Colourise – Free WordPress Theme

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Colourise – Free WordPress Theme

By Leland Fiegel. Posted on the 1st of April, 2008 | 143 Comments

Today we have a very nice free WordPress theme release, and no – this isn’t a joke (happy April fools). This is another ported theme, this time designed by Styleshout.com. It has a widget-ready sidebar, so everything on the sidebar can be moved around with ease.

Note: This has a recent comments plugin built-in (visible in the footer). If you already have a recent comments plugin activated on your blog, please make sure it’s deactivated before installing this theme, as it may cause issues.

Update (April 28, 2008): Added support for RSS feeds, tags, edit post links, and multiple page links.

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143 thoughts on “Colourise – Free WordPress Theme”

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Booto at April 11, 2008 at 12:01 am said:

a colurful theme.
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benix at April 13, 2008 at 5:09 am said:

i like this one. it’s colorful and cool!
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sirius at April 18, 2008 at 4:17 am said:

Thanks for this fantastic theme!
Pete at April 24, 2008 at 8:32 pm said:

I’d love it if you could do all of Styleshouts templates – they are awesome
Pete at April 24, 2008 at 8:40 pm said:

Pete says:
posted on April 24, 2008 8:32 pm

I’d love it if you could do all of Styleshouts templates – they are awesome

FreshMedia would be great to see ported
Pete at April 24, 2008 at 8:46 pm said:

If I can just make another comment about the Fresh Media theme. It has been ported by http://seobilgi.com/ very well, but for some strange reason the pages get assigned to categories? Other than that very annoying oddity is has been ported very well.

I was hoping you could try to ‘better’ that port by fixing the page/category oddity and adding your magic elsewhere… thanks so much if you could.

Pete
Leland at April 24, 2008 at 9:12 pm said:

@Pete: I’ll see what I can do about the Fresh Media theme…thanks for the tip.
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Gaston at April 28, 2008 at 11:11 pm said:

Man I fell in love with your theme !
So much i will be using it for our new designed site, im installing it as we “speak” when everything runs smotthly il let you know so you can give us your comments and aproval
muthii at April 29, 2008 at 11:57 pm said:

Love your theme will go and try it out.
Ben Piper at May 1, 2008 at 4:25 am said:

Love the theme, only issue with it is sub pages assigned to a parent page dont display anywhere!

Any chance of a solution or some tips on how i can mod the theme to show them?
Leland at May 1, 2008 at 6:54 am said:

@Ben: Sure, that’s easy. Find:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
Replace with:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
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AgentX at May 5, 2008 at 4:36 am said:

is there any way to change the stuff the comes in the footer like about etc..
Leland at May 5, 2008 at 6:49 am said:

@AgentX: It’s just text in the footer.php file, easily changed.
AgentX at May 5, 2008 at 11:12 pm said:

Thank you very much
Ces at May 11, 2008 at 3:55 am said:

Very nice template
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Matt at May 20, 2008 at 4:36 am said:

Hey, just letting you know I’ve added the Colourise theme to my list of the top WordPress themes available, which you can see at http://www.bestwpthemes.com. Enjoy!
Leland at May 20, 2008 at 7:12 am said:

@Matt: Thanks for letting me know!
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chris tolles at May 27, 2008 at 4:56 pm said:

wow – great template. now i’m just wondering how to change the header.

i’ve found the header image and replaced it with one of the same dimensions, but i dont believe the template knows to center or crop my new image to fit the header. the black of the header image faded into the black of the background in the stock header, and i dont know the HTML or whatever in order to position/size it correctly.

any help?

thanks
chris
Dave Appelbaum at May 30, 2008 at 6:56 pm said:

Great theme!
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Jackson Lim at June 18, 2008 at 11:50 am said:

Awesome theme, I can’t believe you are actually doing this free for all!
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ThemeLib.com at July 31, 2008 at 10:21 pm said:

Done! This theme is now available for Blogspot bloggers.

http://themelib.com/2008/08/colourise-dark-colorful-blogger-template/

Watch your theme live, Leland
Timothy West at August 8, 2008 at 4:04 pm said:

This theme is awesome and i used it for a while but then found the UrbanArtist theme that i also liked… so what i did was take a mixture of the two.. mainly using my own header graphic and the urban layout..

Please check it out and leave a comment on my blog.. (made a whole post of the update.. would be good to hear peoples thoughts??)

http://www.trcwest.com/blog/
RandomRage at August 13, 2008 at 7:53 pm said:

Your themes are all really great and high quality, and I’m wanting to switch to this theme (colourise) for my site — I’m sick of the sloppy CSS that I have currently. HOWEVER, in 2.6 I can’t get the text to properly wrap around pictures in this theme! I’ve tried messing with the CSS, but I’m a pretty rank amateur when it comes to stylesheets, so any help or updates you can make to the theme would be greatly appreciated!
Leland at August 13, 2008 at 7:58 pm said:

@RandomRage: Thanks. Try adding the following lines of CSS.

.alignleft {float:left;} .alignright {float:right;}
RandomRage at August 13, 2008 at 10:22 pm said:

That did it! Thanks a ton. For anyone else with the same problem, add the following to those tags to keep the text from bleeding into the picture frame:

margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
latoga at August 17, 2008 at 3:24 pm said:

Wonderful Theme! Thanks for creating it. I had to modify it slightly to fit my needs better but now have it on my site.
Leland at August 18, 2008 at 7:58 am said:

@latoga: Very nice, like the header image a lot!
AoOs at August 26, 2008 at 11:50 am said:

I can’t get the theme to work. I can see it in my theme gallery (WordPress 2.6) but I can’t get a preview of it – and if I activate it, I **** up my site.

Help ?
Leland at August 26, 2008 at 11:58 am said:

@AoOs: That’s strange, because the demo.themelab.com (where the live demo is set up) is also WordPress 2.6. Is there any error message at all when you preview or activate?

I also noticed you have recent comments on your blog, are you using a plugin for this? Try deactivating it because Colourise already has Recent Comments built into it. Both of them together might cause a conflict.
AoOs at August 26, 2008 at 12:08 pm said:

Thanks! That did the trick!

AWESOME!
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jjmoneybagz at August 27, 2008 at 7:33 pm said:

how would I go about changing the size and font-style of the header text?? thanks
erme2 at August 30, 2008 at 9:44 am said:

Hi, I translated it in Italian…
- erme2 at September 13, 2008 at 3:52 am said:
  
  Hi, I translated it in italian, you can found it in http://www.rmsoft.net/?p=132
  Bye!
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simin at September 6, 2008 at 3:01 am said:

this is so beautiful. thanks
Helen Kahlke at September 11, 2008 at 11:01 am said:

Great theme! Thank you. I switched over to it a couple of months ago and am really happy with it.
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useless at October 5, 2008 at 5:08 pm said:

Nice theme! I applied it to my whole site.
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Zach Browne at October 18, 2008 at 11:00 pm said:

Hey I love the theme, I implemented it on my website, http://zachbrowne.com. I also made a favicon for it located at http://zachbrowne.com/favicon.rar. Feel free to use it in your package. Thanks again!
Leland at October 19, 2008 at 7:06 am said:

@Zach: Thanks for sharing!
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Richard Lovison at October 28, 2008 at 7:01 am said:

Hi,

I’ve been using this theme for several months and after a few modifications, it has become my theme of choice (http://www.richardlovison.com/). Thanks for all your hard work.

I have one question. Is the magnifying glass icon in the top search bar supposed to be active? If I place my mouse cursor over the icon and click on it the search box isn’t activated. I need to push the enter key in order to start a search.
SOS Media at October 28, 2008 at 1:58 pm said:

Great WordPress theme for web design. Thanks!
John at October 29, 2008 at 1:23 am said:

Thank you so much for the quick installation and excellent WP version of this design.

I love the theme and just want to crop the height of the header image a bit – that should be pretty easy; but how/where can I add the blogroll to the sidebar?

Regards,
John
Richard Lovison at October 29, 2008 at 1:23 pm said:

John,

Go into the WordPress dashboard and navigate to Design, Widgets. From there you should be able to add the “Links” widget to the sidebar.
John at October 30, 2008 at 4:27 am said:

@ Richard: I tried that, cleared the cache and still didn’t see it – until I restarted the browser. Thanks for your guidance, though!
Ari at December 13, 2008 at 2:40 pm said:

Right-aligned images “floats” out of the entry and over the postmeta. (only when there is minimal with text in an entry)

What do I do?

Is there any css I can add to image or something?
kkeuiuy at December 18, 2008 at 10:50 pm said:

Go into the WordPress dashboard and navigate to Design, Widgets. From there you should be able to add the “Links” widget to the sidebar.
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Web design Brisbane at February 17, 2009 at 10:34 pm said:

Very clean theme great for showing off images. I really like the fonts used for the headings and sidebar. Thanks for sharing.
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Sam at April 7, 2009 at 8:48 pm said:

How can I shrink the yellow text below the blog title? I can’t seem to figure it out on my own, & would appreciate any help!
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marc at April 20, 2009 at 12:15 pm said:

is it possible to change the order of the links in the sidebar widget?
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MLW at May 18, 2009 at 1:29 am said:

Great theme, one problem… When I click the header it gives me a 404 error.

see what I mean: http://www.mattwillms.net/marie/

What’s the deal?

Also how do I get rid of the top search box. I don’t need two…
Leland at May 18, 2009 at 5:16 am said:

@MLW: The theme you’re using on your blog was not ported by me, but rather “WPPORT,” which is a site I’m not associated with.

If you downloaded the theme from here, you wouldn’t have these problems, except for the sidebar search box (which can be easily switched out using widgets).
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Goldstar at June 8, 2009 at 12:17 am said:

Very nice indeed. A little dark for business use, but great for music and photo related sites.
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Norhafidz at June 16, 2009 at 5:18 am said:

Pretty theme certainly. Thanks for sharing it pal!
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Simon at July 28, 2009 at 6:05 am said:

I’ve just uploaded Colourise – but for some reason it’s not allowing me to comment on any of the posts.

I’ve checked the WordPress backend to ensure that I’ve enabled it so people can comment – but still no success..

any idea?
Leland at July 28, 2009 at 6:09 am said:

@Simon: Never heard of this problem before. Can you try switching themes to see if the problem still occurs?
Simon at July 28, 2009 at 6:25 am said:

Hi

Yes – I’ve switched the theme and the problem disappears.

Not sure why this is happenning? Havent changed any of the code…

Simon
Simon at July 28, 2009 at 6:27 am said:

Actually – yes – I’ve changed themes and for some reason when I click on the title of the post – it won’t take me to an individual page, nor can I click to the comments.
Simon at July 28, 2009 at 7:14 am said:

OK

I’ve deleted and re-uploaded the theme and it works fine.

Not sure what was going on.

Thanks
croogie at September 5, 2009 at 4:04 am said:

I would like to download that theme but I have to register – Anyone know where I can do this?
khoa at September 5, 2009 at 4:33 am said:

download isn’t working.. says i don’t have permission?
Leland at September 5, 2009 at 5:11 am said:

Sorry, that’s not supposed to happen. Give me some time to figure out why it’s requiring registration.

I just upgraded the download manager plugin so that’s probably why it suddenly stopped working.
khoa at September 5, 2009 at 4:05 pm said:

great it works now, thanks!
Leland at September 5, 2009 at 5:06 pm said:

No problem. Thanks for letting me know.
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Sean at February 8, 2010 at 10:25 am said:

Hey Leland! thanks for your port on this theme, working great for a gay club client of mine (www.gladiusbar.com), I changed the header background image to a custom one I made in PS to make it more unique but all in all it looks great!

Thanks again!,
-Sean
- Leland at February 9, 2010 at 4:48 pm said:
  
  Love what you did with the header.
Sean at February 15, 2010 at 9:36 pm said:

Thanks, I was inspired by the background from this theme and a few other gay bar websites around the country, who knew out of focus Christmas lights would look so good as an 60% transparent overlay on top of a very nice rainbow background =)

Thanks again!
Lindsay at April 7, 2010 at 7:56 am said:

I knew i would come across the right design…. one look and i was sold. Thanks for the download.
Ben at May 9, 2011 at 7:22 am said:

Hi i am a complete beginner when it comes to web design and have recently started to experiment with wordpress instead of rapidweaver.

I just wanted to know if you could change the header image with this theme? if so, how would i do it?

I would also like to have a facebook link in the sidebar, is this possible?

The website is for a small bar in Thailand. The guy wants a simple website with large custom header, home page, a simple blog page for his customers, contact page and photos page.

I have found the blogging stuff to be confusing. Anyone know any good tutorials?

Sorry If it takes the p**s to ask so many questions.

Many Thanks
Ben