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Tipz Theme Released

Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009

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We wanted a good strong theme that could fit a wide variety of topics for Tipz, which mainly writes how-to articles among various other topics. The front page has an easy to use “feature” section so you can easily put on display your most in-depth posts. You can even slot in a nice picture and a post excerpt to accompany the headline by editing the feature-image custom field and setting the category to “Featured”. We always like our rounded corners, which give the theme a simple Web 2.0 feel.

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The theme is fully widgetized. A special feature of this theme as we use in many of our themes is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Tipz theme and name it logo.png or you can use the logo.psd as a template. You will find the source in the root folder of the Tipz theme..

This work is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This means you may use it, and make any changes you like. Just leave the credits on footer if you respect the designer’s work.

Enjoy !

Update! – 02.12.2009

  • Gravatar problem fixed
  • Page Navigation problem fixed

Many ask about feature image usage. Click on this screenshot and you will see how can make that image appear on featured post. For the design quality try to use a standard 150px/150px image. See how!

tipztheme-feature-image-1

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79 Responses to “Tipz Theme Released”

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Deven

October 27th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
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Absolutely awesome artwork, simply unique and so elegant as well. Excellent work.

drnyol

November 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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wonderful theme ….
but, did you not support re-captcha?? there is no recaptcha form appear in comment form?

eszencia

November 3rd, 2009 at 3:25 am
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Excellent template! :)
btw, why don´t you release previous designdisease.com layout? I love it!

(sorry about my english)

Tom Evans

November 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 am
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Great theme – in widgets though I only have control of one of the side bars – any ideas?

Tom Evans

November 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
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Think I’ve sussed it – it’s Sidebar.php that needs to be edited

Motivasi Bisnis

November 5th, 2009 at 4:41 am
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Thanks Design Disease, I use this theme. Is simple and beauty theme. Nice to meet you. See you again.

piac95

November 6th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
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Good theme!!!

Kaushik

November 7th, 2009 at 6:48 am
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Superb.. really liked it. How to bring the windows7 like icon beside the post. I am a bit confused? Anyone can help pls.

dante01

November 8th, 2009 at 3:45 am
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Very nice theme…. Thanksssss!!!!

Chenine de Groot

November 9th, 2009 at 2:22 am
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Thank u guys for publishing these theme’s! Love your work and tink I can use one of them for my new blog!

bagosbanget

November 9th, 2009 at 7:22 am
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Beautifull theme. thanks for publisihing.

dundi

November 12th, 2009 at 7:27 am
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awesome theme!

Yohan

November 12th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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Can we have the full PSD for customization?
Thanks!

bolo

November 15th, 2009 at 6:48 am
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It’s a beautiful theme,but why don’t you add reply comment function in it?

Sjarief

November 15th, 2009 at 8:20 am
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Excellent theme, however I got an error when I try to install it. Here is the error message:

Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\themes\tipztheme\header.php on line 56

Thorsten

November 15th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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I’ve the same error … Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in D:\…\wp-content\themes\tipztheme\header.php on line 56

Any help? Maybe not compatible with German WP?

Kaushik

November 15th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
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Posting again as i dont see my comment comming up.

Thanks guys. I have added this superb work to my blog Classic tutorials I have did some modifications.
1) Increased the width of center column on landing page.
2) Modified the layout of single post page. Removed the two columns and made it one :)

Thanks guys again for this outstanding work

Andrey

November 16th, 2009 at 2:56 am
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Hello!
I have installed your new Tipz Theme.
It is a problem. Not working page navigation. By clicking on the link “Older Entries” the contents don’t change. Tipz.com has the same problem. Can you fix this bug and update theme archive?
Thanks

Admin

November 16th, 2009 at 3:16 am
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Hi! I am sorry but i can’t reply to every error that is found. Remember! i do this themes for free and support is hard to offer but i look into this header problem.

Thank you!

Admin

November 16th, 2009 at 3:20 am
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I saw the error for “Older Entries” and i will take care of that soon. I will post an update here.

Kaushik

November 16th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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^^^ but it works for me in my blog classictutorials.com. Am i missing something?

Rob

November 17th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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I’m a huge fan of your templates, and am very interested in replacing the illacrimo template with Tipz. I noticed when I run a “preview” of the theme, there doesn’t seem to be support for the [caption] tag on images. Do you (or anyone currently using the template) have a workaround for this? Thanks!

Francois Delattre

November 19th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
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Very attractive theme … But i can’t find the way to use the “feature” section and the “feature-image” function.
The featured post is always my most recent post. And even if i create a “Featured” category and class a post in this category, it doesn’t display in the “featured area”. cab’t find the way to use the feature-image custom field either, but it’s must be related … Anyone smarter than me ? Thanks.

sesame

November 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 am
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Hmm, I also get this error: Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\bwd\wp-content\themes\tipztheme\header.php on line 56 It worked on my Mac but not on PC???

Any ideas?

sesame

November 23rd, 2009 at 7:12 am
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Hello all – the problem I posted isn’t happening in my live environment. My guess is it’s a WAMP issue???

Francois Delattre

November 25th, 2009 at 8:25 am
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Same proble here. Windows XP, wamp server, problem occurs only on local installation … Don’t find any solution yet … Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\bwd\wp-content\themes\tipztheme\header.php on line 56

Alex

November 26th, 2009 at 4:43 am
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Very attractive and simple theme! Thank you!

Yuko

November 27th, 2009 at 1:46 am
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header.php on line 56 – is the MAIN problem and needs to be fixed for WP 2.8* !

Ferst

November 28th, 2009 at 7:16 am
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Excellent theme! That’s exactly what I needed, thanks!

wowguide

November 29th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
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this awesome thanks

Colorizate

December 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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nice ;)

Admin

December 1st, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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I don’t have any header problem at any line! I am sorry. Can anyone else help?

ebta

December 1st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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wow… really really awesome
maybe my next blog i’ll use this theme
thank you

Deven

December 5th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
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Hi,
When will you release updated version of this theme with those “older entries” page navigation bug and it will be great if you can integrate Page-navi numbered plugin as well..

Thanks, Your themes Rocks!

Fred

December 8th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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Great!!!

However i did encounter some display problems on Firefox and Safari… here’s the pics :

Safari
http://yfrog.com/04image51aj

Firefox
http://yfrog.com/0cimage52bj

Fred

December 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
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To use the featured image function just do this..

1. Add a custom field for the featured post by editing your featured post
2. Use “feature-image” as name for the custom field
3. Insert a full image tag for the value who refers to the 150px thumbnail image

Ex.

Fred

December 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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Here my example!

Fred

December 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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Finally!! Just add the rest yourself..

img src=”http://www.tipz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/TZ_Paperbag-150×150.jpg” alt=”TZ_Paperbag” title=”TZ_Paperbag” width=”150″ height=”150″ class=”alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2162″

Fred

December 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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Still i’m looking to catch how to set the news as the one featured on top.

Setting the category to “Featured” doesn’t help.

fred

December 9th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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Second line for index.php you replace

by

by

Put your featured category number instead of 7.

Now the last thing would be to prevent the featured post to be repeated in recent post on the homepage.

Anyone able to do this ?

dves

December 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
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I like the style of wordpress Tipz Theme. It is so nice design.

crossyou

December 11th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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I like it very very much,thank you for share it

Ariel

December 12th, 2009 at 6:22 am
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How is it possible to change the name of the category that makes a post be “Featured”? Let’s say my blog is not in English and I don’t want my posts to be in the “Featured” category, but in the “Special” category. It’s just a matter of name.

So, how can i change it?

Lisa

December 26th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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great idea, this theme has so much potential!

Jack HU

January 2nd, 2010 at 8:29 am
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Good job.I’ll use it with my blog.thank you.

Serhat ERGÜN

January 4th, 2010 at 7:07 am
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can we use it with mobile phone? some themes are suitable for mobilephones… and ı want to use my blog with my phone…

majalah

January 6th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
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Nice theme. It could be use for many topic with little customization.

Betty

February 10th, 2010 at 7:59 am
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I like the Tipz theme. Nice to see three columns not getting in each others way, as i see that a lot in other wordpress themes. Regards, Betty

Thorsten

February 10th, 2010 at 9:30 am
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Yep! Now I can help with the ‘parse error’. In another forum I got the answer. All php installtions on wamp (windows, apache, mysql, php) servers has to switch the following in php.ini ‘on’ and restart the server:

; Allow the <? tag. Otherwise, only <?php and tags are recognized.
; NOTE: Using short tags should be avoided when developing applications or
; libraries that are meant for redistribution, or deployment on PHP
; servers which are not under your control, because short tags may not
; be supported on the target server. For portable, redistributable code,
; be sure not to use short tags.
short_open_tag = On

Best regards,
Thorsten

青岛卓众

February 13th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
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青岛卓众(www.chinajoyzone.com)给博主拜年来了,恭祝新的一年事事顺心,万事如意。

Thorsten

February 22nd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
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Hi,
Is it possible to get the png files as a template? I want to change the colors of your design. I’m very proud about your work, very very good design. It would be a pleasure for me, if could change the colors.

Thanks,
Thorsten

JoeCarioca

March 5th, 2010 at 8:20 am
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Thorsten, Please explain how to fix ‘parse error’. I don’t understand you above explain. Where to put “php.ini”. Many many thanks

Frost

March 12th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
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awesome theme man. but seems every post i did always shows in the featured section.

how do i show that the “Featured” only category shows in the featured section?

thanks in advance

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