I am very pleased to announce the official release of my latest Wordpress theme; ZinePress.
ZinePress isn’t really an overcomplicated magazine theme, but she’s not exactly a run-of-the-mill blog design either. My goal with this design was to create a theme that could present oodles of information to the visitor in a straight forward and non-threatening way. It’s some of my proudest work and I hope you like it.
Screen Shot
Live Demo
Like what you see? Be sure to check out the live demo to see ZinePress in all her glory!
Cross Browser Compatible
I’ve tried my darndest to make ZinePress play nice with all the major players. The following browsers have been personally verified by yours truly: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Safari 3+ and Chrome 0.2+!
Widget Ready
Yep, this baby is widgetized! There are sidebar and footerbar widgets. Also, there are optional widgets for advertisements in the header and sidebar (if you’re into that kind of the thing). See the readme file for instructions.
Wordpress Compatibility
I’ve only tested this theme on Wordpress Version 2.6. I’m willing to bet it is compatible with older versions, but to be safe use at least Wordpress Version 2.6.
Of Course It Validates!
What do you take me for? ZinePress was coded by hand and has valid XHTML Strict 1.0 and CSS Level 2.1.
License
This is a free theme. You may use, alter, tweak, tamper, modify and mangle it to your liking. But please leave the footer links in tact. I know it sucks, but it really helps me out as a more-or-less completely unknown designer. Thank you kindly.
Gimme Gimme!
Without further ado…
Download ZinePress v1.0
Howdy, I'm Andrew Lindstrom. I am a freelance web designer based in Vancouver, Canada. When not geeking out over design, I'm likely geeking out over film, technology or pretending to play the guitar.
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nice design to release for free!
imho would look better without the ribbon ends
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Very sharp and polished theme Andrew. I just wrote about it and linked to it from my blog Alone on the Web that I just started.
I would have to agree with styletime about the ribbon ends though. Is it easy to change that if you wanted to?
Thanks for the comments guys. It’s funny, I never really thought anything of the “ribbon ends”, but now that you mention it they don’t really go with the rest of the design.
I’ll try do some tweaking and maybe release a version 1.1 - sans ribbon ends.
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ZinePress: A Wordpress Magazine Theme…
ZinePress a two-columns, clean wordpress magazine theme, widget-ready. There are sidebar and footerbar widgets. Also, there are optional widgets for advertisements in the header and sidebar….
Very nice theme. Maybe i’ll use it on one of my blogs. Will post an article for french wp users to come on your page
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I think I like everything about this theme! Awesome, and as stated above, to release it for free - wow!
Really nice layout on your theme. Any thoughts on making any different versions? One with double sidebars on the right would be nice for us widescreen users
Are you going to release the PSD file of the theme? I’d like to modify it a little and the PSD would make it much easier.
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I need your help…
in feb this year i started this http://www.wscoop.com its a resource for developers and designers.
But I need help
I need links to web design and development, site , articles links…… anything you think of….
Please are you able to help me make this into a great resource for developers and designers.
P.S Love the theme
@Brandon - Thank you very much!
@Andreas - I hadn’t considered a second sidebar, but I’ll think about it. The problem would be those with 1024px monitors, for whatever reason there is still a few out there. As for the PSD file, I’ll try to include it with the next version.
@Paul - I wrote this blog post a little while ago listing my favorite design blogs. Might be a good place to start
Modified it quite a bit and added it to my WPMU installation. My users are attacking it like rabid dogs.
I’ll probably modifiy it some more, and add an options page so they can tweak the colors since it’s become so popular on my network
Your footer links remain …and Thanks
I was wondering if anyone could help me, sorry, I know this isn’t a forum, but anyway: I was wondering how I use this in WordPress. I just got an account just so I could use this. However, I don’t quite understand the instructions. What does he mean when he says
- Upload the “zinepress” folder to \wp-content\themes\
- Log into your admin panel and select “Design”.
- Click the “ZinePress” theme screenshot and click “activate”.
Does that mean upload it to the wordpress website or somewhere on my computer? But where on my computer? where is \wp-content\themes? Any help is greatly appreciated. If anyone can help please email me at michaelfiles@hotmail.com.
Thanks!
@Mikey Fresh - Are you referring to wordpress.com? Unfortunately, that service does not allow you to use your own themes (to the best of my knowledge anyway).
This theme is designed for anyone running the wordpress platform on their own servers. More information on that can be found at wordpress.org, not .com
Sorry for the confusion.
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Nice theme ! Really love the design. Thank you for taking the time ot make it.
@nu derm - My pleasure
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Sweet design! Thanks for releasing it for free Andrew.
it rocks ! congrats !
you are the best… great theme..delicious
Great work on the theme! I’m using it on my site and it’s working out good so far, but I have one question - how do you set the post image? It’s probably something small I overlooked, but I can’t find it in the post editor, or anywhere I can think of, for that matter.
Thanks!
@jan - Glad you are enjoying the theme. To set up the post image see the readme.txt file and look for the heading “How to place thumbnails into posts”. Hopefully that will help
Nice magazine theme, missing auto-thumb nail generation though!
Dear Andrew,
I’m setting up your theme for my first blog
Everything works but the only thing i do not know is how to set up the ad spaces. what kind of widget i have to use? or may be it is not a question of widget.
Same question for the “thumbnail” for each article. Where do i upload the pics?
Thanks for your feedback !
You ‘ve done a great joB.
I found everything in the readme file
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Awesome work! This is one of the reasons it’s getting tougher to sell these things - thanks for offering it freely!
Nice theme - but it would be smoother if the background will be fixed.
Why did you put the background again into the #wrapper?
@Julien - Sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier, glad to see you found the answer in the readme file
@Brandon Cox - Thanks!
@Thomas - I’m not sure I’m following you. Is something not lining up properly? There are two seperate background images: bg.png & topbg.png. Topbg.png is used to achieve the subtle dark fade at the top of the layout while bg.png is used for the rest. So the background being called in #wrapper is not the same image as the one being called in ‘body’. I hope that’s what you were asking about
This theme looks professional. I love it
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I really like this theme. I have been looking for a magazine-style theme for quite a long time now and I think I just found the perfect one
I didn’t observed that the background at the top has this fade out. I just have tried to fix the background in the body and noticed that obviously there is the same header in the wrapper. Sorry…
Great theme wordpress for me ! Thanks for share
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one geek to another, I have to say I really like this theme. Nice job amigo. I may know someone who is looking for a template that lookslike this so I am going to give this link….keep up the good work.
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golly! i’ve been indirectly looking for something like this for a while.
its so! good.
I like it! Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering how I can fix the sidebar and footerbar so they aren’t in what looks like a list? I don’t want all the space caused by the dotted line between every picture and every link. Thank you in advance for your assistance and a beautiful theme!
just to add - I want to change in sidebar, not footer bar. I’ve figured something out but it isn’t still quote correct. I have bullets in front of ribbons. My links to other sites are underlined and not colored right. Sorry, I should have tried first & posted this all together in one post. Thanks again!
i love this theme, but is there any way to make link click-able from the main page?
The theme looks great! It’s a nice design. I like it.
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i keep getting Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end.
anybody else getting this?
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