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Plainscape

Download version 1.0.3 (Updated on 13 March 2009)


Plainscape WordPress Theme is a plain and simple theme that just works!

Plainscape WordPress theme screenshot

Plainscape WordPress theme

Features

  • Fixed width
  • Two columns
  • Right sidebar
  • Supports comments threading (WP 2.7), comments paging (WP 2.7), gravatars, post tags, sidebar widgets
  • Compatible with WordPress versions 2.5 to 2.7.1, and possibly with older versions
  • Valid XHTML and CSS
  • Simple / minimalist / plain / clean / blue / white

Download

Download v1.0.3 of the theme from the WordPress theme directory.

Released for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Installation

  1. Extract the plainscape.zip file in a convenient location
  2. Copy the ‘plainscape’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
  3. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels
  4. Select the ‘Themes’ sub-menu from ‘Appearance’ menu (or ‘Design’ or ‘Presentation’ depending on the WP version you are using).
  5. Select the Plainscape theme from the available list of themes to preview
  6. Activate the theme.
  7. Your selection should immediately become active.

Changelog

2009-03-13: 1.0.3
archive.php line 57 closing h2 tag corrected

2009-03-10: 1.0.2
comments.php bug fixed.

2009-02-26: 1.0.1
Minor fixes, improvements. Changed files: header.php, style.php, comments.php

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  1. Cafeine65 » Blog Archive » Bonjour tout le monde ! says:
    June 11, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    [...] enfin trouvé il s’agit de Plainscape [en], à partir de cette base très épurée, je pourrais confectionner mon thème plus personnel. [...]

  2. Alix says:
    June 11, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    If I apply widgets, then I lose the existing sidebar. How do I have widgets and the existing sidebar at the same time?

  3. Cheap travel says:
    June 12, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Nice WordPress theme. Where’s the third column? Might be nice to give that choice.

  4. Sergey says:
    June 19, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Theme archive on wodpress repo is corrupted, automatically update failed. Fix it please.

  5. CMS Website says:
    July 6, 2009 at 2:26 am

    I have WP 2.8 installed already… Is this theme compatible with 2.8. Plz answer, cause I would like to use it on one of my websites…

    • Srini says:
      July 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm

      Yes, this theme is very much compatible with WP 2.8… in fact, this site currently runs in WP 2.8 and uses the plainscape theme.

  6. Jeff Flowers says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:13 am

    I just wanted to tell you that I really like Plainscape. Except for messing with the sidebar a little bit, it was perfect right out of the box.

    Thanks for creating it and making it available!

  7. Marco Túlio says:
    July 21, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    The code “start_template.php” is creating a spam link with the words: “viagra” and “cialis”

    How i can resolve this?

    I’m waiting a answer.

    • Srini says:
      July 22, 2009 at 4:58 pm

      There is no such file as ‘start_template.php’ that comes along with this theme. The theme is absolutely spam free. Apart from a single link to the page http://srinig.com/wordpress/themes/plainscape/ on the footer, the theme doesn’t insert any other link.

      There are only two locations you should download my themes from:
      1. My website, http://srinig.com/wordpress
      2. Official WordPress theme repository, http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

      If you have downloaded the theme from any other website, I am not responsible for spam links that the third party distributors insert into the theme.

      I suggest you delete your current files, and once again download an authentic copy of the latest version of the theme from here.

  8. Lesha says:
    July 23, 2009 at 1:56 am

    Hello!

    I will try to add ability to translate you’re theme, and i will notice in legacy.comments next thing:
    /wp-admin/profile.php
    You are hardcoded here path to ‘wp-admin’, but this patch can be different. I think it’s can make an issue on WP installs with custom patches to admin, plugins and etc. directories.
    I remember WP Planet wrote about it very recently.

  9. typocurious says:
    August 6, 2009 at 5:39 am

    Thanks for this great theme, Very adaptable. I am using it with the latest WP iteration. 2.8.3. Will gladly donate something to the cause.

    I am curious if you might tell me how to easily add another item to the header menu. I do not mean another page, but a link to another site, a sponsor, to the right of “Subscribe to Feed” I would really like a little colored bullet in there too, but that’s wishful thinking.

    Also, I managed to install a header image and I”d like to drop the entire structure down about 50 pixels. Again . . . how? Any information would be appreciated.

    • Srini says:
      August 6, 2009 at 4:04 pm

      I see that you have already added the item to header menu. You can customize the height of header in style.css.

      #header { height:50px; }

  10. Daniel Martins says:
    August 13, 2009 at 5:52 am

    Hello Srini,

    Thanks for such a great theme. I write most of the time in Portuguese, so I decided to make a few changes to Plainscape to make it easyly translatable to other languages (by using WordPress’ functions like __(), _e(), and so forth). I also changed some strings and messages, no big deal. :)

    The modified version can be seen at:
    http://weblog.destaquenet.com/

    Since Plainscape is licensed under the GPL, I made these changes public so everyone can benefit from them:

    http://github.com/danielfm/wp-plainscape-l10n/tree/

    Thanks again!

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