Make me a WordPress theme!

[Zdravko]

Hi there! :KS
I just started a new blog on a special Ubuntu-like host for free. The type of the blog is WordPress. Its topic is more or less focused on New Age life style, psychology, philosophy, and of course computers (I am a C++ programmer for Embedded systems).
Sadly, I could hardly find a suitable theme to design the blog. The default one (made by someone Kubrik) is nice, but it has also some cons:

date of post uses a predefined style, that I don't like
no author name in posts
sidebar disappears in certain pages
font and height is terrible
width of the content too small
etc...Maybe I can find a new theme that will match my expectations? Can someone make a theme for me? Or at least recommend me one? Or at least modify one for me? I can't pay, because I am driven by the Ubuntu spirit - humanity to others. Show me humanity, and I will include your name somewhere in the blog.
I repeat - I need a very simple theme. Just like the default one. But with different colors, fonts, etc...
Okay? :(

[Yizi]

i can design one based on ubuntu theme but you need to get someone to code it for you.
email me if your up for it.

Yizi@Yizi.co.uk

[Zdravko]

Yizi (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=371610), check your email. :)

[udienz]

Yizi (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=371610), check your email. :)
hi Yizi (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=371610), i want Wordpress Ubuntu Theme.
can you send Theme to my e-mail?? i want to running under Ubuntu spirit while i'm blogging
udienz@surabaya.linux.or.id

[Zdravko]

udienz (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=355667), now that was rude from your side! Yizi (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=371610) is not ready with my theme and now you request one for you. There is a queue!

[udienz]

check this
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Udienz/WordpressUbuntuTheme
:) i hope you like this theme, don't forget to give testimonial :guitar:

[Zdravko]

Yizi (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=371610) seems to have abandoned the cause. Someone else do me a favor and make that theme please!

[ascetic]

@Zdravko: I still work in progress to make an ubuntu wordpress theme. Perhaps will also convert it to Joomla and Drupal. Just wait one or two more weeks when I have enough time to finish it. Be patient :D

[Zdravko]

ascetic (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=338884), ok ;)

[udienz]

fixed theme at wordpress can be download at here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Udienz/WordpressUbuntuTheme?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=tango1.0_fixed.zip

[aldolat]

I just created a wordpress theme that brings to mind the design of official Ubuntu sites.

You can freely download it here (http://www.aldolat.it/grafica/the-spaceman/).

There's also a little forum (http://www.aldolat.it/forums/forum.php?id=7) to report bugs.

Grab it and enjoy!

[duckgoesoink]

Holy moly, who would post a thread like this? I'm surprised the OP got any positive replies at all. I wouldn't make a theme for that person based on this thread (demanding rather than asking, and calling that "the ubuntu spirit").

[aldolat]

duckgoesoink, I do not see anything bad in sharing a wp theme.

[duckgoesoink]

duckgoesoink, I do not see anything bad in sharing a wp theme.

Not the sharing of it (that's great in my opinion), just the way the initial demand was made. To me it felt like the person was demanding and expecting, instead of just asking (the thread title starts with a demand).

Maybe I'm just reading too much into the wording.

P.S. Your theme is cool.

[aldolat]

Ah, ok! ;)
As you say the author of this thread seems to demand a theme. Anyway, I thought to share the theme all the same.

[smartboyathome]

What guide did you use to make the theme (if you did use one)? I would like to make my mockup (http://www.smartboy.salocinlinux.org/?p=13) become a theme. Also, would you be able to make a background which doesn't move with the rest of the page, and transparent objects that change with the scrolling?

[aldolat]

None guide. I have been always editing the themes I used... so I have understood where to put my hands.

For the background, you can use this style

body {
background-image: url('path_to_image.ext');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: top left; /* or "top right" or "0px 0px", as you need */
}

For transparency, I do not know if only using HTML and CSS you can make that effect. Anyway, I'd avoid the transparency in text boxes, because the text is almost unreadable.

[Zdravko]

Holy moly, who would post a thread like this? I'm surprised the OP got any positive replies at all. I wouldn't make a theme for that person based on this thread (demanding rather than asking, and calling that "the ubuntu spirit").
I am surprised you are allowed to post here at all. You don't even understand the Ubuntu spirit. Go and use Ubuntu! Then come back and you will see that it is completely humane to ask for something.

[SreckoMicic]

@zdravko
He just wanted to say that way you asked for this looks more like demand.

Make me a WordPress theme!

Only the title looks like demand with exclamation mark at the end, and way it is constructed.

[Zdravko]

Okay. It is a demand. So what? It is not allowed to make demands?

[smartboyathome]

It just seems rude, even on Ubuntu. The people who help on these forums and on Ubuntu itself donate their time to it, and it is nice to ask them politely to do something rather than demand they do it.

[Zdravko]

Okay! Now just stop bumping this thread :(

[duckgoesoink]

I am surprised you are allowed to post here at all. You don't even understand the Ubuntu spirit. Go and use Ubuntu! Then come back and you will see that it is completely humane to ask for something.

I use Ubuntu happily and almost exclusively thankyou. I understand the Ubuntu community spirit as "humanity towards others" - treating others with respect, kindness and politeness. Personally I feel polite requests are more suitable if one really wants to follow the "Ubuntu spirit" (and actually get quick help or assistance with problems, etc).

There is nothing wrong with asking favours, however I feel a "demand" is different from a "request for a favour", and your original post felt more like a demand to me.

Have a nice day.

[Zdravko]

I feel sorry for saying such words before. Will you take my apologies?