Abstractia - A New WP Theme
Posted 3 years ago, at the end of February.
I’ve designed a new theme for WordPress called Abstractia. You can check it out in action through a sample blog I’ve set up here.
The design a simple two-column layout with header and footer focusing on color choice and type. It’s name and design borrow from an older personal project of mine. It’s free to download, share, and use under a Creative Commons license. Let me know what you think of the theme, if you find any bugs, and if you plan on using it. I’ll be submitting it to the WordPress Theme Viewer in a few days when I’m confident all the bugs are out. Read on for download links to the theme file and the .psd design.
Licensing: The Abstractia theme and design are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. This means you can do anything with the theme or the design as long as it is attributed to me, preferably through a simple link.
Preview
Check out the demo blog!
Integrated Plugins (Nothing to install!)
Simple Recent Comments
Testing
I’ve tested the theme in the following browsers, let me know if it’s broken in others:
- Internet Explorer 7, 6 - Windows
- Firefox 2 - Windows, OS X
- Safari - OS X
Installation
Installation is easy! Just upload the unzipped folder into your wp-content/themes folder and activate the theme in your WordPress control panel.
Special Thanks
I’d like to thank Bryan Veloso for inspiring me to release my design file alongside the WordPress theme. Bryan annually releases the PSDs of his projects that aren’t wrapped up in copyright, and is also the creator of an excellent WordPress theme, Chaotic Soul.
The PSD is in a zip file for compression. It has a disclaimer notice in the top layer set, please read it then delete or hide the set.
Update 2/24/07: I fixed a small positioning bug with previous/next navigation links on archive pages, fixed smileys, changed the comment form to use text instead of image labels (for internationalization). Submit button is still an image, because I prefer it like that 
Spotted in the Wild!
- Pensées Aussi Sottes Que Grenues - French Blog, Great Modifications
Update 3/16/07 I fixed a positioning bug where the right-side menu extended beyond the height of the ‘blog’ div. I changed the positioning of the layout from absolutely-positioning the right-side menu to using a float-based layout. This means the right-side navigation is more prone to weirdness if you have poorly-formed HTML in your posts, but it also fixes the bug.
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Awesome theme Rob and glad to see that my archives aren’t all about leeching. ;P
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Thanks for your theme
Hi Rob, nice theme you got here! Do you consider porting it to phpWebSite? If so, I would feature it on http://themes.kiesler.at/ . phpWebSite uses a rather flexible templating concept which is not too far from CSS / HTML but has some nice goodies.
I also got a phpWebSite theme creator forum on http://themes.kiesler.at/, so if you’d need support…
Best Regards,
René
René,
Unfortunately I barely have the time to get Abstractia running on WordPress, let alone other templating/blogging platforms. It’s licensed under a very loose Creative Commons license, so it’s available for others to port it to whichever platform you’d like. I’ll continue to update and support Abstractia on WordPress, but I don’t have the time to code for other platforms.
If you don’t mind, i’ll upload the abstractia theme on wordpress theme viewer.
Ekta.
Ektz, that would be awesome. A lot of people have been having problems getting permission to upload. Please go ahead and add it to the theme viewer.
Rob,
thanks for the open license. I’ll ask around in the phpWebSite community, maybe I can find someone who would like to port it. Attribution should be no problem at all, it’s your work after all.
Best Regards,
René
hello my friend, please this bug –> title post, with VISUAL EDITOR, like chenpress, http://www.gworldfamily.com/t1/error.jpg please fix this ..i love this theme =) thanks n_n
Blackhat,
That bug is likely because one or more of your posts has open HTML tags - probably an open div. I’ll look up chenpress and see if there is any kind of conflict with my theme, but more than likely the problem is an open tag.
There is one rendering error that occurs when the right menu is very long and the page is not very tall, but your error is probably caused by some bad code in one of your posts.
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Hi Rob,
There is a bug if post is shorter than the sidebar.
I can’t see my whole sidebar when searching.
Bug page
John,
Thanks for letting me know. I just updated the theme to fix that bug. Redownload it from the link above and let me know if it works for you.
I’ve listed your theme as a ‘Best Loved’ Wordpress theme on ‘Best Blog Themes’!
Let me know if you want to post a shout out on the page =)
Rob,
I can’t figure out why right sidebar is inactive. ㅜㅜ
Did you fix the position of get sidebar and attribute of float?
Thank you for your quick remedy.
Rob,
I can’t figure out why comment popup link doesn’t work well.
It won’t go to comment section, just related post.
How to fix it?
John, I fixed the right sidebar bug. I think I know what’s causing the comment link to not skip down to the comments - I’ll fix that and roll out an update this afternoon. Update: I fixed the comment link bug.
Rob,
Can you tell me the fixed files?
I changed a bit index, single, sidebar, search, archive file so I want to change specific files.
Thanks if you let me know.
Kudos on the fantastic theme! This may be my favorite since I stopped using Regulus a year ago.
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