WordPress Theme – Urbane
I am glad to announce a brand new free WordPress theme called “Urbane”.
This is a crisp rounded theme that comes with lots of features like built in drop-down menus, Feedburner settings (RSS and Subscribe by e-mail), Twitter, Tabs for Popular/Recent posts, Featured post section, 3 sections to pull posts from different categories on home page, auto generated thumbnails (for both home and the single entry page), threaded comments, widgetized sidebars and 3 widgetized sections on the bottom. On top of all this, Urbane comes with integrated theme options that let you specify categories to use on the home page, configure your feedburner/twitter settings and much more.
The theme has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Safari and works without any problems.
Setting up the theme
- Download and extract the theme. Place it in wp-content/themes section of your WordPress installation.
- Setup the different categories/theme options on the home page by going to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Urbane Options
- For the thumbnails, just upload images to your posts (no need to insert them). The scripts will make thumbnails automatically.
- To enable threaded comments, go to wp-admin -> Settings -> Discussion -> Enable Threaded comments
Demo & Download
What Next?
Just provide your valuable feedback, and if possible, don’t remove my link from the footer.
Excellent theme really nice,before i download i wanna know can i use this theme as blog layout ? or only magazine
have a nice day
Forgot to also mention that that “Calendar” is one UGLY butted thing. If you could also fix that, it looks absolutely terrible and completely not fitting with the Theme. It might be the particular font used, don’t know. FYI.
Some serious issues so far…. and a couple of important requests.
1. The “feature” content, when it displays an image and the text isn’t a HUGE amount, the bottom border of the “box” the image runs over it. In other words, the image doesn’t stay within the post/box. See my site http://www.whatisrightandwrong.com
2. When posting a “Video” in a post it does not show in the “Feature” areas. Could you please fix or show how this is done?
3. Could you create the ability with the “Features” where you can “select” what you want featured? In other words, not only have the recent post in a particular category show for each feature, but have all recent posts show in all four features from anywhere (this also is a bug, even selecting the same category for all will not show all recent in that category, only the SAME last post is shown in all 4 features for one category).
Also, could you have another feature selection where we can “sticky” a post, any post we want to one of the Features?
4. We need to be able to designate for a child page, either static or a post, which side we want the sidebar on. In the meantime, could you show me how to switch the right sidebar to the other side?
5. Could you explain how to make the three-tabbed recent Widget not as “long”? I want it the same size as the normal sidebar widgets. (Or at least show me where I can go to manipulate it to do what I want?)
These are the problems I’ve noticed on initial install…..
Please if you could fix them ASAP, and/or also tell me how to fix things, that would help us a lot. Thank you for the quality Theme, it just need a little more fixing to work like it should. Please…. It’s a quality enough theme to continue to keep up-to-date.
Although, I’m going to make some of the “text” a little darker (you might want to consider some of the same, so it’s more easy to read, which would make the Theme perfect.)
Thanks again, and please help….. Much gratitude.
wow looks really cool!
I would like to first say what a fantastic theme this is for free at premium quality.Kudos on that!
I wondered if you have tested the theme with ie8? I see there is code included in the header to use the ie stylesheet. Website looks great on ie7 and other browsers but in ie8, my content overlaps my header on individual pages. It is an internal staging server so no use in sharing link, but I am glad to post the code and share screenshots. Thanks for the help!
Got Scanstyles Does Nothing in Webkit/Firefox Error in Firefox. I have to edit the curvycorners.js file.
Hi there,
Pretty cool theme, thanks so much for making it! I have questions I hope someone will be able to answer. Site link the questions are about is here:
http://www.rileysplace.org/
(I’m still tweaking.)
1) How to get more than 2 posts in the center content section?
2) How to get the category titles to not stop partially through the title adding the “…” instead of finishing the title in the top and two right category panels?
I think that’s all at least for now.
Thank you!
I took my blog based on this theme live two days ago. It works brilliantly in Chrome, Firefox and Safari, but in Explorer it’s a complete disaster. The only reason for this I can think of is because I have removed the code for the RSS feed, which I don’t want to use right now. Somehow in IE the RSS icon reappears, but not in the other browsers I mentioned. Has anyone got any idea what’s going on here?
Thankyou so much for an interesting template!
I’ve worked hard to get it all functioning, still a few things I’m struggling to modify.
MAin issue is the email subscribe. I just can’t get it to work. Feedburner no longer does numerical ID,so I input my feedburner feed name, and have tried a few options, and nothing is working. Says that feed is not available. But it definitely is.
Any ideas?
The problem seems to be that Urbane Options requests the email feed ID NUMBER. Whereas feedburner now uses the feeds name rather than a number. I’ve googled everywhere to see if I can find the number but no luck.
How did you get more then 2 of the main posts to show up??
Appearance > Urbane Options: I am stumped by how to “Choose a category for your featured post”. Where do I select this category from? There’s no drop-down list of categories associated with this question. If I simply type in one of the categories I already created, it doesn’t work. Can someone please help explain this?
I got round this by using the category slug rather than the name.
Lynn, I thanked you for your help in an earlier comment, but it was deleted (perhaps because I had made an unflattering remark about Urbane?). I did eventually get round the problem.
This free theme is just as nice and functional as some of the premium themes that cost $$. I’m glad I found another great resource for free WP themes. Thanks
Hay my friend . Why dont you add facebook badge on your blog ? Thanks Good luck
Please help me to change header. I want to change header with picture. I have tried many times but failed. Please help me to resolve this problem. Thanks for all.
I deployed a website using this template and changed the header just like you wanted in your website.
You can view the site I deployed here: Bohol Properties for Sale
Send me a message if you still need some help…
The solution to the problem with the thumbnails is changing the attributes of the Urbane cache folder to 777.
One of the nicest themes I’ve seen. Fresh, clean, simple – Just the way i like it. I hope it will work well with my blog
I (somehow) successfully built a site on this theme sever months ago and it looked great. Today, however, it’s moving day (to a new server facility) and in the Export / Import process I have lost the images on the front page.
I have tried deleting the posts with pics and re-creating them (attaching the pics to the posts as directed above) and all I get is broken image links.
Any guidance? Please? It’s a beautiful site and I’d hate to lose it over this.
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
Jeff
Great theme! It’s very clean and gentle, i like it.
Nice theme, great work.Thanks
thanks for great theme.. i’ve use it in my blog. http://smartmagazine.info/. Your credit still save in footer..
can we add custom page navigation to this theme? i tried to add but its not worling. its showing the page number but the page is same as home page with same posts.
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide
I like to use mostly widgets on the home page of my WP site without the default sidebars for ‘Feedburner settings (RSS and Subscribe by e-mail), Twitter, Tabs for Popular/Recent posts, Featured post section’ and Links. Is there a way to hide these?
Thanks-
Wonderful theme. Fresh and complete and with a nice sense of order and balance. I look forward to road testing it. Thanks.
Great theme.Simple but good
Thanks so much for sharing this will all of us!
Very appreciated!
i love it very much than u for share this
beautiful theme sir. Thank you
it looks great
Sorry for the question, but I am very interested in how CMS operates a blog?
@Margaret:-
Nevermind, thank you.
Hello, great theme! We’re using this on this website: http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org
We’ve been using the FreeCharity.org.uk WordPress Petition plugin before the theme was installed and now it seems to have a conflict with the Urbane theme and not show the fields or submit buttons.
The petition lives here: http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/act/pledge/
Is there something we can look into the Theme Editor to fix this?
Thank you.
i like this theme
Dear, tahank for your good information and your theme
@Alba:- To remove the bottom widgetized sections, just open the file called bottom.php and remove all code from it.
Cool theme. Is there a way to hide the Widgetized Sections?
@John:- All those people, whose thumbnails are not working, please make sure that the images are hosted on your own server and you are not hotlinking them from somewhere.
Hi – just downloaded this its great but.. thumbnails don’t work… was this ever fixed? Really need help!
Hi!
There ir problem with image position. I could not float an image to the left or right of text.
What shall I do?
Thanks in advance!
Great looking theme but I can;t get the images on the front page to work. I can do it with other themes but I can;t seem to do it on this. Any ideas?
Wow what a cool theme. Great structure!
I can’t seem to get the thumbnails to work…any ideas?
A very nice theme, but am having some difficulty adding a list of links and modifying the three widgets at the bottom of the page. Any hints you can give me? The Widgets page shows the sidebar components (but not the three lower widgets), and I see no way to modify them. Where are the links added? Using WordPress 2.9.1.
embedded video (youtube/vimeo) doesn’t show up on the index page.
can this be fixed?
Probably will change a theme on my blog for this one!
Great info – very informative will bookmark
Good theme, I like it.
Great, beautiful theme. Thank you very much for providing it for free. I want to start using it on my blog very soon so I have two questions about it:
1) how can I make the 4 featured posts be my 4 most recent posts (not just the newest post of a certain category)? I have a category called “All posts” if it helps.
2) how do I exclude posts that appear on the 4 featured posts sections from the recent posts section on front page (right before the footer)? I want to avoid duplicated posts on frontpage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Nice! Works pretty well “out of the box” and with a few of my favorite plugins this theme is rockin’!
Clean and easy to edit, thanks … If this client likes it and we end up using it, you’ll definitely be seeing some $. If this one doesn’t use it, I’m sure another will soon.
Jeff
thanks. I love it. My site look nice
Urban is a clean theme for wordpress. I downloaded it and am looking forward to installing it as soon as possible. Thank you!
@JonehRC:- I came across the same issue. To fix is add the following two lines to the style.css file:
.postcontent ul {padding-left:30px; padding-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;}
.postcontent ol {padding-left:30px; padding-bottom: 10px; list-style:decimal;}
@So:-
Thanks friend
Now I noticed the bullet and numbering does not appear?? Just normal paragraph style??!!!
Even I tried in both visual and HTML editor… helppppppp!!!
@JonehRCit is in the ‘urban dash board” you can specify what categories should be displayed in the featured left, middle and right box.
Guys thank you for this wonderful clean and easy to adjust theme!
any other place online where i can rate this theme because it is awesome
Great resource – I’ll be trying it out later today. Thank you for offering this free to the WordPress blogging community.
Very informative website. I have just gotten into WordPress and was looking for information on how to use it as a CMS for a static/blog website. This website really hit the nail on the head.
I downloaded Urbane and will start on my project now, following the advice on this website. Great job!
I see the great potential but how to make the post as “featured post”… maybe i missed.. but there’s no instruction on this function anywhere….??
I do love the theme.. i am trying it now… i just wish all the available functions are on a readme file. Thanks.
There seem to be some issue with WordPress 2.9…the first post does not show.
Normally I would not post a comment, but you’ve put together a nice post here and I wanted to say thank you.
In the design of a site I want to use this theme but the thumbnail pictures CMOD settings even though the 777 could not do.
Best regards
thanks. I love it. My site look nice
It nice theme, I have to download this theme, Thanks
Thanks a lot. This is a great themes. I’ll download this themes.
how do we add a class to navigation bar so that child pages don’t have a same styling as parent pages?
they have a transparent background in the parent pages, does not work for the child page links to have the same…
thanks!
its really good.. but it is not compitable..
@Ferry Prima:-
I had the same problem!
Hi there, love this theme. you mentioned that the thumbnail issue is fixed. Well I just downloaded the theme and it still has an issue placing the thumbnails in (meaning they do not appear)
Hello Jay ,
You really did a good job by creating this theme. I really love it for real. But there is one thing I want to ask you. Where did we get our Feddburner ID?? a numeric one, because I sign up to feedburner after this site integrate with google and I only got feed name (mine is “ferryprima”). I search for my Feedburner ID but I only get this “k1itnpmmout4ag24ifqel39gb0″ (I got this when I go to my feedburner account and see the address in my browser which shows ” http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=k1itnpmmout4ag24ifqel39gb0 “.
Could you please help for this one?? Thanks before jay. I would appreciate if you email me the solution to my email I used for comment
Thanks You,
From your satisfied theme user
Ferry Prima
@Jai:- I think I found the error. It was the way the function to generate thumbnails was being used. Till now, it was only picking up images that are posted as an attachment.
Anyway, I have update the theme. Everything works now guys. Check it
hi!! why can I not read last comments to this post?
It would be a great theme if it worked!
Thumbnail does not show and title get’s repeated in post
and you can’t turn off thumbnail in post…
But it’s free… hope the premium works!
yup, got same problem with thumbnail. thought it was call function error, might be some bugs there.
but still didn’t find any. let u guys know if it solved.
anyone with solution pls share. thanks
No 404 Template in this theme? This theme redirects to homepage without warning on any 404 error. Please fix it.
@Cassio:- Hi Cassio, I have your same problem, did you find a solution?!? thanks!!
hi! it’s a great theme, the best one after weeks of search! I have wordpress 2.8.4 but
thumbnails don’t appear (I chose ‘yes’ in the ‘Urban Options’); and the title of the article appear two times! please help me, your its a really nice theme! thanksss!!!
hi, thumbnails does not appear. what I make?
thanks!
Hi, thank’s for great theme. I’ve got only one question I would like to change logo into an image.
How can I do that!
Thank U
Very great theme. I love it. But why the thumbnails are not working. In a single post, list and quote are not working too. Any suggest to me!!!. Thank’s for your theme (cause it’s free hi..hi..)
Fantastic theme with a great design! I have been hunting for a good theme for a long time and I think that I have finally found it. I need to make some modifications to suit my website. Any advise from you would be much appreciated.
Neat theme, will use it for my projects. Thanks for sharing.
Yet another gorgeous, clean design. I really, really love this one–some times the focus on content can be weighed down with bells and whistles. Some really great bells and whistles, don’t get me wrong–but I usually want to read content, not try and wade through everything to find it.
I think I’ve found a new favorite of yours! Please keep at it, I love seeing what you do!
@sterndal:-
same here…..
my thumbnails are not working
why is that?
Finally i’ve found my Theme! I think Urban is perfetct! thanks for sharing
hello
great theme!
thanks for sharing
check out my blog, i’m using urbane!
cheers!
great work jai..nice theme
At the present moment demo doesn’t work. It reports the “500 internal server error”.
Thankx for this theme i like it. But i have problem. How can i put banner this theme?
thks 4 the theme…nice theme. im already use it to my another website.
demo site looks great, wish I found this theme earlier!
This cool theme,
but I have problem with it, when go to direct post I found fatal error :
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_password_required() in ……\wp-content\themes\urbane\comments.php on line 7″
any suggest to repaired this problem ?
wow..hebat sekali!!!! fantastic
Hi,
really great theme, thanks for sharing it with us
But I have a small issue with it. When a Post contains only an Image gallery and none or little text, the excerpts all over the page are filled with some kind of background CSS code.
See what I mean here
http://cocoblog.net/2009/10/
look for the Post whick begins with text FAIL
Any ideas how to remove this coding from excerpts?
Thanks
nice one theme. Thank’s for sharing
beautiful theme sir. Thank you
Great theme! It’s very clean and gentle, i like it.
Absolutely adore this theme!!! Original, very clean and smooth looking with a classy background. Love it.
Nice theme. Just download it for my collection. Many thanks, Jai
Thanks so much for the theme. I’ve been working on customizing it for my needs and have had one little issue that I can’t seem to fix. On my single post pages, the bottom 3 widgetized boxes hang over my wrapper background. (for example- http://www.scrapquest.com/2009/09/new-site-design-coming-soon/ ) I probably did something that caused this but I can’t figure out what. I don’t know if this would be in the stylesheet or somewhere else. Thanks for any help you can give!
Hello
you should get your blog listed at http://www.bloggingcritic.com , a directory of cool blogs!
Marco
Hi. Excellent theme! How do I change the logo on this theme? I want to add a logo of my own, but currently it’s only “text” based.
hei, nice theme there. thanks Jai.
@ravi:- The thumbnail image will be the first one that you uploaded to your post. So work accordingly.
@abietto:- This is a problem with your hosting. Some hosts do not allow caching. So contact your hosting provider and sort it out.
The problem seems to be that the thumb.php script does not write the thumb image in the cache directory, but I don’t know why, since WP is installed in the root directory and the cache is 777 CHMOD… I didn’t change anything else in the setup or anything, and I had issues with other themes that use the same script to create the thumbnails automatically. Can anyone help me, please?…
awesome, I’ll try to use it in on of my blog.. viva blogohblog..!
I really love your theme … wonderful work …
thanks blogohblog
Hi! I activated your theme on a website I’m working on but I got problems with the thumbs.php script: seems like the thumbnails cannot be created, as you can see clicking on the link to the web page. I already changed the CHMOD of the “cache” directory to 777 and to 755 with no results. Is there anything else I should check, like custom fields or should I remove and re-insert the images or anything like that? Can you help me? Thank you very much! =)
Wonderful work. I though it was a premium theme :O
Only a question: i understood that the theme keeps the uploaded image as thumbnail. But if my post has 2-3 images?How can i set the thumbnail image?
Nice theme thanks for sharing it
I adore this theme! It’s simply beautiful and exactly what I’ve been hoping to find after weeks of searching. I am also experiencing the same issue as valmg. When I read a single post, there are two images: A thumbnail and a larger size. Any simple solution, so that only a full size images pops up?
Wonderful work. I though it was a premium theme :O
Only a question: i understood that the theme keeps the uploaded image as thumbnail. But if my post has 2-3 images?How can i set the thumbnail image?
At first, I thought this is a premium them. But when I saw the download link, I was shocked. This is such a great wordpress theme!
@valmg:- In case you don’t want the single post to contain thumbnail, just remove the lines 10-13 in the single.php file from the theme folder.
Btw, I have added this as an option in the theme options page. You can choose whether you want a thumbnail in the single post or not. So, just download the new version
I adore this theme! It’s simply beautiful and exactly what I’ve been hoping to find after weeks of searching. I am also experiencing the same issue as valmg. When I read a single post, there are two images: A thumbnail and a larger size. Any simple solution, so that only a full size images pops up?
I downloaded it and it’s gorgeous. I notice that the thumbnail image appears in the post when you’re reading the single post, causing two of the image to appear. Is there a way to remove the thumbnail from the post by any chance?
I think layout of this blog theme is amazing and can be used for multi niche blogs very well . I wil add this theme in my next collection for sure .
The Theme looks great and has lots of options to play with, I really like the layout of the home page and the footer widgets.
I also would love have to have localization build in to make it easier to translate the theme for the Dutch WordPress users.
Thank you for providing us with this great new addition to the WordPress community
nice theme. Thank your post
Great theme. i’m thinking to implement this one into one of my projects
yet again you’ve outdone yourself Jai. Great job on the theme and keep up the awesome work!
Awesome Job Jai!
@SE7EN:- Oh God! I am so sorry. Fixed it now. It was a cookie issue.
The link to demo is incorrect. I see another theme.
A new great theme, but i repeat my question: when will you offer a theme that will support localization. It may be simpler for many your visitors to translate the themes when they need it in another language. (Sorry for my bad english, i look for german themes.)
The demo look different as in the capture, not so multicolor.
Nice theme, clean and simple, great work..
Yep, I use this one my website as well and love it! I have had several compliments on the “cleanliness” of the theme. I always send them here!