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SimpleX 1.3.2 now available

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

simpleX

SimpleX has been quite popular amongst the available themes at WordPress.org and it just crossed 41,000 downloads which is pretty impressive for a simple design like that. After almost a year of the last update on the theme and WordPress nearing to version 2.9 now this theme really needed an upgrade. The last update was made when WordPress 2.7 was available. Since then, WordPress has come a long way.

So, after looking at questions on forums and issues people have reported, simpleX has been updated to work with latest WordPress. The 2 issues that were fixed are:

  1. Fixed Tag Cloud (the new WordPress has a different class so were showing the cloud as a list)
  2. Plugin compatibility (plugins like Lightbox now work perfectly).

It was still using the old jQuery manually. Now it pulling new jQuery automatically from WordPress files which means there are no longer conflicts with plugins that use multiple JavaScript libraries.

On the other side, the file size has been greatly reduced from over 100KB to just 75KB. :)

Click here and grab this simple and clean theme.

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Another amazingly simple FREE WordPress Theme: Poetry

Friday, November 20th, 2009

poetry

This and last week has been pretty busy working on a pro theme for GraphPaperPress. More on that later.

I had some free time today getting this simple theme completed. I was working on it last week but hadn’t had time to wrap up last bits and pieces including testing on IE. So, today, I completed all the initial testing and finalized couple of styles and thought I will give it a go.

Poetry theme is now ready for giveaway. I want to post here a pre-release version so if in any case, there are bugs, I can fix it in a couple of days before giving it a final shape. As mentioned earlier, Poetry is a simple, clean theme that is dedicated to all the Poets out there. Yes, all. You don’t have to be THE Great.

I am not sure if there already exists similar theme but I have only seen blogs / corporate / photoblog style themes. This theme has been inspired by my love to old books and typography. And from what I saw, it looks great on mac Safari and Firefox, and PC IE8. The other browsers don’t render the fonts and aren’t smooth. It might be better on Vista / Win7.

Preview

You can view the screenshot in this post for now as I will be setting up the demo for it a bit later.

Download

You can get the Poetry theme here right now. Please do post any comments / bugs you might have regarding this theme.

Cool Feature

Ah, BTW, one cool feature I forgot to mention is that you can use custom key author in posts to show the author of the poem right below the Title. It defaults to whoever the posting it from wordpress admin (such as admin himself). This way this theme can just look like the old book with all those great poem collection. ;)

Thanks & nJoY!

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Another Free Theme : Work-a-holic [Portfolio + Blog]

Friday, July 10th, 2009

This is yet another free theme that I recently worked on. Its called Work-a-holic. And as the name suggests, it is to showcase your work on the web while having a separate blog of your own. I made this theme for Graph Paper Press. There are many features to it and can be downloaded from the Graph Paper Press website. Its, of course, free but you have to sign up for a free membership which takes about a minute. This theme will come with a lot of interesting features very soon. :)

Ah, by the way, I would like to thank all of you who have been using Cleanr and giving me all the positive feedback about it. Its just wonderful to read those comments. Plus, I would like to thank some of you who have made a valuable donation for the themes I have made. Its so helpful. More themes to come soon.

Thanks!

P.S. WordPress 2.8.1 is out and all of you should upgrade it as it is faster, lot of bugs from 2.8 fixed and more secured!!

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Cleanr 0.1 now up for download!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

screenshotWell, its been quite a long wait and those of you who are looking forward to the working version of Cleanr, you have it right here, right now! Try the demo and be convinced that this is yet another clean, cool looking theme. Convinced? Grab the Cleanr right now and YES, its FREE!

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FREE Theme: Cleanr 0.1 alpha

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

screenshot Okay that was way too quick for an announcement I guess, when I had already mentioned that it might be ready in a few weeks on the previous post. But what the heck! I am just too excited sometimes and wanted to give the new theme away instead of putting in the back-burner and only releasing it when everything is ready.
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simpleX v1.2 with a major update!

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Since the release of simpleX on the WordPress theme site, there has been an overwhelming response and I am encouraged to update simpleX and make it more usable. Thank you all who have downloaded the theme just to preview it or use it on your personal blog. I would love to see people posting any issues or even their sites with this theme just to showcase on here. Yes, you are free to make any changes you want to the theme.

So, what does v1.2 update include?

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simpleX theme top 40 downloads @ WordPress.org

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

As I have been following the downloads charts at the official WordPress theme site, simpleX is now at top 40 downloads and is approaching its first 500 downloads as I write this. This has really been an inspiration to me. I am working to update simpleX so users can choose colors to adjust as per their need. This should be a great leap as an update.

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New update on simpleX

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

simpleX is now version 1.1. The page level (menu) has been fixed so now you can add sub pages without a glitch. Here you can see 4 levels of menu. 

If you find out any other bugs, please do report to me. Thanks!

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Free simpleX theme ready for download

Monday, November 10th, 2008

UPDATE: Its now version 1.2.1 and tested with WordPress 2.7. Please download the new version. Also see Update Notes 1.2 and 1.2.1.

As mentioned in my earlier post, I have fixed a few bugs and I guess its now ready for release. There might be some issues but I will only know that when you can provide me some feedback. As I told you, this is not a perfect theme. I am just using this opportunity to learn to make WordPress themes. But, this theme is definitely usable if you are looking for clean, elegant design. Nothing complex!

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Diagona Free Icons Set

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I was doing a search on good icons that are small and can be used in my theme. Luckily, I found a good icon set. Its called Diagona Icons Pack and can be downloaded free. Pinvoke is the creator of these icons. They seem to have free pixel fonts as well. But you may need to buy the license if you are using them commercially.

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