Free WordPress theme: Pixel
Pixel is a free template to use with the WordPress cms. It features a 2-3 columns layout and sports the following goodies: dropdown top menu for categories; customizable feedburner field on top right (optional – requires feedburner ID); widgets all around (6 positions); footer navigation and a transparent look. The divisions are also all made to fit standard ad formats and the welcome message on top right can also be customized through the admin panel – no need to mess into the code. (That piece of code was previously developed in part with Tim Holt, who I highly recommend) The theme has been tested and is compatible with IE6 (tolerated), IE7, IE8, FireFox 2+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+.
Download and/or try it out…
You can try it out live right here and download it from the official WordPress directory.
*Update, Dec. 3rd, 2009: This theme is now hosted on my other website, 85ideas.com. Head over to http://85ideas.com/public-releases/wordpress-theme-pixel/ for more.
1st off, awesome theme. Thanks for sharing your talent.
2nd, best way to get a custom header image? Played with both the header.php file and the style.css but can’t get it to appear, perhaps the full background is in front of it? Any code tweaks or should I just edit the file you provided.
Cheers!
can you internationalize it?…
I have your pixel theme, I can’t seem to get the tags to show on “Browse by Tags”. How can I enable this?
Hi,
there is nothing in particular to do to enable this. If your WordPress version is recent enough and your posts have tags, tags should show there instantly.
S
I would like to say THANKS !!!
hi, i love your template.. very elegant.
is there a way to get the the_author_posts() link to display the gravatar and about the author?
take care!
Hi,
yes, that shouldn’t be too hard to do, but unfortunately I can’t go into the details of it right here.
Best!
S
dude i changed the text color bt i want to know how to change UL color in post i changed text color to black bt UL is still in white
I just upgraded to version 2.0.0 and now I am getting the following error:
Error! Options page not found.
I have downloaded another copy from the WordPress repository and it did not contain the options.php page either.
Hi,
there is no options.php file in the theme. Where did that message appear exactly?
S
Hi Dude hw r u?
first of all i just wanna say that ur pixel theme is very good
Dude i wanna change the color of text from white to something another
Hi,
I’m doing good, thanks! My advice for this would be to play around in the css stylesheet.
Best,
S
hi,
might seem like a silly question, I’m new to using Wordpress. I’ve used your pixel theme and was wondering if there’s a way to remove the “Just another WordPress weblog” from the top heading of the theme. I’ve checked through the PHP files but i can’t seem to find where it is in the code.
if you know how to remove it, could you please email me, thank you heaps.
kyle
Hi Kyle,
you can remove it by taking it away in the header.php file. The tag to look for and delete is this one:
php bloginfo(‘description’)
Best,
S
Actually you don’t need to change php files. In your admin panel, go to Settings>Tagline
You can simply delete it there and leave it blank or change it something that fits your blog.
Yup, you can do this too. But it will leave an empty selector in the markup. Not a big deal :) Thanks for the comment!
I am using the Zingri Web Store plugin – go to my site and chose the “New Products” link – you’ll notice the text is unreadable due to the CSS in your code (I assume).
Since I will want to download updates as they become available for your theme, I don;t really want to modify your code.
How would you suggest I address this issue please?
Thanks for the great theme.
Hi Timothy,
in this case, I would suggest modifying the css inline with your markup, or adding a new stylesheet.
Hope this helps!
S
I’m not well versed in CSS – but assuming I was, is there a single page that I could insert some code that would use my CSS instead of yours.
In other words, I want to save all my wordpress style sheets in another directory that is outside my worpress directory, so that when I download updates my styles will still be used.
I understand that I would have to modify the theme to point to my styles – but I would rather chang it in only one place if possible, rather than in many places after the update.
Do you have any suggestions please?
Hi Timothy,
it might be simpler to just modify the css inline with the markup of your post/page, i.e. div style=”arguments here”.
Best of luck,
S
Heya. Great theme. I am using it for my community website and I have a problem. For pages, the command seems to not be working. It just doesn’t show the pages at the bottom as it should normally. Any advice?
If you are interested, you can check out the website at:
http://www.l4donline.net/v2/?page_id=3
That particular page is where I am trying to get nextpage to work.
Just to clarify, I meant the nextpage command.
Hi,
you are correct, the tag to perform this is missing. It will be added in the next version of the theme.
To manually add it, you need to slightly modify the page.php theme file (and/or page_fullwidth.php depending on your needs).
A simple way to add it is to take the code already present in the single.php file. Mainly, copying/pasting the ‘linkpages’ division in the proper place.
Hopefully that will help you out!
Best,
S
I love the layout! I was wondering where it pulls the profile pictures from under users. When I go to the users admin page, there is no place to load a picture. Thanks!
Hi and thanks for the kind comment! I believe the picture you are referring to is a gravatar (gravatar.com).
Best,
Sam
thanks ..
this is EN – AR lang file :
http://www.r-sn.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=pixel-arabic.zip
A really great Theme, thank you so much.
My pleasure!!!!
FANTASTIC theme, it fits the subject matter of my website perfectly. Thanks a bunch! Just one question: nearly everything on my site consists of posts, but I do have one “regular” page…and no matter what I do, i can’t get the comments box to appear at the bottom! Comments work just fine on the regular posts, but the comment box won’t show up on the one “regular” page that I have (and yes, “Allow Comments” under the discussion section is checked!) Any help?
Thanks again! Here is a link to the page in question: http://www.livingwithanerd.com/music
Hi Adam,
indeed, the comments are not coded in the page template. To enable comments on pages, you will need to manually modify the page.php file or add another theme file. A simple way can be to replace the contents of page.php with those of single.php (simply copy/paste so that both files are identical).
Hope this helps,
S
Thank you very much! That worked perfectly!
I modify this theme :
- separate language file 95% .
- support RTL .
http://r-sn.com/pixel.1.9.9.rtl.zip
please add update to next ver .
Like the others here, I also like the Pixel theme. I’ve implemented it on my blog which I just started and noticed one thing that is somewhat annoying. The main header is white in color but the second header uses black text. The initial part of that header gets lost in all the black. Could you choose a different color or maybe move the colorful part of the background over a little more to the left so the text shows up more clearly? If I knew html I would try to make the color change myself (I’m sure it would be easier than moving the background!).
Thanks…
Thanks Rich, I’ll consider it for the next update.
S
Awesome theme! I’m using a modified version of this for my site. There is just one thing and maybe I’m missing something. The posts are shown in their entirety rather than the 15 lines that I’ve specified in my settings. I applied real quick another theme and it displays just a preview of my posts like I prefer. Any ideas?
Hi (and thanks for the comment),
can you tell me which settings you are referring to?
S
Not sure why you deleted my last comment, but I was wondering if you could help me with the problem I’m having with your theme on my site. It’s in IE only and it pushes my right sidebar to the bottom of the page…
Any idea would be appreciated
Thanks.
Hi Clint,
I did not delete your comment, I simply did not moderate comments for a few days as I was away on vacation.
Your site seems to display fine in IE8 right now. I don’t have the time to check on IE7 and 6, but if the problem is with those, I would suggest making your introductory image a little more compact, so that it does not exceed the width of its division. Perhaps that would help.
Best,
S
Great theme!! thanks for putting this one out.
My Sidebar right is not displaying correctly in IE. It displays correctly in Chrome and Safari. What setting do I need to change to modify the way this is displayed?
http://the-outer-marker.us
Thanks!
Looks awesome. Thanks for the free theme and its information.
Hi Sam,
I just downloaded the pixel theme and plan to modify it for my own purposes. I’m gonna change the “bgbody.jpg” to another image and I had a question… is there anyway you can make the PSD for that image available for download? Or send via email?
I can just make a new image myself with those dimensions but I did like the style of yours so I figured I’d ask.
Thanks!
Tim
Hey Tim,
you can download the PSD for the background image at http://samk.ca/mememe/bg_pixel_by_samk.ca.zip
Best,
Sam
Hi Sam, awesome template, I’m using it as my site-blog for my music stuff. One question and I’m sure it’s easy…at the top the Blog title is in white and the tagline is black. It’s kinda hard to see, is there an easy way to change the color of the tagline text?
Thanks.
Hi Michael,
yes, I’ll keep that in mind for the next update. To change it, you must manually modify a line in the style.css theme file.
To change it to white, you can change this:
#header span {
padding: 0;
color: #111;
font-size: 11pt;
}
to this:
#header span {
padding: 0;
color: #fff;
font-size: 11pt;
}
Best,
S
Hi Guys. Love the theme but I am a Wordpress novice. I need to change the Tagline text from black to WHITE, because it is currently being “lost” in the background of the page.
Can someone please help me? Thanks!
Hi Brent,
please see the comment just above.
Best,
Sam
Hey,
I was hoping someone could help. Love this theme, however am a novice and cannot work out how to change the Wordpress Tagline text color to white (it is black presently and gets lost in the background).
Can someone please help? Thanks for any assistance in advance.
Cheers,
Brent
Nice theme, even if it’s very too dark for me.
Here are some free themes of mine, if anyone need them.
http://www.templateportal.org/category/wordpress/