Emptiness Theme v0.1
Introducing Emptiness Theme v0.1 .

Since I started using WordPress few months ago, I’ve tried various minimalist themes available from WordPress Theme Viewer, but none of them really suits me. So, just like any designer-wannabe, I rolled out my own minimalist theme. It’s available for download, though I’m still trying to register it on WordPress Theme Viewer. I don’t know what’s wrong with Theme Viewer, they must be really busy with backlogs of registrations to process, or they’re totally ignoring the current Theme Viewer and currently building a better system.
Creating a WordPress theme was actually quite pleasant. PHP might not be the most elegant thing out there, but it does the job. I must give a standing ovation to WordPress Codex, it is one of the bests if not the best open source documentation.
There are some of my Blojsom themes that never saw the light of day, I’ll port them to WordPress later. Have theme? Will port!
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Hi!
Some days ago I stumbled across your theme (on the new theme directory of wordpress.org) and immediately liked it. So I chose this one to make my very own more colourful WP Theme based on your Emptiness. Yesterday I visited your blog here and read about version 0.2. It is up on wordpress.org now! Thanks for widgetizing, I actualized my theme right away.
Just wanted to say thank you for a great base for my very own theme. :)
Greets from Berlin, Germany
momo
Love the theme! Query: comments on posts older than 14 days don’t show up. Is this a function of the theme itself? Can I disable it?
your theme is really cool!
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I like it!!!
hi i am looking to place an image instead of having text as the title. Could you indicate the best way to go about it?
Cheers,
Simon
Simon – I don’t know exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but if wonder if you are trying to do what I did (www.pittsburghventures.com)? I put an image into the header, and then made the title 0px so that it wouldn’t show. It all seems to work well.
IS ANYONE ELSE HAVING TROUBLE WITH GETTING POST TITLES TO SHOW IN THE NEW WP 2.7? MINE DISAPPEARED… HELP!
great theme, thank you for providing it!:)
i would like to have it without the head image, when i take it off, the content of the pages keeps starting lower, at the end of the left menu,…
how can i push it up, just under the headline?
hi cliffano, thank you for your answer, and your advice! ..i’ll ask a php programmer about this, since i’m not into it.
all the best
steph
I just downloaded this WP theme and installed it on a different website. The theme viewer doesn’t work for me (maybe a bug in the theme’s code somewhere?) but other than that, it works very well.
I really like the look and feel of it =).
Hi Cliffano,
I love the theme… I want to use it for my personal website but would also like to have a different header for the different pages of my website… I am using WP as a CMS not just for as a blog management system.
I was thinking maybe a header for my contact me section another for my demo section etc.
Can you help?
Taji
Many thanks Cliffano…
I found this:
http://chasesagum.com/different-header-on-each-page-for-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-24698
and was struggling with it all day (I have never coded for either php or css so i require step by step instructions) with no success.. was hoping your tip would change my luck today.
thanks
I seem to have a lot of white space between the header image and my posts. Also in the right column. And I need to change header image. Can you help? Thank you!
Hello,this theme is pretty good.Many thanks for your job,but here is a question.When I try to show code samples in my post,using wordpress plugin Code Markup,if the code is too long,the right sidebar will get pushed down below the body.Well I have read your F.A.Q and known this could only happen on IE6.To Solve the problem I have to press Enter when editing the code sample.However I guess that is not a good option.
Hi there! Thank you very much for this theme, I love it and it is perfect for my blog. My only issue is that for some reason the comments do not display properly. I know absolutely nothing about php coding, so maybe you could help a wee bit? The error on my page says this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_list_comments() in /var/www/vhosts/hipsterette.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/emptiness.2/comments.php on line 20
below each post, instead of listing the comments.
how might I go about fixing this?
thank you :)
Excellent site, keep up the good work
Hi Cliffano! Thank you for your work on this theme. It works beautifully.
I really like this theme, thanks for making it available!
my only problem is that the link to make comments doesn’t work when clicked on and is there some way to move the information in the left post sidebar to under the actual post/
thanks
I have made the change and it’s working fine now, thanks for the help, I really appreciate it
Hi Cliffano,
I have something to ask about.
It is by default when we want to reply a comment within this theme, the page reload into uri: …/#respond.
Can we make it just pop up under the comment we would like to reply without reloading the page?
Regards,
Cahya.
Hi there, I am enjoying your theme.
I have one pesky problem: only a few past post links show up on the right under ‘recent posts’, and I’d like them all to show. I’m goodbonfire.com if you would like to see for yourself. Any ideas? thank you,
Hannah B.
I don’t think I am using any sort of widget, but I must admit, I’m not sure what you mean by widget here. Like a plug in? Maybe that would help if you have one to recommend…
The default seems to display only five blog posts to the right. I have combed all areas and don’t see a place to change that display, unfortunately. Thanks very much for your help. Any suggestions or recommendations?
Problem solved. The widget area was the answer. I’d never ventured into ‘widgets’ before, but now have switched my recent posts to 15 from 5, which was somehow the default.
thanks for the tip and the theme.
Hello Cliffano! Hello and respect from Great Russia! Where i can download new theme Emptiness version 1.12? I’m really need it! I will wait your answer!
Best Regards, Evgeny Afonsky
valid theme very impotant part of Russian SEO System)))) i will be wait! Thanks!
I really love your theme. This is my first time designing my own music website. I’m a novice at this, so hope this hasnt been addressed elsewhere:
two issues i cant figure out:
1: how to make the left sidebar go away on posts (not pages). it doubles the right sidebar on my homepage where ive added a post.
2: i read that the sidebar lengths are just determined by how much info is there? but my top left side bar will never list all of my pages ( i assumed there were too many for widget to display). i even installed a widget for drop down menu….which works ok, but its still not quite right.
any help with these issues would be appreciated ..
thanks a million
Aak- I’m so not happy with the new update with the fonts and underlined links. I guess I’m to blame for not saving the old stuff when I updated, but I’m not good enough with the code tinkering to know what to fix and where. Is there any way to go back to the last version?
hello cliffano,
your theme is excellent. it’s the nicest and prettiest theme on wp. i have a question though. i really want to disable/disallow comments on the pages, not the posts. how do i go about this? can you recommend a workaround? thank you!
and thanks again for making the theme.
Hello,
I saw your theme and loved it. I left a question at the google page asking about widget-compatibility, but after downloading and running it, I’ve answered my question…. it isn’t widgetised.
Will you be adding a widget function to your theme any time soon? I’d have used for my blog if it was widgetised, but as it stands…. anyway just wanted to say it’s a nice theme and I love it!