Codelog Theme

The Codelog theme is a stylish and lightweight two-column WordPress theme. It is compatible with WordPress versions from 2.0; when used with WP 2.3, it also supports WordPress tags. The theme uses a couple of icons from the marvellous Silk iconset.

If plain blogging is what you do, this theme is for you. The only features of this theme are fast loading, clean code and the elegant look. Ok, it also comes with multi-language support (German already included). But that’s it, less is more!

What else is there to say? Nothing. Get it and enjoy!

Download the Codelog theme v0.1 as .zip or as .tar.gz

Note: If you can’t open any of the packages, please try with 7zip. If you post a comment regarding problems with unpacking, please include the sentence “I have tried with the latest 7zip”, or prepare to be ignored.

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15 Comments

  1. Fath · December 27th, 2007 at 2:56 pm #

    Pretty nice theme :)

  2. David Potter · January 16th, 2008 at 6:40 am #

    Very nice theme. Two things I’d like to see: widget-ready sidebar and page bar across the top. I’ll probably add the former (pretty easy to do) and if I have time I’ll look into the latter - unless you decide to do it first :-).

    One thing - the zip archive is not Windows compatible, which is a pain. 7zip works, though.

  3. Christoph Voigt · January 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pm #

    Any chance you can make the theme widget-ready and make use of i18n?

  4. Alex · January 16th, 2008 at 2:38 pm #

    As for Widgets, I actually had a Widgets-ready version, but I have taken it out again. The reason is that the WordPress search widget looks very ugly in this theme, so I would need code an own search Widget. Maybe I’ll do it in the next release.

    As for i18n, the theme does have i18n support, and it comes with a German language pack already. Have a look at the subfolder lang/.

  5. David Potter · January 16th, 2008 at 8:53 pm #

    You might consider just releasing it widget ready. If no widgets are specified your default sidebar is displayed. I added widget support and it works pretty nice. The default search widget doesn’t look as nice as yours, but it isn’t too bad.

    I’m currently struggling with making it fluid-width. If I set the width in the main id to (e.g.) 90% and the width of the content id to (e.g.) 80%, everything looks fine unless the window is too narrow, in which case the sidebar slides to the bottom. I haven’t been able to figure out how to make sure the sidebar region next to the content is a fixed 240px. Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    David

  6. deuts · January 17th, 2008 at 7:03 am #

    this is a great theme, simple but definitely leaves impression. I’m considering it for my next project.

  7. Alex · January 17th, 2008 at 9:44 am #

    David, you must consider that the content comes before the sidebar and floats right. It also has a left margin of 240px. The sidebar doesn’t actually have a background color, but the body has a background image. (This is because elsewise the sidebar wouldn’t go to the page bottom in IE, which is very ugly.) I hope this helps you.

    deuts, I’m glad you like it! :)

  8. David Potter · January 17th, 2008 at 10:01 am #

    I figured it out, thanks. The only thing I haven’t been able to figure out is how to keep the footer at the bottom of the page when it is fluid. I’ll post my changes when I’m done.

    Thanks,
    David

  9. David Potter · January 25th, 2008 at 12:42 am #

    I finished my modifications to the theme and I’m now using it on my site. The most significant changes are to make it widget-aware and to support both fixed- and fluid-width layouts. Let me know if you have any questions.

    Thanks,
    David

  10. deuts · May 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm #

    The comments link (with the icon) in the postmetada in the homepage actually breaks in opera (the number of comments figure is pushed down and invisible). I wonder if there’s any workaround for this. Thanks for this theme.

  11. Angel Paunchev · July 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am #

    Great theme!

    I’m already using it on my personal blog. By the way, I made the theme widget-aware. I didn’t have any problems with it after that, except that I had to style the search form, but that went just fine. It’s working like a charm now. Thanks for the theme.

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  14. Marcis Gasuns · February 14th, 2009 at 11:49 am #

    Have installed your theme on 2 of my blogs - amazing theme. I’m a web developer myself and know how much time it takes to make something like this.
    But there seem some problems arise in IE7 with WP 2.7.1. I’ll drop a note when I’ll have a solution for that.

  15. deuts · May 19th, 2009 at 4:31 am #

    I’m thinking about porting this theme to be a tumblr theme. I hope you don’t mind. Proper credit will be given to whoever it’s due.

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