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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By: Leland on Apr. 1

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Comment by Booto
2008-04-11 00:01:37

a colurful theme.

 
Comment by benix
2008-04-13 05:09:51

i like this one. it’s colorful and cool!

 
Comment by sirius
2008-04-18 04:17:26

Thanks for this fantastic theme!

 
Comment by Pete
2008-04-24 20:32:21

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

 
Comment by Pete
2008-04-24 20:40:11

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 :)

 
Comment by Pete
2008-04-24 20:46:09

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

 
Comment by Leland
2008-04-24 21:12:39

@Pete: I’ll see what I can do about the Fresh Media theme…thanks for the tip.

 
Comment by Gaston
2008-04-28 23:11:08

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 :)

 
Comment by muthii
2008-04-29 23:57:45

Love your theme will go and try it out.

 
Comment by Ben Piper
2008-05-01 04:25:18

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?

 
Comment by Leland
2008-05-01 06:54:13

@Ben: Sure, that’s easy. Find:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
Replace with:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

 
Comment by AgentX Subscribed to comments via email
2008-05-05 04:36:43

is there any way to change the stuff the comes in the footer like about etc..

 
Comment by Leland
2008-05-05 06:49:58

@AgentX: It’s just text in the footer.php file, easily changed.

 
Comment by AgentX Subscribed to comments via email
2008-05-05 23:12:10

Thank you very much

 
Comment by Ces
2008-05-11 03:55:29

Very nice template :)

 
Comment by Matt
2008-05-20 04:36:54

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!

 
Comment by Leland
2008-05-20 07:12:48

@Matt: Thanks for letting me know!

 
Comment by chris tolles
2008-05-27 16:56:54

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

 
Comment by Dave Appelbaum
2008-05-30 18:56:12

Great theme!

 
Comment by Jackson Lim
2008-06-18 11:50:08

Awesome theme, I can’t believe you are actually doing this free for all!

 
Comment by ThemeLib.com
2008-07-31 22:21:25

Done! This theme is now available for Blogspot bloggers.

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

Watch your theme live, Leland :)

 
Comment by Timothy West
2008-08-08 16:04:17

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/

 
Comment by RandomRage
2008-08-13 19:53:43

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!

 
Comment by Leland
2008-08-13 19:58:12

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

.alignleft {float:left;}
.alignright {float:right;}

 
Comment by RandomRage
2008-08-13 22:22:01

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;

 
Comment by latoga
2008-08-17 15:24:58

Wonderful Theme! Thanks for creating it. I had to modify it slightly to fit my needs better but now have it on my site.

 
Comment by Leland
2008-08-18 07:58:45

@latoga: Very nice, like the header image a lot!

 
Comment by AoOs
2008-08-26 11:50:43

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 ?

 
Comment by Leland
2008-08-26 11:58:24

@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.

 
Comment by AoOs
2008-08-26 12:08:16

Thanks! That did the trick! :)

AWESOME! :)

 
Comment by jjmoneybagz
2008-08-27 19:33:40

how would I go about changing the size and font-style of the header text?? thanks

 
Comment by erme2
2008-08-30 09:44:14

Hi, I translated it in Italian…

Comment by erme2
2008-09-13 03:52:11

Hi, I translated it in italian, you can found it in http://www.rmsoft.net/?p=132
Bye!

 
 
Comment by simin
2008-09-06 03:01:16

this is so beautiful. thanks

 
Comment by Helen Kahlke
2008-09-11 11:01:28

Great theme! Thank you. I switched over to it a couple of months ago and am really happy with it.

 
Comment by useless
2008-10-05 17:08:25

Nice theme! I applied it to my whole site. :)

 
Comment by Zach Browne Subscribed to comments via email
2008-10-18 23:00:13

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!

 
Comment by Leland
2008-10-19 07:06:56

@Zach: Thanks for sharing!

 
Comment by Richard Lovison
2008-10-28 07:01:23

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.

 
Comment by SOS Media
2008-10-28 13:58:27

Great Wordpress theme for web design. Thanks!

 
Comment by John Subscribed to comments via email
2008-10-29 01:23:47

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

 
Comment by Richard Lovison
2008-10-29 13:23:18

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.

 
Comment by John Subscribed to comments via email
2008-10-30 04:27:33

@ Richard: I tried that, cleared the cache and still didn’t see it - until I restarted the browser. Thanks for your guidance, though!

 
Comment by Ari Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-13 14:40:43

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?

 
Comment by kkeuiuy
2008-12-18 22:50:12

Go into the Wordpress dashboard and navigate to Design, Widgets. From there you should be able to add the “Links” widget to the sidebar.

 
Comment by Web design Brisbane Subscribed to comments via email
2009-02-17 22:34:50

Very clean theme great for showing off images. I really like the fonts used for the headings and sidebar. Thanks for sharing.

 
Comment by Sam
2009-04-07 20:48:10

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!

 
Comment by marc
2009-04-20 12:15:45

is it possible to change the order of the links in the sidebar widget?

 
Comment by MLW
2009-05-18 01:29:26

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…

 
Comment by Leland
2009-05-18 05:16:22

@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).

 
Comment by Goldstar
2009-06-08 00:17:09

Very nice indeed. A little dark for business use, but great for music and photo related sites.

 
Comment by Norhafidz
2009-06-16 05:18:12

Pretty theme certainly. Thanks for sharing it pal! :)

 
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