Smashing Theme

prof kienstra

September 16th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

1

I’ve downloaded your theme when it came up on smashing magazines and am using it right now on my blog. I love the design and the layout.. The colors are something i might want to change sometime in the future, but the design is super! Thanks for sharing.

Paulo Sacramento

September 17th, 2007 at 10:11 am

2

You guys are getting each time better… no words… this theme is amazing!

Dem

September 17th, 2007 at 4:11 pm

3

i love the colors and the design, everything…

the only thing that i’ll probably add, is that every time i add a widget it doesnÂ´t take new colors… i don’t know if i’am beign clear… sorry about my english

keep on with your designs that are very nice

Raj

September 17th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

4

Hey Kindly let me know how to change the color of second Sidebar ( Right One). I want the single color there.

Plz help me,

FAS

September 17th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

5

Wonderful theme! As others have mentiond, however, I too am having some problems with the sidebar colors. Any suggestions?
Thank you!

prof kienstra

September 17th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

6

In wordpress you can change the CSS of the Side bar -> Presentation -> Theme Editor

If you look at the sidebar.php you can see the following

This means you that the design for the sidebar with the Meta information is given in the stylesheet as #SR.

Select the stylesheet.css

Find the following:
.SR { background: url(images/SR.gif) no-repeat right top; width: 400px; float: right; }

Here you can see that the grey sidebar is made by using the SR.gif images as a background. You can change this in the stylesheet.

For example: if you want a white sidebar: use #FFFFFF instead of url(images/SR.gif)

This will probably change some of it, so make a backup of the orignal css file before starting.

Hope this helps out..

Note: this will not only change the sidebar with the information, you’ll still have to change the css code for the sidebar as it goes past the tekst..

diyetler

September 18th, 2007 at 6:03 am

7

great theme , fantastic colors :)
thanks…

FAS

September 18th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

8

I’m sorry — I’m new at CSS and having some problems. Can you provide more information? :)

fizik

September 26th, 2007 at 7:09 am

9

fantastic colors :)
thanksâ€¦

Bilal

September 28th, 2007 at 6:20 am

10

Good, thanks

david

September 30th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

11

I am having problems with the search feature. On the search results, lets say you search and there are 3 pages of results, when you click page 2 it doesn’t pass the s= variable and thus you get the 2nd page of ALL your posts ?

Any ideas ?

david

September 30th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

12

fixed

in header change “post” to “Get” :)

all working now.

Elena

September 30th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

13

yay… happy that you fix the issue.

david

September 30th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

14

It is a great theme it really is – love it !

Mr Happy

October 2nd, 2007 at 8:42 am

15

I just put this design on my blog – it rocks. cheers

francisco

October 5th, 2007 at 7:00 am

16

grate design! thanks.
I need some help. I have the comments very close to the next post, so its look like they were of the next one. I think the dot line look like the finish of each post. how can I get it better?

Elena

October 5th, 2007 at 7:29 am

17

@david
No Idea sorry!.

@francisco
Try explain better, I didn’t understand.

francisco

October 5th, 2007 at 7:39 am

18

I would like to enlarge the space between the comments of a post and the title of the next one. if you see mi blog, you will see they are very close and they look like if they were of the same post. sory because of mi english… thanks

Elena

October 5th, 2007 at 7:52 am

19

Edit this css line from:

.post {
padding: 0px; position: relative; clear: left;
}

to

.post {
padding: 20px 0px; position: relative; clear: left;
}

francisco

October 5th, 2007 at 8:17 am

20

PERFECT !!!! THANKS!!!

david

October 5th, 2007 at 11:04 am

21

how do you make your comments standout like that ? it looks amazing!

Tracey

October 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

22

hey thanks, i love colors for this themes.i am using it on my new book site.check it out.
http://bookdirt.blogspot.com/

Johnson

October 8th, 2007 at 9:30 pm

23

Just saw your theme on hoovaloo.com. they made their own custom logo for the top that looks really good.

Silvio

October 9th, 2007 at 1:56 am

24

Hi,
i have adapted the theme for dblog, an opensource platform in .asp

Thanks Elena and Smashing!

MB

October 9th, 2007 at 5:19 am

25

Hey I love your great script. Can you tell me how I can add a border to any images dispayed, thanks !

Liski

October 10th, 2007 at 2:32 am

26

I’m using the theme at http://www.tastitunes.com but when looking at it at work on IE6 the sidebar contents is all the way on the bottom.

Liski

October 10th, 2007 at 4:39 am

27

How can I make the far right sidebar wider?

Elena

October 10th, 2007 at 5:09 am

28

@david
There is a plugin called Official Comments.

@Silvio
Good to hear that.

@MB
Isn’t a script…The border is in the image.

@Lisky
You can not…the sidebar is fixed. You made some changes in the css or what you placed in the sidebar is larger.

Sachin

October 10th, 2007 at 5:19 am

29

Hi, I’ve been using this theme and its really great. I’ve just updated WP and it seems to have header sending problems on this theme. Maybe I’m wrong about this also. Cheers.

Liski

October 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

30

I haven’t changed anything in the CSS – I’ve tried to slowly remove all the stuff in sidebar but still dropping all the way to the bottom on IE6

Liski

October 12th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

31

It’s all working!!

I might have this get this fab Elena to do a special Tasti theme for me!!

tom

October 14th, 2007 at 8:21 am

32

Hi
i have problem
After activating and viewing the smashing theme on a brand new wordpress installation, each post and page only displays the first character of that post or page. For example, on the default HELLO WORLD post on a fresh WordPress install, I only see the â€œWâ€ in the actual â€œWelcome to WordPressâ€ post.

Emrahca

October 15th, 2007 at 11:42 am

33

Thank you very much..

Mahmood Al-Yousif

October 15th, 2007 at 11:46 pm

34

This is a wonderful theme! Thank you very much.

Elaine, could you assist me a little please? I can’t seem to get it to display the coloured boxes on the left sidebar. I checked and the permissions of all files are okay (664) directories are (775) and ownership is good.

I wonder if it is a plugin that is causing this problem? Have you come across this before?

I’ve installed your excellent them on http://mahmoodsgarden.com

Thanks!

Mahmood Al-Yousif

October 15th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

35

Sorry, tried it with the latest versions of Safari and Firefox but problem exists in both. (Mac OSX)

Elena

October 16th, 2007 at 12:57 am

36

@tom
Try to upgrade wordpress and make sure you haven’t made any change on the theme.

@Mahmood Al-Yousif
Try to use the original theme boxes. Insert your content into this div.

Mahmood Al-Yousif

October 16th, 2007 at 2:13 am

37

Thanks Elena, I didn’t realise that there are “original theme boxes”! Can you please explain? Are those standard widgets? As I do not see them in the widgets control panel.

Mahmood Al-Yousif

October 16th, 2007 at 2:23 am

38

Ah, they’re hard coded.. I just looked into the sidebar.php…

Liski

October 16th, 2007 at 9:18 pm

39

How can I put an ad after each post on the main page?

Ginn Wei

October 16th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

40

Liski, I think you need to use ad management plugin to do that. Anyway, this is a great theme. Seriously considering it for my blog.

Ginn Wei

October 17th, 2007 at 3:19 am

41

I’m also having the same problem as Mahmood Al-Yousif where the coloured boxes in the sidebar disappear when I’m using widget. However, they will reappear once I stop using widget for the side right left bar. Hope you can help.

Ronald Lewis

October 20th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

42

Just wanted to send my appreciation to Elena, DD and Smashing for this great theme. I’ve just refreshed my site (http://ronaldlewis.com) with this theme.

Many thanks.

Liski

October 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 am

43

Elena,

I’ve emailed you a few times for a qoute!

Grace

November 1st, 2007 at 4:13 am

44

Nice theme.. using it in my blog now….
keep up the good work!

Luis

November 3rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm

45

Hi Elena, thanks for sharing this awesome theme. It’s really pretty!
I’m having the same problem reported by Liski: the whole sidebar goes to the bottom on IE6. It looks great in Firefox but most of my readers are still using MSFT’s sorry excuse for a web browser so I need to fix the sidebar… any idea?
thanks
LR

John

November 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 pm

46

I’m having the same problem Tom mentioned… i looked at the smashingmagazine comments and 2 other people had it too… i’m talking about the “only the first character of the post showing up” issue… i have a clean wordpress (latest version) install and didn’t make changes to the theme…

Luis

November 4th, 2007 at 10:29 am

47

Just to add something I discovered as follow up of my previous comment (54). I checked the code in the two latests posts published. The second one had a tag on it. It was only the opening tag so I deleted that and problem solved. Maybe it was just about a misplaced tag??

Melanie

November 5th, 2007 at 10:30 am

48

Amazing theme! The color combination is fantastic. Thanks for sharing it!

Elena

November 5th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

49

@Ginn Wei
I am working on the improved version of Smashing Theme and there the widget sidebar will work and look ok.

If you have IE6 errors on the sidebar, please make sure the content doesn’t exceed the column size.

Elena

November 5th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

50

@John
Please send me an email with this error. I don’t know what it is.

bob

November 5th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

51

Hello, is there a way to limit the homepage to show post_excerpt instead of the whole post?

I can’t find it anywhere and the whole posts are shown. :(

Thanks for the great work

Felicia

November 7th, 2007 at 10:48 am

52

I love this theme, I’m trying to get it to work on my blog, but unfortunately I’m running into the colored boxes disappearing on the left sidebar again. I haven’t touched the source code. Is there a widget/plugin interfering?

Felicia

November 7th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

53

Gah, well I installed the theme with the same untouched files on another blog of mine and the left sidebar works fine. I deactivated all plugins, but the sidebar colors still aren’t showing up. I can’t understand it. Any suggestions would be appreciated, I really would love to use this theme on my blog!

wmwebtr Ã¶dÃ¼llÃ¼ seo yarÄ±ÅŸmasÄ±

November 11th, 2007 at 11:17 am

54

Any suggestions would be appreciated, I really would love to use this theme on my blog!

Ange

November 12th, 2007 at 4:28 am

55

I love this theme… have installed it and playing around!!

Thanks :)

Adem

November 12th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

56

Having problems with getting whole posts to appear on the main blog – only titles of my posts are showing up! How do I fix this?

Adem

November 12th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

57

Actually, even when I click the single link for a blog post no posts actually show up, just the comments :(

Silver

November 13th, 2007 at 4:30 am

58

Hi, I’ve got the same problem as John (comment 55) & tom (comment 40), only the first character of any post is showing up. If an image was inserted, then the HTML character “

Silver

November 13th, 2007 at 4:36 am

59

Oops sorry, I typed the HTML open bracket & that caused the rest of my comment to disappear.

Basically this problem only happened with WP 2.3.1, I had no problems with WP 2.3 before the upgrade. This was with a clean install of WP 2.3.1 and latest download of Smashing, with no files or settings changed at all.

Any fix would be appreciated as this is a lovely theme & I would really love to use it!

libretto

November 13th, 2007 at 6:49 am

60

Hello, traduction en franÃ§ais ici : http://wordpress-tuto.fr/theme-wordpress-smashing-magazine-250

wmwebtr Ã¶dÃ¼llÃ¼ seo yarÄ±ÅŸmasÄ±

November 14th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

61

wmwebtr Ã¶dÃ¼llÃ¼ seo yarÄ±ÅŸmasÄ±

Anton

November 14th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

62

I’ve used it for my new idol site. Like it. Thanks Elena.

wmwebtr Ã¶dÃ¼llÃ¼ seo yarÄ±ÅŸmasÄ±

November 26th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

63

Thank you for the link! It definitely is an interesting paper, and I hope more researchers look into how such a system came about now that we have more details on how it works.

Marie

November 28th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

64

Love the theme!

I have created a custom header and I would like to apply it to the Smashing theme, but I am not sure how to edit the theme within WP. (I’ve been w/ Movable type for several years and just recently made the transition).

I tried editing the header.php file and ftp’ing it to the site, but was not successful.

Any suggestions?

Thank you:)

danny

December 15th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

65

so i recently adopted this amazing theme for my blog and the only problem i have with it so far is that i want the default category listing to be alphabetical, not by category ID. I’ve tried a number of plugin’s but none seem to fix the problem. If I import my own sidebar widget of categories it screws everything up. Is there something easy I can change that will sort the categories alphabetically?

Thiru

December 18th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

66

COOL THEME I LIKE I AM TRYING TO USE BUT CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO ADD MY OWN LOGO UNDER THE STRIP AT THE TOP HEADERBFG.GIF???

PLZ HELP

james

December 31st, 2007 at 9:17 am

67

Any news on a widget ready version? I love the theme and I’m trying to adapt it for use on my site but I need a widget-able version.

Thanks!

Cristian Ventura

January 17th, 2008 at 10:33 am

68

I also have the problem of the “first character”/”first letter” in this theme; but i solved it.
The solution is very simple:

This is the original code of “menu.php”


   " href="/">Home

]+)>%U','', $pages);

$pages = str_replace('','', $pages);

echo $pages; ?>

if you remplase “menu.php” for this code:


   " href="/">Home

   ]+)>%U','', $pages);

         $pages = str_replace('','', $pages);

         echo $pages;

         unset($pages); ?>

the bug is solved.

Maybe is a WordPress or even PHP bug… im new in PHP, but this works for me… ;-)

Cristian Ventura

January 17th, 2008 at 10:37 am

69

oh, well… i cant post “code blocks” here… but… telling the solution in “easy mode”, put the line: unset($pages); in the first php code block, and remove the second php code block in menu.php, and the problem is solved…

And i forget it… :-)
This is a really good theme. ;-)

M. Yasin ERDOÄžAN

January 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

70

I translated it to Turkish.

http://www.myerdogan.com/wordpress-temasi-smashing-theme

Serdar

January 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

71

Very beatiful, thank you.

John

January 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

72

I just noticed something with the theme, I use tags heavily on my site, and for some reason when you view a tag, it doesn’t paginate any posts? It only shows the top ten posts for that tag. Anyone else having this issue?

darran Low

February 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

73

i am having an issue with the page issue, i don’t know why it is not recognizing the pagingate function, elena, do you have a solution?

Qmega

February 5th, 2008 at 11:03 am

74

Great theme. I changed a bit this theme using Photoshop … take a look http://www.aaaod.com

chazzuka

February 6th, 2008 at 9:27 am

75

I am experienced a blank content when using this theme

dada

February 18th, 2008 at 3:02 am

76

hello elena,

as with everyone, i fell in love with your design. i just want to know how can i put a custom logo in the header, just like in the gossip city theme.

thanks and more power.

Manu

March 6th, 2008 at 12:49 am

77

Elena,

How can I put a custom logo in the header…like the way it is in gossip city?

One more thing is that the first sidebar doesn’t have the colors that I saw in the demo……..it’s all in grey……please check out http://www.pointlesslycool.org and help me out with this! I need colors like it is in your smashing theme demo.

Thanks in advance. And by the way, the theme is fantastic! :)

Manu.

Manu

March 6th, 2008 at 1:03 am

78

Hi Elena,

I just found that when i keep the left sidebar to default, it is doing fine. But when I drag and drop something to it, the whole sidebar changes to grey……..what do I do now?

Manu.

backlink almak

April 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 pm

79

great theme , nice colors thanksâ€¦

benny

April 12th, 2008 at 4:50 am

80

It’s very nice theme, which I used now,

But I really do not know how to make the avatar works in wp 2.5.

Mohamad Abbara

April 14th, 2008 at 9:40 am

81

Hi i just want to say nice theme Elena, right now i am using it on my blog. Thank you for your creation

Niels

May 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 am

82

Hi, thanks for the beautiful template.

One question though, I get two errors when I try to validate the page with the w3c validator, could you check this?

Beena

May 14th, 2008 at 3:59 am

83

It would be really nice if this is widget-ready…

amer

May 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

84

hi,
i love it soo much thx :)
i adore how its done. its simple & clean. i use it for my coming 1st website. MonstersCube.com.

charmian

May 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

85

Hey, I really love this theme! It’s very beautiful.

However, it seems to have a conflict with the WP Thread Comments plugin. When you try to reply to a comment in Ajax, the “submit post” button disappears. I think it may be something with the CSS.

erme2

July 19th, 2008 at 7:25 am

86

Hi! I translated it in italian
http://www.rmsoft.net/?p=62

Fong

July 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 am

87

Hi there. Is there any way to make the colour boxes on the left sidebar show? I saw them working at http://www.pointlesslycool.org but there’s only one colour. Thanks for the beautiful theme and we would really appreciate your help.

Fernando Souza

July 29th, 2008 at 9:49 am

88

Beautiful :)

prakash

October 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

89

it’s doesn’t seems to work for IMAGE CAPTION on wordpress 2.6.2
is there any solution for it?

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="158" caption="Test 1"]

[/caption]

Prakash Thapa

October 21st, 2008 at 9:33 am

90

gravator icon doesn’t displays on comments ??
what is the problem do I need to use another plugins for the same.

Son Dakika haber

December 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm

91

thank you designdisease.

Dan Nash

January 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

92

Hi

Just started using the theme on one of my new blogs, but I ran into the “First Character” bug mentioned above.

There is a much simple fix.

In menu.php, find the line that reads…

…and change it to…

Worked straight away for me, posts showed up and blog working fine!

Great theme :)

Dan Nash

January 9th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

93

The code didn’t show, sorry! (I used code tags..?)

Find the line in menu.php that reads…

…and change it to…

…and it should work for you!

Dan Nash

January 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

94

Try again… it’s reading my PHP :)

Find the section…

“? unset($pages);”

…and change it to…

“?php unset($pages);”

And it should work. Hope this comment will!

Rhea

January 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

95

Hello! I love this theme, but am having a hard time getting little things to work. I want to add a “stumble it” button but following Stumble Upon’s directions, it’s not working. Also, I can’t get my ads to show up in my sidebars. I’ve tried using the built in ad widgets and I’ve tried adding the code directly to the pages…neither work. What am I doing wrong? I really love this, but I just can’t get it to behave how I want!

ned your help

April 5th, 2009 at 4:52 am

96

Hi there. Is there any way to make the colour boxes on the left sidebar show? I saw them working at http://www.pointlesslycool.org but thereâ€™s only one colour. Thanks for the beautiful theme and we would really appreciate your help.

Jimmy

April 21st, 2009 at 7:48 pm

97

Hi

Thank you for this theme which I want to use on my upcoming non-profit project. I am currently testing your theme on my site jimmy.gs. I have done away with the right sidebar to give space to the main sidebar. What i would like to see is to extent the width of the content portion from the present 505 px to around 650px and the sidebar 350px. I have altered the sidebar width to 390px and that works fine. But i ended up messing with the code when i tried to extent the content width. Also let me know if you mind placing theme credits in a post from footer.Any help will be highly appreciated.

Diyet

May 12th, 2009 at 10:38 am

98

Very nice. thanks

Jyoti

May 31st, 2009 at 4:01 am

99

Hi,

I love this template, and while uploading the CSS file, I get this error:

We were unable to save your template
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.

Could you please help, I’d really like to use this template!

Thanks
Jyoti.

Jessica

June 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

100

I love this theme, thank you! I just have one problem though, that I was hoping you could help me with.

I have the ReCaptcha plugin installed on my WordPress 2.8 blog and I was hoping that the ReCaptcha box could appear above the “Post” button in the comment section as opposed to below, as it is now. I tried to fix it by going into the comments.php section but what I added did not seem to work.

If anyone knows how to fix this problem, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you =)

Angela R Schrempf

August 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

101

Hi,

I am having problems with the colors on the side bars as well. I LOVE this theme but would love to make it better with the color side bars. See curent site here: http://www.angelaschrempf.com

Please help!

Angela

Katie Nail

September 13th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

102