You’ve put a lot of thought into your blog content, so don’t let your theme draw attention from it. Introducing a nice and subtle theme that helps your reader focus on your content, not the surrounding elements – SubtleFlux.
SubtleFlux is a theme for the WordPress platform. It was intentionally designed without a lot of visible frills in the background with the goal of keeping the reader’s attention focused on the content. In the first week of availability the theme was downloaded over 1,000 times, and the total number grows every day.
- Compatible with WordPress 2.7 and above
- Gravatars
- Tags
- Threaded comments
- Widgets
- Horizontal page menu
- Provides a direct link to wp-admin for logged in users
- SEO optimized
- Two columns
- White
Version 1.0.3 – 3 February 2010
- Minor adjustments to CSS to correct header display
- Added support for posts with multiple pages
Version 1.0.2 – 16 June 2009
- Minor adjustments to code for XHTML compliance
- Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 2.8
Version 1.0.1 – 17 April 2009
- Added next and previous links to category page
- Fixed formatting error in archive template code
Version 1.0 – 16 April 2009
- Initial public release
Hi,
I’m using this theme – it’s really cool. But can you maybe update it so that it shows the author?
Thanks!
Thanks! Author doesn’t seem to be used very often in blogs anymore because most are single user, but I can certainly add it in the next update.
Well, It is for a single user blog, but it just looks weird making anonymously posts… :)
Cheers for the great Wordpress theme mate I haven’t seen anything this clean in yonks.
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So I love this theme and I’m sort of a novice at mucking around with the template files. Is it possible or advisable to set the columns to slightly narrower fixed widths?
It’s certainly possible to change the column widths, but would mean playing in the code. If you send me an email (use the contact page) describing exactly which columns you want to change, I can tell you what to edit.
I’ve made note of your comments about page links, etc in the post on your site and will look into it for the next version. I’d already decided on an options page but wasn’t sure what to put in there yet.
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This theme is great! I really like this style. It looks really professional. I just Download theme and will be use for many blog.
Thank you so much.
I’m really happy with Subtleflux — but have just installed a forum plugin called WP-Forum. It has two skin options. When I choose a skin for the forum, it seems to impact on the Subtleflux sidebar style, making it less attractive. Is there a way to “protect” your sidebar? Or maybe you have another approach?
I’ve never used the WP-Forum plugin so it’s hard to say. Judging by the comments on the author’s page, it looks like the plugin has the same effect on a lot of themes. One suggestion on that site was to disable the sidebar for the page that the forum uses. I’ll look into it some more though, and may be able to come up with a solution.
Thanks for the reply. I came to the same conclusion — disable the sidebar on the Forum page. But that’s easier said than done. Mike T provides quite a good guide here —
http://www.fahlstad.se/wp-forum/?wpforumaction=viewtopic&t=242.0
But it only applies to the WordPress default theme style.css and not to a custom theme like yours.
Thanks again for following up.
Thanks for this great theme! I’d like to request making it XHTML compliant though (this page, for instance, shows 56 errors at the moment of this writing).
On my page it was enough to change the bottom [br][br] into [br /][br /] and move the wp_loginout + xhtml referer [ul] out of a [p] (not allowed) into a [div].
Furthermore, it is not required, but the [meta] tags are better placed before [title].
You can mail me if you want some help getting your code compliant, it is in general better to do so, esp. as long as the link XHTML Valid remain on the bottom right ;-)
– Abel –
Thanks a lot for the tips. My initial test of a completely blank site with WordPress 2.8 showed 9 errors, so it looks like the WP developers have cleaned their code a little with the latest version.
I’ve made some changes and released version 1.0.2. There are no XHTML errors in this release.
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Since more than one person posts on our site, can you tell me how to add “Posted by [author]” after “Posted on [date]“.
Thanks in advance …
Find the line in home.php that says
< ?php the_time('j F Y'); ?>and add
Posted by < ?php the_author(); ?>to it.
I’ve had a few people ask for author information now, so have included it (plus more detail) in the next major version update that I’m working on at the moment.
Many thanks for the helpful and speedy reply.
Don
Hi,
Thanks for a great template, love the simplicity, and the CSS is so well structured and the comments are very useful, this really makes it easy to work with and adapt.
Am running this site more like a CMS site and don’t want any comments of feedback.
Tried to work with template to ‘disable’ comments with no joy, instead I have style the css for comment block etc to ‘display:none: and is working.
Would like to do this via template however, if you can help this would be great.
Don’t want to do this via ‘admin’ as it leaves text ‘comments are closed’ and don’t want this to show.
Thanks again, so refreshing to see something simple and classic! Timeless!
Best,
Mark
It should be as easy as deleting (or commenting out) the following line in index.php
< ?php comments_template(); ?>I love the layout and the photo but I have my own banner. Any way to replace it?
Thanks.
Easy. Just go to the images directory and replace banner.jpg with your own.
Ahhh, thanks.
Absolutely love the theme!
I’m having issues getting Flickr to display pictures properly, and they are saying it is something in the theme.
What I want to do is be able to email pictures to Flickr, then have them display properly as a post in my blog. It doesn’t work – the post doesn’t display a picture, but just a bunch of code that looks to me like it is pointing to the wrong place, therefore a Flickr issue.
Are you aware of issues for people wanting to do what I’ve described above, and of solutions?
Thanks
Firstly, I really like your banner image.
I don’t use Flickr so I don’t know how to help. I seriously doubt it is a problem with the theme though – it’s more likely the way WordPress is interpreting the Flickr code, or Flickr itself.
Maybe someone else with my theme will see your comment and offer a suggestion. Sorry.
Okay, I got the issues with posting from Flickr & LiveWriter fixed, by installing a WP plugin called XMLFix2 – seems WP strips xml sometimes.
Stupid me changed the colours of the post title text and cannot figure out where to find the original brown colour. Same goes for changing the colour of the titles in the sidebar.
Getting a lot of great compliments on the theme – how clean it is, and how it doesn’t detract from the photos. Thanks again.
An awesome theme PLUS a great title-photo helping me to express the message to my clients:
Relax – even in a financial crisis.
The well structured style-sheet helped a lot to master my first two weeks with WP.
Thx. for your continuing work on this theme and donating this to the WP community.
Peter A. Gebhardt, FLCP™
Financial & Life Cycle Planning
(Germany)
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Hi,
I love the theme — It’s beautiful. My question is how do I remove the “site admin” link from the the top of the page?
Just log out! It’s only displayed to users who are logged in.
DUHHH– tHANKS
Great theme! I love the simplicity of it! I am new to blogging and a coding novice (but trying hard to learn). When I change the color of the text in the footer the color of the title for each post also changes. Can you please tell me if there is a way around this.
B
Are you changing the color of the text or the titles in the footer?
Great Theme!
My blog is hosted by wordpress [i.e. somexyz.wordpress.com]… I do not see your theme as one of the available ones… is there a way for me to add it? or I thought about downloading your theme and then play around, but I am not sure if that is possible. Has anyone asked you a similar question?
Thanks!
Thanks! Wordpress.com doesn’t allow their users to upload themes, so I’m afraid I can’t help you with that. Perhaps you can request they include it in their set.
Hi! Is there an easy way to display the post category and/or tags on the index page with each post? I’d prefer it just be a small line like the posted date line, either just below that line or at the bottom of the post instead of the blocked line like on the individual post page. Thanks!
Open the home.php file and find this line:
Posted on < ?php the_time('j F Y'); ?> | < ?php comments_popup_link('No responses', '1 response', '% responses'); ?>
Replace it with this:
Posted on < ?php the_time('j F Y'); ?> | < ?php comments_popup_link('No responses', '1 response', '% responses'); ?>Category: < ?php the_category(', ') ?>< ?php the_tags('Tags: ',', '); ?>
You’re done!
I’ve done modification on the CSS and displays setting on your theme (into the wordpress admin).
If I do a theme update I will lost all my modifications ?
Thanks in advance …
Yes – you will lose all of your changes if you update to a new version of the theme.
Great theme! Very elegant.
I just downloaded it. Maybe I’m being dense, but I’m trying to replace the banner image and I can’t find how to access the images directory. How do I find it and upload a substitute image?
Thanks! You can’t access the images directory from inside WordPress. You will need to do it using your FTP client.
Thanks for the quick response. I thought that might be the case.
What exact size should the new image be?
It’s 960 x 134px.
Thanks!
Hello. Great theme, very simple and clean. I was having issues getting an image to align left/right properly. The following modification seemed to clear things up – don’t know if others are having the same issue. Go to “Appearance” -> “Editor”, Where it says:
img.alignright just remove the “img”. Same for alignleft and aligncenter.
It should look like:
/******************** IMAGES ********************/
.alignright {float:right; border:none; margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;}
.alignleft {float:left; border:none; margin:0px 10px 10px 0px;}
.aligncenter {display: block; border:none; margin:10px auto 10px auto;}
hi, thanks your great works.
i wanna open the comments of pages, but i found it didn’t work as your guide add
in page.php before ,but after .
could you tell me that, how i can open the comments…
thank you.
I’m enjoying this theme very much. I would like to use a widget in the sidebar *without* it entirely replacing the automatically generated sidebar. Is that possible?
I tried recreating the automatically generated sidebar using the widgets for RSS feed, search, etc. but they don’t look as nice.
Unfortunately it’s a limitation of WordPress. You can’t use both widgets and a theme’s default sidebar – it must be one or the other.
That’s as I feared.
Hmm, I wonder if I could copy the sidebar code into the text widget, so I could use the auto-generated sidebar info and then add the widget I want. But I don’t know anything about php — what all would I have to copy, and would that work?
It’s a good thought. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of time to experiment right now but I tried it briefly and it worked to some extent.
Just copy the entire contents of sidebar.php into the text widget. You’ll need to experiment with the formatting though because it will be a bit off.
Thanks — I figured it out. Now I just have one other problem. The archives & categories look fine in the sidebar in Firefox. In IE 7.0, the categories and archives display below the last post on the page. Any suggestions on what to look for when troubleshooting this?
This is a repost of the question I posed on Oct. 5:
The archives & categories look fine in the sidebar in Firefox. In IE 7.0, the categories and archives display below the last post on the page. Any suggestions on what to look for when troubleshooting this?
Just as background, I am using widgets in the sidebar; see my previous posts in the comments.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
FYI, I found a possible answer. At least this tells me where to look:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/221724?replies=11
Which version of IE are you using? I just looked at your site in IE, Firefox and Safari with no issues at all.
I looked in IE v.8.0 at home, but it’s also glitching in v.7 (the version I use at work). Look at the bottom right side of the screen. There should be categories and archives in the sidebar, but it’s not lining up right. I uploaded a screenshot here, with red highlights showing where the problem area is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbahm/3994141507/sizes/o/
Thx for any suggestions.
- Carolyn
Update: That screenshot I linked to in my previous note was of a category page. Here’s a screenshot of the front page with problem area circled: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbahm/3994157041/
Were you able to identify the sidebar problem I mentioned via the screenshots I provided? I’m sorry to pester you. I’ve just looked through hundreds of themes and like yours best. I don’t want to give up on it because of this one thing. Thx for any help –
FIGURED OUT A TEMP. SOLUTION! :O) I’m still using widgets. It was the code I copied/tweaked & obviously messed up from the original sidebar template, for the search box and the subscribe links. If I put ANY other sidebar contents after it, the new sidebar contents I’m adding do not align or format correctly, so I moved the search/subscribe to the bottom. Now it looks fine.
But I’d really like to move it up top. Here’s what I have in the text widget for the search/subscribe function. Will you see if you can advise on what I did wrong?
Subscribe
Subscribe to posts
<a href="”>Subscribe to comments
Search
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="”>
OK, that didn’t copy correctly. So I’m including a link to a screenshot, at the end of this info below:
In my sidebar, I have, in order:
Random Quote widget (the problem happens when this is not here, so it’s not the problem)
then:
A text widget containing links to images for Flickr, Twitter, etc. (the problem happens when this is not here, so it’s not the problem)
then:
the standard widgets for Categories and Archives (again, the problem happens when these are not here, so they’re not the problem)
then:
A Creative Commons icon and text (again, the problem happens when this is not here, so it’s not the problem)
then:
this is where the text widget is that contains the code I copied from your original sidebar template. I must have copied too much or too little, because it screws up anything that follows it. Which is a problem, because I don’t want it to be LAST in the sidebar (I’d rather this be the second thing). Here’s a screenshot of what’s in that text widget that is giving me troubles if the search/subscribe is placed anywhere but last in the sidebar: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbahm/4003003192/sizes/o/
Thx — Carolyn
I want to get rid of the current banner and replace it with the .swf file I created as an animated banner for the site. Can you help me figure out what I need to do code-wise to make that happen? Right now I am using a plugin for dynamic headers in wordpress but it puts the header above everything instead of where it is supposed to be placed in context of your theme.
Hi,
I love the theme, so clean and simple, great work!
One thing I wanted to point out, and I’m not sure if this was because of tweaking that I made to the code or if it came like this, but when I turned comments off through the WP Dashboard and then went clicked on a blog post to launch it on it’s own page, the sidebar and footer information did not display on this page. I am not sure if it was because a condition was not added to the comments.php that allowed the sidebar and footer to display if comments was turned off, or if it was because I did a lot of modifying to the theme, but I thought I should let you know. Not everyone enables comments, and in the case of the site I’m working on, http://www.philkallis.com, we do not use comments. I ended up deleting the code on the index.php page that called on the comments page and that fixed it. Just wanted to let you know.
Thanks!
Keegan
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This site is exactly what I was looking for–no gunk, no frills, just clean, simple and focused. After reading through your attention to questions and critiques, I feel really confident about switching over to this theme for the long haul.
Thank you for such a wonderful contribution and for your dedication to making it a pleasant theme to work with.
Hello!
Wonderful theme – may it be used on a commercial (business) website as well? I couldn’t find any license or terms of use …
Yes. As long as the credits remain in the footer, you can use it on a commercial site.
I really like this theme, and have customized it for our company blog. However, I noticed that some links in posts don’t change color when hovered. I copied and pasted the posts from our old blog and thought that might be the problem, but when I created a test post from scratch in Wordpress, I has the same issue.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
I just did a test and noticed that the issue primarly occurs in Firefox. However, I did find at least one instance in IE. Thanks.
There are a couple of things in the CSS template that need to be changed as soon as I get some time. I’ll add this issue to the list of things to investigate.
Thanks for the clean looking theme!