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
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
- Extract the plainscape.zip file in a convenient location
- Copy the ‘plainscape’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels
- Select the ‘Themes’ sub-menu from ‘Appearance’ menu (or ‘Design’ or ‘Presentation’ depending on the WP version you are using).
- Select the Plainscape theme from the available list of themes to preview
- Activate the theme.
- 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
I’ve been using this theme for a few months now over at http://freewareguy.com and I love it. Very easy to understand/modify. An excellent theme for those focused on real content and not just eye candy. Thanks!
Hello,
This is very pretty theme. i like to use it on my blog but like to know that can i modify it in my way and remove Powered by “WordPress” and “plainscape theme” links ?
thanks..
You can find the code to remove in footer.php. I’d appreciate if you can keep the links, but it’s okay to remove the links if you want it that way. Thanks for using the theme anyway.
Hi,
I’ve been using the Plainscape theme only for a couple of days now, but it looks like it is going to be a keeper. Hopefully you will continue to develop it and work on additional functionality.
Hope you don’t mind some suggestions for what I would certainly love to see in the near future:
- an optional second widget-enabled sidebar,
- an optional two-column widget-enabled row above the footer,
- possibility for a visitor to increase the overall font-size to improve readability
Keep up the good work,
Patrick
Patrick, thanks for your feedback. I intend to work on all of those features soon.
Hi Srini,
Thanks for this wonderful, clean theme. It works really well with my blog.
I was wondering, is it possible to replace the text title with an image? I would like to put my blog title in my standard fonts, similar to the “Lucid systems” logo on our main website. Thought an image would be easiest.
I’m not a coding pro so step by step instructions would be most helpful!
Thanks,
Steve
Steve, refer to this post http://srinig.com/wordpress/2009/02/plainscape-wp-theme-update-v-101/
Hi Srini,
This did not quite work for me.
First, I want to replace the header, not just make a background for it. The old header text still appears “underneath” my new header.jpg file. That file has a transparent background, should I just make it white so it covers up the text header, or is there a way to disable the Blog name and description and replace them completely with the header image?
Second, when I uncomment those 2 lines, the image shifts to the left, maybe 30 pixels or so. So the right end of the 960 width image now goes beyond the right border, cutting off some of my image.
Can you help with these additional questions?
Thanks, Seve
sorry, I meant shifts to the right. Steve
Steve, I’m sorry i mentioned in that post that 120×960 images work best, while it’s actually 120×920 images that work best. You may cut down 20px from both sides of your header.jpg.
And to hide the text header, you will have to introduce the visibility property for h1 and div.description. Your edited code should look like the following lines.
Just replace lines 116 to 132 of your style.css file with the above lines of code.
Hope that helps. Cheers.
Hi Srini,
That worked perfectly. I hope my new header keeps to the clean and simple spirit of plainscape.
Thanks,
Steve
i would like to see this theme in a fixed 3 column version sidebar-content-sidebar. there are not many themes like that, so i think you could make a lot of people happy *wink*.
i know you have the f2 theme, but this one is prettier and i dont like the fluid width.
another suggestion would be to alter the background colors of the comments.
i hope you have the time and the joy to continue to improve this theme.
anyhow, great theme, love the simplicity.
perfectday, thanks for your suggestions. I intend to improve the theme and update as soon as possible.
Cheers, wish you a perfect day
How do I remove the archive title or extend the amount of time before it shows on a page?
I’m sorry I don’t understand your question. ?
It appears that when ever a category linked is click, the top of the page returned reads “ARCHIVE FOR THE ‘Title Here’ CATEGORY”.
I’m not sure why thats happening to be honest.
If you prefer not to have that text in your category pages, you can look for the text in archive.php and just remove it.
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Very Nice.Gracias.
You’re welcome! Gracias!
Just want to say that this theme is wonderful. And the tagline showing up on the side in a word bubble: brilliant!
Thanks,
^_^
Oops, ignore the last sentence. I combined your theme with parts of what I saw in another theme. I still really like the simplicity of your theme ^_^
No problem Jovel, thanks for you appreciation anyway
Hola, no hablo inglés lo siento.
No funciona el botón Home ¿?
Thanks
I’m sorry I don’t speak much Spanish, but where does the Home button not work? dónde está el botón Home no funciona?