“Simply Ornate” Free Wordpress Theme
My newest freebie wordpress theme is ready for download. This theme was designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography. It uses patterns from my pattern site; DinPattern.com and comes in 5 flavors.
I tried to make this theme as basic as possible. It uses one plugin (which you can find in the plugin folder within the zip file) to include a flickr feed. Just drop the “flickrrss.php” file in your plugins directory and activate within the dashboard. You can set how many photos appear in the feed, I’d suggest staying with multiples of 4 to keep the design balanced.
The theme also includes a prototype-based tab effect (via stereotabs) that allows users to browse latest posts, comments and tags. The front page is set up to show excerpts of your 4 latest posts, and also includes a mini-nav in the upper right side to allow for page navigating.
The theme also uses a ton of png transparency that does work cross-browser (even in IE 6). Click the thumbnails below for screen shots.
Download:
- Simply Ornate “Twirl II” (blue)
- Simply Ornate “D.A.R.K.” (military green)
- Simply Ornate “Pinkie” (pink)
- Simply Ornate “Pixel Gray” (grayscale)
- Simply Ornate “Royal Red” (deep red)
Please leave the footer intact as is, with links to both EvanEckard.com and DinPattern.com for usage. Feel free to modify any themes as well. If you do, send me a link so I can check it out – Enjoy!
September 16th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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September 26th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
thank youu for share
October 1st, 2008 at 3:15 am
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October 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am
Look nice. Thanks for sharing
October 1st, 2008 at 7:27 am
why not ı converted language?if ı want,ı have template is not fount error
October 1st, 2008 at 10:14 am
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Hey – i love the theme! its amazing!
Question though – how do i get a full post to show on the main page instead of having to click each individual post to show the picture i uploaded? Ive been trying to search for the CSS code, but i am not as knowledgeable as you are, im sure.
any help?
thanks,
Joe!
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 am
Very nice Template, would be great, if there is any widget-function in the sidebar & gravatar-support at the comments!
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October 9th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Gorgeous, thanks for sharing your work! To be the picky beggar, I agree with Markus/#10 about a widget-friendly version. Regardless, many thanks for sharing.
-ma
October 9th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Great-looking theme, but for some reason the sidebar tabs won’t display. Any idea why?
October 9th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Nevermind – turns out it was a plugin conflict with a Lightbox plugin I was using.
I did notice a bug in your code, though, specifically pertaining to the Latest Comments in the sidebar. All comments in the list are shown as belonging to the same post, which just happens to be the bottom post shown in the Latest Posts tab. Do you have a solution for this?
October 9th, 2008 at 10:18 am
@Jim
Yeah, I got an email about the correct category not appearing in the comments. I also had an extra closing div in the footer.
The zip files for the themes above have been updated, and until I can find a category fix, I just pulled that out for now. You’ll notice no category now appears at http://honker.evaneckard.com
Also did a few minor tweaks to the CSS files – some of the comment link styles weren’t cascading down.
And regarding widgets – I need to do some more learning to figure out how to build that in. I never use them, and always forget to stitch them in when building a theme. Time for “Dynamic Sidebar 101″ for me.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:26 am
@Joe – to get a full post on the main page, you’ll have to change the php call for the excerpt to the content.
change line 24 from
“php the_excerpt”
to
“php the_content”
October 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Perfect. That’s effective enough.
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October 18th, 2008 at 3:56 am
this is for sure lovely themes!!
October 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Evan. Great theme. Been following your design for a little while now, and decided to use simply ornate as my personal venture into blogging. I’ve figured out how to widgetize the sidebars:
It’s pretty easy:
In functions.php add this code:
if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(
‘before_widget’ => ”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”,
));
Then, in sidebar.php add this code:
Now, just have to style it all. Enjoy!
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
This is a great theme!
My question is this, I’m still a bit of a novice with coding (especially the PHP) and was wondering, how can I change “Recent Posts†to reflect “Popular Posts†instead? I’m not sure about it and would really appreciate any help!
Thank you!
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October 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Wow, is a Amazing Theme. Great.
Now, we can i the sidebar widgetize .
Sorry my englisch is not so good.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Wow! This is a great theme….thanks!
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:19 am
You are amazing!Thank you for your all themes.Thanks,thanks and thanks again…
December 5th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Evan, I love this theme so much and I’m currently in the process of modifying it for my art blog. Thankyou so much for the time and effort you’ve put into making it~!
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December 13th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Comment 27:
Then, in sidebar.php add this code:???
Which code?
Please
thanks
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December 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
is there any change to move ”Continue Reading”
if it is possible how can i?
December 26th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Hi Evan,
this is a great Theme. I have this on my Site. Now I have a problem.
Can you make this perfekt Theme “Widget Ready” ?
Please.
Merry X-Mas and a happy new Jahr
P.S. Sorry, my english is not so good.
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Is there a way to display a photo with the post in the main column on the home page?
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February 2nd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
beautiful…
doesent work on IE7 though
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February 28th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Evan,
Can you be more specific about putting the whole post on the main page please. I tried waht you said here:
change line 24 from
“php the_excerptâ€
to
“php the_contentâ€
But it didn’t work for me. Which files do I change this on?
Any other info I need?
Thanks man.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 5:13 am
hi evan, can you make your theme “Notepad Chaos” compatible with wordpress 2.7?
It seems “notepad chaos” widgets and other functions are not working with Wordpress 2.7
thanks in advance
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
Dude, Simply Ornate rocks. Don’t be discouraged by the lack of downloads
I’m gonna use it as my new blog template. Peace.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
Hi, Evan!
Is Simply Ornate compatible with the last wordpress version (2.7) ?
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August 13th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
hey man this is awesome but its not installed correctly, its saying its not widget aware????
August 15th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Yeah, that theme hasn’t been updated to use dynamic sidebars yet.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Hi Evan! Great Theme! I am so happy that you shared your talent with people like me don’t have.
but i still having the issue showing the right tabs on top of the page. I’d like to link the tabs to my categories individually.
other than that! your theme rock!
thanks!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Those tabs are pages that your blog uses. You’d have to edit the template code to change that to categories.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I see. fair enough. thank you!
August 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Hi, Evan, one more question here : )
I just downloaded “WP Page Numbers” plugin, somehow it seems not working for this theme, do you have any suggestions for that? thank you, much appreciated.
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September 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Same with Yvonna, I’m trying to use a page navi plugin but it won’t work. Which sucks because my visitors aren’t able to see my previous entries, and neither am I. They can only see the four most recent entries. Help?
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October 13th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Greetings, this post is not for Simply Ornate, it’s for Cellar Heat Dark. I would like the latest, featured post on the home page to have a longer character length before truncation. How can I do this in the CSS?
Thanks, /b.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
okay, I’ve narrowed it down to the the_excerpt function. I want to remove this and have the main post just a the_comment kind.
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November 14th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Cool, love blue color. I really like this theme.
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