BASE

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I created this theme to streamline my free theme development process. The result is a very solid WordPress theme, covering all the basic features a standard WordPress theme should have…plus one or two extras. BASE is extremely easy to customise.

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Due to time constraints and my commitment to my full-time job over at WooThemes I cannot provide any support for my WordPress themes. You are free to download and use them as you wish. But I will not be able to respond to any support queries.

I am leaving the comments to these themes open for users to help each other out.

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36 Comments:

roger
16-07-2008 at 3:26 pm // Permalink

So is this the first install?

Thanks for the theme simple in appearance but the code is great!!!!
Cobus // AUTHOR
16-07-2008 at 3:41 pm // Permalink

: Yeah, you can see this as the first install. You can expect some free themes built on BASE very soon!

I’m glad you like the code! Clean code was my main focus while building the theme
stompy
16-07-2008 at 4:36 pm // Permalink

Thanks very much for this.

I was looking for a clean theme with readable text settings, and this fits the bill wonderfully.
roger
16-07-2008 at 4:49 pm // Permalink

i meant is http://redseacheck.com/tips the first install

going to use it for a tut site also i cant code for sh*t but i can hack someone else’s and that’s why your code is great!
Travis
16-07-2008 at 4:54 pm // Permalink

This is beautiful. It is a clean layout and has all the basic features one needs. Not to be too selective, but could you provide a stylesheet that would make this dark in color and provide the css file as an alternate to download to the white base? I think a dark version using the same colors as -http://www.vostoktheme.com/ would be perfect.

Also, how difficult would it be to move the menu to the other side of the page? I’m sure these would be a quick and easy mods for you, can you offer an alternate stylesheet with the few suggested changes?
Cobus // AUTHOR
16-07-2008 at 9:55 pm // Permalink

: lol, now I get it It does look like you were my first install for Base. cool

: I was definitely planning on releasing a darker version of BASE, maybe even incorporate it with the current version and adding an option to awitch between the two. Stay tuned…
Victor Julian
17-07-2008 at 2:16 pm // Permalink

I love it just the way it is. I would just change the font to a Serif and go with it. I will probably use it for my blog at http://www.VictorJulian.com.

Great work!
18-07-2008 at 5:36 pm // Permalink

This is a really clean, good-looking theme, Cobus. I’m playing with it for a photoblog. That’s still only in the sandbox, but I don’t think BASE will require much tweaking for my purposes (only reducing space around and the font size of certain styles to make it more compact). I’ll let you know when (if?) I take this grand ego-trip live…
Cobus // AUTHOR
18-07-2008 at 5:46 pm // Permalink

: Awesome! I’m glad you like the theme! And please do let me know when you go live, I’d love to see my theme put to good use
Heather
19-07-2008 at 9:21 am // Permalink

Sigh.

I love it, but get this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: the_tags() in /home/kvitshco/public_html/wp-content/themes/_base_/index.php on line 35
roger
19-07-2008 at 12:26 pm // Permalink

hi heather which version of wp are you using ‘the_tags’ is from WP 2.3 older versions wont recognize it and so the error.

or i found a similar prob in wp support forum and they reinstalled wp and the error was gone? http://on.eti.me/6
lemarr
20-07-2008 at 4:01 am // Permalink

Am having a hellva time tryinh to post YouTube. Keep getting 404 ERROR! Help!
Flick
21-07-2008 at 3:37 pm // Permalink

I can’t wait to try this out on one of the sites I am working on at the moment Thank you!
Patrick
24-07-2008 at 7:06 am // Permalink

I just switched my site, http://www.npbtracker.com over to this theme. Very nice.
RadPoe
01-08-2008 at 10:07 pm // Permalink

Great theme! Very exciting!

I have checked how the theme looks on different computers and different desktop sizes: on every computer I have checked, the homepage looks fine, but when viewing a single post some computers show it correctly - and others put the sidebar at the end of the post.

Is it the sidebar width? Could the width be different from the homepage? Could it be the comment form?

I have tried to find where you define the CSS values for the overall width, the posts width, the comment form width and the sidebar width - but could not find them.
Can you help me out and point in the right direction?

Thanks.
жби
03-08-2008 at 6:08 am // Permalink

Полезная вещица
TomTom
13-08-2008 at 9:54 am // Permalink

Same issue than RadPoe: the sidebar appears under the post in the single post view. Any idea where this is coming from ? On my mac (with safari) it appears properly on the side but on my PC, IE shows the sidebar below the post…
Thanks for any ideas that may help !
Tom
Freak
17-08-2008 at 3:36 am // Permalink

I’m having the same problem that TomTom mentions with IE. Every other browser displays it properly.

Do you have any suggestions about that?
WebClerk
26-09-2008 at 4:12 am // Permalink

Dear, your theme is so nice, I try to apply on my Blog.
Thank you very much,
Dave
05-10-2008 at 6:41 pm // Permalink

I made a few changes to come up with a three column newspaper theme.
boxafella
16-10-2008 at 4:32 pm // Permalink

I just had to drop a line and say thank you for creating such an awesome theme! I’ve been using it for a while, and it’s customization is awesome! I’m no coder/programmer/developer so this was a real treat for me! Thanks again!!!! Keep up the excellent work!!!!!!!
Cobus // AUTHOR
16-10-2008 at 4:44 pm // Permalink

: Thanks man!! Really means alot! It’s comments like these that make releasing themes worth while!

Thanks for downloading and using my theme!
Laters
Dave
13-11-2008 at 8:02 am // Permalink

Are you going to be editing this theme for WP 2.7 support?
Elvis Predley
22-11-2008 at 1:13 am // Permalink

I LOVE your themes! What have you done SEO wise to these themes? Just curious
VarunKumar
05-12-2008 at 4:03 pm // Permalink

I’ve been searching for clean, neat and customizable wordpress theme since a long time, and i found yours from http://gravitonic.com. My search finally ended. thanks a lot.
Donald Serrano
10-01-2009 at 9:00 pm // Permalink

this is one of the best themes i ever saw! simple yet elegant I think I’m gonna use this in my blog.
Julien
15-01-2009 at 3:07 am // Permalink

Great thanks guy ! Very great ! I chose to use it and I really appreciate it !

Keep on !

Regards

Julien
Marc
24-01-2009 at 7:21 pm // Permalink

P.s - just to explain, it displays perfect in firefox but the sidebar disappears underneath the posts in internet explorer?.. is this possible to fix? I’m no coder, and cant seem to find any answers via google.

I need the sidebar so hoping you might know the answer.

Thanks again
pood
06-02-2009 at 8:15 am // Permalink

Love the template mate, there were a couple things that I thought you could change to make it even more SEO Friendly (things that can’t be changed with plugins). You can find it on my blog at:
BASE SEO Wordpress Template
mak
23-06-2009 at 10:11 pm // Permalink

dude. LOVE the base theme. I’m a novice dork. How do I load the css into the Wordpress CSS Stylesheet Editor? Presuming I just copy and past the style.css into the editor? Thanks.
chris
30-06-2009 at 6:11 am // Permalink

Just installed! Nice.

Was wondering why the rss and search are permanent in the sidebar.

Thanks.