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Tipz Theme Released

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.

Tipz WordPress Theme

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!

117 Responses to “Tipz Theme Released”

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Absolutely awesome artwork, simply unique and so elegant as well. Excellent work.

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wonderful theme ….
but, did you not support re-captcha?? there is no recaptcha form appear in comment form?

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Excellent template! :)
btw, why don´t you release previous designdisease.com layout? I love it!

(sorry about my english)

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Great theme – in widgets though I only have control of one of the side bars – any ideas?

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Think I’ve sussed it – it’s Sidebar.php that needs to be edited

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Thanks Design Disease, I use this theme. Is simple and beauty theme. Nice to meet you. See you again.

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Good theme!!!

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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.

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Very nice theme…. Thanksssss!!!!

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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!

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Beautifull theme. thanks for publisihing.

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awesome theme!

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Can we have the full PSD for customization?
Thanks!

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It’s a beautiful theme,but why don’t you add reply comment function in it?

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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^^^ but it works for me in my blog classictutorials.com. Am i missing something?

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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!

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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.

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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?

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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???

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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

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Very attractive and simple theme! Thank you!

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header.php on line 56 – is the MAIN problem and needs to be fixed for WP 2.8* !

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Excellent theme! That’s exactly what I needed, thanks!

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this awesome thanks

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nice ;)

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I don’t have any header problem at any line! I am sorry. Can anyone else help?

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wow… really really awesome
maybe my next blog i’ll use this theme
thank you

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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!

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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

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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.

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Here my example!

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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″

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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.

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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 ?

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I like the style of wordpress Tipz Theme. It is so nice design.

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I like it very very much,thank you for share it

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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?

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great idea, this theme has so much potential!

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Good job.I’ll use it with my blog.thank you.

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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…

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Nice theme. It could be use for many topic with little customization.

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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

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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

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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。

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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

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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

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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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Absolutely great artwork, simply unique and so cool as well. Brilliant work.

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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

it’s work for me

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For all those have the ‘parse error’, do not change your php.ini file. Otherwise, you may end up with more problems than you already have. To solve this problem, you would need to make some changes in the header.php file. In two instances, the short tag <? is used instead of the full tag <?php . That's where the problem is from. So replace the short tag <? with <?php in the two instances and you would be fine.

Admin could also make this change in the theme so that those who use xampp on Windows will stop having this problem.

~Osobase

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Great Design, I like it most of the featured desings. So simple and straight forward.

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Why there’s no reply button on comment form? pls anyone help?

Thanks

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Hi! I’m using two of yours themes on my blogs (Without noticed it before today).
I’m trying to tweak it a bit to customize to my need and I think it will be a great idea to provide a forum on your website about yours templates.

Well, thank again to give them free

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Child pages don’t show up anywhere. Shouldn’t they be visible in a menu somewhere?

Otherwise, great looking theme. Thanks.

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Hi, to fix the header.php parse error issue just open that header.php file, at line 9 there is something that reads ‘title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?', just change it to 'title="RSS .92" href="<?php'
Just like Osobase said

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Very nice interface design, respect & well done job!

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but..your theme (designdisease.com) is very good..ilke it..

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is there any way to pick a specific post
that would constantly display as the “featured” post ?

p.s
You should add a “subscribe to comments” :)
to your website.. makes life a lot easier..

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Trying to get the same effect as the last comment… want one specific post to always be in the ‘featured’ window. Trying to figure out an easy hack for this?

Thanks!

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HELP!!..

I know you made this for free but after days of attempts
i need just a little bit of help….please

how can i disply specific pages?? this is the header code:
<?php $pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&echo=0');
$pages = preg_replace('%]+)>%U’,’‘, $pages);
$pages = str_replace(‘
‘,’‘, $pages);
echo $pages; ?>

what need i change ?

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The Solve about header.php 56th line parse error. It’s not about this line. Please check the line 4 and you’ll see the twice. just change it with this “”

and then it works

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hey, theme is great,
but it doesnt show the post images on the main page..can u help me on that ??

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This is an awsome theme. Please update it to make it WP 3.0 compactible.

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Hey, just looking around some blogs, seems a pretty nice platform you are using. I’m currently using WordPress for a few of my sites but looking to change one of them over to a platform similar to yours as a trial run. Anything in particular you would recommend about it?

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wow… really awesome maybe my next blog i’ll use this theme
thank you.

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Wery good jop man

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Really nice theme. Is it possible to use that with WP 3.0?

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What can i say? It is a really really awesome theme!
A good job and a great work, the only thing that i can say is,
congratulation and greetings from bremen!!

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Great Design, I like it most of the featured desings. So simple and straight forward. Respect & well done job!. Love your work and think I can use one of them for my new other blog!…..

Good job…..

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Great Wp theme for my site, I cool colors, and images but it can be more awesome if you word on the background image.
But in the end Thanks.

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Very nice interface design, respect & well done job!

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Thanks for the theme. I wish you continued success

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Very cool theme. Keep up the good work.

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