In creating WP SMASHING I updated the functionality of the just-released WP CALENDAR by adding a theme options page in the admin menu. The plugin allows you to choose how the calendar functionality is displayed – if you choose to display it all.
WP SMASHING is completely widget-ready with 4 widget zones (3 column footer and a single column sidebar). You can choose to use the calendar on the index page or not, it’s up to you. Each day displays the titles of posts for that day. If there is more text than can fit in a calendar day you’ll see a custom scroll bar.
Also included in this theme is a simple contact form in the footer. This contact form allows people to send an email to the site administrator and makes sure the request is coming from your site and includes email validation. WP SMASHING utilizes the jGrowl plugin for jquery to offer up notices for people who have not filled out the contact form correctly. Head to the demo and play around with it to see what I mean. Or… you can remove this feature entirely.
There are a LOT of possibilities with this theme and it was great creating it for Smashing Magazine. I’ve been wanting to do a theme for them for a while now and it’s great to finally release one. So far I have tried to focus on making free themes that focus on a particular functionality. On March 1st I’ll be launching our Theme Club which will deliver a new WordPress theme every month and a bonus theme ever other month. I’m looking forward to making other exciting additions to the site as well, so check back every now and then and see what we’ve got going on.
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WOW!!!
This is a beautiful theme. I love it!!!
Kind Regards
I love the design of it, very beautiful… I wouldn’t use it on a personal site or anything simply because I am not a big fan of the huge calendar (unless maybe it was on a different page).
However, that doesn’t mean I do not find this amazingly beautiful.
Maybe just not all that practical for most bloggers.
Download button is not working…
Is it possible to show images on front page too?
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Thank you very much. I appreciate this kind of work. I’m also excited to start becoming part of the open source community. Grats guys!
Awesome…!!!
thank you for this great theme,…
This is a fantastic theme! Thanks.
Waiting to see the feature list, very excited.
Interesting and respectable theme. Great Work! *thumbs-up*
Thanks man!
Hey, great work! I might be using this one in the near future!
Very cool.
Later I’m going to install it on my blog
Looks great!
Great theme
thnx
Fantastic theme! It looks so clean.
For those of you not interested in displaying the calendar, there is the option to display a normal listing of the excerpts. Just check out the options in the wp-smashing plugin when you install the theme
Beautiful theme. love the functionality. I’m a fan!
No offense but, is it just me or does the header and footer’s low contrast make it difficult to read?
@Joeseph,
It’s possible. All my monitors display it properly except for a single Dell M1330 notebook I have. It just doesn’t have a high enough contrast to really get the detail. The PSD is included though, so you are more than able to change the colors to your hearts content.
OK.. looks good.. I’ll try to used it for my blog someday
I can see this type of theme working very well for music venues who want to display who’s playing throughout the month. Good idea Greg. Clever.
Nice looking theme, very clean design!
Nice one, Beautiful theme, i like it.
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Wow, great Theme! Thanks!
Hello, this is a good job… so I tried it.
But I’m in front of something wrong : the calendar doesnt display the date as well.
You can test here : http://nxcom.net/blog/ and maybe can help me. I don’t know why but today is 2009/03/17 and on my blog it says we are 2009/03/01 and wednesday… if you go on an article, the wp calendar is good…
I don’t understand.
Sorry for my English
Thanks a lot
Nxcom,
I’ve seen this once before although without FTP access I can’t help solve the issue. My guess is that you’re using PHP4, correct? There is a function I am using that — while it works on both php4 and php5 — returns different information. In the next version I will allow the option to set an offset to remedy this issue.
Hello, are you planning to add function of .po and .mo language localization files to make it easy to translate the theme? Thank you for the great theme anyway
Wow! This is an amazing theme. Wonderful work.
I’ve been working on a theme for the past month that uses the calendar as the main page for a personal blog and you beat me to it
This is way better than where I was. Thanks a ton.
Nice theme, Thanks!
I have exactly the same problem as Nxcom.
How can I show the full post instead of the excerpt on the frontpage?
Love this theme, thanks so much!
thanks!
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@johnnypea,
Yes, absolutely. Now that I know they’re wanted.
@jul,
You’re using PHP4, correct?
Yes, but all is working now, it was just a problem with the php version of my hosting.
Hi, I am having an issue with the theme and am wondering if you can help as I am looking forward to using it – it looks great. My issue is that when the page loads my dates appear as a bulleted list instead of their calendar format. I am using php5. Thanks again and thanks for the great themes!
please disregard… plugin conflict. Awesome theme!
@PD Smith,
I can’t help without a link to your site. Without seeing it I can say the stylesheet is probably being loaded incorrectly. Can you link me to it please?
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Nice one
Fantastic theme! Just what I was looking for….
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a great theme i love it its amasing , im using it in my new site , but i have a problem , the site i run posts new music to listen and when someone searches , in the search result it does not show the player ,but in post it is . how can i change something in order that when i search in the search result to be shown the audio player as in post
@ilirk,
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the question.
its ok ive fixed it , its perfect again briliant theme
Again such a beautiful theme, thanks!
Hey there…I’d also like help with displaying full content on the front page rather than excerpts. GORGEOUS theme, btw.
I would be interested to see if anyone has tried integrating this theme with something like TDO mini forms plugin so that a visitor can post events right to the calendar. I might have to give that a try. Great theme…another step forward for Wordpress. Thank you!
@Matt,
I’d love to see that. Please, let me know if you make progress.
@notbadbutgood,
Open up index-posts.php and find:
<?php wp_the_excerpt_reloaded('excerpt_length=200&filter_type=excerpt&use_more_link=1&more_link_text=Read Entire Article ...&allowed_tags=<a><strong><img>'); ?>and replace it with:<?php the_content(); ?>@Greg…you rock, man. Thanks a million for your help!
nice theme.
great feature.
[...] WP Smashing, is a unique theme release by Greg Johnson for Smashing Magazine. WP Smashing has a bit of a sleek grunge look but the main selling point is the unique layout and format. One can easily create a event/calendar based site off this design. WP Smashing is a completely widget-ready with 4 widget zones. Check out the demo on Greg Johnson site. [...]
ths a lot! =)
Thank you very much, I use this theme for collaborative work. Small question: I have some posts in march, and when in April, I would like to see the March home-page. Would that be possible to do?
I have seen in your wp-Calendar a popup allowing to choose the month we want. How can I get this feature on this theme?
@gerald,
You need to enable the archives widget in one of the widget zones.
Greg, I’m trying out your theme and I think it’s going to be a keeper. My opinion in my mother’s language is: A LU CI NAN TE.
Just one thing, though… How do I change the Header so it will show the name of my blog? and…
How do I get MY info in the “about the author” space?, right now it’s all about you.
Gracias.
Hi Greg, thank you for creating an awesome theme! I’m wondering if you can help me with an error message that I’m getting,
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_strlen() in /home/content/b/e/t/bethanybikers/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-smashing/wp-smashing.php on line 109
How can I resolve this?
Website – http://www.bethanybikers.com
-Elisabet
@pavestegui,
The header is a graphic. Open up the PSD that came with it and you can edit til your hearts content.
@azchef101,
mb_strlen() is a standard php function. Your host may have disabled it, but I don’t see why. Please see http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php for more info.
WOW, it’s a shockingly beautiful use of the Maroon and Grey Colors… I’ll probably use it for my Current Affairs website in the future.
this theme makes me say wow a thousand times
a perfect online diary theme 
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Amazing theme, just what I was looking for, it would be nice if you could provide the PSD file – I am thinking of taking it one step higher with further photoshop tweaks.
@vectormesh,
The PSD is indeed included in the download
The best theme what can be!!!