WordPress Guy

My First (free) Theme: Pistachio

Pistachio Theme

It’s only been 2 weeks since I launched wpguy.com, but I’ve managed to design and develop my first free WordPress theme!

Features

It’s called Pistachio (?), and these are some of the features included:

  • 3 Columns
  • Unique icons
  • Widget ready sidebars
  • Gravatar ready
  • Separated trackbacks and comments
  • Author comments highlight
  • Archives page template
  • Compatible with WordPress 2.3 and up
  • Valid CSS and XHTML

Installation

To install the Pistachio theme just follow these easy steps:

  1. Unzip the pistachio.zip file.
  2. Upload the resulting pistachio folder to the /wp-content/themes/ directory of your WordPress install
  3. Log into your blog admin and go to the Presentation > Theme area
  4. Find the Pistachio theme and activate it by clicking on it’s thumbnail
  5. That’s it, enjoy!

Preview and Download

Pistachio Demo
Download Pistachio 1.0

Donate

If you like Pistachio, please consider making a small donation:

donate

Comments

  • Neat theme. I like the color and detail :)

    SE7EN May 20th, 2008 at 6:00 am
  • The demo looks great. I’d have liked to have seen how an image within a post looks in your demo. I’ll download your theme and give it a test run.

    Trisha Cupra, Web Design Watchdog May 20th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
  • @Trisha Cupra: You’re right, I forgot… Thanks for the heads up. I’ve just put an image there.

    Wessley Roche May 20th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
  • Great image choice. I’m loving this design. The only thing I’d change if/when I use this myself, is the left margin on the sidebar lists. I’d add 10px. I’ve got a screenshot here that demonstrates what I mean.

    Trisha Cupra, Web Design Watchdog May 22nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
  • @Trisha Cupra: I actually wanted to do that from the beginning, but I ended up removing the margin because I felt the sidebars didn’t have much space and 10px seemed like a lot of space at the moment :-D

    Wessley Roche May 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
  • Hello
    I’ve unzipped the pistachio.zip file.
    I’ve uploaded the resulting pistachio folder to the /wp-content/themes/ directory of my WordPress install
    I’ve logged into my blog admin and I’ve gone to the Presentation > Theme area
    and finded the Pistachio theme and activate it by clicking on it’s thumbnail
    but it does not work. What’s wrong ? Could you help me.

    Raphaëlle

    Raphaëlle May 24th, 2008 at 2:12 am
  • @Raphaëlle: What version of WordPress are you using?

    Wessley Roche May 24th, 2008 at 11:24 am
  • A very nice and neat theme. I am impressed with your tutorials. I’ll be coming back for more.

    pinoy maritime June 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 am
  • Is there a plan to add a drop-down menu system to this already excellent theme?

    Thanks for releasing this theme!

    Claude Gelinas June 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
  • @Claude Gelinas: I’ll definitely consider drop-down menus in the future. Thanks for the suggestion ;-)

    Wessley Roche June 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
  • can you make the width flexible instead of fixed width ? - I’m an older guy and see better with a 800×600 screen :-) - also is it adsense ready yet ?

    Bobby June 4th, 2008 at 1:05 am
  • Beauty! I searched all yesterday for an appropriate theme for a new site idea I had. I think this is it, that makes me happy to not settle for almost..
    Aspects of it seem a bit soft, the tagline, search & the sidebars leave me trying to focus on their presentation. Maybe it is just me or my monitor…it really is top notch presentation free theme.
    All best for your future inspiration.

    (I will certainly drop a note if I launch the site with this theme)

    David@VineSites June 4th, 2008 at 6:40 am
  • great theme. i love it. found it at weblogtoolscollection

    Hussein June 4th, 2008 at 7:09 am
  • Not bad for start!

    WebTager June 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
  • I’ve used it in my blog Pinoy Maritime, but i’ve found out that it doesn’t look good on Internet Explorer. I’m using Firefox, but I’m just thinking what if some of the visitors of my blog uses the IE. Would there be any update in the future?

    pinoy maritime June 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
  • Looks really nice, but I would like to see how common HTML elements looks on posts: UL, IL, BLOCKQUOTE, CODE, IMG, etc.
    Can you publish some examples in the demo?

    Thank you!

    Leandro June 4th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
  • Buenísimo, me gustó mucho.

    Maquina Sideral June 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am
  • 非常漂亮!

    keke June 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
  • Love the theme, using it on http://www.benway.net/2008/06/09/web-20-genealogy-sites/
    But it doesn’t seem to work with the commentluv plugin, any ideas why?
    Thanks,jb

    Jason Benway June 11th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
  • @Jason Benway: I’m not sure why… I’ll have a look at the plugin…

    Wessley Roche June 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
  • Great theme!

    autworld June 12th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
  • I launched my new site with your theme - readthedamnrules.com - Thank You!
    I mentioned above (david@vinesites) that aspects of the theme seemed soft but maybe it was me or my monitor…well it is my monitor. Checked it out elsewhere and those elements seem just right. What else have I been missing all all these years?
    Thanks again wpguy. Keep up the good work.

    ReadTheDamnRules June 14th, 2008 at 7:30 am
  • nice theme, i will try it.

    willy June 16th, 2008 at 5:27 am
  • @pinoy maritime: I tested the theme on IE 6 and 7, and was working fine on both. Maybe you’ve made some kind of mistake somewhere when you customized it. Just a thought.

    Wessley Roche June 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
  • Thanks for the info wessley. I’ll check the theme again where i made the mistake. But thanks for checking, I really appreciate it.

    pinoy maritime June 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
  • Wessley, I did some checking with my site and I’ve found that when I start putting adsense and other affiliate banners, The sidebar starts to look weird on IE. Is there any help you can give to me about it?

    pinoy maritime June 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
  • Love the theme. One note - the .zip file contains mac trash. When I unzip it on my server, it unzips two folders, the theme folder, and a folder called __MACOSX. This is the result of using the built-in zip archiver for OSX (from the right-click menu). It’s nitpicky, but it clutters up the server when your theme is used.

    Thanks!

    michael lee July 15th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
  • @michael lee: Thanks for the heads up! Any idea of how I can zip it avoiding the OSX stuff?

    Wessley Roche July 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
  • Just an update. I found that I had to add:
    ID); ?>
    in the comments.php before the closing /form tag

    benwaynet August 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
  • Sorry the code didn’t come through,
    basically it was php do_action(’comment_form’, $post->ID);

    benwaynet August 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
  • Doesn’t seem to work on wordpress 2.6… am I wrong?
    Thank you, bye!

    [.::MDT::.] August 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

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