I’m proud to announce my first publicly available Wordpress theme, Manifest. Manifest is based on a previous design of my personal site. It’s a theme I rather liked and didn’t want to see go to waste. So instead of letting it die off in a folder on my hard drive, I decided to clean it off, polish it up and release it into the wild.
My goal with Manifest was to create a clean and streamlined theme that focused on the content and not the distractions. It utilizes a single column, 500 pixel wide layout. No sidebars. No widgets.
Some highlights:
- Valid XHTML Markup. It currently validates as XHTML Transitional. That is until you start embedding all those crazy YouTube videos and Google Ads ;)
- Microformat support. The posts are marked up using the hAtom microformat. Which an increasing number of search engines (like Yahoo!) are beginning to support and index.
- 404 page. I’ve included the standard Wordpress 404 template, which in addition to a nice “not found” message, it provides your readers with a list of recent articles.
- Archives template. An archives template that supports categories, tags and monthly views.
- Links template. A basic links page template. This isn’t a standard Wordpress template so you’ll need to add it as a new page. But it will pull in any links you add to the Links section in the admin.
- Google ad (sorta) support. There a designated spot on the single post pages for Google or any other type of text ads. Commented out by default, but there if you want it.
- IE6 unsupported. This is a feature, not a bug. If a user attempts to view your site in IE6, they’ll be presented with an unstyled (but perfectly functional) site. Along with a friendly message suggesting they upgrade their browser.
- Some webkit visual candy. It’s minor but hovering over the buttons will provide smooth rollover transitions in Safari 4 and Google Chrome thanks to their new CSS based transition properties.
Feel free to use as you please, I just ask that you keep the Manifest link at the bottom. Thanks and enjoy.
Comments
I’m really happy you released this theme - it was a great design and I’m also glad it can live on. Great idea not supporting IE6 and having microformats in the template.
posted by Tom on 03.19.09 at 3:27 pm
WOW! Very nice!
Just one question - would this theme work on WPMU?
hResume - is the microformat that would be nice to support as well (like LikedIN).
posted by Ivan | Irish Blogger on 03.20.09 at 5:51 am
What I meant with hResume was: as LikedIN does.
posted by Ivan | Irish Blogger on 03.20.09 at 5:52 am
I don’t know if it’ll work with WPMU because I don’t use MU. But from what I’ve read about it I don’t see why it shouldn’t. If you try it and it does, let me know.
posted by Jim on 03.20.09 at 7:26 am
Nice work Jim, it’s so simple and elegant, love it!
posted by Adam W. Warner on 03.24.09 at 10:55 am
Thanks Jim! Always liked seeing simple designs, glad you took the time to release ;’)
posted by Sam on 03.24.09 at 11:50 am
How to create Archives？
posted by wespread on 03.26.09 at 6:50 am
@wespread
Ah, I apologize for that. I apparently neglected to put the template declaration at the top of the archives.php.
I’ve uploaded a new version with the fix, so you can either download that or just add the template declaration to archives.php in your existing file.
posted by Jim on 03.26.09 at 8:16 am
@Jim THS。
posted by wespread on 03.27.09 at 3:38 am
Love the beautiful simplicity, quick load time and the fact that a lot of thought looks to have gone into the details. A wonderful theme!
posted by josef Stevens on 03.27.09 at 8:19 am
WOW, stunning. This is the first theme I can’t wait to get my grubby hands on and use. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
posted by charlie on 03.27.09 at 6:52 pm
I really like this theme, so simple but elegant at the same time.
Most other “simple” themes are a dime-a-dozen but I really do think this one stands out from the rest – a stellar piece of work.
posted by Bryce on 03.27.09 at 7:13 pm
I think you’ve got a hit on your hands here. Simple themes are sometimes…too simple? This one is just right. Bravo.
posted by Chris on 03.27.09 at 7:36 pm
With so many themes cluttered with stuff now, yours is a breath of fresh air. Ah.
posted by darleene on 03.27.09 at 8:07 pm
Nice & clean.
I can’t see any reason why it shouldn’t work on MU.
posted by Andrea_R on 03.27.09 at 8:15 pm
Wow! Thanks for all the kind words. I really appreciate it :) I’m glad you’re liking the theme.
posted by Jim on 03.27.09 at 10:12 pm
Beautiful theme, elegant and well executed. Nice work!
posted by ThemeGrrl on 03.27.09 at 10:50 pm
Most excellent. :)
posted by David on 03.27.09 at 11:09 pm
Looks great! I prefer clean, minimalist themes, just like this one. Well done!
posted by Markus on 03.27.09 at 11:34 pm
it is really good, really simple, and I loveeeee it. Thanks
posted by King on 03.27.09 at 11:37 pm
This is stunning, stunning, stunning… Is this fixed width?
posted by Punk Professor on 03.28.09 at 12:23 am
hi jim,
thanks for sharing your great work, -manifest. and i would like to convert it into an xml format enable blogspot user apply it for their template.
thank you for your permission.
regards,
gre-
posted by gre on 03.28.09 at 9:31 am
很简洁，喜欢。
posted by 老时 on 03.28.09 at 10:36 pm
From a “theme” junkie - Thanks for the clean, clear, direct, easy and plain! Ditto the WOW
posted by chrys on 03.29.09 at 1:11 am
收藏了，thank you。
posted by 靖西在线 on 03.29.09 at 3:13 pm
Nice theme. And I like the IE6 message, but when I view my blog using IE6 it doesn’t display the message very well. I get a much smaller, compressed red bar across the top of the page with no writing. Any ideas on how I can fix it?
posted by Gary on 03.31.09 at 12:52 am
Hi, Just found this link to you via @iandstewart on Twitter. Does your theme work as a stand alone WP Theme or can it be used in conjunction with Thematic?
I new to all of this, but you theme is almost exactly what I’ve been after for my charity blog, but are there any issue with either WP2.7 or other general browsers?
Cheers.
posted by Damian on 03.31.09 at 6:55 am
@Gary - You have some other stylesheets being loaded due to other plugins you have installed. These are probably causing the issue so you should start your debug process there.
@Damian - This theme is not designed for Thematic. As stated above, IE6 is unsupported. Current standards based browsers shouldn’t have an issue.
posted by Jim Barraud on 03.31.09 at 9:12 am
Jim, Thanks. I’m not using IE6, so no probs. but do I need to uninstall thematic and let manifest operate on its own as a theme? Does it need a seperate template or is WP blog template I’ve upload its parent?
I’m a novice at this so sorry if these are basic questions.
posted by Damian on 03.31.09 at 9:59 am
@Damian - Sorr,y but I have no experience with thematic so I don’t know what it entails. The easiest thing to do would be to install the Manifest theme manually, by placing it in the themes folder, and see if it shows up in the Wordpress themes selection.
Hope that helps.
posted by Jim Barraud on 03.31.09 at 10:20 am
That is the BEST THEME EVER !!!
posted by Fink About It on 03.31.09 at 11:34 am
I like it!
Just need to find another blog idea to start blogging with it!
N.
posted by Nimwit on 04.01.09 at 5:51 pm
Great work, I like this minimalic approach. Easy to read as well. However, I am editing a lot in past posts and don’t know where to put the “edit code”. Should be in single posts, but I cannot find out where and how. You have a special handwriting, so to speak. When browsing posts there is no “edit this” to be seen, except for the comments, not for the posts. It’s the only minor thing, plus the fact that there are still many people using IE6, lot of people who work on offices and are not allowed to download a different browser.
posted by Al on 04.01.09 at 9:46 pm
I was going to go with thesis, but I quickly changed my mind after seeing this theme. Best minimal theme I’ve seen in a while.
posted by Nate Kay on 04.03.09 at 12:55 am
Is it possible to turn off the IE6 message so that people using this browser still can experience your beautiful theme? At least 25 percent of my visitors use IE6, most likely because their boss don’t want them tp use something different.
posted by Al on 04.03.09 at 8:45 am
In regards to IE6 support: Manifest & IE6
posted by Jim on 04.03.09 at 12:14 pm
Wonderful
posted by Luglio7 on 04.03.09 at 12:32 pm
Okay Jim, clearly stated. Respect for your point of view. Thanks.
posted by Al on 04.03.09 at 3:04 pm
Very neat theme. Well done!
posted by Banago on 04.03.09 at 6:40 pm
Beautiful theme, it makes you concentrate on the content, not on a flashy layout :-)
I still have a problem thoigh: when I open the blog with Chrome or Opera, my antivirus (Avira 9) says I have a trojan in my Firefox (!) plugins folder. (prove here).
Can this be related to the “IE6 unsupported” feature? I get this message only when I’m using this theme on the blog.
posted by claus on 04.04.09 at 10:40 am
Sorry, the link doesn’t work. The “proof” is here.
posted by claus on 04.04.09 at 10:41 am
@claus The IE6 support is controlled through the CSS and would not be the cause of your virus issue.
posted by Jim on 04.06.09 at 11:27 pm
Beautiful! Clean, simple and classy. Thanks you!
I’ve been trying to get my logo in the header instead of the html, to no avail. I’m a novice at php. Would you help me?
posted by Tanya on 04.07.09 at 1:13 pm
Your theme is simply brilliant! I have just spent a week customizing the “Rock Solid” theme, which is all about the eye candy. I have been a minimalist my entire blogging life … with this past week exception. I stumbled upon your theme by accident today … and I just had to give it the business … WhOa!
Incredulous!
Everything just worked out of the box … YaY!
posted by Mark on 04.10.09 at 7:36 pm
Beautiful theme. Thanks for sharing it with the WP community.
posted by Matty on 04.11.09 at 11:29 pm
AWESOME THEME! I like it very very much.
posted by Elfy on 04.14.09 at 8:12 pm
Great Theme. Master of Minimalizm. I Like it.
posted by m.o.m. on 04.22.09 at 10:02 am
I just uploaded the theme but archives are still not created. I’m not super tech savvy so can you please tell me what should appear in the archives.php file? (It also has an archive.php file.) Please help, and feel free to email me directly.
posted by Ismat on 04.23.09 at 2:18 pm
@Ismat Archives need to be created by creating a page and selecting the archives page template. The README contains all setup info.
posted by Jim Barraud on 04.23.09 at 9:53 pm
Any thoughts on enabling threaded comments?
posted by sean nichol on 04.28.09 at 9:02 pm
I modified this theme for my own personal site! Check it out. Thanks.
posted by Jake Toolson on 05.01.09 at 7:43 pm
The theme is amazingly beautiful ! I think it really stands out among the minimalist ones. However I am quite disappointed by the 2 buttons at the bottom (older & search) which to me seem a bit “cheap” and not up to the rest.
posted by Anne on 05.12.09 at 12:01 am
Dear Jim, I’m using the theme for now, but I get this error everytime I search (and get the Search Result). (yes, it’s three times)
Warning: include(archiveSidebar.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tralala/public_html/trala.la/daus/wp-content/themes/manifest/search.php on line 58
Warning: include(archiveSidebar.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tralala/public_html/trala.la/daus/wp-content/themes/manifest/search.php on line 58
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘archiveSidebar.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/tralala/public_html/trala.la/daus/wp-content/themes/manifest/search.php on line 58
Screenshot here: http://www.twitpic.com/511hz
Thank you.
posted by Daus on 05.12.09 at 6:34 am
@Daus
This is due to a referenced include that doesn’t exist. This inadvertently made it in when I initially released the theme, but I quickly updated the download with the fix.
You can get the fix by redownloading the zip and just overwriting the search.php file.
posted by Jim Barraud on 05.12.09 at 10:19 am
Hello, I like your. Is there any way to have drop down pages? Say if I want to have a new page ‘Lily’ under the main parent page ‘About’?
posted by Astra on 05.14.09 at 12:54 pm
Dear Jim, Thanks a TON for this free theme! I have no clue how I found your site or this theme, but I am glad I did! And for me, this is THE BEST simple theme out there. In fact, I was at a stage where finding a “simple theme” was killing me, and so I decided to try my luck at customizing Kubrick, but it turned out to be a pathetic joke! Well, Manifest to the rescue! :)
Once again, thank you so very much for giving this theme away for free! Much much appreciated.
posted by Dilip on 05.15.09 at 3:17 am
Hi again,
Jim I was wondering how to center images inside the posts. I am not a designer but I usually manage to find a solution around customisation issues using the developer toolbar. However here I have tried several things in editing the css but nothing seems to work…
Thanks for your help.
posted by Anne on 05.17.09 at 4:33 am
Thank you Jim. Will try ;)
posted by Daus on 05.18.09 at 5:23 am
Problem solved. Thanks!
posted by Daus on 05.18.09 at 5:31 am
hey! i just wanted to give e-thanks for this theme - i just implemented it on my site bedepressed.org with some small mods - thanks again.
posted by matthew on 05.18.09 at 5:28 pm
I found your theme through Smashing Magazine. Looks great - thanks!
posted by Dave on 05.18.09 at 10:50 pm
thanks man, great theme ;)
posted by anonim on 05.20.09 at 10:49 am
With your permission I have translated into Spanish. I liked the style and how clean it is.
posted by Arystor on 05.20.09 at 10:50 am
Great theme. Always wanted something like this. Reads like an e-book.
posted by Gerard on 05.23.09 at 2:02 pm
Thanks 4 this awesome minimal and clean theme.
posted by Simon on 05.26.09 at 6:14 am
Wait, does it have sponsored links to porn sites in the footer? For some reason my blog suddenly does.
posted by Austin on 05.27.09 at 10:17 pm
Weird, it must have been some plugin. How irritating!
posted by Austin on 05.27.09 at 10:20 pm
Thanks, I always looked for a theme like this. Have a good time.
Karl
posted by Karl on 06.02.09 at 1:23 pm
Very nice!
posted by Alexandr on 06.03.09 at 7:14 pm
Awsome ! thanks
posted by Med Amine on 06.05.09 at 11:03 am
I am just now starting to use theme
seem i have been missing out on a great tool seem simple to use. i come back in a wek and update you all of your theme are nice hard to decide
Ervin
posted by Ervin Blaylock on 06.07.09 at 10:17 pm
Great theme….simple and clean. I’m currently using it over at http://www.100akresblog.com
I’ll probably try to dive a bit deeper into some customization but we’ll see….
posted by FreshNerd on 06.11.09 at 11:18 am
Can the width of the content area be made wider?
Please advise.
P.S. Very nice clean theme! Ty.
posted by Missy (from G34 Media) on 06.11.09 at 2:42 pm
Hi! I love this theme and I’m using it, it is beautiful!!! how can I insert archives and links into the about row? tnx for ur help!!! :)
posted by fernahndo on 06.12.09 at 5:41 am
Great Theme, thanks I featured it on WpTux
posted by Thomas on 06.14.09 at 2:25 pm
Nice theme, thanks for sharing!!
posted by wasdroger keuze on 06.21.09 at 1:44 pm
Thank you so much for releasing this template! It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for — clean and minimalist, yet beautifully designed.
posted by zia on 06.29.09 at 11:10 am
Nice theme!!!.
But I have a small doubt when there is no comment and I click to leave one, leave a comment, I do not take the form of response, the variable #respond not working apparently. I’ve seen in other subjects, this does not happen. Is this normal?
P.D: My English is still very basic. This is translated by Google Translate.
Thank you
posted by Rafael on 06.29.09 at 11:12 pm
My first visit here, found the blog accidentally really, and I just wanted to say I’ve enjoyed my visit and had some good reads while here :)
Juan
posted by Jaun Millalonco on 07.01.09 at 4:01 pm
I was looking for a no-frills minimal theme for my friend who is an author and wanted a plain white site, similar to pages in a book. This theme is perfect !!
posted by Brandon on 07.04.09 at 1:34 pm
Gracias!!
It’s just what I was looking for, I could publish my fictions there. clean and simple, lov-it!
posted by Patricia on 07.10.09 at 8:20 pm
Hi Jim,
I have been struggling on trying to get a header image into your template with no luck, and I am about to go crazy…
I am setting up a graphic design portfolio based on your beautiful template.
Would it be possible to send me the instructions on how to do this? I would really appreciate it. Thanks so much!
-Cassandra Conner
posted by Cassandra on 07.13.09 at 6:42 pm
HI, great theme, just downloaded it.
I like the theme but have two problems up to now:
1 - i cant center images with the html code !p align=center! !/p! (without the exclamations of course)
2 - I cant make font size bigger or change the color with !font size=6 color=blue! !/font!
Have you disabled this or what can i do about that?
Thanks a million
Diggy
upgradereality.com
posted by Diggy - Upgradereality.com on 07.19.09 at 11:27 am
@Diggy
Images should be centered by default. Also, the inability to adjust font sizes is a Wordpress default.
posted by Jim on 07.24.09 at 3:54 pm
I’m downloading — what a beautiful theme!
posted by Alex on 07.29.09 at 10:03 pm
Love the look of this theme. But I want to ask two things that seem to be ‘missing,’ although they might have been left out on purpose…
First, when using blockquotes in the comments section, there is no way to differentiate between the quote and normal text. They look the same.
And second, will threaded comments be enabled? In my own tests they do not show up, and I have enabled then through the admin.
And since I have you here, images are not centered by default, it seems, but that is not a big deal at all. We can just center them if we want them centered. I have not tried that, but I am guessing it will work as it should.
This theme is wonderful, and provides a real focus on content that seems to be missing from other minimalist themes. Great work!
posted by T.M. on 08.02.09 at 10:40 pm
Hi!
Love the theme. How do I get the archives to show up the that simple top nav bar?
thanks,
posted by Sarah on 08.03.09 at 8:14 am
Hej! Vilken typsnitt har carolina Gynning på sin blogg? Jag vill ha samma typsnitt på min blogg :)
posted by OLESSIA on 08.04.09 at 7:37 am
Will you be keeping this theme updated to later versions of WP?
posted by Mee on 08.10.09 at 4:23 pm
Dear Jim,
thank you so much for this excellent theme!
Best regards - S.
posted by User on 08.11.09 at 6:30 pm
Hi, I would like to ask you, if I can offer a modified Version of your Theme for download. n_n
posted by David on 08.13.09 at 3:25 pm
Great stuff thanks for posting that. I find Im reading your posts more and more.
posted by Emil on 08.14.09 at 12:27 am
Klasse. Vielen Dank für dieses fantastische Theme.
posted by Paul on 08.14.09 at 8:39 pm
Hi, very clean theme, thanks for sharing.
I would suggest, especially for small images, to set captions text to be left-aligned, otherwise the caption text will be justified.
On my blog I’m setting
coreContent .entry-content p.wp-caption-text{
[…]
text-align: left;
}
posted by Maratonda on 08.15.09 at 2:58 pm
http://pvpserverler.net
Thanx
posted by Aykut on 08.16.09 at 11:04 am
Awesome theme, thanks!
any help on adding an image to the header?
posted by Brian on 08.18.09 at 1:45 am
Hi,
First some words of appreciation: this is the best minimal, typography oriented wp theme i’ve ever came across.
Anyway, one thing got me thinking: the missing H2 heading. Is there any special reason why you have omited that tag?
posted by Czeslaw on 08.18.09 at 7:28 am
Great. use this.
posted by Ömer Uzun on 08.19.09 at 5:17 pm
Really digging the Manifest template, it’s a joy to work with. I am, however, having a problem with the 404 page…it doesn’t display when I load a bogus url. Instead, I’m shown the standard 404 page provided by my ISP, which has never been the case with previous templates. Even replacing the provided 404.php content with a simple redirect to my base url doesn’t work. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
posted by Cody on 08.23.09 at 3:32 pm
Thanks for posting.
This is the most internally and externally elegant theme I’ve ever worked with. Great job.
posted by Janet on 08.24.09 at 1:27 pm
Jim - I’m noticing 2 differences between the demo and my fresh install. By any chance have you recently updated the demo, but maybe not the download file?
My install has that left indent issue on the legend field that you get in IE. The demo has resolved that issue.
Buttons are larger and a lighter blue than the demo.
Thanks
posted by Janet on 08.25.09 at 2:47 am
Thanks for this post. WP theme given here is really useful and awesome. Thanks again!
posted by Lyndon on 08.26.09 at 1:37 pm
Really gorgeous theme! Came across an error in archive.php. You call the_excerpt() function with parameters which are meant to produce a link to the full post, but the_excerpt() functions doesn’t accept any parameters so the excerpt doesn’t actually link to the post.
posted by sparkybarkalot on 08.27.09 at 6:49 pm
Has anyone successfully implemented an RSS feed button with this template? One of my first viewers immediately asked for one.
posted by Doug Wolfgram on 08.28.09 at 9:36 am
Great theme, Jim. I am trying to widen it to 600 pixels, but when I do so the images don’t center-align. Which elements do I need to fix in order to make this happen?
posted by HazardousPaste on 09.05.09 at 2:18 pm
Never mind. I was just being stupid and figured it out.
posted by HazardousPaste on 09.06.09 at 5:41 am
Same here - I had server issues. Theme now works perfectly and I’ve made several modifications.
Thanks again for such a great themes!
posted by Janet on 09.06.09 at 3:28 pm
The title of my blogs is a little long, so it appears not to be centered and the last word ends up on the next line. Is there a way to change the alignment or the blog title font size to correct this?
Thanks! Theme’s awesome!
posted by Keith on 09.06.09 at 9:11 pm
It’s good for sales letter with WP inside. Thanks for this simple and amazing theme ;)
posted by Rental Mobil on 09.07.09 at 3:15 am
Good theme.
However I am a newbie. What do you mean by “selecting the archives page template”? Could you please specify what that means?
posted by Christian Carlsen on 09.08.09 at 4:17 pm
Another thing. Saw alot of people has been asking how to place a photo in the header instead of the normal one. I want to do the same. Any chance that you could answer how we do this?
posted by Christian Carlsen on 09.08.09 at 4:58 pm
Beauiful theme, very clean and yet impressive!
With your permission, I have localized it italian and made some slight modification according to my taste and needs..
posted by Dan on 09.11.09 at 12:09 pm
Great theme Jim! I love the simplicity! Thank you SO much!
For those of you who have asked how to get an image/logo in the main header area, with the help of my tech-savvy hubby I managed to achieve this and would like to share -
From your admin panel, go to Appearance>Editor. On the right hand side select the header.php file. Scroll down looking for this code:
<
div id=”siteWrapper”>
h1 class=”vcard author”><a href="/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>
Modify it to the following:
<
div id=”siteWrapper”>
Of course you will put the name of your image/logo in the “nameofimage.jpg” section. And also you will need to upload the image file to the server in that specified location.
Save this.
Next, you go to your stylesheet.css. Under the part that says /* Headers */ insert this code:
div#headerimg
{
}
Save and you should have a logo up.
Sorry for the excruciating detail for you developers, however, as a newb, I know how lost and frustrated I can get trying to figure this stuff out.
posted by Haley on 09.11.09 at 3:12 pm
OK. Corrections since the code section was modified when I submitted my comment above- a total newb mistake I’m sure :-)
Replace all “!“‘s with “<”. First bit of code look like this:
!div id=”siteWrapper”>
!h1 class=”vcard author”>!a href=”!?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>!?php bloginfo(‘name’);?>!/a>!/h1>
Modify to:
!div id=”siteWrapper”>
!div id=”headerimg”>
!a href=”/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>
!img src=”wp-content/themes/manifest/images/logo.png”/>
!/a>
!/div>
The headers part showed up correctly.
posted by Haley on 09.11.09 at 3:19 pm
Very NIce~~
posted by kevin on 09.15.09 at 12:38 am
””“”“”“”“”” OK. Corrections since the code section was modified when I submitted my comment above- a total newb mistake I’m sure :-)
Replace all “!“‘s with “<”. First bit of code look like this:
!div id=”siteWrapper”>
!h1 class=”vcard author”>!a href=”!?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>!?php bloginfo(‘name’);?>!/a>!/h1>
Modify to:
!div id=”siteWrapper”>
!div id=”headerimg”>
!a href=”/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>
!img src=”wp-content/themes/manifest/images/logo.png”/>
!/a>
!/div>
The headers part showed up correctly.
posted by Haley on 09.11.09 at 3:19 pm “”“”“”
i already follow what Haley said but it didn’t work at all , it appeared a lil box with question mark inside of the box , please help me . thx
posted by joe on 09.16.09 at 5:08 am
i’m so depressed workin on it but it won’t affected anything at all .
posted by joe on 09.16.09 at 5:28 am
good, :)
posted by m* on 09.19.09 at 9:32 am
This theme is great. But it doesnot support sub pages. I think subpages implementation should be made like Satorri.
posted by Ujjwol on 09.24.09 at 6:33 am
Is it possible to make the theme wider, to say around 600px, while keep the text limited to being centered and 500px in width
Also would it be possible for photos to be wider than the 500px width after this change?
Beautiful theme.
posted by Joseph on 09.29.09 at 5:53 am
working on making a derivative theme, where is the header.php, it only has “>
”
Thanks for any help.
-Bryon
posted by bryon on 09.29.09 at 2:58 pm
nevermind, i think the ftp client i was using is messing up the file
posted by bryon on 09.29.09 at 3:00 pm
Thanks for the theme… I like it very much… I used it already…
posted by Nosh Group on 10.06.09 at 8:44 am
Stunning theme, truly. I’m using it on my site, with a few very minor modifications (header & link colors).
Thanks for the great work!!
posted by Kristyn on 10.09.09 at 12:07 am
Hi, Jim -
I’m a web designer and I would like to use the Manifest template on a client’s site, However we’d like to remove your link at the bottom. Under what conditions would you grant permission to do this?
Thank you,
Chris
posted by Chris on 10.10.09 at 9:27 am
How do I add a in my content?
Also, I’m using h4 for my content since the regular content is so small.
posted by Mike on 10.13.09 at 10:16 am
I can’t seem to make the command operate. I can spell CSS but I can’t actually understand it so if you’d be so kind as to ignore my hideous noob inabilities, it would be awesome.
posted by Mister Garlington on 10.18.09 at 1:53 pm
The theme manifest looks interesting. However I find it is not in the WP repository and cannot be downloaded from the Add Theme option of WP admin.
posted by Anup on 10.19.09 at 12:20 am
Hi Jim,
Amazing work on the theme, I only recently switched to wp from my self built, dull old html site and Manifest is the first theme that I used, and one that I will stick with, I love it!
I was recently trying to figure out how to get an Archive page going so tried to add a new page and found that it wouldn’t appear on the blog. I’ve also tried editing the name of some of my other pages and still nothing happens. Could this be an error with the latest version of wp?
Once again many thanks for a great theme!
Jonathan
posted by Jonathan on 10.21.09 at 6:37 pm
Hey, I downloaded this theme and love it!
But I have a problem with it.
The text isn’t smooth, it’s very pixelated and hard to read.
What is the problem?
posted by Steven on 10.24.09 at 1:30 pm
Hey Jim,
i am not so into progamming Html and Css. Is there any way to include a sidebar into your theme as would love to use but the sidebar for me is mandatory.
I know you excluded this feature in your great theme on purpose but maybe there is a way to make it possible for some if necessary.
Thanks & regards from Hamburg / Germany
Basti
posted by Basti on 10.29.09 at 1:01 pm
Beautiful. Thank you.
posted by Merrick Christensen on 11.02.09 at 4:20 pm
I really appreciate working with your Theme. It is so minimal and beautiful. I really like it very much. Thank you for your work! Greetings!
posted by Karl on 11.03.09 at 5:49 pm
Like it. Trying it out.
One question though …
Do you not have any css for the ‘more-link’?
Visually it shows differently from, say, the ‘edit think’ link, i.e. with a space below the text.
Just a thought.
posted by nonegiven on 11.06.09 at 12:07 am
I have been searching for this theme all my life.
posted by Andrei on 11.13.09 at 10:20 am
Dear Jim,
I was looking for a simple, clean, minimalistic theme and I have tested maybe more than 99% on the web. Your theme is the best one! Thank you for your efforts and for sharing Manifest with us!
Keep up the great work!
posted by Stefan on 11.13.09 at 8:13 pm
Nice simple and elegant theme.Adding to my blog.
posted by WordpressThemes on 11.16.09 at 9:14 am
Dude, This is the hottest theme I have ever seen. So simple, nice and clean. Exactly what I was looking for. Keep up the good work!
posted by Sid Douno on 11.18.09 at 1:07 pm
Hi, I created a header in Illustrator that I would like to upload. But when I go in to header.php in edit themes…I have NO idea what I’m looking at.
What do I need to do with all of this to make it display my own Illustrator logo:
<
div id=”siteWrapper”>
<a href="/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>
Thanks!!!
posted by Lou on 11.19.09 at 6:46 am
Been using the theme since last month and I’m loving it. But suddenly I encountered a problem that the earlier posts doesn’t lead to its specific post but to the recent post I created.
Did I do something wrong along the way or the recent Wordpress update somehow messed it up?
Any advise?
http://www.28thnovember.com
Thanks in advance.
posted by Roro Fernandez on 11.20.09 at 12:50 am
Great theme, I love it! Thanks for sharing
Joachim
posted by Joachim on 11.26.09 at 3:16 am
Hello, I love your clean and simple theme. But when I launch it, there is nothing in the “about / archives / links” banner. How can I get it back?
Thanks a lot for sharing, and thanks in advance for your advice!
posted by Annik on 11.29.09 at 9:16 am
Hey Jim, love the theme. I’m really new to all this stuff and I’m having trouble inserting audio in my posts using the audio player plug in - is Manifest set up to post audio?
posted by Kirsten on 11.29.09 at 11:21 am
I love it! I’ve translated it to Swedish.
posted by Alexander Lindeskär on 12.02.09 at 6:05 pm
Would there be a reason why the “.bypostauthor” class in the css wouldn’t work?
I am trying to style author’s comments, can we do that in this theme?
posted by Dan on 12.03.09 at 3:42 pm
Sorry, my site is http://danieldehart.com/journal
posted by Dan on 12.03.09 at 3:43 pm
Development for the next release of Manifest has begun and I’ve started an official Twitter account for Manifest news. You can follow along at http://twitter.com/manifest_theme
posted by Jim Barraud on 12.06.09 at 12:07 am
hei … nice work and i love your theme … this is what i was looking for, but can i make a similar page like the home page for example: if i want an another page to talk about different topics , but to be like the homepage … to have seppareted post and to comment them. can i do that ? if yes … how ? … i’ve created new pages from the dashboard but that is a sigle post without being able to comment.
thank you
posted by domnul.jâ on 12.06.09 at 9:29 am
I have used this theme on http://www.cyanidevogue.com and changed a lot of things on it. Some of you are asking what to do to change the title of the theme to a header image.
I edited header.php and this is how I did it.
So replace the code below:
<
div id=”siteWrapper”>
<a href="/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>
<
div id=”mainNav”>
With this:
<
div id=”siteWrapper”>
<a href="/” title=”Home” class=”fn”>
<
div id=”mainNav”>
Hopefully that will come through in my comment.
Also I am looking to make the theme slightly larger myselx (600px) and I can’t seem to find it either. I might have been working on this too long to actually find it. Anyway thank you for making this theme, it’s really easy to work with so far. Well one of the easiest that I have run into in the WordPress world.
posted by Carrie Lewis on 12.07.09 at 6:24 am
thanks for useful and meaningful article.
posted by sikiş on 12.10.09 at 6:19 am
hello, really like the template. struggling to find a really simple clean single column theme for blogger (like yours). i have tried the wordpress thing but it all seems like gibberish and so i’ve given up. is there a way of using this theme for blogger?
posted by m on 12.11.09 at 7:48 am
Dall’italia, un grazie per il tuo bel lavoro! Bel tema wordpress! Grazie
Dario
posted by Dario on 12.15.09 at 5:36 am
thank you very much for this beautiful template.. classical, simple, white.. thanks..
posted by gurcan on 12.17.09 at 3:23 pm
The theme is simple, I like
posted by Check PR on 12.23.09 at 10:35 pm
Thanks Jim! Always liked seeing simple designs, glad you took the time to release ;’)
posted by sikiş sitesi on 12.25.09 at 10:06 am
The theme is simple, I like
posted by manyak on 12.25.09 at 10:07 am
seems cool, i’ll add a “sidebar” at the bottom with some latest comments/posts thing (can’t leave without them, sorry)
posted by El desalmado on 12.29.09 at 5:26 pm
thanks you me
posted by sikiş on 12.30.09 at 9:31 pm
簡約不簡單，平和而美麗！
posted by lookfor on 01.02.10 at 6:22 am
I like this design very much, especially since you can show it through and iframe onto the front page of a website and it blends in and looks like part of the page. How do I add a section for admin signin?
Thanks for sharing this wonderful design! Simple is better!
posted by Anne on 01.07.10 at 11:26 am
Perfect. Thank you so much.
posted by will amato on 01.09.10 at 8:19 pm
Finally a theme without all the mess! Wow!
posted by Momo Jord Thaimassage on 01.10.10 at 3:39 pm
The theme is simple and clean, I like it.
posted by Nexus on 01.10.10 at 7:31 pm
hi there!
i LOVE this theme, really sleek!
i just have one question, how can i put my adsense code like you did in the demo?
thanks!
posted by alex on 01.11.10 at 10:54 am
Beautiful theme, elegant and well executed. Nice work!
posted by Elnomany on 01.11.10 at 5:15 pm
i Love this Theme!! But why are no Widgets enabled??????? PLEASE
posted by tobiCOM on 01.13.10 at 1:26 pm
I know this is a popular question and I apologize for not addressing it sooner. I plan an adding an FAQ once the next Manifest update is complete, but in the meantime…
To replace the header text with a header image all that needs to be edited is the CSS file. You’re image should be 500px in width and you’ll need to make note of the height of the image. You’ll want to place your header image in the images folder of the manifest theme. Next you’ll want to open style.css from within the manifest theme and replace the following code on line 101…
h1 a{
padding-right: 60px;
margin-left: 60px;
}
with this code…
h1 a{
display: block;
width: 500px;
height: /* your image height here */ ;
text-indent: -9999px;
background: url(images/YourFileNameHere.png) no-repeat left top;
}
You’ll need to add in the height of your image as well as the file name. And that should be it.
I hope this helps.
Jim
posted by Jim Barraud on 01.13.10 at 11:31 pm
Great! Nice simple and elegant theme.I like the simplicity of the theme & also the highlights at the bottom. Thanks for the nice blog.
posted by Abhilash on 01.16.10 at 2:12 am
How do you change the background image/color for this theme? I can’t seem to find the line in the Stylesheet? I have an image (url) that I would like to have as the background image instead of white or transparent, but I love the simple architecture of the theme.
posted by Paul Hermann on 01.16.10 at 5:33 pm
Hey, I just wanted to thank you for the theme. I set my blog up with it. I made a few adjustments (Twitter and RSS icons), but overall I LOVE it.
Thanks for the simplicity!
posted by David Malmborg on 01.18.10 at 12:32 am
brilliant theme.
posted by guyha on 01.20.10 at 5:17 pm
Is it possible to widen the middle column?
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posted by WebMMO on 01.28.10 at 12:41 pm
Jim,
Thanks for the great theme. I’ve used it for my site, though I’ve tweaked it a bit (e.g., widened the body, changed some of the fonts, and some other things).
I do have a question:
On the WP dashboard, I’ve chosen to show only one article on the front page. This seems to have affected the archives page as well. I’m looking through the code to find where to change that, but if you know why this is, it’d be a big help.
Thanks again for the beautiful, classy theme!
posted by J.C. Samuelson on 01.30.10 at 8:37 pm
Alicia,
Yes, you can widen the center. In my experience tweaking the theme it’s merely a matter of changing the wrapper width and the main content area at a minimum. You can find both in the style.css file (search on “500px” - the default width). The header and footer widths are also in there if you want consistency.
posted by J.C. Samuelson on 01.30.10 at 8:44 pm
Less is more … good work.
posted by Matthias Hühr on 01.31.10 at 6:03 am
Great theme!
Is there a way to add a section for admin log in?
posted by Alba on 02.02.10 at 4:40 pm
Like the elegance and simplicity, and it meets a need I have quite well. But wish you had made the post title rather than the blog name the h1. A unique h1 on each permalink is important to search engine ranking. Thanks.
posted by Rod on 02.03.10 at 5:18 am
Very very nice theme, simply and clear. Even all that white doesn’t disturb as it usually do.
Here are some free themes of mine, if anyone need them.
http://www.templateportal.org/category/wordpress/
posted by Daniel on 02.04.10 at 4:06 pm