WordPress Winter Theme

I can’t quite believe the suc­cess of my pre­vi­ous theme releases. So far I have had over 300 down­loads of the Journ­al­ized Sand theme and almost 200 of the Journ­al­ized Blue. That’s just from my server. I don’t know how many have been down­loaded dir­ectly from Alex’s Theme Com­pet­i­tion page

I have had lots of great com­ments from people about both themes. Sev­eral people are now using my themes on their blogs!

Here is another one! This is approx­im­ately the same lay­out but with yet another col­our scheme. This one I ori­gin­ally cre­ated round about Decem­ber 2002 and have called Journ­al­ized Winter.

Click­ing the thumb­nail below will show you a full size screen shot of the theme in action.

screenshot of journalized winter theme

You can down­load the files from here: journalized-winter-theme-1.0.2.tar.gz (tar ball for unix or sim­ilar users) or journalized-winter-theme-1.0.2.zip (zip file for Win­dows users).

To install simply expand the archive on your local machine. You should have a dir­ect­ory called ‘journalized-winter’. Upload the dir­ect­ory and the files within it to your wp-content/themes folder on your server. Login to your blog’s admin­is­tra­tion pages and go to the Present­a­tion page. The new theme should be lis­ted there ready for you to select. If not check the per­mis­sions on your uploaded files.

You will need to tweak it a little. Not least to change the link cat­egor­ies in the calls to wp_get_links().

Enjoy! The theme is licensed under the GPL. So you may modify it and dis­trib­ute it. Please let me know if you use it, modify it, etc. If you have any ques­tions leave a com­ment on this post with your ques­tion. Com­ments are mod­er­ated so you won’t see your com­ment immediately.

Update: The per­man­ent home of this theme is now http://zed1.com/journalized/themes/journalized-winter

53 thoughts on “WordPress Winter Theme”

  4. It works fine, thanks a lot
    Now, the last ques­tion
    need to put
    pre­vi­ous and next entries at the end of the page
    but each time I use the tem­plate tag of other theme I got an error
    Thanks again
    Patrick

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  8. Hi. I tried Journ­al­ized Sand on a fresh install of WP 1.5 this even­ing.
    It’s a ter­rific theme, but on my blog the side­bars were dropped to the
    bot­tom post, which they over­lapped — except in the com­ments view,
    which looked terrific.

    Since the theme has its own index and style files, I don’t under­stand
    why that would happen.

    Any ideaas or suggestions?

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  9. Hi S.W.
    I noticed that you have the same prob­lem on http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/ with the stand­ard Kubrick theme.
    I don’t know whether you have edited the core loop code in index.php or have installed a plug-in of some kind, but there is a clos­ing div tag </div> miss­ing from just before the open­ing div for the side­bar div.
    Hope this helps,
    Mike

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  10. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    That fixed it! Looks great.

    I have no idea why the div would’ve been miss­ing. I made no alter­a­tions to that index file. I did add plug-ins and a script to another theme, however.

    Again, thanks for point­ing me to the problem.

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  17. Sort of a new­bie on HTML/CSS, but i activ­ated your theme on my blog but the side­bars wont show. I get this mes­sage; arn­ing: main(leftcolumn.php): failed to open stream: Per­mis­sion denied in /home/janpett/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/journalized-winter/index.php on line 53

    Warn­ing: main(): Failed open­ing ‘leftcolumn.php’ for inclu­sion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/janpett/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/journalized-winter/index.php on line 53

    Whats the prob­lem? Any ideas?

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  18. Hi Jan,
    There is a per­mis­sions prob­lem with those two files. You need to check the per­mis­sions of leftcolumn.php and rightcolumn.php. They should be at least read­able by your webserver.

    It is prob­ably easi­est to set the per­mis­sions to be the same as those for index.php in the same folder.

    I hope this helps,
    Mike

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  22. Thanks Mike, I man­aged to hack the hack and make it do what I want. Didn’t quite work out of the box, but what does? The only other thing I’m cur­rently wrest­ling with is why my logos don’t show up on the archive pages. Must be some set­ting I’ve missed til now.

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  23. Hi Mike,
    Your logo is broken because you are using a rel­at­ive path. Because your archives appear to be in a dif­fer­ent dir­ect­ory (e.g. /amn/2004/06/) the browser will request the image rel­at­ive to that (vir­tual) path.
    You need to use src=”/amn/amnbanner.jpg”

    Hope this helps,
    Mike

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  25. For­give a CSS new­bie but I’m try­ing to put an image in the header block.
    and not doing a very good job of it. :(

    First I put an images dir into the theme dir,
    then changed the head­erb­lock stylesheet to back­ground: images/banner.gif;
    then I actu­ally tried writ­ing an old-fashioned html link to the image
    and pla­cing that on index.php which does put the image there but it is still
    covered by some­thing either on header.php or index.php or stylesheet which I am too ignor­ant to find.
    Any help will be greatly appre­ci­ated. I love this theme, it’s the best 3 column I’ve seen.
    Thanks!

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  27. hello,sorry I don’t speak eng­lish. I’m using your theme, but i have a prob­lem. If I can‘t put wp_get_links() in the right column. any idea?
    I want put last mes­sages too.

    Thank you very much and sorry.

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  29. Hi James,
    Firstly, make sure you have the latest ver­sion of the theme. Then add links in the links man­ager on the admin pages. They will appear in the side bar. You can split them into cat­egor­ies and it will all hap­pen automatically.

    Mike

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  31. Hi James,
    I’m not sure quite why your cat­egor­ies aren’t work­ing. Is your .htac­cess set up cor­rectly. Though I can’t ima­gine any­thing else work­ing if it wasn’t.
    In par­tic­u­lar, if I change the url to one which shouldn’t exist I do cor­rectly get an Apache error (you might want to set up a 403 page handler)

    I notice that even adding ?cat=1 res­ults in the same empty html page. I sus­pect an error occur­ring some­where in the code long before the theme tem­plates are involved.

    Are you using a plu­gin related to cat­egor­ies? The tags plu­gin? You could try dis­abling your plu­gins one by one until the prob­lem goes away.

    Mike

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  32. Hi

    Thank you for the Winter Theme, it is fantastic.

    Like a few of the other posters here, I’m very new to blog­ging and modi­fy­ing these templates.

    A quick ques­tion I have. The title of your blog on this page is Mike Little’s Journalized.

    The font is kind of plain. Is there a way I can change it?

    Also, instead of using text for my title, can I use a graph­ical image?

    Thanks again for this great tem­plate, I really appre­ci­ate it.

    Jason

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  33. Hi Jason,
    If you want to include an image in the header, you need to edit the file index.php in the themes/journalized-winter/ folder. Round about line 8 that file has an h1 tag

    <h1 id=“header”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>

    change this to be

    <h1 id=“header”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><img src=”/url/to/image.jpg” alt=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>” /></a></h1>

    modi­fy­ing the url/to/image.jpg as appropriate.

    If you want to keep the image in the theme folder you can use

    <h1 id=“header”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><img src=”<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/image.jpg’; ?>” alt=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>” /></a></h1>

    modi­fy­ing the image name as required.

    Each of the above lines of code should be on single line.

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  34. Jason,
    I for­got to men­tion that to change the font for the head­ing you need to change style.css and change the css for #header a:link, #header a:visited (line 136)

    Mike

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  35. Hey mike, is there any way that I can make a footer (footer.php) appear at the very bot­tom of a page, and not just under the index.php section?

    You can see the prob­lem here.

    Also won­der­ing how I get rid of any bul­let points in the left/right columns. I assume it’s a CSS thing, but I’m not sure exactly what part.

    Thanks :)

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  36. James,
    With the way the columns are con­struc­ted, it isn’t pos­sible to have a footer which always appears below the low­est column, sorry.

    The bul­lets are appear­ing around ‘register/login’ and pre­sum­ably ‘man­age site/logout’ because you don’t have any <ul></ul> tags around the call the php calls.

    Mike

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  39. Hi Der­rick,
    I’m assum­ing you have a google adsense account. After you have chosen your ad format and col­ours, paste the code from the google adsense site into the tem­plate files. I have one set of code in rightcolumn.php, and one, for the adlinks, in the main index.php file under the header.

    You can either edit the files in admin->presentation-»theme editor or edit them on your desktop and ftp them into the theme folder. Always make a backup of your files first.

    Hope that helps.
    Mike

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  40. Just a quick note to say thanks for the theme, Mike! It wasn’t too pain­ful to get it up and run­ning to my sat­is­fac­tion, but I still need to find some­thing to go in the top-left corner. I wanted to add a simple vis­itor count, but none of the stuff I down­loaded worked accur­ately, so I just removed the box.

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  41. Hello mike!

    First of all I must con­grat­u­late you for great theme.
    Second — you now i have a ques­tion! I am a nub, so I am try­ing to learn some code. Can you please tell me where to insert code so that I have in the main page, in the last win­dow links like you. I am ref­er­en­cing to the links « 100,000 and UPA North 2 »

    Thank you in front!
    Hrosc

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  42. Hi Hrosc,
    Thanks, I’m glad you like the theme.

    You need to upgrade to the latest ver­sion of the theme which incopro­rates that fea­ture. You can find the latest ver­sion above.

    Mike

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  44. Hi. This theme comes close to what I am look­ing for in a WordPress theme. How­ever, no indent­a­tion of sub-categories. It seems most who cre­ate themes seem to leave out this fea­ture. It makes it easier to zero in on cat­egor­ies when the sub-categories are inden­ted rather then all the cat­egor­ies and sub-categories laid out flat.

    Toky­oJerry

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  45. Hi Jerry,
    You need to change the leftcolumn.php file to change the way the cat­egor­ies are lis­ted.
    Change the

    list_cats(blah, blah)

    call to be

    wp_list_categories('hierarchical=1');

    You will see that there is then some indent­a­tion for the sub-categories. If you need to increase it (it is only 3px) add a new rule to style.css like

    li.categories ul li ul li {
    margin-left: 5px;
    }

    Hope this helps,
    Mike

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  47. Thanks for the heads up mike, you just solved a prob­lem i was hav­ing, and without me ask­ing lol. (post above) I like this theme, are you tem­plates only for wordpress mike?

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  48. This theme comes close to what I am look­ing for in a WordPress theme. How­ever, no indent­a­tion of sub-categories. It seems most who cre­ate themes seem to leave out this fea­ture. It makes it easier to zero in on cat­egor­ies when the sub-categories are inden­ted rather then all the cat­egor­ies and sub-categories laid out flat.

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  49. This post is pretty old, but I figured I would drop a note to say that your theme was the first one I used on my first blog ever. So you intro­duced me to this hor­rible addic­tion!! Now I cant stop telling the world how I feel about everything!

    Thanks for the creativity.

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  51. Just a quick note to say thanks for the theme, Mike! It wasn’t too pain­ful to get it up and run­ning to my sat­is­fac­tion, but I still need to find some­thing to go in the top-left corner. I wanted to add a simple vis­itor count, but none of the stuff I down­loaded worked accur­ately, so I just removed the box.

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  52. Hi
    I noticed some­body want­ing to put an image in the head­erb­lock of the journalized-winter theme
    I would like very much to put an image there, even a table… or, at the moment, about anything.

    You didn’t answer here, but by email. Is there some way I can find out how to do this?

    Thank you
    Lin robinson

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