A couple of gifts for you

As this year draws to a close, your friends here at Sillyness would like to give you a couple of gifts.

When I moved from my previous design ‘Fresh and Clean’ I had decided to package it up as best I could and release it as a free theme for WordPress.  Today that dream becomes a reality.

Also, as many of you know, I had been working on a new theme for Sillyness code named ‘Believe’.  As I have stated elsewhere I came to realize that I have shifted artistically back to the world of paint and charcoal; I gave up on my new design, and you guessed it, decided to package what I had up and release it as well.

One quick note, as I have said before I am now pouring all my active development energy into the WordPress Mod K2.  I haven’t changed my mind.  These two downloads satisfy two things:

  1. Fresh and Clean was incredibly popular, and I have had numerous requests for a theme based on it, so there it is.
  2. Although I am not a fan of where Believe was going, it is a solid beginning for some aspiring theme designer; to delete it would have been wasteful.

So here you go my friends, So Fresh, Exciting! 1.0 (kool) and Believe 1.0 (stevie) for your use and abuse.  One thing to note: These are the initial releases of these themes, and as such there might be some lingering issues.  Everything works on my end, but let me know of any problems you run into over in my Forums.

And yes, both of these themes have my gravatar enabled ‘Recent Commenters’ code bundled in functions.php.

Download So Fresh, Exciting!

  1. WordPress 2.0 only
  2. Version 1.0 (kool) r100
  3. screenshot

Download Believe

  1. WordPress 2.0 only
  2. Version 1.0 (stevie) r100
  3. screenshot

Enjoy and have safe, but fun, New Year’s Eve celebrations!  Oh and there might be one more ‘gift’ by the time the new year rolls around, I am not quite sure.  Stay Tuned.

  1. personal avatar David
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    March 1, 2007

    Woah, I’ve always loved your “So Fresh” theme. Thanks for sharing!

  2. personal avatar Chris
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    March 1, 2007

    absolutely love the So Fresh theme. Are you planning on making a version that has page tabs like K2? Or am I missing something that I can do myself?

  3. personal avatar Omar
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    March 1, 2007

    Thanks so much for your hard work.

  4. personal avatar clint
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    March 1, 2007

    mighty generous of ya Chris, ur a scholar and a gentleman!

    this will also be a good chance for others to see what good coding looks like :)

    Happy New Years bro

  5. personal avatar Phu
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    March 1, 2007

    I agree, that was very kind of you, Chris! Wonderful stuff!

  6. personal avatar Indranil
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    March 1, 2007

    Very nice!
    Thanks for the themes. Will be useful to many. And happy new year to you, Heather and Jakob from us :D
    Regards

  7. personal avatar khaled
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    March 1, 2007

    Happy New Year buddy. Damn man giving up on Believe. That’s crazy :). I really want to download it and test it but I’ve not upgraded any of my blogs to WP 2.0 does anyone have a demo I can have a look at (what can I say I’m a curious chappy :) ). From the screenshot I really really like what you’ve done. Keeps the CJD feel to it and everything. Ok now it’s time for you to start getting those posts on the artwork coming :).

  8. personal avatar Khesrau
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    March 1, 2007

    I like “So Fresh, So Clean”, great theme.

    But may I ask you what happend with your Gravatar-Plugin, where you could see how often a user commented on entries? I really liked that idea!

  9. personal avatar Task
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    March 1, 2007

    i’m getting an error using “So Fresh, Exciting!”

    error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘un quelque part’ AND comment_approved = ‘1’ AND comment_type = ]
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_author = ‘quelqu’un quelque part’ AND comment_approved = ‘1’ AND comment_type = ”
    comments

    Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mt\wearemad\wp-content\themes\so-fresh\functions.php on line 201

    somehing wrong?!

    the comment that gives error is:

    désolé, avec ma première vu, je n’ais pas vu la mouche!
    j’ais vu quelque chose, de bien plus jolie!
    une femme!!
    douceur de duvet!!!
    aux seins gainés d’un corset!!!!
    deux battements coeurs!!..!!..!!..!!..!!..!!..!!…..!!!!!….!!!!!!……!!!!!!!!…….!!……..dans un coeur.

    ps:belle photo pour une boutike de lingerie

    maybe the ´ ! . ’ are messing things up?¿!

  10. personal avatar kusaeni
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    March 1, 2007

    Yeah .. thanks a lot man … u know what i want :)

  11. personal avatar AsceticMonk
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    March 1, 2007

    Thanks so much for these wonderful gifts!
    And to you, my friend, happy 2006!

  12. personal avatar Joen
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    March 1, 2007

    Beautiful stuff! I’m only returning from vacation here, and you’ve been giving one gift after the other!

    Have a fantastic new year, and I hope you had a great Christmas!

    Best thoughts for 2006 from Denmark!

  13. personal avatar Brian Gilham
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    March 1, 2007

    I downloaded So Fresh and have spent the last few days customizing it and hacking it to meet my needs. Thank you for the wonderful base from which to work.

  14. personal avatar kusaeni
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    March 1, 2007

    Ok , I getting error when I trying to using Believe theme, :

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ryan’ AND comment_approved = ‘1’ AND comment_type = ”’ at line]
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_author = ”ryan’ AND comment_approved = ‘1’ AND comment_type = ”

    any solution?

  15. personal avatar Matsu
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    March 1, 2007

    Hey, Chris, Happy New Year!

    I love that new photo of you at the top of the site. Was that made out at ApachCon by the same photo-artist that did Dr. Bacchus’ picutres? It’s very cool. Do you have the full set of photos of you posted anywhere? I’d love to see them.

  16. personal avatar David Babylon
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    March 1, 2007

    Excellent stuff Chris. Your work is very much appreciated.

  17. personal avatar Denis
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    March 1, 2007

    Awesome work Mr Davis !

  18. personal avatar trench
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    March 1, 2007

    Awesome. This theme has always kicked ass.

  19. personal avatar james
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    March 1, 2007

    My reader(!) likes this theme, thanks so much for sharing Chris.

  20. personal avatar avaksi
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    March 1, 2007

    The theme rocks! Thanks a lot for all the hard work and a cool site! ;)

  21. personal avatar Andrew Hamann
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    March 1, 2007

    So Fresh, Exciting! is 2kool4words. :-p

    Thanks Chris!

  22. personal avatar Rae
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    March 1, 2007

    Very nice work … I may be trying “So Fresh” out this weekend.

  23. personal avatar Joerg Petermann
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    March 1, 2007

    I like the fresh one! :))

  24. personal avatar Rana Edwards
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    March 1, 2007

    I’m really feelin’ your Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally blog template — with red background.

    I’m new at this, so mucho pardons, if I sound dense and my questions — -inane. Luckily — -my 24yr.old. did all his homework and blogs/html/php etc., and acquired his Ph.d in the genre. ;)

    Yet he’s a doberman in spirit (a good thing though) and sometimes intolerant with “my incredibly right brain thinking”.
    This is one of those days I’m in the forest alone…so be my crib note and hook a 44yr.old up. ;)

    I’m looking for a unique template for my online newsmagazine and yours seems to fit the visual groove I’m seeking.

    A few questions:

    Is this template compatible with WordPress?

    At the homepage first post — -how much space, lines does it offer and how large of a picture will it allow?

    Can I put a picture in the blog title area?

    In the Daily Asides area — -can pictures be put there and can it be relabled?

    Does the Flickr Album come in the style sheet?

    Is there any place on the home page in which I can create a Category List — -or can I make the “Previously” section into this?

    THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE and could you respond at your earliest convenience?

    Rana

  25. personal avatar kobak
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    March 1, 2007

    Hi Chris,

    I like the so fresh theme very much, and partly translated it into Hungarian. All my readers like it too. Thank you for it!

  26. personal avatar David
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    March 1, 2007

    Hey Chris,

    I’m running So Fresh, Exciting! now on my blog and I’m loving it. The minimal simplistic look is something I really enjoy. Thanks again for sharing them.

  27. personal avatar Bonita
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    March 1, 2007

    I just installed this theme today on my blog… and I’m lovin’ it!
    I tweaked it just a ‘little’ and I love the outcome.
    So easy to work with.

    Thanks for sharing!

  28. personal avatar Leonardo
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    March 1, 2007

    Hi Chris ! I loved So Fresh, So Clean ! Great theme !
    I’m translating it to Portuguese !

  29. personal avatar Webdesign Bonn
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    March 1, 2007

    Hej, Thanks so much for your great work.

  30. personal avatar Sean
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    March 1, 2007

    i downloaded “so fresh” but there is some kind of issue with the ajax comments… they don’t seem to work consistently…

    check out 3thehardway.ca and try and leave a comment… thanks a lot for the help, i’ve tried a million things to fix it. maybe not a million, but a lot….

  31. personal avatar Chris J. Davis
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    March 1, 2007

    Hey Sean,

    That sounds strange, I will try to look into and let you know what I find out.

  32. personal avatar Sean
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    March 1, 2007

    Thanks a lot…

    if it’s any help… i have it installed here,

    seanmcdonald.ca/devblog/

    and in use at 3thehardway.ca

    and the commenting is quirky on both… really is strange.

  33. personal avatar Chris J. Davis
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    March 1, 2007

    When I try to use the comment form on your main site, I am seeing a prototype error having to do with your lightbox implementation:

    ../wp-lightbox2/js/prototype.js.php :: anonymous :: line 136" data: no]

    Try deactivating that plugin, and trying the commenting.

  34. personal avatar Benj
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    March 1, 2007

    Curious… how do you put those photos on the comments?

  35. personal avatar AsceticMonk
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    March 1, 2007

    Hi Chris, thanks for the quality themes!

    Today, I have Fresh installed on my blog. I took a look of the style.css file, does it contain a lot of class definitions that are only relevant to your blog?

  36. personal avatar Kartenlegen
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    March 1, 2007

    Hej Chris, thanks so much for this great work. i think i change my wp-theme, yours is better ;-)
    greetings from raining germany.

  37. personal avatar MILE
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    March 1, 2007

    Two totally different and yet cool themes, very nice…! I especially like the simplicity of ‘So Fresh’ very much, although it seems a bit limited in its currents state…!? Meaning that there seems to be no built-in support for certain plugins or widgets respectively…or did I miss something here…?

    Is there any development in that direction at all…?! I wouldn’t want to go through the hassle of translating the theme to German, just to find out that’s it has been closed down…!? ;)

    Great work anyway…!

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