Hello, I’ve been using Wordpress for a year or two now and think it’s time for a free theme! I created a simple one that artists and craftsters might enjoy.
It’s easy to install & you don’t have to touch the code if you don’t want to. Not sure how to add a theme? You can find detailed directions and tons more information here: Adding New Themes
The code is clean and organized and ready for someone to tinker around with as well. The image in the right sidebar is commented out in the code you’re downloading. The space is the perfect size for a logo/image, flickr or etsy badge. There’s commented out code & detailed directions for all three options in the file sidebar.php.
That’s it for now, if you have any questions please ask in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer. Enjoy!
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I just recently changed from blogger to wordpress and found your theme yesterday. it’s so wonderful !!!! thanks for sharing!
I am a digital-scrapper and I hopeI will be able to customize it. I have to learn a lot. it starts with having no glue how to add my pic on top right….
have a great day,
gabs
Just a sneak preview of your theme, will be in action as soon as I have some worthwhile content to add.
I hope you don’t mind me adding the text at the top of the theme, I thought it would be better for SEO and to make the purpose of the blog stand out better. I like it
Thank you… you’re whole site, and all your work is gorgeous!!
Thank you so much, that’s very sweet! Good luck with blogging!
Hi Amanda,
I loved your theme, I’m now trying to translate it to Arabic, i noticed that you have added a rtl css file and it helped me. but i have some problems with the header.jpg.. it wont displayed ..I would appreciate if you help me, here is the link : http://www.one4v.com/ar
Thanks!
I pulled this from your styles.css file
#header {
background:transparent url (http://one4v.com/ar/wp-content/themes/paper/images/header-img.php?upper=575757&lower=737373) no-repeat scroll center bottom;
}
It should be this:
#header {
background:transparent url(http://one4v.com/ar/wp-content/themes/paper/images/header.jpg) no-repeat scroll center bottom;
}
Hope that works!
Nothing changed but i will re-upload the original theme again and do the CSS changes again becuase i think i have missed it up..
Hi Amanda,
There is some problems with the layout and I don’t know how to fix it ..if you have time here is the theme compressed : Link:… If you check the site http://www.one4v.com/ar ..
1- there is a counter and it should be at the footer
2- I have renamed the rtl.css file to make the layout as good as i can …
3- the post title doesn’t appear in the sidebar when you are on it .
4- the post date and the Edit link are in the wrong side of the post title.
Maybe there is more … my CSS experience is little
—
Thank you
I’ll check it out tonight and get back to you…
Trying to get it to work but my posts are not appearing. Any theories? phillycollegelife.com
No idea without seeing the code, did you edit any of the .php files? If you haven’t done much I’d try reuploading the theme… Sorry I’m not more help.
Actually, check to make sure that you took out the front and back tags of the commented out flickr area? It looks like it’s not pulling anything past the sidebar which might be the content problem…
i have added the code
<img src=”/images/header.jpg” alt=”header” />
after the and it’s working fine
Now there is still a problem with the rtl.css file if i rename it to it’s original name it will make a huge space btw the nav bar and the posts title
the another one when i rename the rtl.css file to another name – the edit link and the date become too close to the post title
in Firefox
any way i really appreciate what you have done so far
sorry… after the header tag
I have an idea what if you add the post title instead of the blog description when you are on the post page
..
HI Amanda,
Great Design. And I have it all installed and activated but all I see is a blank screen for the blog. All the theme files are under the path – /webdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/paper – just like the other themes. I am sure its something minor so wondering if you know where I am going wrong with the installation.
Appreciate our response.
Hello, can I have the link to your site please?
Here is my website.
http://sikhtoons.com/wordpress/
I really don’t know without looking at your admin and theme files, did you make any changes to the theme?
Thank you Amanda, this is a real great work! I really like it and use it.
But I got a little problem here. I cannot see the box in right sidebar (the one that you explained very well in sidebar.php) via my firefox, but it is there if I open it vie Internet Explorer. I have checked many times if I typed wrongly when modifying the sidebar.php file, but not likely, I am not an expert in php or web, I am a common blogger.
My blog is http://diary.febdian.net .
I want to report a minor problem I’m having using the Paper theme in a cross-platform environment. Whenever a Mac user clicks on the “Category:” and “Tagged” links, the body text for the entire page of related posts changes from normal size up to header size. This doesn’t happen in Windows with IE, just on a Mac in Safari. Is there something I could add to the Paper stylesheet, so Category and Tagged page body text doesn’t blow up in size for Safari users? If you need to see an example of what I’m talking about, just open your Paper sample page on a Mac in Safari and click on the “Templates” tag. Thanks in advance for your help.
Woah, sorry about that.
Add this css under .entry {} on line 55 of styles.css
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif;
line-height: 22px;
Okay, that fixed the entry font, but not the two lines of text that appear afterwards, which begin with “Tags…” and “Posted in…” So I added your block of css under .postmetadata and .postmetadata2. (Did I need to add it both places? Not sure, but now all the text on these pages looks the correct size in Safari.
I also edited archive.php and inserted a “:” (colon) after “Posted in” to make it consistent with “Tags:” Wanted to let you know in case you decide to release an official update on the WP site. Many thanks for your help and work. It’s a beautiful theme.
Hi Amanda – I’m having another formatting problem with the Paper theme. This time it’s the Search results page layout that appears broken on both Windows and Macs.
For instance:
* If you search for the word “paper” using your sample page here, you’ll see the top of the sidebar is messed up on the results page.
* If you search for an unused word like “tofu” you have the same sidebar issue with the “search not found” page.
* If you search for “mcclintock” (a word appearing on your “Tags & Styles” page) you see a slightly different problem with the results page layout.
Could you please fix this, so any Paper theme search results page paints correctly? I tried to fix it myself, but don’t know enough about CSS. FYI, the Elegant Grunge theme by MichaelTyson has a nicely-formatted search results page that works properly under all 3 conditions mentioned above. I love the Paper theme and want to have a Search results page that paints properly. Thank you for your help.
Should all be good now! Just updated the theme here and on wordpress. I’ll definitely think about your suggestions for the next update. Thanks for your help.
I had tried to use this theme and experienced the same issue with blog content not appearing. I uploaded it into WP-Content/themes just as my other themes are without making any changes to the theme. If there is a fix, let me know. The theme is lovely!!
I’m not sure why that is happening, if I come across a solution I will let you know!
I am using your theme currently – it looks fantastic! I did find a couple of buggy things and can’t wait to update to the new version. Have a great day and thank you very much!
Hope the update helped, let me know if you have any other issues and I’ll take a look. Thanks!
Hi,
i hope you also update the rtl version..
thank you
I hope to soon!
Amanda! Hi! I love this theme! You don’t even know! I’d love to be able to edit the graphics a bit more though to fit my personality. I was wondering if you’d ever consider sharing the PSD file for the backgrounds? Mainly the one for the body. I would LOVE love to use this and add my touch to it. Hope you consider! =)
Thank you!
I don’t see why not, I’m super busy this week but will get it together and email it to ya this weekend. Thanks!
hallo amanda *wave*
i have downloaded your theme
can i have da psd file as well? and how do i add a header pic on top?
thanks!
Psd file, right click save as
http://www.ahhh-design.com/files/Paper_PSD.zip
Hi Amanda! I kept checking up on this but never got a reply so I forgot about it. But I just happened to check it today and I just read your reply. I hope you are still willing to share the PSD files. I am really dying to use this theme and edit it to my taste. =)
Look foward to hearing from you.
-Ana
Hi, Amanda. I have seen your theme, its wonderfull.
I use WPMU 2.7, and I have a great problem. In my blog to read this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in /usr/local/www/wordpress-mu2/wp-content/themes/paper/index.php on line 9
Line
<div id=”post-”>
Any idea?
I’m having the same problem as edwin, but using Apache on Windows:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in C:\websites\wordpress\wp-content\themes\paper\index.php on line 9
OK, I upgraded my Wordpress version to 2.7.1 and that has fixed the problem.
Thanks!
Oh good! Enjoy!
Hi Amanda,
I think your theme is great. In fact, it is the only one I’ve liked out of at least a thousand themes I’ve gone through. I’ve been creating a blog/website and I’ve encountered 2 issues and I’m hoping you might be able to help.
The first is that for some reason, the binder clip isn’t showing up completely when it renders on any browser.
The second is that I have a Welcome page and a Home page (and ‘welcome’ and ‘home’ are both showing up at the top menu). They both have the same content but I obviously only need one. I’m not sure how to get rid of one or the other.
You’ll have to forgive my ignorance. I only know a bit of HTML and I don’t know anything about css. Any help or advice you could give would be greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Romi Stepovich
thanks, the templates very good!
Hi Amanda, I so love your theme! I got very excited so I downloaded it right away, I am using it right now though, I am having a wee problem with it; still getting the hang of wordpress I guess?
Anyway, this message keeps appearing from my blog: /home/tangerin/public_html/wp-content/themes/paper/index.php on line 9 I wonder what should I do with it? Thanks again! ^_^ I do hope to hear from you soon.
Hi. Thanks again! Got it figured out! Added a little thingamajiggies on the side. I really love your theme. Mwah! ^__^
Oh good! You’re welcome.
Hi Amanda:
I added your theme but am finding that my posts are not showing up. Do you have any idea what could be causing this? When I change to the default theme I can see them.
Thanks so much ,
Paula
I’m actually not sure what causes that, and it’s difficult to know without looking at your set-up and code and everything. Sorry, I always suggest to delete the theme and re download/unzip/install it and see if that helps.
Another fan here. This is a really nice theme.
However, I can’t the home page to show the posts. I have this message instead..
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in /mnt/w0805/d01/s15/b0307eb7/www/mustbeaponyinthere.com/wp-content/themes/paper.0.6/paper/index.php on line 9
I can see my Hello page just fine.
Do you have the newest version of Wordpress installed? I would try deleting all the files, downloading it and trying again. Sorry I’m not more help. There shouldn’t be a stylesheet missing which makes me think all of the files were not transferred totally!
Oh, and wordpress says a stylesheet is missing. Thanks.
hi,i’m using your wonderful theme now..
thanks for sharing and i love your design very much..
but i have a problem that i dont know where to put the image on the right as your image “Lil’s bird”..
hope that u can help me and thanks in advance!
Hello, thank you!
The image is in the file sidebar.php – with directions for changing it. Hope that helps…
how can I get the update?
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/paper
Hi Amanda,
Nice theme I downloaded. One problem I am having though. How do you add a pic to the right hand corner? The place where you put the embroidered bird? Oh and do you know of how i can change the color of the “page” background or is it a pic and if that is the case can i have the jpeg of that as well?
Thanks,
Kira
If you look inside the theme files the sidebar instructions are in the file sidebar.php –
The background is in the images folder and is called – background.jpg
Good luck!
Hello
i am just trying out your wonderful paper theme.
I wonder if you also have a version with a widgetabele bottom bar ?
thanks for an info in advance
kind regards and greetings from germany
chris
I really love your theme and use it on my new website that tells about normal family life from my point of view
I wanted to know if it is somehow possible to
a) create a bottom sidebar
b) write the widget category with a starting capital letter as usual in germany meaning
for example “Kategorie” instead of “kategorie”
thanks for a short feedback in advance
kind regards
christian
Hello, sorry I haven’t responded. Don’t have a lot of time to spend on this right now. An easy fix for the sidebar is to find ‘#sidebar h2′ in styles.css and remove ‘text-transform:lowercase;’ – I do want to add some more features in the future, but can’t promise it will be soon. I will send you a message when I do though.
Hope this helps a little.
(I actually design wp themes too!) But on my itty bitty mommy blog, I don’t have TIME! LOL and you kinow what? I couldn’t have done a better job than this theme for my style and tastes – I absolutely ADORE it. I’m an artsy type that is always changing my mind, and this lets me write on my virtual notepad and I LOVE it! Thank yu so much!
Oh that’s very nice, thank you so much! I’m off to check out your themes now.
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