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.
Tags: black, colorful, dark, right sidebar, Styleshout, two columns
a colurful theme.
i like this one. it’s colorful and cool!
Thanks for this fantastic theme!
I’d love it if you could do all of Styleshouts templates – they are awesome
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
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
@Pete: I’ll see what I can do about the Fresh Media theme…thanks for the tip.
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
Love your theme will go and try it out.
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?
@Ben: Sure, that’s easy. Find:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>Replace with:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>is there any way to change the stuff the comes in the footer like about etc..
@AgentX: It’s just text in the footer.php file, easily changed.
Thank you very much
Very nice template
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!
@Matt: Thanks for letting me know!
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
Great theme!
Awesome theme, I can’t believe you are actually doing this free for all!
Done! This theme is now available for Blogspot bloggers.
http://themelib.com/2008/08/colourise-dark-colorful-blogger-template/
Watch your theme live, Leland
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/
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!
@RandomRage: Thanks. Try adding the following lines of CSS.
.alignleft {float:left;}.alignright {float:right;}
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;
Wonderful Theme! Thanks for creating it. I had to modify it slightly to fit my needs better but now have it on my site.
@latoga: Very nice, like the header image a lot!
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 ?
@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.
Thanks! That did the trick!
AWESOME!
how would I go about changing the size and font-style of the header text?? thanks
Hi, I translated it in Italian…
Hi, I translated it in italian, you can found it in http://www.rmsoft.net/?p=132
Bye!
this is so beautiful. thanks
Great theme! Thank you. I switched over to it a couple of months ago and am really happy with it.
Nice theme! I applied it to my whole site.
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!
@Zach: Thanks for sharing!
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.
Great Wordpress theme for web design. Thanks!
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
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.
@ Richard: I tried that, cleared the cache and still didn’t see it – until I restarted the browser. Thanks for your guidance, though!
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?
Go into the Wordpress dashboard and navigate to Design, Widgets. From there you should be able to add the “Links” widget to the sidebar.
Very clean theme great for showing off images. I really like the fonts used for the headings and sidebar. Thanks for sharing.
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!
is it possible to change the order of the links in the sidebar widget?
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…
@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).
Very nice indeed. A little dark for business use, but great for music and photo related sites.
Pretty theme certainly. Thanks for sharing it pal!
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?
@Simon: Never heard of this problem before. Can you try switching themes to see if the problem still occurs?
Hi
Yes – I’ve switched the theme and the problem disappears.
Not sure why this is happenning? Havent changed any of the code…
Simon
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.
OK
I’ve deleted and re-uploaded the theme and it works fine.
Not sure what was going on.
Thanks
I would like to download that theme but I have to register – Anyone know where I can do this?
download isn’t working.. says i don’t have permission?
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.
great it works now, thanks!
No problem. Thanks for letting me know.
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
Love what you did with the header.
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!
I knew i would come across the right design…. one look and i was sold. Thanks for the download.