August 19, 2008
Overview
SimpleBlocks is a wordpress theme I created by reusing a lot of code from another themes, mostly from coogee theme by motta. It tries to be clean, simple, and have consistent look and feel across the site.
Features
- Fixed width
- Two column layout
- Two widget areas, one is the sidebar and one is just above the credit notes (hidden by default, best use with 3 widgets)
- Archives page template (code by the author of blog.2i2j.com, clear cache feature added by me)
- Page without comment template
- Support Firefox, Opera, IE7 (note that IE6 is NOT supported)
Preview
You are viewing it :-)
Download
Click the following link to download: SimpleBlocks
Or you can grab it from WordPress theme site
Change log
27/10/2008: version 1.0.1
- Fixed typo - thanks Karin
- Play nice with SyntaxHighlighter Plus plugin in comment
28/9/2008: version 1.0
- Change date style
- Change comment style
- Minor bugs fixed
2/9/2008: version 0.9
- Better smilies
- Fixed typos
- Change menu style (but I haven’t updated the screenshot yet, so scroll up to see how it looks)
- Some other minor fixes
19/8/2008: version 0.8
- Initial release
1.0 will be available in a coupe of days
hello kenzoIX, you have done a great job, i’m really impressed about your theme,it’s the first time i see a code so clean, really. I’m developping a blog with your base, i ll give you the adress when i ll be finished.
I writte you also because i have a question.
I seen you said that i can change the menu, i have change the style, thanks to the css, but i would like have the “catégory” instead of the “page” inside, ans i would like to insert the searchbar too.
Where is your code about this menu, i haven’t found anywhere?
Thanks a lot, and good continuation.
sorry for my poor english, i a poor french too ;-)
cyril
Hi cyril, thanks for your compliment. The menu code is in “header.php” file, but if you want to display categories instead of pages, you’ll have to mess with php. Open “header.php”, then replace:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>by
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>After that, use css to style your menu :-)
And if you want to have a search form in your menu, just include it inside the “menu” div in “header.php”. Wrap it into a div, give it some styling and you’re set.
thank’s a lot, it’s work perfectly, i ll show you when it’s finished .
have a nice day
cyril
Hey.
Just started using your theme, and it looks great! :)
I was wondering if it was possible to edit the bottom widget area with php (like the sidebar)?
- Vegard (Norway)
Hi Vegard, I’m glad you like it. About your question, yes you can edit it just like the sidebar. Open “footer.php” and take a look at the “bottomwidget” div :-)
Should have seen it.. :) Thanks!
Actually, quite frankly, the commentary is more interesting messages themselves. (Not to insult the author, of course:))
It is regrettable that it does not support IE6 … I come from China,can you make it support IE6?
Hi DragonZou, unfortunately I have no ideal how to make this theme work in IE6. I’m no css expert and don’t really want to deal with all the hassles of supporting that dinosaur browser. But if someone submit a patch to make this work, I’ll happily include the changes and give credit to him/her.
Hi - have just started using the theme and like it alot. I am not an expert in all this, very much a learner! I want to change the bit at the bottom that says ‘no comment untill now’ - I would like to delete it altogether (actually you have spelt ‘untill’ wrong too) - but I don’t know how to delete it. Please can you help me? I am a novice so will need detailed and clear explanations! :-) Thank you for such a fab, clear and professional theme….
Karin
Opps… thanks you Karin, don’t know how could I’ve made such a mistake. It’s in comments.php file. Go to your admin dashboard –> Design –> Theme Editor and click Comments (comments.php). Use your browser’s search function to find the word “untill”, you should see it appears in this part:
<h3 id="comments"><span class="commentsnumber"><?php comments_number('no comment', 'only 1 comment', '% comments' );?></span> untill now</h3>Then delete the whole part :-)
Yeah! Thank you soooo much for the quick and very clear reply. I have done it and it worked perfectly! Am really pleased with the theme - thanks again,
Karin
Fun. Add to your bookmarks. And how long it took to write articles?
I think I’ve found a simple enough way of fixing this for IE 6. First move the menu div into the header div, then create a separate stylesheet for IE 6. In the new stylesheet set the height of the header, menu, container and footer divs to 1%. Finally link to the IE stylesheet in header.php as described here. This worked for me anyway, link, although I made a few other changes as well.
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Hi, I want to know how to only show a summary on the post listings. On my site it is showing the full post.
Thanks
Nice and clear theme. Thank for not only publishing it but for your support. I do the same on my website.
Have you ever heard of web 2.0??
Thanks for the information. Any other posts or blogs you can recommend?