Free WordPress Theme: Balance of Blue
I’m releasing a free WordPress theme called Balance of Blue. It’s intended for bloggers and businesses and it’s loosely based on the code I used for the Ministry Free theme.
It has two columns in the main content area and three in the footer. It’s a bit more graphically involved than previous theme releases but still errs on the simple side. It’s optimized for some ad blocks – a banner in the header and a 300 x 250 in the sidebar.
If you need help, just leave a comment.
A note about support for this theme: If you find a bug, something broken that doesn’t work correctly, please let me know in the comments, but I’m afraid I can’t always answer questions about customizations – how to add a graphic, change font colors, etc. These are not bugs, but enhancements. I’d love to answer every question, but a great deal of time is required to do so.
If you require graphic or styling customization, you can check out the services I offer through my freelance site, eGrace Creative. You are also welcome to find someone else to customize the theme or do so yourself. Enjoy it!
I'm a Christian, a Pastor to Bethel Baptist Church in Bentonville, Arkansas, a husband to Angie, a Dad to Ella, and I also enjoy graphic and web design. I'm a huge fan of Chick-fil-A and have a little dog named Beau! 
Leo Hopf said,
I really like the clean job you did on Balance of Blue. I will use it for my blog.
One thing I can not figure out though. How do you insert the 468X60 banner?
Brandon said,
@Leo Hopf -
The easiest way to replace it is open the header.php file. You’ll see a “div” named banner-block. There is an opening tag (says “banner-block”) and a closing tag two lines later. Replace the line between those 2 tags with your ad code and your ad should appear. I would print the code here for you to see, but WordPress won’t allow me to do so in the comments without messing things up.
Kevin said,
Great job on the theme. Looks fantastic!
A quick question… The search results page doesn’t keep the right column in place. It appears at the bottom of all search results. Might you consider tweaking this element to more closely match the rest of the superb design?
Brandon said,
@Kevin -
You are absolutely right! In the search.php file, I have a div with an id=”content float-left two-column”. That’s wrong. It should be an id=”content” and a class=”float-left two-column”. It’s on line 3 at the very top. I’m going to upload a changed version to WordPress. Thanks for pointing this out.
Kevin said,
Whoops…. guess it strips out html. Let’s try again:
I think there is still one small tweak that needs to be made to search.php. I think you are missing a div tag right after the excerpt section, and right before the no posts match your criteria section. I added that to my search form and it works great. Thanks again for the work on it, and I gave you 5 stars!
Jacques said,
Hi
I’ve downloaded this them and I like it a lot. There is one thing though. I would like to change the blog title to font-family: forte. I changed this in style.css, but however when i view this the change doesn’t appear. Any ideas why this is happening?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jacques’s last blog post..Baby Sleep Routine
Brandon said,
@Jacques -
I don’t have forte on my computer, but when I test changing other fonts in the theme on my PC, it works. In the stylesheet, I have all fonts set in the body tag, which is where you’d want to change it.
Jim Guerci said,
@Brandon –
Could I replace the ad with a logo that measures the same as the banner ad?
Brandon said,
@Jim Guerci -
You may absolutely do that. In fact, I like seeing people modify the themes. If you need any help getting it done, just let me know.
Nate said,
I have started my first blog. I messed with the sidebar code for ad purposes and now I am wondering where I can get the default code to past it back into the sidebar.php file and start over. Can you help?
PS I love this theme. Its very clean and simple, yet functional.
Nate’s last blog post..Remove God from schools?
Brandon said,
@Nate –
I’ve sent you an email with the sidebar file attached. Thanks for using the theme!
Jon said,
I just wrote you with a comment on your ministry free design. After looking through your posts I actually decided I liked the Balance of Blue design even better for my purposes.
How can I substitute a logo for the banner ad, and is it possible to delete the black box at the very bottom of the page that says, blogroll, etc?
Thanks for the help!
Brandon said,
@Jon -
Thanks for using the theme. I’ve written some instructions for changing the banner in the header here. And to remove the blogroll you have two options. Create a new widget in sidebar 3 and it will automatically replace the blogroll, or open up footer.php and delete lines 44-47.
Jon said,
Thanks for your help!
Jon said,
What is the easiest way to load pictures into the blog posts?
Jon’s last blog post..Stop pain by….eating?
Brandon said,
@Jon -
If you’re using WordPress at least version 2.3, right above the post editor should be a little row of icons where you can add various kinds of media, including pictures. I’ve pre-styled photos in all my themes to handle the built-in caption functionality.
Jon said,
I feel like I’m you’re new #1 fan! I was attempting to edit the main index template and I goofed up the code when I repasted the original. Do you have the original main index template (index.php) code so I can fix the damage I’ve done?
Thanks for everything!
Jon’s last blog post..Stop pain by….eating?
Brandon said,
@Jon -
On it’s way by email. Thanks so much.
Lisa said,
Hi Brandon,
I love the Balance Of Blue…very soothing. Thanks for the great work – it caught my eye immediately. I’m using it for a company blog and am wondering why all my links in the blog roll and basically anything I add end of on the pages I created (Welcome and About page). How can I make sure more is adding to the landing (Home) page? Please talk slowly…it’s my first blog.
Like your blog too!
Thank you in advance,
Brandon said,
@Lisa -
I’d love to help, but I’m not sure I understand your question very well. The links in the footer of the site exist with every new WordPress install. You can delete them all by going to Manage > Links and selecting them all and deleting them. Then you can supply your own. Or, to replace the blogroll (links) altogether, just go to Design > Widgets and put any widget you want in Sidebar 3, which is where the blogroll appears. Your new widget will replace the blogroll.
Any new posts will show up on your home page automatically. You determine how many will show up by going to Settings > Reading.
Let me know if this is what you were asking. If not, I’ll take another shot. Thanks for the compliment and for downloading Balance of Blue.
Jon said,
Thanks again for all your help- is it possible to alter the code to get rid of the stuff under the post that reads:
“Posted by Dr. Jonathan Walker on November 19, 2008 under Back Pain, Degenerative Disc Disease, Disc Herniation, Neck Pain, Sciatica | Be the First to Comment | Edit”
I’ve tried deleting various lines but cannot get this stuff to disappear!
Thanks again!
Jon said,
If it is not possible to remove the “posted by, etc”, then is there a way to make the text in the same color (white) as the background so it can’t be seen?
Jon’s last blog post..Frequently Asked Questions
Brandon said,
@Jon -
You can remove it, but you’ll need to access several files. In index.php, single.php, you’ll fine a line that begins with p class=”premeta”. You’ll need to remove that all the way to the closing /p tag. I can’t put the full code here or it will mess up this page, but in the original file, it’s line 12 in both files.
Jon said,
You’re the man!
Jon’s last blog post..Frequently Asked Questions
Brendan said,
Hi Brandon,
First time blogger here who went through all of the WP themes and fell in love with what you’ve created here. Simple yet very cool. Excellent job.
Question for you. I’m not sure why, but on my “About” page, the sidebar is appearing horizontally at the bottom of the page (below my “About” blurb). When I look at the Design editor, I don’t see a page for “About”, so I don’t know how I could have screwed this up (although I’m sure somehow I managed to do so!). Do you think you can take a look and help me out?
Thanks in advance.
Brendan
Brendan’s last blog post..A sad day in San Francisco
Brandon said,
@Brendan -
Brendan, I’ve looked at your blog’s code and somehow, the sidebar gets started 3 times. I’d have to see your sidebar.php file to understand why, and I’d have to know how you’ve added widgets, but basically, there should only be one div with an id of sidebar. If you want to add elements or widgets within the sidebar, they would need to be a div with a class of widget instead of an id of sidebar. Make sense? Let me know if I can help further – I’d be happy to dissect your code if you’d like. Thanks!
scott said,
I was wondering if there is a way to change the font (and size) of the links to the categories in the header. The titles I use are pushing some of them under the viewing area. Or, is there a way to resize the block at the top to make them all fit? Thanks! Love the theme!!!
Brendan said,
Thanks, Brandon! I think I got it. I really appreciate the help.
Brendan’s last blog post..A sad day in San Francisco
Brandon said,
@scott -
You can open stylesheet.css and find the line that says #navbar .topics li and add an attribute like font-size: 0.8em; and see if they fit. You can also increase the height of the navbar to allow for 2 lines, but you would need to re-create the gray background in a graphics editor. Make sense?
chris said,
Great theme!. I am having the same problem as Scott and was wondering if there was a way to hand pick which pages appear in the navigation bar at the top. Our blog has over 10 pages and there is no way they can all fit. I just want a select few up there.
Brandon said,
@chris -
Yes, you can do that. With the pages in the navigation, open up header.php and find the line that says php wp_list_pages(); (can’t print the full code here) and between the parentheses, add this ‘include=1,2,3′ where the numbers are the ID’s of the pages you want to include. The same works for exclude. Here’s a link to the specific page in WordPress’ codex that gives more detailed instructions about listing pages and here’s the link to the codex page that talks about the same issue with the categories.
Mark said,
Brandon,
Love the theme. I am having a small problem. On my home page, the sidebar gets pushed out of the way and disappears to the bottom or gone completely. It doesn’t do this on any other page. I think it must not lock into position and wrap the text so the text ends up pushing it out of the way. Any suggestions?
Mark’s last blog post..Christmas Casa Lights
Brandon said,
@Mark -
I have looked at your home page and I think the problem pertains to text that you may have pasted from Word. In your second post, there is a table inserted with a class of MsoNormal, which is part of the code that Word puts out. I would recommend opening up at least the second post (and any you’ve pasted from a Microsoft program) and click on HTML. You’ll see a large block of code at the top and bottom, which needs to be deleted. Basically, this code has taken the sidebar and included it in the second post on the page.
You can paste from Word, but do so in html view, then switch to visual so that it strips away Microsoft’s bloated code. Let me know if this works or not. Thanks for using the theme!
Mark said,
Thanks Brandon,
I took out all of the MsoNormal code and that still didn’t work, but was able to find the problem. I had a rouge piece of code at the beginning of one of my posts and once I removed that, it went back to normal.
Love the theme by the way.
Mark’s last blog post..When it’s OK to use the “S” Word
Brandon said,
@Mark -
Mark, I’m so glad it worked and thanks for the compliment. Don’t hesitate to ask for help if you run into anymore issues.
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Rahul said,
Hello Brandon,
I am using your theme for my new blog.. and I must say, it was just what I needed. Thanks so much.
I was wondering if I can replace the header text with an image.. a logo for to be precise. If yes, how could I go about doing it. Thanks a lot! And one again, thank you so much! :)
Lazy2Work said,
Excellent theme Brandon! I am lucky to find this attractive theme which is very well suited for my blog http://www.Lazy2Work.com.
I just would like know the color code that has been used for the header-bg.jpg. This would be very much useful in choosing an 468×60 header image or ad that can be properly blended into it. Thank You!
Lazy2Work’s last blog post..Top Strategies for Dealing with Stress in the Workplace
Brandon said,
@Lazy2Work –
It is #003466. I’d also like to recommend ColorZilla, a Firefox add-on that lets you discover the color of anything on the web. Thanks!
Lazy2Work said,
Thank you very much!
Lazy2Work’s last blog post..Top Strategies for Dealing with Stress in the Workplace
Taneya said,
I like your theme and decided to use it for my website. Thanks! http://www.taneya-kalonji.com
Taneya’s last blog post..Happy New Year – 2009
Jon said,
I’ve got several sites up with your theme, and I’ve gotten great feedback on them! I’d like to know how to remove the link that says “subscribe” in the header? I’ve tried deleting that section of code on the header.php but can’t seem to get it right!
Thanks again for your help!
Jon said,
I figured out how to do it! Nevermind on the help!
Gilles said,
Hello Brandon, really like your theme, i was able to replace the banner, but how do i get it to link to a web adress? (I’m a php newbie).
Gilles’s last blog post..Qlikview Scripting Tips Part 2: Two ways to create a master calendar
Kevin Krepinevich said,
Brandon – great job with Blaance of Blue. But a silly question. We want to use this and the word press software but we have volunteer team members that we want to have things posts to their categories but we do not want those posts to show up on the “home page” Is there a way to do this so that we could use the home page as more of a welcome page? Or only posts I would would want to add and the others would only post to their category?
Thanks
Kevin Krepinevich’s last blog post..January 17th Kick Off Meeting
Brandon said,
Yes, open up header.php, find your image, and just wrap in in a link, just as though it’s straight html.
Brandon said,
Kevin, there are actually quite a few ways to go about this and each offers different results. You can choose for a single page to be the home page, as opposed to all the latest posts. You do that under Settings > Reading. You can also skip categories within the loop, which is more complicated and requires some more in-depth code work than I could possibly cover in this comment but it would basically allow you to skip certain categories. I would highly recommend checking out a couple of web sites that offer great tutorials on subjects such as these. WP Hacks and WP Recipes.
Hector Urzua said,
Hi!
It’s a great theme, thanks for shared it.
I only have a problem: the li-bullet icon, applied to comments area, appears on the name of author and on the entry name.
I tried to edit the style sheet, but any change affect to the rest of areas (blogroll, recent entries, etc.)
Do you have any solution or suggestion?
Thanks a lot.
Hector Urzua.
Roy Johnson said,
I posted earlier asking for help with placing my banner into Balance of Blue. In the middle of the night, I had a “DUH” moment. I figured out the easiest way to replace a banner with another banner. It’s a manual process but it got the job done in about three minutes. Your generic banner is in …/wp-content/themes/new-balance-of-blue/images/468ad.jpg. I renamed your JPEG to 468ad-original.jpg and renamed mine to 468ad.jpg in the same folder. My banner appeared on the site immediately. DUH! I should have figured that out from the get-go!
You did a great job. Many thanks.
Roy Johnson’s last blog post..Massachusetts may consider a mileage charge
John said,
Yes, very good job you did Brandon. I studied most of the business themes and yours is among the best. Probably I will use it in one of my new financial blog. It can easily be fitted for magazine style blogs, for news and similar websites.
Again, good work!
Patrick Schriel said,
Hi Brandon,
I really like you Balance of Blue theme. Using it now for my blog. It rocks! It is simple but very stylish.
I have one question. I noticed that the Articles by Category and the Recent Posts in the sidebat part of the sitebar template and thus cannot be removed. Is there any reason why you did this as both are part of the available, selectable, widgets?
If I want to remove them, what is the best solution?
Thanks, Patrick
Brandon said,
Thanks Patrick! I actually have no idea why I did it that way, but you canopen up sidebar.php and find them and simply delete them, then add them using widgets wherever you’d like. You’ll be able to spot them by finding the h2 tags that contain ‘Articles by Category’ and ‘Recent Posts.’ Delete everything starting with the line that says div class=”widget” through the closing /div. I can’t do the little < and > here or it will mess up this comment. I hope this helps!
Jack said,
I really like your New Balance of Blue theme. I’m not pro, but I often help people install Wordpress for their blogs. I’ve been holding yours for a while, hoping I would find someone who needs it.
Is there a way to make the main content area a single column?
Thanks,
Jack
Jack’s last blog post..TEST
Brandon said,
Yes absolutely. And thanks so much! In the index.php file (and if you want, the page.php and single.php files also) eliminate the line that includes the wp_sidebar. Then, on the line that says div id=”content” change the class from two-column to three-column. That should do it. This is the beauty of developing on a grid. Let me know if you run into any problems at all. Thanks!
Ben Tovar said,
Hi Brandon,
I echo the comments made above when I say, great job on the theme, you did a wonderful job!
Question: When I edit the header.php file from within Wordpress and wrap a URL around my banner image at top right, and update, it makes my banner image disappear. Why is that? I’m fairly savvy with HTML but haven’t found the answer in the short amount of time I’ve spent.
Jack said,
Hi – great business layout – I want to use it without the sidebar but that just leaves a gap – I see you have a Full Width Page Template – please tell me how to activate it.
Jack’s last blog post..Do you know how much you pay in interest?
Brandon said,
Jack, thanks so much. To use the full width on a page, just create a page and over on the right, you’ll see the ability to select a “page template.” The full width is there. To use it for posts would require you to eliminate the sidebar altogether and make the full width your main index.php file.
Brandon said,
Ben, Thanks so much! I’m not sure why that is happening, but I did set the “overflow” to “hidden” which you’ll see in the stylesheet for that particular div. If your image ends up being larger than 468×60, it will disappear.
Chrissy said,
This is a really great template theme Brandon. It is very functional, very easy on the eye – thankyou
Jacques said,
@Brandon – thank you for responding to my query, I managed to get this resolved, it was working all along and i only had to clear the cache – CTRL-F5 did the trick to clear the cache, thanks Jacques
Jacques’s last blog post..Advertise your business online
susan said,
I downloaded the Balance of Blue theme, which is very nice. I don’t seem to have any links to the Administration Panel. How can I access it?
Brandon said,
No problem. On 99% of wp sites, you can put /wp-admin at the end of the domain, as in http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin and it will work.
Eric said,
I’m brand new to Wordpress and excited about what’s possible. Balance of Blue is exactly what i was looking for for colors etc. Can you give me some support in getting my logo onto pages in headers etc? Also is there a way to fill in the ad banner up top or shrink it and put my logo in there? I’m used to drag and drop kind of stuff and only just starting to get to work with wordpress. Thanks in advance.
Brandon said,
Eric, thanks so much for using the theme and the encouraging words. Try this link for a tutorial on tweaking the header & logo area. If all else fails, I’d be happy to get the logo up there where you want it for you. Thanks!
Jack said,
@Brandon – Thanks Brandon, worked great.
Got a follow up question – when I add level 2 pages, I can see that they are in the header menu, but they’re mostly hidden. Is there a way to move the menu up or to extend the depth of the blue background?
Jack’s last blog post..You’re paying too much tax, if you’re not in business for yourself
Eric said,
Brandon. I could use a hand changing the font of the title and getting my logo on the top with it. Can you spare a moment? Also, do you know how to get the categories to list the way i want them instead of alphabetical?
Mauree O'Grady said,
Hi Brandon
I’ve recently set up my blog site using your New Balance of Blue theme. Its a great theme, very eye catching. I have a couple of q’s though-
I recently added a post that included some text highlighted in orange and since then all of my excerpts appear in orange, can you advise me on how to change them all back to black?
Also,Some of the side bar has recently moved to the bottom of the page, I had this problem before and resolved it by taking off a table that appeared in a post, but I cannot cure the problem this time. Can you offer any advice
Many thanks
Mo
Mauree O’Grady’s last blog post..The Business Hands Cartoon Tree
Robert Smith said,
Brandon – This is just a beautiful theme, really nice! Thank you for making it available. I am testing for my web site and I was wondering, is there an easy way to add dropdown function to the category navigation bar?
Brandon said,
Eric, You the font can be changed in the style.css file by changing it in the header div – you’ll see the styling for the title there. To get your logo into the header would just require a bit of html work – adding it into the header.php file in the appropriate place.
Brandon said,
Mo, both problems sound like unclosed tags. I would check through your html and make sure that every time there is a div or font tag opened to set a style, that you also have a closing tag, otherwise, everything after the opening tag will be styled as well.
Brandon said,
Robert, there’s definitely not an easy way, but it can be done. Here is a link to quite a few drop down menu resources in my delicious account.
Robert Smith said,
@Brandon –
Brandon – Thanks for this great resource of links, I’ll look it over and let you know how I make out.
susan said,
Hi Brandon,
The blog is coming along and looks very nice! Can you tell me how to add rss feeds for the posts?
Thank you in advance.
Brandon said,
Susan, WordPress automatically produces a number of feeds – feeds for all posts, comments, each category, etc. Type your domain followed by /feed.
Maureen O'Grady said,
Author: BrandonComment: Mo, both problems sound like unclosed tags. I would check through your html and make sure that every time there is a div or font tag opened to set a style, that you also have a closing tag, otherwise, everything after the opening tag will be styled as well…
Thanks so much for your help Brandon,, you are a gent. Problem solved and site looking good
Mo
Maureen O'Grady said,
Hi Brandon
You really helped me to fix my last query, my new query is that i want to upload my own header for my blog with a hyper link on the logo. I have it all designed and want to upload it without losing the links 'home, about, subscribe' Can you give me some advice on how to do that please. Thanks again Mo
Aron said,
Thanks for this great theme Brandon! I am using it for my blog: http://aronparker.com/blog. Still have alot more to do to it. Thanks again!
Maureen O'Grady said,
Hi Brandon, Mo here again. Its a lovely sunny day in the UK today (surprisingly enough!) but my hopes for a productive afternoon are fast dwindling away from me. Whenever I try to upload a new post or page to my site it causes an error on the site. i.e.
The FastCGI Handler was unable to process the request.
——————————————————————————–
Error Details:
The FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout
Error Number: 258 (0×80070102).
Error Description: The wait operation timed out.
HTTP Error 500 – Server Error.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Have I somehow corrupted the theme, or is this a problem many are experiencing. I look forward to hearing back from you and hope you are well and good over there in the USA
Regards
Mo
Brandon Cox said,
Wow, I've never heard of that before, but I must say, 99% of my work has been on LAMP servers, so I'm not familiar with IIS errors. This one might be worth posting or searching over a the forums on WordPress.org.
Maureen O'Grady said,
Hi Brandon
thanks so much for your reply. I did look on the WP forums and found that many people were having the same problem as me that day. Just for future info, it turns out that the plug in 'tweet this' had to be disabled and then the new version loaded. I disabled all my plug ins and then reloaded them just for good measure.
Thanks again
Mo
Roy Johnson said,
Brandon, once again, thank you for Balance of Blue. It's great. Passing along comments from many others, it's great.
Here it comes. There is always a but. But, the blue triangle bullets in "Recent Comments" just won't cooperate. They are indented and appear on top of text. This happened once at the start. I got them to not appear at all until I upgraded to IE8. Now, they appear for each entry uniformly. In case you can't see it, I will shoot you a jpg.
Would you consider doing an upgrade to fix that?
Many thanks.
Maureen O'Grady said,
Hi Brandon, I did email you through egrace but didnt get a reply. Basically I am using your New Balance of Blue theme and i love it but would like to have my own header. As a non-technie I have somehow built my site from scratch but cannot find a way to do the header myself, I have an image that I would like to upload and wondered if I could commission your services on a paid basis to assist me with this
Thanks again Brandon
Mo
Brandon Cox said,
Mo, I apologize for my excessively busy week – have been a bit behind on answering comments and emails. I'd be happy to help. If you don't mind, try me again at brandon [ at ] egracecreative [ dot ] com and attach your image – I'll see what I can do. Thanks so much!
Roy Johnson said,
Brandon,
Please give me a response. I received an email as though there should be a response but it was missing.
@Roy Johnson -
Brandon said,
@Roy Johnson – Roy, this is an issue I haven’t encountered yet and I’ll look into it as soon as I can. Thanks for letting me know.
Gail said,
Dear Brandon,
I’m using your Balance of Blue for a membership site. I love the styling. You did a great job!
I’ve read through your posts here and found another person who wanted to change the font and/or color of font in the header. My concern, exactly.
I went to the style.css as you mentioned and saw the header section, but I couldn’t figure out how to change the main title to color #f5be63. I would like the hover color to be white (ffffff). I want the main title to be Comic Sans. Where do I list that in the script?
I also would like the sub-title (description) to be white instead of gray/blue because I changed the background color to be darker (thanks to Photoshop).
Every time a made a slight change in the .css for the font, it either didn’t work or it made the entire heading white (no blue). I finally became frustrated and decided to write.
These posts help a lot!!
Please, if you have time, help. Thank you,
Gail
Brandon said,
Gail, no problem – anything for bluegrass! In style.css, find and change these lines…
p.site-title between the {brackets} add font-family: comic sans, comic-sans;
p.site-title a change #fff to #f5be63
p.site-title a:hover change #ddd to #fff
That should do it.
And as a bonus… a post from Brian Hoff about this thing we call “comic sans” (in good fun).
Mauricio said,
Hi,
I’ve read how to put the 468 60 banner on the header and I managed to do it with no trouble. But, how am I going to insert the 300 250 on the sidebar? Using a widget? Or is there a way to do it in the theme editor?
Thanks.
P. S.: it’s a very beautiful theme!
Brandon said,
Yes, you can add the 250 into the sidebar using a text widget. Just put the code in the text box and title it “Sponsors” or something of the like. Or you can do it manually by opening sidebar.php and inserting the ad code between widgets. Thanks for the compliment and I hope I’ve helped.
Don Orton said,
Great theme, Brandon….nice work. I’m just learning how to use wordpress for a website (not a blog at this time) and was attracted to the professionalism that Balance of Blue shows. Right now I’m trying to change the footer to your “standard” blue, and I’m having trouble with the top part of the footer, where site info, pages and blogroll are listed. I was able to change the lower part, but it looks like the upper part may be an image? Could you pls send me either a new image in #003466 or tell me what lines of code to change? Thanks……much appreciated.
Maurício said,
Hi,
I have been trying to find a plugin like the one you have here: “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail”. Can you give me its name?
Thanks,
Maurício.
Gail said,
Since mine is a subscription website and I’ll be collecting e-mail addresses, I would like to put a “Privacy Policy” link or actual 8pt text in the side bar under the “Sign Up” section.
Can I add text to the sidebar? And, if so, how?
Thanks!! (again)
Brandon said,
Sure no problem, here’s the link.
Brandon said,
Gail, yes, you can do that by either adding a text widget, or just open up sidebar.php, find the spot you want the text to appear, and add it.
Karl Craig-West said,
Thanks for a great theme, it’s almost exactly the design a client of mine has been looking for.
Cheers,
Karl
Tim said,
Hi Brandon.
Did you check your theme for Wordpress 2.8 compatibility? :-)
Brandon said,
Tim, I plan on checking all of my themes, but I’m totally covered up right now. WordPress should really check with me before they release updates on time. :)
Ron said,
Hey Brandon great theme. I was wondering, how do I change the color of the text in the post? I would like to make it darker. Thanks for your help.
Brandon said,
Ron, the short answer – look at the top line of the style.css file. You’ll see color: #444; or something like that. Change those 3 digits to change the color of everything that isn’t specifically styled elsewhere. The longer answer… I style everything one color, then style specific elements like h1 tags and h2 tags throughout the stylesheet. But I always leave main content paragraphs unstyled so that they are set by this main top line.
Patrick Schriel said,
Brandon,
I’m changing WP themes on my patrickschriel.com blog from Balance of Blue to Thesis. Not because I don’t like your theme anymore but Thesis is giving me more flexibility. In fact I like the BoB design so much that I would like to tweak the new Theme to resemble BoB.
Do you mind if I do this, reusing the header and sidebar jpg’s and font settings of BoB?
Brandon said,
@Patrick – Not only do I not mind, I encourage it. :) It’s creative. Further, I release all of my themes under a GPL license, which means you can do absolutely anything with them you would like except change the license. Best of luck and let me know if you need any help. Thesis is cool!
Tim said,
@Brandon – I’ve tested your theme agains WP 2.8 – it works pretty well :-)
Maybe I don’t use all features of 2.8 and in any case, I’m well satisfied with your theme! :-)
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