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Wordpress theme Simplifisticate 1.6

18/05/2006 11:46 | Themes, Wordpress | 97 replies | 18481 views | RSS

Here it is, a public available Simplifisticate Wordpress theme! The download link is at the bottom of this post, I would suggest you read this entry before downloading and installing this theme … Here we go:

Installation

It’s like all the other Wordpress themes ;)

Unrar in your /wp-content/themes/ , and activate via the admin panel.
Search at least 1 image or photo with resolution 500×150.
Upload it (or them) in /wp-content/themes/Simplifisticate/headerimages.

When there are no images, no images are displayed (duh), but the theme looks a little pale without that image in the header. But if you want, this theme can run without any images. I’ve used the rotate.php script from automaticlabs, kudos to him, and to Magma for the idea!

Features

Ramdon header image.
Automatic capital letter of blog’s name in header.
Clutterfree single column design.
Access panel for easy browsing.
Fully supports a static frontpage – when WP is in it’s own directory

Plugin Compatibility

Simplifisticate is compatible with these 2 plugins. Simply download these plugins, upload them and activate them. Simplifisticate’s code is ready for them, no additional coding is necessary!

Top10 by Laughinh Lizard
http://wordpresstoolscollection.com/archives/2005/03/14/top-10-plugin/

Counterize by Anders Holte Nielsen
http://andersdrengen.dk/projects/counterize/

Known Issues

List items in Internet Explorer
Normally IE must revert to the default bullet type, but that borkes in the left part of the access panel, so I’ve removed the bullet types for IE. If anyone wants to help me figuring out how to display those bullets on the right (as opposed to left) side of a list item, please contact me…

Guestbook
You still need to create a page in your Wordpress admin panel with the ‘guestbook’ template. It will be accessible via the page list in the access panel. To have the comments on the guestbook display in reverse order, you need to do this.

Bugs
This theme isn’t bugfree – especially with special things like 34 subcategories – please contact me if it borkes on your Wordpress.

Demo

You should see a modified simplifisticate theme in action right now, and it not there’s a chance it’s activated on my Test Wordpress, and if that fails here is a screenshot :)

Usage

This theme is free for use, as long as there is at least one link pointing to me or this readme. Modification is allowed, and if I can be of any help, don’t hesitate to contact me. I’ve seen this theme installed on some blogs, but with the complete footer changed, that’s something I don’t really like, but if you email me about it, we can work something out …

Download

This is the download link for version 1.6. (60KB) Please let me know if and where you will be using my theme, I’d appreciate it :)

Extra

Georg was kind to translate my Simplifisticate theme in German. Much kudos to him! :)

ps: there will be a 1.7 soon, and work on Simplifisticate2 has begun!

On 21 May 2006 at 01h01, anonymous wrote

Your theme is very cool, thank you
On 21 May 2006 at 11h42, Stian wrote

ohh I was looking for something like that for a long long time;)
On 21 May 2006 at 20h52, anonymous wrote

rar format is not OSI-licence compliant
I will not ise your theme although I like it much
On 22 May 2006 at 00h07, Jill wrote

Awesome theme!!
On 22 May 2006 at 06h21, Selder wrote

Anonymous @ 20:52, what would you like to have? a *.zip? a *.7z?
On 22 May 2006 at 19h04, Dakid wrote

thx men
On 24 May 2006 at 05h17, glango wrote

thx men
On 28 May 2006 at 11h16, Chloé wrote

Thanks a lot :) ! I put it on mine > http://zipyourfly.free.fr/wordpress.
On 29 May 2006 at 17h33, dylan wrote

I have no web design or graphic design skills, but your theme gave me what I needed. Thanks dude.
On 30 May 2006 at 14h59, Qwayzer wrote

Wow, this is pure genius! Wonderful!
On 30 May 2006 at 22h08, Ardice wrote

I really like this theme. It’s a very clean look, something I’ve been looking for. Thanks a lot for sharing it. Be Well…
On 1 June 2006 at 12h01, Jelle wrote

hey,

for the bullets to show on the right side in IE properly I used images ;-)

you can have little look at http://www.thenakedprogrammer.com/links.php

greetings
Jelle
On 1 June 2006 at 12h12, Selder wrote

Hah, my serious old-skool friend! Images …. now why didn’t I think of that :p
On 3 June 2006 at 00h55, CoolCourt wrote

hey bro, this theme is cool. Email me whenever you get a chance so we can chat it up about Wordpress and a few other things, maybe exchange some links or something. In due time…
On 3 June 2006 at 21h35, Selder wrote

And how would I be emailing you? ;)
On 4 June 2006 at 03h34, amanda wrote

i’ll be using this. thanks, it’s just what i’ve been looking for.
On 6 June 2006 at 08h34, dingclancy wrote

This is the best theme I ever installed. Simple themes have some class in them…
Thanks dude! Great job… oh click the link.. i used it alrready..
On 6 June 2006 at 18h32, Aca wrote

just pure perfection… :)
On 12 June 2006 at 01h42, Colette wrote

Thanks for the great theme!
On 14 June 2006 at 13h31, Robin wrote

Is there away to add more links in the header? I tried to add them normally and they didn’t show up.
On 14 June 2006 at 14h17, selder wrote

Mmm, there should be no issues when adding the links directly in the header.php. Could you email me about this?
On 16 June 2006 at 07h02, Baby-Ang3L wrote

Nice theme.. I’m using it now… check it out!!
On 16 June 2006 at 18h50, Rolf wrote

“ps: there will be a 1.7 soon, and work on Simplifisticate2 has begun!”
Nice! I should make sure to check the progress on it from time to time… ^___^
On 19 June 2006 at 03h49, vrf wrote

I love this simply, classy theme. Can it be modified to have a flexible width page? Thanks!
On 19 June 2006 at 08h31, Selder wrote

It could, but it would need some additional coding for the image in the header.

Open up style.css and change the following code:

#page { width: 500px; }

to

#page { width: 60%; }

Should take care of a fluid width.
On 22 June 2006 at 07h33, vrf wrote

Thanks a lot, Selder!
On 26 June 2006 at 05h04, dingclancy wrote

Hi Selder..

Can I ask how you have that whole word (damn.be) instead of the first letter?
On 26 June 2006 at 08h50, Selder wrote

Just edit header.php and change echo $firstlower; to echo get_bloginfo(’name’); and play with the #capitalH numbers in style.css …
On 6 July 2006 at 09h55, beornot2be wrote

i love this theme…
BUT…the photos wont show up on my test-blog…..what am i doing wrong…
does this theme support photos, or not??

http://beornot2be.negimaki.com/blog/
On 6 July 2006 at 11h49, Selder wrote

Your photos don’t show up on the frontpage, because only Excerpts are displayed there, and not the complete post.

To change, edit index.php, and replace the_excerpt by the_content.
On 7 July 2006 at 02h14, beornot2be wrote

You are an angel, thank you soo much….
I can finnaly start my blog….1000 kisses to you….
maybe you should include a readme with some info on your next update…
On 7 July 2006 at 08h34, Selder wrote

But … but … the readme is this post! ;)
On 14 July 2006 at 03h10, mixvio wrote

I like this theme a lot and it’d be great for me to tweak if I could get it working properly, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to keep a static header-image instead of one that rotates. everytime I try I totally kill the stylesheet. any way you can help me? :)
On 14 July 2006 at 06h59, Selder wrote

Don’t touch the CSS, because the rotating images aren’t defined there.

Instead open up header.php in your editor, and go to line 28.
You’ll see this:
#header { background: url(”http://www.damn.be/wordpress/wp-content/images/ rotate.php”) no-repeat top center; }

This is the code which calls rotate.php – which rotates the images.

Change line 28 to something in the line of #header { background: url(”_url_to_your_image”) no-repeat top center; }.

Gimme a yell if you still have problems …
On 14 July 2006 at 15h17, mixvio wrote

well now the image is static, but not centered and bizarre now. :) what should I do next, oh master? :)
On 15 July 2006 at 11h11, Selder wrote

What’s the URL of the website you’re trying this? I’ll take a look at the code and try to find out why it won’t work…
On 15 July 2006 at 22h57, mixvio wrote

oh! I managed to get it working actually. the code for the header is also in header.php, not the styles sheet. thanks!
On 15 July 2006 at 23h04, Selder wrote

Glad you figured it out, told you those images were defined in header.php, and not the CSS :)
On 23 July 2006 at 00h09, Georgich wrote

Hi, Selder!
Your theme is really good. But why it doesn’t show links at the main page? When i post news and make links they don’t shows at the main page, only when i see this new. What is it?
On 23 July 2006 at 08h26, Selder wrote

Georgich, look at my comment on 6 July 2006 at 11:49 ;)
On 23 July 2006 at 10h17, Georgich wrote

Thank you, Selder.
One more question. How can i translate your theme into Russian? Thank you!
On 23 July 2006 at 12h07, Selder wrote

Mmm, uhm … I don’t know … open up all the PHP files, and replace the english words by russian? ;)

You could email Georg from blogrolle.net, he translated this theme in german, maybe he can help?
On 23 July 2006 at 19h59, Georgich wrote

I tried to change any words in php file, but when i’ve uploaded them i could see ????? instead the words. Why this?
On 23 July 2006 at 23h22, Selder wrote

I’m sorry, I really don’t have any experience in translating themes or making themes in another language than English :/

My bet would be that Wordpress itself is still in English? Search the codex to change Wordpress Language…
On 24 July 2006 at 02h56, anonymous wrote

what exactly do i add to the page to make the guestbook display?
On 24 July 2006 at 12h02, Selder wrote

Create a new page and choose “Guestbook” as Page template. It’ll show up under the Pages.

Additionally you could try this to have the guestbook entries in reverse order…
On 28 July 2006 at 19h12, Georgich wrote

Hi, Selder!
What is wrong with header image? I put it into /Simplifisticate/headerimages/ Sometimes it shows, but now it isn’t show. You can see my blog: georgich.host.sk
On 29 July 2006 at 01h21, Selder wrote

What website would that be? I’ll take a look at the code … And could you give me a list of all photos (filenames) that you have in /headerimages ?
On 3 August 2006 at 16h49, Joe wrote

This may be the dumbest question ever, but I cannot get the theme to display any images in the header. It simply shows the large lower case letter. How do I get the rotating images to work? Where do I upload the images?
On 3 August 2006 at 16h52, Joe wrote

Nevermind, figured it out!
On 7 August 2006 at 01h28, Steve wrote

hey there, is there something missing fromy our theme so that this code

[[XDFORUM]]

would not call the plugin like it should? the pluging authors have no idea why it does nto work and alli can think of is its the theme?
On 7 August 2006 at 01h31, Selder wrote

Does it work when you use the default Wordpress theme?
On 7 August 2006 at 02h36, Steve wrote

not actually it stills says [[XDFORUM]] but this time it says “edit this entry” under it., so i guess its not you problem.
On 7 August 2006 at 02h56, Selder wrote

Mmm .. I wish I could say I’ll test it out, but I don’t think I have time for it …
On 7 August 2006 at 18h00, Georgich wrote

Hi, Selder!
When the new version will be realesed??? Thanks!
On 7 August 2006 at 22h51, Selder wrote

Which one? 1.7 or 2.0?
1.7 is just a bugfix release, I’m waiting to release it when I discover some more bugs ;)
And 2.0 will be something completely different, maybe even a completely different theme with another name :p
On 8 August 2006 at 13h22, Steve wrote

how can i display the whole post ont he main page rather then just part of it?
On 8 August 2006 at 13h29, Steve wrote

Better yet, how cam i get full formatting onthe main page, so it shows smilies and stuff in my posts?

and the full post?
On 8 August 2006 at 16h32, Selder wrote

Steve, read what I typed on 6 July ;)
On 8 August 2006 at 21h07, Steve wrote

perfect, you the man :)
On 9 August 2006 at 00h54, Steve wrote

next question, on the panel page know how the boxes are in 2 columns? well i want to make it so there is only one column and each box, catergories, archive, etc etc expand the whole width of the page
On 9 August 2006 at 08h28, Selder wrote

There are 2 different definitions in style.css for a column on the right and one on the left … replace arch-right and arch-left by (e.g.) arch and play with the ‘width’ of that defenition …
On 26 August 2006 at 04h08, Steve wrote

drop down menu, i added a littl drop down menu to my site, if anyone wants to know how to do it just contact me you can see mine by clicking on the “about” link on my site

http://www.steved-mma.com
On 1 September 2006 at 03h49, vrf wrote

Hi Selder,

Just wondering if you could help me get rid of the “no reply” item that appears on every post. I’ve turned off comments in Wordpress–both in options and on each post–but I keep seeing the “no reply.” Do you think this is something that can be taken out by editing the theme.
Great work, by the way. Very classy theme.

Thanks!
-v

http://www.vancefry.com
On 1 September 2006 at 07h14, vrf wrote

sorry.. .one more question. You’ll notice on my site that I changed the page width. It’s at 800 now, but I think I’m going to drop it back to 600. Anyhow, I’d like to make more white space around my posts. With a wider page, the text and images just feel too close to the border edge. Can you direct me to the bit of code that would do that?

Thanks!
On 1 September 2006 at 12h40, Selder wrote

Vrf, for your first question, open up index.php, archive.php and single.php and change the following code

< ?php the_category(', ') ?> | < ?php comments_popup_link('no reply', '1 reply', '% replies'); ?>

to this:
< ?php the_category(', ') ?> < ?php comments_popup_link('', ' | 1 reply', ' | % replies'); ?>

That should remove the “no replies” text when there are no replies…

For your second question, play around in style.css with the “padding” values you find…
On 4 September 2006 at 04h55, vrf wrote

Thanks so much!
On 6 September 2006 at 11h35, vrf wrote

Sorry for all the questions…. but I can’t find new my new pages. I thought that new pages created would go up on the grey bar that includes the home and navigate buttons. That’s what I’d like, if possible.

Is such a thing possible?
On 6 September 2006 at 11h59, Selder wrote

There is nothing wrong with asking questions!

New pages are located in the access panel right under the search…

And adding the pages in the header is possible, but it would need some additional coding to have them just as text, and not as a list … lemme search a bit :p
On 6 September 2006 at 16h33, Selder wrote

Vrf, I’ve found a ‘partial’ solution … which still has 3 errors…

First the new code:

Change the code in header.php beginning with < #div class="headerlinks"> to:

< #div class="headerlinks"> < #div id="headerpages"> < #ul> < #li class="page_item">< #a href="/">home < #li class="page_item">< #a href="?panel">navigate < #?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?> < #/div> < #/div>

(remove all the # symbols, without them the code is foobarred in this comment…)
and add this to your CSS:

#headerpages ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; } #headerpages li {display: inline; } #headerpages ul li a {text-decoration:none; } #headerpages ul li:after {content: " | "; }

(don’t remove the # symbols here)

The first problem is that this is an Firefox and Opera only solution. Internet explorer won’t display the vertical lines.
Second problem is that the code to remove the last vertical line doesn’t seem to work (it’s not in the code above, I removed it)
And the thirth problem is that I can’t seemm to set the name of the pages to be all lowercase, the code just doesn’t work because of Wordpress template tags, if you want to have all lowercase names, you’ll have to rename the pages in the admin panel

I’ll continue to search for a solution to these 3 problems and white a follow-up here …
On 7 September 2006 at 04h59, vrf wrote

Thanks much for your continued help. (I got your e-mail, too… Thanks!)

I put the code on my site, and it displays as you described it, although it seems the last vertical line was removed in my header. Anyhow, I’ll check back later to see if you found a solution. (Please, don’t work too much on it, though. I’m sure you have a busy life…)

-Vance
On 7 September 2006 at 08h22, vrf wrote

Hi again,

I noticed that another Simplifisticate user managed to get her new page up in the nav bar, along with the vertical lines. I’m not sure what code would do this, though: http://beornot2be.negimaki.com/blog/
On 7 September 2006 at 08h27, Selder wrote

I’m not sure, but I think that ‘about’ link is hardcoded in the header.php, not via Wordpress template tags …

And If I look at your site, there is a trailing vertical line in the links in your header?

Anyway, I’m gonna search another way to display those vertical lines, because Internet Explorer doesn’t display them, ánd I don’t like CSS to have content instead of makeup…
On 7 September 2006 at 08h53, vrf wrote

I’m not seeing the vertical line in the header:

http://vancefry.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/buttons.jpg
On 7 September 2006 at 08h57, Selder wrote

Ah, that’s what I was talking about, you’re not using Firefox or Opera are you? ;) You should download Firefox and take a look at your site with it ;)
On 7 September 2006 at 09h23, vrf wrote

Yup, I see what you mean. The lines are there with FF. (And I agree that it’s weird that the last line is still clinging on.)
On 9 September 2006 at 01h47, vrf wrote

I think I’m going to (perhaps temporarily) hardcode the header links into the header section. That will help me with basic structure in setting the site up. But I’ll be watching this space.

Thanks!
On 9 September 2006 at 18h11, Selder wrote

That would be a good idea untill I find some free time :p
On 18 September 2006 at 13h43, vrf wrote

quick question: is it possible to click on the header image to take the reader back to the “home” page. (Making it so I don’t need a home button.) Or does the rotate script make that impossible.

Thanks!
On 18 September 2006 at 15h18, Selder wrote

That would be possible, I’ll look into it tomorrow night!
On 23 September 2006 at 05h05, vance wrote

Another thing that would be useful for me is to just turn off the random image code and have a regular, clickable header. Would that be easier?

Thanks!
On 26 September 2006 at 02h20, vrf wrote

I was able to hunt down a pretty good solution for the clickable header, if you don’t mind a little javascript. (Not everyone likes that solution, though.) It does work with the rotating header, though.

(without the extra spaces.)
On 26 September 2006 at 02h25, vrf wrote

oops.. it nuked the code. Here’s a pic:

http://www.vancefry.com/images-root/headerscript.jpg
On 26 September 2006 at 07h40, Selder wrote

Hah, cool :)

I have other things to play with at the moment :)
On 3 October 2006 at 18h01, Steve wrote

How does Version2 come? is it coming along, will we see it soon?
On 3 October 2006 at 21h05, Selder wrote

Mmm… I think this must be the 5th time I start completely from scratch, so actually it’s still in the conceptual stage ;)
On 15 October 2006 at 08h22, anonymous wrote

thx
On 26 October 2006 at 01h24, anonymous wrote

How do i upload images for the header?
On 26 October 2006 at 07h38, Selder wrote

Did you read the installation notes? There are only three steps!
On 15 May 2007 at 09h29, Georgich wrote

Hi!
Why photos don’t show when i enter in category? But at the main page it’s ok…
On 15 May 2007 at 09h53, Selder wrote

On what domain did you install it? I’ll have a look at the code…
On 26 August 2007 at 21h49, bel wrote

hi! How could I use this template without the image rotate?
On 26 August 2007 at 22h03, Selder wrote

If you want just 1 image, just put 1 image in the “headerimages” folder … if you don’t want any images, just put (can you see it coming?) no images in it at all :)
On 22 May 2008 at 21h58, anonymous wrote

Is this version also compatible with Wordpress 2.5?
On 23 May 2008 at 23h14, Selder wrote

This website is actually running WP 2.5 and S2 1.6, yes ;)
There just 1 quirck with how the dates are displayed, but I’m too lazy to fix it :p
On 6 November 2008 at 03h04, Aziz wrote

It would be interesting to know details
On 7 November 2008 at 13h13, Selder wrote

what details?