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Free “Vista” WordPress Theme
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 77 comments
VISTA version 1.2.5 released (19/10/2009).
- Moved RSS icon to the header.
VISTA version 1.2.6 released (09/12/2008).
- Re-packaged the zip file, when it’s decompressed the files would be in a folder “vista”.
VISTA version 1.2.5 released (27/11/2008).
- Included wp_footer() in footer.php, stats plugin and many others should work fine now (bug discovered by Antonio, thanks).
VISTA version 1.2.4 released (20/11/2008).
- Styled blockquote, code tags in comments.
- Changed the styling of code tag in posts.
VISTA version 1.2.3 released (06/11/2008).
- Children categories are now more distinctive.
- Upgraded the header (if you prefer the old one, I kept it for you as a “header-old.jpg” in img directory).
VISTA version 1.2.2 released (27/08/2008).
- Fixed widget search CSS. Now you can safely put search form into sidebar. (thanks wgnoyes for spotting this)
VISTA version 1.2.1 released (17/08/2008).
- Fixed bug. Widget option page showed only one sidebar in 3 columns mode while it had two.
VISTA version 1.2 released (14/08/2008).
- Added options page, now you have ability to change column number. Available options 2 or 3 columns.
VISTA version 1.1 released (11/08/2008).
- Re-designed comments template.
- Fixed margins & paddings of image captions.
- Days in calendar now have blue background.
- Made a text area smaller (it overlapped with columns on the right on some browsers).
Initial VISTA version 1.0.0 released (02/08/2008).
We are proud to announce our free WordPress theme called “Vista”. Theme was inspired by Windows Vista interface. A lot of care and attention is put into building this theme. The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL.
Features:
- Valid XHTML & CSS.
- Widget ready.
- Gravatars support.
- Looks good on any browser including IE6+, FF2+, Safari, Opera.
- SEO optimized.
- Three columns.
68 responses to “Free “Vista” WordPress Theme”
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Good theme,but the background color is so dark~
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I love the theme, but when I tried to use it all of my posts were pushed to the bottom of the page, and jumbled together. Any thoughts?
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Hi, great theme. But I think it would be better if the BLog title, and Categories listing at the header have a better font..
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its great theme, I Love it, but I have got an eror if I use IE,
look at
http://wp-themes.com/vista/in Ordered List the number always display 1.
help me for this
thq
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Is there a way to change the theme to two columns instead of three? I would love it if I only had one sidebar. This is a cool theme and it is fast.
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I’m not a Windows user and I’ve only seen screenshots of the Vista OS, but aside from the gradient image in the header and perhaps the top navigation strip (where you’ve got ‘Home’ & ‘About’) it doesn’t seem very Vista-like to me.
The navigation columns on the right where you’ve got Categories, Archives etc. look unfinished and don’t really fit in with the rest of the design. Is this because you have to be careful when using a design inspired by an OS where there’s copyright involved etc?
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Thank you guys for your feedback. I see many good points.
KimCool, I promise to make a nice background when I came back from my vacation on Tuesday
Rafazka, I’ll see what I can do later, thanks.
David, I’ll add an option page with later releases, so you could choose column number.
Andy, I didn’t want to make a clone of Vista OS, I did my own interpretation, hope you like it.
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David Perry, as requested the latest Vista theme version (1.2) supports option page where you can choose column number. I’m planning to integrate more options in the future.
Danny, could you please provide your website URL, so I can see what I can do.
If you have more requests, please shoot here
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Hi
It is a gr8 template.Thanks for your contribution.
Thanks
Ramesh
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I’m using it and I like it a lot. I would like to know how to make a links php which actually shows the sidebar and header. So far I’ve had no luck making one. Or even a seperate archives page as well.
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Z Miller, you need to download the latest version of the theme in order to have options page. Your version is 1.0.1 while the latest is 1.2.1 at the moment.
By the way, it’s not nice removing link to our website from the footer.
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thanks for making this theme and i’m using it of my blog. but i am having trouble on the rss feed. when you click it, I have a parse error. are there any way how to fix it? thnx. my blog site is in http://closingablaze.com
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willbill, thanks for using my theme. I visited your website and it seems it’s not theme’s issue, I bet even if you use default theme, it would throw the same parse error. Try upgrading to the latest WordPress version, hope it solves your problem. I’d also suggest to use the latest theme’s version (1.2.1) as it adds many fixes.
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wgnoyes August 20th, 2008 at 21:18
I like it! I notice if I add the search widget to a sidebar, the background blue box only comes partially down into the textbox instead of extending past the lower border of the find cmdbutton. Screenshot available here: http://kidchess.com/wordpressvista.jpg. Thanks!
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I LOVE this template. Currently using v1.1, as of this week. Going to upgrade tomorrow to the latest release.
One thing that I see missing, is the authors name on posts. How come? Can I do a quick edit somewhere to add the authors name? I don’t mind editing the PHP if that’s the only way. Just looking for pointers on it.
Only one other thing I’d love to see, is to make the width dynamic. It’s a fixed width in v1.1, and using widescreen monitors, so much real estate is wasted. Any thoughts on that?
Other than those two small nits, this is a wonderful theme. Great job! Thank you.
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wgnoyes, I fixed it for you. You can grab the fixes with newly released VISTA version (1.2.2), thanks for spotting this.
Shawn, I also included php code which displays the authors name. You just need to download the latest VISTA version (1.2.2), open index.php, single.php files, go to 56 line and remove comment tags which is wrapped around the_author().
It’s quite easy to make this theme’s width dynamic. The only reason I left it with fixed width as it’s quite hard to read the text when it’s expanded on the fullscreen. I might add an option which would allow to change template’s width from fixed to dynamic and via verse in the future.
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Hi,
There is a BIG bug in your theme. In files index.php, single.php and page.php you are outputing DOCTYPE and HTML HEAD before you call get_header() method. All this should go in header.php because get_header() loads that file. There should be no HTML output before the get_header() call. Some plugins rely on this and will not work with your theme.
Regards,
Milan -
Thanks for you feedback, Milan. Yes, I’m aware that get_header includes header template.
Could you please let me know which plugin won’t work? I can’t think of any plugin which would require to modify DOCTYPE declaration.
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I am having problems with the comment boxes ie name, mail and website boxes not aligning so that visitors put their info into the wrong boxes and get a error. I have looked at the code and cant see a problem but Im a newbie and not a programmer. I have checked it on IE and Firefox and get the same thing. Also on different version of IE I get all posts pushed down the page like Danny said above.
I love this them though and thank you for making it.
Can you help me?
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Paulineh, currently you are using the first release of the theme, please upgrade to the latest version (1.2.2), it should solve your issue. If not, please let me know and I’ll take a look again, thanks.
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Dear Admin
I have searched the internet to find out how to upgrade themes and I cant find anything. Its probably easy so nothing has been posted about it but Im still at a loss.I have made some changes to your theme but I have done a backup so I can see where changes were eg navigation files. Im a newbie and new to WP so Im still at a early learning stage.
Can you help?
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Paulineh, upgrading a theme, it’s just like installing a fresh copy.
Please download the latest version from my website and then just replace your older version. Unfortunately, all the changes you made to the theme would be lost.
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Admin I just uploaded the new version but it tells me on my admin page that I have broken themes.
quote: The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a style sheet and a template – stylesheet missingWhat do I do now. Upload it again?
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thanks for your work, one issue I have, only one, the tiny orange calendar does not work, shows dec 31 when it is sept 1 ??gotta a fix?
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wendy, it sounds like your server’s issue, could you please provide the link to your website?
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I just updated to 1.2.2. Thanks for adding the Author field in. It’s working great. Many thanks on this wonderful template.
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EXCELENT THEME!
Perfect for my website.
Is this theme will have updates? THANKS!!
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Sure, why not? If you have any suggestions for further improvements, let me know.
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Excelent!!
I have two suggestions, the first is that the category could have category distinction between father and son category. The second suggestion is that on top of the two bars there could be a sidebar to cover the size of the two.
Thanks and Regards!
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This might sound stupid but…
About the tabbed links at the top of the your fantastic wordpress theme, how do you change the order they appear in ?
Best Regards,
Gary -
It’s WordPress job to change tabs order not theme’s, but I’d reveal the secret, go to “Manage” => “Pages” => select a page and put some value into “page order” input.
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i am using this theme and its awsome….. only one thing i need is to be able to set the order ot column…. how to i put one side bar on each side and have the main page in the middle….
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Thanks for using my theme Raj.
You have either to customize CSS by yourself or wait for my update which would add such option.
Currently I’m working on my new theme, so it means “Vista” updates would be delayed a bit.
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I like the look and feel of this theme. It’s easy to use and to manage.
However, how do I get the author of the post to appear? -
I tried to get ride of the tags (RE for the author’s name to appear but could not get it to work). Could you provide the correct coding? thx
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JT Thompson October 4th, 2008 at 13:34
Great theme. For those that keep suggesting things for their own blog. you can simply edit the source of this.
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Fine theme but…
When trying to use the tag in posts the multi-page selection (Page 1 2) doesn’t appear.
Any ideas please ?
Thanks,
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I tried to insert the nextpage tag in the previous posts but the code was stripped, sorry for the confusion.
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GREAT theme with sleek and sharp look…i even modified the header to suit my needs….
however whenever i try to edit the theme in theme editor it strips the changes and do not save my code? i need to plug in some code in order to use some plugins e.g. category-icon
any solution?
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raj, don’t use theme editor, open files directly with external editor and do your modifications.
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Hi just downloaded your theme. Are there any instructions – help files for installing
Kevin
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