s mobile-optimized or has a mobile plugin. This theme sure looks like a solution!
Just wondering. What do you think?
Johny
April 4th, 2011 1:46 amThis might be a crazy question but can anyone tell me what the pattern on the Layer 25 in the psd is? I’ve seen it before and thought that’s nice and never known how to describe it or re-create it.
Awesome Theme as well!
Jake
April 4th, 2011 1:19 pmHmmm… The header text widget does not work (html 5). I does not display.
Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks! :)
Jake
April 4th, 2011 1:24 pmUsing html5 theme, if there is a space in the name of the blog, it will not display the blog name (only the first word) and will not display the blog tagline.
Please can someone post a fix? (I’ve been trying with no luck).
:(
Jake
April 4th, 2011 1:31 pmOh my goodness… and the top navigation menu therefore will also not appear.
The theme (html5) looks nice, but fails to work properly when using WordPress 3.1
(I’ve not tried the html 4 version yet)
Jake
April 4th, 2011 1:38 pmSorry peoples, I really like this theme, it well… Smashingly good.
Unfortunately it’s a disaster zone when using WordPress 3.1x
html5 version has a couple problems (1 is major) and the html4 version is a complete mess (in WP3.1x).
I wish this theme would work properly with the latest WordPress. :(
riger99
April 5th, 2011 5:42 amNice theme idea, too bad it does not work.
But this theme is severely broken. Maybe the developer should check code, functionality before releasing it. The demo works, I’ve tried this theme installed on 3 different physical servers (using WP 3.1) and there seems to be div issues as well as others. I’ll bet that the code used in the demo and the one available for download are different. (At least I can surmise as much from the source code of displayed pages).
Bottom line? Nice looking idea, but it’s not well implemented. Maybe the dev can revisit issues and clean up the code (who develops for IE6 for example? – Not many since Microsoft actively retired it). Just an opinion, (and yes I expect to get some fire for it) but looking at the code, it seems very much that the dev is not a professional, rather a hobbyist?
This theme is not cross-browser or cross-platform friendly.
Roger
April 7th, 2011 6:15 pmI like this theme.
Looking at the comments above , I tested this theme in different versions of WordPress. Both HTML4 and HTML5 versions work in WordPress 3.0.5.
After version 3.0.5 the themes break (WordPress 3.1 and higher).
I’ve not taken the time yet to explore why, but suspect that there might be a conflict between the admin bar (introduced in WP3.1) CSS and the style.css? Maybe an issue with post formats (also introduced in WP3.1), I don’t know.
Just my 2 cents worth…
Randa Clay
April 12th, 2011 6:17 amVery nice looking theme and I’ve used it on a client site, but could not get Adsense to display anywhere until I took out the script line in the header: <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/plugins.js?v=1″>
Now adsense displays fine, and I’m really having a hard time finding what removing that script has affected.
David
April 12th, 2011 6:45 amAmazing theme, thank you so much :)
Dave
April 12th, 2011 11:54 pmGreat looking theme, but Roger and Riger99 are speaking the truth. Serious issues with WP3.1…too bad the dev disappeared from here after Feb. 1st.
Jose
April 26th, 2011 7:27 amAmazing theme, thank you so much.
I have a problem with the menu. Not in the top, appears behind the logo (http://www.conmasarte.es/verdes2/). Do you know what could be the problem?
Thank you very much.
Sinbad
April 27th, 2011 7:07 amGreat theme, I’m new to WordPress 1.3.2 and as many of you, I noticed the HTML5 version wasn’t looking right (menu doesn’t appear and the title of the page doesn’t show fully).
This is how I fixed it, before I get flamed I’m not saying this is the best way. To fix it you must edit the style.css file in a text editor such as NotePad.
1) Open the style.css file located at /wp-content/themes/spectacular/style.css
2) In the ‘header section’ inside the curly braces, add ‘position:relative;’
3) In the ‘#site-name’ inside the curly braces, change ‘width:460px;’ to ‘width:860px;’ and change ‘position:relative;’ to ‘position:absolute;’
I also noticed that the width of the top menu buttons are as wide as their children (even though the children are not displayed). If your main pages have no children pages than you don’t need to worry about this.
So to fix this you can do:
1) Open the header.php file located at /wp-content/themes/spectacular/header.php
2) Go to line 70 and change ‘wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’)’ to this ‘wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1′)’
I have tested it works in IE7, IE8, Firefox 4, Chrome, Safari.
anairamzap
April 28th, 2011 1:33 pm@Jose
I’m having the same problem, the header navigation menu (built with wp_list_pages) it is displaying in the middle of the header.
How did you solve it?
Jose
May 2nd, 2011 11:15 am@anairamzap
I only used four-page menu.
cyvic
May 10th, 2011 6:14 amIt’s very beautiful theme,but doesn’t work…i change everything.permissions…but the same:”spectacular_theme_en Stylesheet is missing.”
Suzanne
May 10th, 2011 10:10 amIt’s broken in WP 3.1.2 :( It’s a new installation. Firefox 4 and Safari aren’t happy with it. I tried the fix Sinbad suggested but unfortunately it had no effect on my installation.