Zero Wordpress Theme
Yes, another one. Just finished it. Will beta-test it on this site. Wordpress themes are some good Sunday afternoon entertainment.Download: zero-1.3.zip
57 Responses to “Zero Wordpress Theme”
uberdose 2.0
L-l-look at you, hacker.
February 8th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Meantime I uncommented the link list in index.php and sidebar.php, so that’s all right now. I was talking about the navigation on top, whick is excellent as soon as you see it like on THIS page right now. The navigation down under is perfect. Also, I put my static pages links on top, but they disappear as soon as I go zapping between the postings. I should find a solution for that.
February 8th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
BTW: I put the pages in the header.php. Maybe that’s not correct, but I can’t find them in index.php. I will try to slip them in there, maybe that will work.
March 9th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Many thanks for this clean theme - I’ve rearranged things a bit and got it to all validate by taking the Blogroll out into the footer and ammended the navigation by putting in a ‘Home’ link between previous/next.
Also, I’ve changed it to a flexible width - I think it ideally suits this style - and as it forms the ‘notes’ part of my site, the main site menu is in the header. I’ll be using various fixed images behind the text.
Cheers.
March 9th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
…also, works very nicely with Sidebar Widgets
March 9th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Keep on tweaking
March 11th, 2007 at 3:57 am
… and thanks for your donation
March 18th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Well, pretty well finished tweaking - however, I’ve moved it into a TextPattern
build for the extra pages plus WordPress doesn’t like being edited in the browser by my host TextDrive. Anyway thanks for all the fish 
March 18th, 2007 at 5:32 am
I’ve never used TextPattern so I can’t really say you’d be much better off with wordpress … Anyway I wish you good luck, and I’m pretty sure we will meet again
April 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Hi,
Nice theme, I use it for my new personnal blog (http://www.presse-citron.net/antiblog/) but I have a issue with images display, it only displays on the full article, when I click on the permalink, not in the posts on the homepage.
How can I make it display on the homepage ?
April 20th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Hi Eric, this is because it displays excerpts on the homepage by default. To change this, edit zero/index.php. Comment out the call to the_excerpt() (like the linke above) and comment in the line above with the call to the_content().
April 20th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Thnk you uberdose, it works now.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:30 am
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June 12th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I’ve been subtracting from Zero.
Love it.
Am wondering how — if I drop the header graphic — can I remove about half the vertical space it takes up? I can’t find where that space is defined.
If you look at the example index page and single post I’ve put up, you’ll see the extra space I’m hoping to trim just a bit.
Thanks for such a clean, simple design.
Thanks,
kwc
June 12th, 2007 at 8:10 am
> I’ve been subtracting from Zero
I guess the “vertical space” you refer to is the header div, which actually contains a h1 and another div for the description, which are both empty in your case. If you remove the header div from your template the space should be gone.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Thanks so much, Uberdose.
I awoke this morning knowing that. And you just confirmed it. So I’m going to play with that div. Actually I awoke with the idea that I should just change, on the stylesheet, the typesize for the header (which, as you pointed out, I’m not using).
Maybe eliminating the header call altogether as you suggest and just putting a bit of margin or padding there would be more elegant.
Will keep playing. I know what I’m doing is going to look quite a bit different from the beautiful, airy, open design you created. But my hackjob is going to meet my objective wonderfully, I think.
So grateful for your work and help.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
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August 17th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
It’s very beautifully.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Howdy!
Love love love this minimal theme. One questions though, how do I get images to show up?
Gracias,
SDK
August 17th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I’m just working on a new one, started with a totally different spin (2-columns) and ended with a single column layout like this one. Will post it here once it’s published.
> how do I get images to show up?
Just put them into the images folder and link them from your theme like “<?php bloginfo(’stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/yourimage.jpg?>”.
August 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Great!
I’m actually linking to an image from another site. The image shows up in other themes. I’ve checked the CSS and other files but could find nothing disallowing images from being shown.
Thx
SDK
August 17th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
So you’re using an img with src=”http://example.com/image.jpg” and it doesn’t show? That’s strange. I’m using some (internal) images myself, so I have nothing in place against them in the CSS.
August 17th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Yup.
August 17th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
img src=”http://bp2.blogger.com/_YnI_dEgsJ_s/RsShpvVWi3I/AAAAAAAAD2o/QX2KSq3Mrzo/s400/248.jpg” alt=”wafflemaker”
August 17th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
what’s weird is that the images shows up in the visual editor…
August 17th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
The image delivers something in the header that makes my firefox want to download it instead of viewing it. I think that’s the problem. Just tested it locally on Zero and another theme, both just yield the ALT.
August 17th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Maybe blogger doesn’t want its images to be inlined by others and checks for the referer …
August 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I thought that too, that they didn’t allow hotlinking - but I linked to an image off of my personal site:
img src=”http://aesthetist.org/images/sdk2007/1.jpg” alt=”SDK” /
and it doesn’t show up either. It does however (like the other image) show up when editing the post in the visual editor.
Something in the code is disabling the images from being displayed.
Just can’t pinpoint it yet.
Thanks for all yer help.
August 17th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
figured something out.
If I click on “View Page” while editing it, the images shows up. Actually it’s using “?p=3″ - I’m not sure why the post doesn’t update on the main page…
August 17th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
OK.
so the images don’t show up unless you read the post?
August 17th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Aah, I think I know what your problem is. I think the default in Zero is to show the excerpt, not the whole post. So no images … You can change that easily in index.php. I just commented it out.
August 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
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August 17th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
That’s it!
Should have spent a little more time looking for that - but trying to do 10 things at once!
Much thanks.
New theme is sweet.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:39 am
One of my favourite themes to date. Excellent work and it’s a pleasure to use your template! Have added code highlighting and will probably implement a basic tagcloud in the same general format as the blogroll, but it’s fantastically clean and legible.
September 30th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Hi,
I am using this theme. But it doesn’t work on wp v2.3
Any help?
Thanks
October 6th, 2007 at 8:09 am
@Hostorials: I upgrade to 1.3 which worked on WP 2.3 on my developer box.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
This theme is magic
November 1st, 2007 at 2:09 am
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November 1st, 2007 at 2:12 am
Love the theme
November 8th, 2007 at 6:44 am
I love this theme, it’s probably one of the better ones I’ve ever used simply because of its simplicity.
I am using a modified version on my site at http://www.explosionofogle.com, and I would love to collaborate with you to release my modified version (pending your approval) as a Zero ver. 2. I have a few bugs to work out and a little bit of cleanup to do on my own site, but if you are interested please drop me a line at scottogle AT gmail DOT com
November 8th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I’d love to talk to you about this. Can you send me your contact details (email, im, etc.) to the address above?
November 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
@scogle: Have you gotten my mail? I sent it about 6 hours ago in reponse to your first comment.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Ogle –
Your iteration is quite nice. I LOVE what people can do with “simple.” And Uberdose started and inspired it all.
Carry on.
Best,
kwc
November 12th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
I did get your last email, but I didn’t see any steadfast contact info.
Anywho, I would love to work with you on a version 2–I can do page layout, colors, typefaces, etc. (design stuff) and you can work on any code revisions that need doing. I only have a precursory knowledge of how php and the wordpress platform works, so I was hoping that you could take care of that end of it.
Anyway, I’ll try to let you know when I get all the major bugs worked out of my design, and you can take a look at it then.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:58 am
Love the theme and decided to use it to archive my articles. Couple of questions. How can I show only the article title on main page and put a graphic bullet before the title names?
I am trying to remove the content from showing under the article title on the main page.
December 21st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
@Darell: Comment out / play with the_excerpt() or the_content() in index.php and other files where it occurs. This is also the place for your image.
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 am
Hi,
I love this theme because it is simple. How can I put in a navigation page. I read the comments and what you said was it was uncommented. What does that mean? Thanks!
January 9th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Well a year has gone by and I’ve moved to WordPress - checking my article links I saw you’d moved - so thought I’d just pop-in and say Hi.
My present site may have a bit of Zero in it, hard to tell now and I haven’t quite finished.
Well met again
June 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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