23.07.08

SCRUFFY

A WordPress theme with a unique “grunge” design.

DOWNLOAD | DEMO | DOWNLOAD PSD

*Update 1 (24/09/2008):

Scruffy has been updated to version 1.1.

Changes that have been made:

1. Changed background images so that “Latest post” only displays on the homepage and the comments text does not appear on pages.

2. Added wp_footer() in footer.php. This allows plugins to hook into your footer and allows them to add code, etc in your site (Very important for some plugin’s functionality)

*Update 2 (08/10/2008):

Updated to version 1.2.

Changes:

1. Added default WordPress gravatar support. (Removed old gravatar code in comments.php and replaced with standard WordPress code.)

*Update 3 (08/10/2008):

Updated to version 1.3.

Changes:

1. Last lank in widget lists is now clickable in Internet Explorer.

210 Comments

210 Responses to “SCRUFFY”

  1. Carlos SantaCruz
    Carlos SantaCruz July 24, 2008 at 4:40 am #

    Hi Cobus,

    Thank you for this excellent theme, I have just applied to my blog.

    Carlos

  2. BB
    BB July 24, 2008 at 10:21 am #

    Great theme!!!

  3. David Green
    David Green July 24, 2008 at 11:45 am #

    Great theme, just added! I do have some feedback, though.

    Page commenting doesn’t seem to be supported. I’m using WP 2.6 and have comments enabled on my six pages. I don’t actually mind having zero comment support on my pages, in my particular case, however the images marking ‘comments’ and ‘latest post’ still appear on my pages; which looks a little odd.

    Maybe tweak the code so that if the page being viewed is a ‘page page’ rather than a ‘post page’, the images don’t display?

    Great theme though, regardless. Any plans for a theme suitable for independant/student film makers? :D

  4. Paul
    Paul July 24, 2008 at 3:44 pm #

    amazing theme many thanks for sharing with the community.

    great design and all the right things in all the right places.

    Thanks again

    Paul

  5. Cobus
    Cobus July 24, 2008 at 7:28 pm #

    @David Green: Yeah, I know about that :) You’re right, it does look a bit odd. I’ll sort it out for a future update…
    Thanks for downloading and commenting :)

  6. Michael Tefft
    Michael Tefft July 25, 2008 at 5:37 pm #

    Thanks you for the wonderful theme. I have been looking to replace my old theme for some time now and yours is the best one I have found in a long time. One question. Is there a way to add the tagline below the blog title? Thanks again.

  7. Tom Bammann
    Tom Bammann July 26, 2008 at 8:50 am #

    Fantastic theme, perfect for a personal blog. It’s very scrap-booky which I love. Unfortunately “out of the box” it only works for a relatively short blog title otherwise the headings and pages overlap. If there is an easy way to make the height at the top automatically adjust for either a one line or two line blog title then it would be great.

  8. Robert
    Robert July 27, 2008 at 9:31 am #

    Dude, this is like, the EXACT theme I’ve been waiting for someone to make, thank you!

    I hope lots of high paying freelance work gets sent your way.

  9. Metrofusion
    Metrofusion July 27, 2008 at 5:19 pm #

    Love the theme. Thank you! Using it on two sites.

  10. WPSalon
    WPSalon July 28, 2008 at 5:30 am #

    Hi! We love this theme and we would like to add it in our directory so that you will have some added exposure. Can you fix your CSS so that it will be valid? Thanks.

  11. Cobus
    Cobus July 28, 2008 at 10:47 am #

    Thanks for all the comments guys! Much appreciated and I’m glad you all like the theme :)

    @Michael Tefft: To add the tagline, paste the following code just below the code on line of the theme’s header.php file….

    <p><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></p>

    Not sure how the theme will react, the layout might break if you pop that in there, but give it a try and see what happens :)

    @Tom Bammann: Yeah, I know what you mean…I’ll look into that and release an update that will support a longer blogtitle

    @WPSalon: Awesome! Added exposure is always good, so I won’t complain :) I’ll check out my CSS and upload an update as soon as I’ve fixed. You want me to pop you an email when I’m done??

  12. Steven
    Steven July 28, 2008 at 12:40 pm #

    The theme is fantastic, great job and thanks a lot!
    Could you tell us what’s new in version 1.1? I’ve customized the other version so I prefer not to overwrite it.

  13. George
    George July 28, 2008 at 9:55 pm #

    Awesome theme, I’m using it on my site now. Could you pop me an email when you choose to update it, to fix the paging and css issues?

    Thanks!!

  14. Cobus
    Cobus July 28, 2008 at 10:11 pm #

    @Steven: I’ll post a changelog tomorow :)

    @George: Awesome! I’ll let you knpw when I get around to those fixes, thanks for donwloading & using my theme!

  15. Ivan Santry
    Ivan Santry July 29, 2008 at 8:59 am #

    Great theme, thanks. The footer isn’t quite right on IE6.

    Thought it may be my site but the same happens for your demo link on this site. The “previous posts” does not show. FF display is perfect.

  16. Cobus
    Cobus July 29, 2008 at 9:07 am #

    @Ivan Santry: I know the theme isn’t 100% perfect in IE6. But it was a delibirate decision to NOT fix IE6 bugs, as I feel it is way past its lifespan.

    I also have to fix IE6 bugs for all my client projects, so it’s nice to be able to ignore at times! :)

    My advice – Just use Firefox! It’s way better :)

    Thanks for stopping by :)

  17. Dave Powers
    Dave Powers July 29, 2008 at 9:21 am #

    Fantastic Theme!

    I am having a problem getting my author links to work. When you click on an author’s name, a 404 error page comes up. I have no idea why.

    Have you heard of this problem before?

    Thanks for your time.

  18. Vilma Esquivel
    Vilma Esquivel July 29, 2008 at 5:59 pm #

    Hi,

    Your theme is great!! there is only one thing, when is opened in internet explorer it gets moved to the left and the nice comments graphic dissapears. Is there something that you can do about that. Thanks.

  19. Oceanborn
    Oceanborn July 29, 2008 at 6:32 pm #

    A fantastic theme, too bad it doesn’t work with IE6! That makes it pretty useless, unfortunately. Of course Firefox is better and IE7 is out, but most people still use IE6 and they won’t switch to Firefox just to be able to read my Blog properly.

  20. Ivan Santry
    Ivan Santry July 29, 2008 at 9:23 pm #

    Out of interest I checked my hit stats, IE6 was top with 48%, FF (2 and 3) made up 37% with IE7 only coming in at 5%.

    Obviously that will change, IE6 will phase out but prob not as quick as the uptake of FF3.

    I agree, Firefox is better but the public need to be convinced :)

  21. Brian Alexander
    Brian Alexander July 29, 2008 at 10:05 pm #

    lower your text size for blog titles and it works fine..

  22. koffiekitten
    koffiekitten July 29, 2008 at 10:21 pm #

    I just saw this on someone’s blog and it is truly beautiful. Great job!

  23. Ivan Santry
    Ivan Santry July 31, 2008 at 8:43 am #

    @Brian Alexander tried that (reduced h2 in the style.css) but no luck. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

  24. Cobus
    Cobus August 1, 2008 at 1:27 pm #

    @Dave Powers: Nope, haven’t heard of that before. Can;t really say that I know what could be causing the problem :) Perhaps take a look at the way your authors are setup in WordPress

    @Vilma Esquivel: What version of IE are we talking about?

    @Oceanborn: Yeah, I know. Many people still use IE6. I just didn’t feel like fixing the bugs for this theme, as I deel with IE6 issues nearly everday on client projects. So it was nice to turn a blid eye on this project :D

    @koffiekitten: Thanks! Glad you like the theme…

    @Ivan Santry: Yeah, I know a great amount of internet users are still using IE6 (why, I don’t know :) ). But like I said, I just felt like ignoring it for this theme. I think more people should ignore it, maybe the public will adapt to more modern browsers. Unfortunately one cannot ignore it on client projects, as you loose to much audience.

  25. dora
    dora August 1, 2008 at 3:46 pm #

    I have to say this theme is great! I like it very much.

    Wish your subsequent work!

  26. Fay
    Fay August 3, 2008 at 5:52 am #

    Love the theme! Thanks! I made some modifications and while it works in Safari, the background disappears in Firefox. Any suggestions?

  27. Steven
    Steven August 3, 2008 at 11:49 am #

    @ Fay: definitely a problem with your “bg.jpg”. It can’t be displayed, must be damaged or something.

  28. flyaway
    flyaway August 4, 2008 at 12:13 pm #

    cool theme….i use it on my little blog,but the problem is in IE 6…
    can you fix this problem?
    i thing many people still use IE 6 :-s

  29. Rod
    Rod August 6, 2008 at 11:43 pm #

    HI.. I really like this theme… one ?… Is it necessary to have “continue reading” on every post. Some posts are short and this option is not needed.

    Please continue the nice work… I look forward to seeing and possibly using other themes from you.

    All the best.

    Rod :-)

  30. Charoe
    Charoe August 8, 2008 at 9:57 pm #

    What a great looking theme. I really like that you’ve covered so many options, especially the paragraph options and the pullquotes. Thank you very much for sharing :-)

  31. Serge K. Keller
    Serge K. Keller August 9, 2008 at 6:17 pm #

    Yes, I know, somebody already translated it in French… But being the control freak that I am, I’d like to translate it myself for my use.

    Would it be possible for you to put the PSD files where text is included for downloading? That would simplify things also for others that would like to translate it in other languages…

    Nice work, BTW! The only glitch I see is the “Latest post” image that stays there even when you navigate away from the home page… Ah, well! :)

  32. Cobus
    Cobus August 11, 2008 at 10:03 am #

    @all: I KNOW THE THEME DOES NOT WORK IN IE 6. I DO NOT CARE. IE6 IS OLD AND USELESS. I KNOW MANY PEOPLE STILL USE IT, BUT THIS IS A FREE THEME. I DONT LIKE FIXING IE6 BUGS AND ON FREE PROJECTS I DONT HAVE TO.

    THANK YOU

  33. Cobus
    Cobus August 11, 2008 at 10:08 am #

    @Serge K. Keller: Mmm, I wasn’t too keen on releasing the PSD. I will consider this and post it here if I decide to do so.

  34. Serge K. Keller
    Serge K. Keller August 11, 2008 at 12:32 pm #

    @Cobus: no sweat, if you don’t want to I respect that. It’ll just make it a bit harder to translate it, that’s all…

    Thank you for your hard work!

  35. EvilShnievel
    EvilShnievel August 11, 2008 at 1:22 pm #

    Cobus, try to see ppl’s requests as a compliment, shows that they really like your work.
    By the way, I figured out that the theme does work fine with IE6 with the help of just a tiny little fix… but I don’t wanna undermine Cobus’ attempt to make IE6 disappear :-P

  36. Will Haynes
    Will Haynes August 12, 2008 at 12:50 am #

    got a link over here from adii.co.za,
    the theme is amazing, great to see there is still some originality out there.

  37. Katlee Shank
    Katlee Shank August 20, 2008 at 3:44 pm #

    I love this theme… that little bit of messiness works nicely for an art site… am I allowed to do some color changes and small adjustments? I’ll still be leaving your tag at the bottom for credit of it with a little ‘personalized from’ before it… Definitely all your designing…

    EvilShnievel… you could always be a dear and email me that fix. :D

  38. Cobus
    Cobus August 20, 2008 at 3:51 pm #

    @EvilShnievel: Hehe, I know, the all caps message may have been unecesary :) But I just had to get the message accross! And please post your fix, it would be awesome if you take that problem out of my hands :)

    @Will Haynes: Thanks! I appreciate the comment :)

    @Katlee Shank: Sure, change as much as you like :)

  39. AN7ONYO
    AN7ONYO August 21, 2008 at 3:08 pm #

    This is the best theme I ever worked with!
    The only thing is the look in ie6! But it really is a piece of art! I changed a little the layout f you don’t mind, but the credits still remains!
    Keep the good work! :)

  40. EvilShnievel
    EvilShnievel August 21, 2008 at 9:24 pm #

    @Cobus and Katlee Shank: My fix is really easy, just change the doctype from “transitional” to “strict” mode, that’s all!

  41. AN7ONYO
    AN7ONYO August 22, 2008 at 10:07 pm #

    @EvilShnievel: Thanks for the tip, but how can i do it? :)

  42. EvilShnievel
    EvilShnievel August 22, 2008 at 10:43 pm #

    @AN7ONYO: You’re welcome! Just edit the first line of header.php, replace “transitional” with “strict” (twice).

  43. Rianne
    Rianne August 24, 2008 at 7:33 pm #

    That doesn’t seem to do the trick for me either. Still no change in I.E 6.0. Too bad, would have loved to use this one but too many people still use 6.0 for me to feel comfortable with using it.

  44. Jessica
    Jessica August 27, 2008 at 2:01 am #

    Hey Cobus,

    Love the theme, was just wondering if Google Analytics/analytics plugins will work with it. I’m pretty sure my analytics plugin stopped working when I installed your theme, but I’m not 100% sure. I really hope that’s not the case, because it’s the best one I’ve found so far.

  45. Cobus
    Cobus August 27, 2008 at 11:15 am #

    @Jessica: As far as I know, my theme shouldn’t cause any problems with the Google Analytics plugin. Have you tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin?

  46. ian
    ian August 28, 2008 at 1:03 am #

    Cobus:
    Some analytics plug-ins are dependent on the use of wp_footer(). Scruffy doesn’t call this function and therefore prevents these plugins from working. Simply adding this to the footer.php file solves the problem

    Jessica:
    To fix this problem, you will need to edit the Footer file for the Scruffy theme. To do this
    1. Go to the Theme Editor (Admin > Design > Theme Editor
    2. Select “Scruffy” from the list of themes to edit
    3. Choose “Footer (footer.php)” from the list of Theme Files
    4. Insert the following text on a new line above >/body<

    >?php wp_footer();?<

  47. ian
    ian August 28, 2008 at 1:04 am #

    sorry, that should read:

    4. Insert the following text on a new line above </body>

    <?php wp_footer();?>

  48. Julien
    Julien August 29, 2008 at 10:25 am #

    Hi,

    Thanks for your amazing work!

    Would you accept to provide source images?
    I need to change the background colour of the theme, and this would be easier with PSD (or others) files.

    Cheers,
    Julien

  49. Bill
    Bill September 5, 2008 at 7:13 am #

    When we add pages the “Paper” extends up and covers the navigation bar in ie 7.0 I did not check in 6.0 but tried several different computers in 7.0

    When on the home page the nav bar shows okay but if you select the new page (glossary) then the nav bar is covered up.

    Does anyone know how to fix this? My son asked me and I have no idea what to do.

    Thanks!

    Bill

  50. Lori
    Lori September 7, 2008 at 7:56 am #

    I really love your theme, I am so happy to find a theme I really like after searching for so long.

    The only problem I have is this. I have a couple of password protected entries, and when you scroll down to them, the “Enter your password to view comments” overlaps the entry title. Is there any way to make this text not display at all, but keep the comment numbers there? That’s the ONLY thing that is bugging me about the theme, everything else is wonderful!

    Browser is Firefox 3.

    Thanks for your help!

  51. Kovacs
    Kovacs September 7, 2008 at 10:25 am #

    Trying your theme on a fresh WP site. It seems a CSS file it’s trying to request is missing:

    /wp-content/themes/scruffy/960gs/960.css

  52. Cobus
    Cobus September 7, 2008 at 1:00 pm #

    @Lori: Glad your enjoying the theme! Here’s what you need to do to sole your problem:

    Open comments.php from the theme folder ina text editor. Look for the following line of code (should be on line 8):

    < ?php _e('Enter the password to view comments.'); ?>

    imply checnge the text between the brackets to whatever you want it to be.

    Hope that helps :)

    @Kovacs: I just checked out your site and 960.css seems to be loading just fine. You probbly figured it out since posting here :) Thanks for you time and interest!

  53. Cobus
    Cobus September 7, 2008 at 1:03 pm #

    @ian: Ofcourse! very daft of me to have forgoten to put that in there :p I’m going to post an update of
    Scruffy soon, which will address all the issues on people have mentioned here. Thanks for helping out in the meantime :)

  54. Cobus
    Cobus September 7, 2008 at 3:09 pm #

    @Bill: I had a look at your site in IE7 on my PC. Seems fine to me..

  55. Lori
    Lori September 7, 2008 at 7:46 pm #

    @Cobus: I tried taking out the text, and it still shows up, so then I deleted that whole line. The text is still there. I even emptied my cache in the browser to see if that would work.. just in case that was preventing my update from coming through – still there.

    I confess I’m new at coding things, but I wonder where the text is coming from… either that or my computer is playing mind games with me. :)

  56. Jessica
    Jessica September 10, 2008 at 7:02 am #

    @Cobus: Love the theme, thanks for putting it out.

    I just won an award of sorts, and I was given some code to post an icon for the award. I was just wondering how I could add something like that to the sidebar.

    Thanks again!

  57. Jer
    Jer September 15, 2008 at 6:39 pm #

    Hi everyone

    Scruffy is a great theme. I’ve modified it to make an artist blog for my girlfriend. But I wanted it to work properly in IE. So I fixed it myself and I thought it might interest some of you.
    This is the first time I do php and css so I learned along the way this last week. So I don’t know if my fixes are the most elegant. I did it according to http://www.ericsprojects.com/?p=207
    The blog I made is at http://www.generationrien.lautre.net/carotide/ for you to see.
    Here are the lines I added in the style.css along with a couple of here and there.

    in
    #head {
    _margin-left: 80px;

    in
    #main {
    _margin-left: 40px;
    _margin-bottom: 80px;

    in
    .post .comments {
    _margin-left: 45px;

    in
    #footer {
    _padding: 20px 80px 0 80px;

    in
    #comments textarea{
    width: 98%; //instead of 100

    in
    .entry p {
    _margin: 30px 0;

    Now it looks OK in IE6 and still is perfect in FF.
    There’s one thing I didn’t manage to do: It’s removing the tan-colored border around around the pictures in posts. I tried everything but to no avail. It might have something to do with a background ? Can someone help me with that ?

  58. Brenda Nicholson
    Brenda Nicholson September 17, 2008 at 6:23 am #

    Excellent theme – love the way it looks and really appreciate the ease of use. Installation and getting it the way I want were super simple. Thank you!

  59. Cobus
    Cobus September 17, 2008 at 2:05 pm #

    @Brenda Nicholson: It’s a big pleasure. :)

  60. Tracy
    Tracy September 27, 2008 at 6:26 pm #

    Hi there Cobus — scruffy is an awesome template. I have a couple questions….
    1. where is the new updated file? (1.1) when I click on scruffy template, it’s still the old one (1.0) – none of the updates you mentioned are working on mine.
    2. it says it’s widget enabled, but I can’t get any of the ‘text/html’ ones working, where I can put in my own sidebar content (when I do put it in, and hit save, they disappear.

  61. Stacey
    Stacey September 28, 2008 at 8:20 pm #

    Hi there, just applied your theme! I love it. The Flickr RSS widget isn’t showing up properly however (no spacing, etc) any ideas on how to fix it?

  62. Cobus
    Cobus September 29, 2008 at 10:30 pm #

    @Tracy: Hi there! Glad you like my theme :) Here are my answers to your questions:

    1. Clear your browser cache and then download the theme (by clicking the download link)
    2. Not so sure about this one. Will have to investigate and get back to you :)

    @Stacey: Sure, here’s the instructions that are in the readme.txt which is included in the theme folder:

    #FlickrRSS plugin setup:

    1. Install and activate the FlickrRSS plugin (http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/)
    2. Go to WordPress admin -> settings -> flickrRSS
    3. Insert the following for HTML Wrapper:
    Before Image: <p class=”flickrrss”>
    After Image: </p>

  63. Stacey
    Stacey September 30, 2008 at 4:44 am #

    Thanks Corbus, I didn’t even notice the readme after I opened the folder, duh!

  64. Paul
    Paul September 30, 2008 at 6:19 pm #

    Has anyone noticed that the last Link published is not clickable in IE7? I’ve tried with both the first release and 1.1.

    Is there a fix for this?

    thanks.

  65. labs
    labs October 4, 2008 at 11:19 pm #

    Very neat theme…will use it on my blog

  66. Drobie
    Drobie October 12, 2008 at 2:58 am #

    I became attached to this theme as soon as I saw it, helped by the fact that within our family, I was given the nickname Scruffy. Nieces and nephews still call me Uncle Scruff at times.

    I’m new to WP and short on useable CSS and PHP skills so I hired TechnoCraftz through http://wordpressfreelance.com/.

    Great people, affordable pricing.

    My users are mostly new to blogs so I changed navigation, some icons, etc.

    Keep up the good work.

  67. Cobus
    Cobus October 14, 2008 at 4:40 pm #

    @Drobie: Uncle Scruff! I love that :D
    Thank you for downloading and using my theme, always nice to see people putting it to good use!

    All the best!

  68. EthaSchuette
    EthaSchuette October 15, 2008 at 6:42 pm #

    Ohmygosh I just downloaded and installed this super cute theme in about 2 minutes!! How wonderful, I totally LOVE it, thanks so much for sharing with us. this is actually the very first time I had no issues whatsoever with doing a new theme, right on!
    I lost my old url and site due to a death of my server admin….that’s why I basically have no content yet. But this super theme just MADe MY DAY!! love all the tiny little details that you incorporated, very tasteful!!

  69. Ranked Hard
    Ranked Hard October 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm #

    I really like this one. Nice Job.

  70. Scribbler
    Scribbler October 23, 2008 at 1:15 pm #

    Can anyone help me with widgetizing my SCRUFFY footer with three columns? :( please… I’ve tried the tutorials but always failed to get them to work…

    I’m using wordpress 2.6.2 with SCRUFFY :)

  71. brk
    brk October 24, 2008 at 6:49 pm #

    thankss

  72. JJ Galvez
    JJ Galvez November 12, 2008 at 11:36 am #

    Thanks for the theme, wonderful design work and nice to see that an update for the wp_footer problem was available.

  73. Julie Minevich
    Julie Minevich November 14, 2008 at 6:33 pm #

    Hi,

    I’m currently using this template for my site and I love it, but I had two questions/comments…

    1. I have installed the Flickr RSS plugin, but it doesn’t look the same way it does on the preview page. Am I doing something wrong? Is there coding I need to add?

    2. Is there a way to remove the “continue reading” links at the bottom of each post? I have the whole post automatically show, so there’s nothing more to read. Instead, I’d love if these said “leave a comment” since I don’t think that readers may realize that that’s an option otherwise…

    Please let me know! And thanks again! :)

  74. Connie
    Connie November 14, 2008 at 10:57 pm #

    maybe I am blind but I just don’t see the link for downloading
    I am using Firefox

    please point me to the download

  75. Cobus
    Cobus November 17, 2008 at 11:26 am #

    @Connie: There’s a download link at the bottom of the theme preview image. (At the top of this page)

  76. Cobus
    Cobus November 17, 2008 at 11:29 am #

    @Julie Minevich: Thanks for downloading and using the theme!
    To solve the flickr issue, read the readme file in the theme folder :)

    And to remove the “continue Reading” link, open index.php in a text editor and delete the line of code on line 26

  77. Connie
    Connie November 17, 2008 at 10:04 pm #

    thanks, I tried that download link before and it did not start to download, now with your mental assistance, it worked, I could download

    thanks,
    Connie

  78. Connie
    Connie November 18, 2008 at 1:17 am #

    Unfortunately the theme is of limited use for international users, as the text is either in the files or included as images

    a pity. I would like to use it in german but even when I edit the files, the images will stay in english….

    I also whished you would publish the psd-files.. would spread your great work internationally!

  79. Simon
    Simon November 20, 2008 at 12:28 pm #

    Hi – I wud be interested in an estimate for a WP template

  80. Arif
    Arif November 23, 2008 at 2:41 am #

    nice looking theme, I’ve downloaded and use it in my simple blog. Thanks for making my blog looks beautiful.

  81. Rajib
    Rajib December 6, 2008 at 7:47 am #

    Nice work.Thanks for the psd.

  82. Francesco Minciotti
    Francesco Minciotti December 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm #

    Hi Cobus, I’ve just downloaded and installed your amazing theme on a wordpress 2.7 final version hosting.
    Unfortunately, I’ve got some issues with it: the good-looking comments sphere I saw on the live test isn’t appearing on my own website; instead, all I got is an ugly, big, black “comments” text. (both with firefox 3 and safari on Mac).

    Any idea on how to fix this?

  83. Etha
    Etha December 14, 2008 at 4:15 pm #

    hmmm, my sidebar is slipping under the context in exploder…. the theme always looked a bit messy in that, works well in firefox which is what I normally use, but now its real bad in explorer…anything I can do?? I can’t see what makes it mess up like that, any help would be greatly appreciated!

  84. Kat
    Kat December 14, 2008 at 11:24 pm #

    I adore this theme! It’s perfect for my writing blog. I do have one question, though; I use the Post Avatar plug-in, and I have a thick black border around my avatars that looks really ugly. I was able to get rid of the tan one inside of the black one, but I can’t find the code for the black one. Help would be much appreciated.

  85. Keith
    Keith December 25, 2008 at 10:55 pm #

    I was wondering if you could help me. How can I change the size of the Blog title?

    Thanks :)

  86. Juampi
    Juampi December 26, 2008 at 2:11 am #

    Hi, i want to use this template… but i cant found the Font Poope for free so to edit those english words and translate it to spanish! Can you upload it?
    Tx!

    NICE JOB!

  87. Aditi
    Aditi January 3, 2009 at 9:22 am #

    Hi Cobus,

    I love your theme, and I’ve been using it for a while now. I’ve even downloaded the latest version, but something is wrong with how my blog is appearing now. This started sometime yesterday. Can you check it out for me please? Link: http://www.toothsoup.com/blottingpaper/

    Thanks,
    Aditi

  88. Ben
    Ben January 5, 2009 at 4:07 am #

    Thanks so much for this!!! One question – After adding more than two pages, the navigation bar becomes covered by a tan box from Page #3 on….Is there a way to avoid this? Thanks!

  89. Ben
    Ben January 5, 2009 at 4:15 am #

    @me Problem solved…the pages need content in them lol

  90. Daniel
    Daniel January 6, 2009 at 12:10 pm #

    Beautiful theme, very nice work man! Thank You!

  91. loing
    loing January 16, 2009 at 11:10 am #

    I have a question .Is there a way to remove bullets from output (the once in widgets) ?
    http://www.jfffff.com
    http://www.jfewww.cn
    beautiful !!!

  92. Shannon
    Shannon January 18, 2009 at 1:18 pm #

    This really is a great theme! I’m only having one tiny problem. I’m using a static homepage and I can’t seem to get rid of the hardcoded home button. Any tips from anyone?

  93. Shannon
    Shannon January 18, 2009 at 1:37 pm #

    Got it! Thanks again for the theme :)

  94. Otto
    Otto January 25, 2009 at 1:07 pm #

    Thnx for the great theme.

    I moved WP to different place and upgraded to 2.7. Pages with comments dont look OK. Pages with no comments are OK.

    Not OK – http://kasvis.fi/sivusto/2009/01/yhdesta-taikinasta-suolaista-ja-makeaa/
    OK – http://kasvis.fi/sivusto/2009/01/pihvit-ruskeista-pavuista/

  95. Web-Betty
    Web-Betty February 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm #

    Hello,

    I am using this theme on my personal blog and I just love it. Thank you for a great theme.

    I do have some questions regarding the permalinks. I’m assuming the #content added at the end of the permalinks is being used as an anchor target:

    http://www.web-betty-blog.com/1066/ode-to-red/#content

    Is this necessary? If not, how can I remove it? The links work without the #content and it’s not necessary (for me, anyway).

    Thanks!

    Melissa

  96. Varsagod
    Varsagod February 27, 2009 at 10:42 pm #

    Mahalo for the awesome theme. :)

    http://meantofu.com/blog/

  97. petiar
    petiar February 28, 2009 at 11:39 pm #

    Thanks for great theme, I am using it on my blog and my visitors like it as well as I do!

  98. Renzo
    Renzo March 6, 2009 at 8:49 am #

    Great Theme. I’ll use it in my next website.

    Thnx a lot for sharing.

  99. Carl114
    Carl114 March 20, 2009 at 8:50 pm #

    Beautiful template. Good work. More similar design!

  100. Nikole Gipps
    Nikole Gipps March 25, 2009 at 7:31 am #

    I love the little custom paragraph icons – what a great idea!

  101. Aditya
    Aditya April 1, 2009 at 7:53 pm #

    amazing theme…simply splendid!

    applied it for my new blog…the problem with IE6 was the only concern, but thanks to Jer posting the fix here, it was smooth in no time…

    @Cobus: it would be great if you included the IE6 fix in future releases of this theme…it’s not really that much work

  102. Aditya
    Aditya April 2, 2009 at 1:13 pm #

    another issue is that on the right side navigation, the ‘hand’ icon which should be seen when you hover over the hyperlink can be seen when you hover somewhere above the actual link…so you need to click above the actual link for it to work

  103. Alvaro Hendrick
    Alvaro Hendrick April 6, 2009 at 7:59 pm #

    Too cool!!

  104. WORDPRESSGALA
    WORDPRESSGALA April 7, 2009 at 11:09 am #

    Very nice theme. I’ve inserted it in WordpressGala.

  105. mika
    mika April 15, 2009 at 10:27 am #

    thank you very much !!!

  106. Joachim
    Joachim May 2, 2009 at 6:56 am #

    This theme rocks! I love it!!
    Thanks Joachim

  107. bartcatapult
    bartcatapult May 2, 2009 at 6:30 pm #

    Thanks a lot for making this free..inspired me!

  108. Palmer
    Palmer May 8, 2009 at 11:34 pm #

    Just wanted to thank you for the great theme- I’ve used it for several months, it works great and receives lots of compliments. Polished but arty at the same time!

  109. Aditya Kulkarni
    Aditya Kulkarni May 10, 2009 at 9:13 am #

    hey i solved the ‘last link not clickable in IE6′ problem…

    just add this to the stylesheet:

    a { position: relative ;}

  110. mrtvocich
    mrtvocich May 12, 2009 at 4:57 pm #

    Hi, i want to use this template… but i cant found the Font Poope for free so to edit those english words and translate it to czech language! Can you upload it?
    Thx!

    NICE JOB!

  111. Ashley
    Ashley May 12, 2009 at 10:08 pm #

    Hello! I am a total newbie at this, and am really loving your scruffy theme. However, I am having trouble – on my ‘photos’ page a box blocks the page tabs that are normally at the top of the screen. any help? also if you have any suggestions or insights for me, please feel free! :) thanks!

  112. Ashley
    Ashley May 12, 2009 at 10:33 pm #

    the page business seems to be working now. so nevermind. but suggestions still welcome!

  113. igor1533.net
    igor1533.net May 18, 2009 at 10:12 pm #

    It will be very good if I can change width of the site.
    Sorry for my bad English. :)

  114. macus
    macus May 21, 2009 at 3:55 pm #

    can i use these free wordpress themes for free wordpress account at wordpress.com…

  115. Iouri Chadour
    Iouri Chadour June 1, 2009 at 5:28 pm #

    Thanks for the great and clean template

  116. Jeff Lash
    Jeff Lash June 2, 2009 at 6:58 am #

    Hey Cobus…love the theme. It’s the best edgy theme I’ve found (they are too few and far between). Any new free themes on the horizon?

    Quick question…do you know if the tagline code addition worked? I’ve been wanting to find a way to add my tagline but haven’t had time to play with it. What line should I put that code on in the header file?

    Thanks again for the great work.

  117. SirNeo
    SirNeo June 2, 2009 at 12:12 pm #

    nice theme, i’m using it from more then 2months
    but whow i can add ARCHIVE/CATEGORIES on the sidebar ?

  118. blisshaha
    blisshaha June 9, 2009 at 6:49 pm #

    Hi, love the theme! But, like Shannon, I’m using a static homepage and I’d like to remove the home button in the navigation. I’m a bit new to Wordpress. Is there a quick way to remove that link? Thanks!

  119. WillFull
    WillFull June 18, 2009 at 11:52 pm #

    First of all, thank you VERY much for a wonderful theme. I am new at WordPress and I am trying it out on my new install, slowly transferring pages from my old LiveJournal blog to the new domain.

    At your suggestion, I installed the WP-PageNavi plug-in to handle pagination. I’m not sure if this plug-in is responsible, but I noticed that the arrows seemed reverse when traversing blog pages. I hope you don’t mind, but I opened up index.php in the editor and made a quick fix for you:

    original code from index.php, around line #44:

    <?php next_posts_link('') ?>
    <?php previous_posts_link('') ?>

    fixed code:

    <?php next_posts_link('') ?>
    <?php previous_posts_link('') ?>

    You might want to include this if you ever release Scruffy 1.4 … it was a simple fix. :)

    Again, thank you for providing this wonderfully designed WordPress theme. I love the personality of it.

  120. WillFull
    WillFull June 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm #

    Cobus -

    Oops! My PHP code didn’t come through in my last post. Sorry about that. I’ve e-mailed the fix to you.

  121. srijan
    srijan July 11, 2009 at 7:21 am #

    Just loved your theme .. its really very good. Wanted to thank u for creating this one

  122. JohnQUnknown
    JohnQUnknown July 22, 2009 at 6:34 am #

    Hello there, i just wanted to say what a wonderful theme this is, i really like it and just applied it to my blog, one thing though, and I hope you don’t mind, i had to translate the whole thing to Spanish, the only part i couldn’t translate was the “latest post” text because when i tried exporting the image it seemed to be missing a couple pixels, displaying an ugly white line above the image, but everything else was possible thanks to you for publishing the PSD file, really, thanks…if you are interested in translating your themes into Spanish, just contact me.

  123. newatthis
    newatthis August 11, 2009 at 2:15 am #

    HELP!

    I logged off of my Scruffy theme yesterday and now I cannot access my site – is there a bug in the log-in/out option? HELP PLEASE

  124. Alerte
    Alerte September 7, 2009 at 11:41 pm #

    Cobus -

    Oops! My PHP code didn’t come through in my last post. Sorry about that. I’ve e-mailed the fix to you….

  125. Faggot98
    Faggot98 October 22, 2009 at 6:38 pm #

    Unfortunately, there was one major catch. ,

  126. codeblack
    codeblack December 5, 2009 at 11:53 am #

    EXCELLENT THEME :)

  127. Rueyn
    Rueyn December 8, 2009 at 3:47 pm #

    The text of “Comments Off” overlaps the title of the post when comments are turned off. How can I fix this? I’ve looked over the comments.php and can’t find where that particular tag is listed.

  128. Rueyn
    Rueyn December 8, 2009 at 4:26 pm #

    Nevermind. I’d found the right code, just forgot to hit ‘refresh’. *redface*

  129. Toucan
    Toucan December 10, 2009 at 2:54 am #

    Amazing and fun theme! Thanks so much! Just two questions-
    I can’t get rid of the hardcoded home button when using a static front page. Anyone got any ideas?

    Also trying to install Featured content gallery, want the main index template to be my landing page, but with static content… Anyone know if this is possible???

  130. твердотопливные котлы
    твердотопливные котлы December 17, 2009 at 11:55 am #

    http://www.obogrevaty.ru/gazovye-otopitelnye-kotly.html

  131. Pawel
    Pawel January 8, 2010 at 9:11 pm #

    Hi there,
    Great theme! I use it on my site.

  132. jay
    jay February 18, 2010 at 4:23 am #

    is there something wrong with the download link?

  133. Cobus
    Cobus February 18, 2010 at 9:36 am #

    Hi! Downloads should be working again! Sorry for the inconvience, there was a mix up with my settings!

  134. jay
    jay February 18, 2010 at 9:53 am #

    yay thank you!

  135. Sweet!
    Sweet! March 11, 2010 at 2:20 am #

    Awesome theme! Used it on kerblammo.com. Best grunge theme I could find.

  136. Harry
    Harry April 22, 2010 at 1:31 pm #

    hi , und danke für eine der aller schönsten WP -Themes !
    Harry

  137. Josh
    Josh May 27, 2010 at 3:50 pm #

    I’m having trouble getting the Sociable plugin to work with this theme.

    Is there any advice on any hooks that might be missing in this theme’s CSS?

  138. Josh
    Josh May 31, 2010 at 5:47 pm #

    Also having trouble with a .png file that won’t seem to show transparency. Are there any background layers that would interfere with transparency in an embedded image?

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