I am very proud to announce that one of my original WordPress themes has been accepted into the WordPress theme repository. I have been designing custom WordPress themes for over three years now, and I have done a couple free ones along the way, but this is my first time to have one in the official repository.
Fifty Fifth Street is a simple, greyscale theme that follows a nice grid system, and keeps typography in top priority. It’s a great theme for the minimalist in you, or for those that like to start with a blank canvas when customizing a free theme for their own needs. Every last pixel was counted and perfected, and the grid is very strictly kept.
You can install the theme from your WordPress admin, or you can download it here. Demo the theme on my own testing site.
If you like the theme, please be kind and give it a star rating. Feel free to leave any support questions here at this blog post, and I will do my best to help you. Enjoy!
Great work Tammy. The black and white color scheme is bold and the layout really emphasizes the content.
Congrats Tammy. The minimalist in me is a size XXL so I love this theme. Really beautiful.
Thanks for the compliments, my friends.
I have a ton of themes that would be great free themes, I just rarely make the time for them. This is kinda fun, though, so I might start working on them in my free time. It definitely helps to know they they are being received well!
Great theme. Just love the design. simple and minimalistic. currently using on my blog. =)
Hi Tammy,
I love your theme!! I need some help. I am trying to add a logo at the top in the header instead of using the text. Could you point me in the right direction?
Thank you!
b
The easiest way is to find line 37 in the head.php template and replace the code within the anchor tag with your image. If you are using an image saved within the theme’s image directory, be sure to use the proper code to make it relative to the template folder. Your final code would look something like this:
<a href="<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/" id="sitename"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/logo.jpg" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" /></a>
I love this theme! One question. How do you get the photos to show up on the main page? I don’t want excerpts or anything hidden. Thanks!
Hi Tammy – nice work! However, I noticed when I tried your theme with the SyntaxHighlighter plugin for Wordpress, it only showed syntax highlighted for 1 post (and not all the other posts that included the syntax highlighter. Any idea on how what might be wrong?
@kristyk- in the index.php template, changes lines 22 and 23 from this:
<?php if ($counter == 1 ) { the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); }
else { the_excerpt(); } ?>
to this:
<?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>
@Michael – Are they working correctly whenyou click into the single post? If so, it might just be that on the homepage, only excerpts are shown for the posts following the first one. The fix I posted for kristy will help you as well.
Tammy, could you check your comment to me and kristyk, because I’m not seeing the changes you recommend in your comment.
Sorry about that, WordPress didn’t like the way I pasted in my code. Fixed now!
Hi Tammy, thanks for the real fast awnser! Just changed line 22 and 23 like you suggested, but when I do my site goes blank?!
any idea?
Thanx in advance,
Rik de Gooijer
sorry I made a mistake. The index.php in the theme map is altered now but still no visible changes?!
make sure you completely delete everything in those lines, and paste back in only the one new single line
problem solved:
should be:
Greetings Rik
Tammy, thanks for nice theme you made.
Rik, Tammy > how did you solve the problem of photos showing up in the main page? I change the code which Tammy gave, but once I upload index.php and reload my WP, I get answer:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in …./public_html/wp-content/themes/fifty-fifth-street/index.php on line 22
the problem is cant see Rik’s code
I have just uploaded version 1.4 to the repository that fixes the problem people have been having with the full content showing on the index. You should get a notification in your admin panel when it is available.
Great theme! I am trying it out for my blog but I would like to make the sidebar a little narrower. how would I do that?
thanks!
michael
the width of the sidebar is set in the stylesheet on line 455