Like many great themes the Unstandard theme did initially lack some basic features like widgets and gravatars. I made a widgetized and gravatar-ized version and this version has been donwloaded almost 600 times from October 2008 till now. Which proves that it’s still a popular theme and a decent upgrade was necessary.
The guys (and dolls?) at WP WebHost have organized a Coolest WordPress Blog competition. And since any Wordpress powered blog can contribute and there are cool prizes to be won, I thought I just join along.
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I haven’t made the switch to the Unstandard theme yet (probably coming next week), but I thank you for the work you’ve done on it so I definitely think you have a cool blog.
I’m using the Unstandard theme!
I love the Unstandard Theme. I’ve made a lot of changes though. I added another widgetized sidebar in the showcategories php file so I could add post excerpts the usual way. Check it out! I call it the Unstandard Theme Modified.
The minute I came across the unstandard theme I knew it was the perfect theme for what I had in mind for Aytemir.com.
However I found out that it lacked a bunch of essentials features, which I missed dearly. And although there are some snippets in the comments and the forum they’re just not complete or they didn’t work for me: hence The Unstandard theme version 2, which adds the following extra’s on the already excellent theme:
-Text replaced with a logo
-Sidebar widgetized, with correct CSS layout
-Footer widgetized, with correct CSS layout
-Gravatar in comments
Live demo: You’re looking at!
Download: The Unstandard theme version 2.0!
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Derek, the author of the original Unstandard theme, has put an official link to my version at his blog on 5thirtyone.com, with a not that he (off course) will not support it himself.
Hello, when I activate your modified Unstandard, I give an error message:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctc() in /pool/services/ftp/kesport/wp-content/themes/unstandard2/show_categories.php on line 4″
Why?
I just figured out, there’s still some hard-code to some plugins I used…I will strip them and upload a new version this weekend.
Stay tuned!
–edit–
Fixed and tested locally.
Please, let me know if you still have issues.
Mooie avatar Sener 
2kM: you can just replace show_categories.php
take it from original theme http://5thirtyone.com/the-unstandard
Is it necessary to remove the original unstandard template from the theme directory, as I’m not able to get the css to load on a test URL?
Hi DT,
You should be just fine by overwriting the original files (do backup!).
But be aware (should you do it on a ‘live’ environment) that there are references/links to my site, which you should edit…
But I see you changed your CSS/colors, so you should take the changes in the CSS with you…
Hello Tschai,
Thanks for the wonderful effort you have been putting in to refine Unstandard! I was just trying to figure out how to get the Gravatars working and also had tried to make the theme widgetized by following the instructions give at the forum. But I found that eventhough it worked on Firefox and Opera the patch didn’t work for IE 6 which makes it somewhat useless. But your version works on everything!
But I am in a dilemma as to what to do here. I have already made numerous tweaks to the original Unstandard theme at my site at http://www.home-designing.com/ that I dread at the very thought of having to do it all over again. Can you help me as to what exactly I need to edit to add gravatars and widgetizing function on the original Unstandard theme? I think it would be easier for me to treat the original Unstandard as a starting point and make the changes you have done to support Gravatar and widgets. Hope you can help me out…
Once again thanks for your efforts.
Regards,
Magneto
Hi Magneto,
Visited your site and it’s indeed too far from the original to overwrite everything. Nice site by the way.
I’m working on an update of this post, with instruction to widgetize and gravatarize the original.
Thankyou, Tschai. That would be HUGELY appreciated.
On request , I’ve updated the post with instructions how to widgetize and gravatarize the original Unstandard theme v0.1.
You should do this if you’ve already hacked the original one. If you’re installing it from scratch I suggest you download and install the full package.
Please, let me know if there are typo’s or code too much or missing, so I can edit the post.
What luck finding this theme!
One thing I hate is finding a great looking theme but later discovering that it’s old and doesn’t support widgets or works with the latest Wordpress. Great job on updating the theme Tschai.
Thanks a ton, Tschai. Everything works perfectly but for the minor thing of author background colour. Somehow that is not turning up correctly for me.
Oh… I figured it out… don’t bother..
Hi
I need help with my unstandard theme
i took a french version from niss.fr
but
I’d like to have the same footer you use
could you help me
i think i have a trouble with the .css
Hi Farid,
First of all I would like to point you to this article of Derek: Do not download WordPress themes distributed by 3rd party sites.
So, just make sure your template is ’safe’.
If that is the case than all you should do is follow the instructions above.
I checked your site and it looks like you have somehow mixed the height and width numbers in your CSS:
Instruction: height:300px;
You’ve got: height:310px;
Intsruction: width:310px;
You’ve got: width:300px;
Please, let me know if that fixes your issue.
Hi Tschai,
at first thank you for your help
I prefer your theme
just took another to have french version (this version is safe)
I’d like to use your, BUT
if i did it
is it just possible, to change the css…
cause
i d like to use all the width of the sidebar (like seachbar)
it s better for the long titles
Thank you for your help !
Hi Farid,
See my ‘Recent Posts’ widget in the footer: the latest post has a very long title and it gets wrapped very nicely. So that’s one option.
Another one would be that you adjust your footer.php and the width in your CSS so that you only have two much larger widget spots.
Also a fan of the Unstandard theme?
Than check out my post The Coolest blog…with the Unstandard theme and please leave a comment, so I can get nominated.
Thanks allready.
Here is a mod I did for my friend Chris:
http://s39447.gridserver.com//new/
Thanks for the excellent code base!
J
Hi Jonas,
That is quite an impressive modification, but be warned that the site is totally messed up in IE7.
I know…IE sucks, but a lot of people still use it (no, not me!).
when trying to activate widgets nothing happens on the site. ive tried to put widgets in each of the 3 locations but the areas just stay blank… any ideas why this could be happening? i hope i can get it working ive been after this theme for ages! thanks
Are your sure Tim, that you’ve followed/checked all the instructions above? All should work well if you haven’t missed a step.
And do you happen to have a link to the site you’re talking ’bout?
On my installation, the Recent Comments widget contains two HREF, one for the author web site and one for the link to the comment. This and another problem causes the line to display strangely which you can see in the recent comments section of http://www.thinkingdiver.com
The other problem causing this issue as far as I can tell is the fact that that widget defines .recentcomment inline with no padding. I can fix that in the CSS. I can also fix it with something similar to the following in functions.php:
if ( is_active_widget(‘recent-comments’) ){
remove_filter(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_widget_recent_comments_style’, 10, 1);
}
but I can’t seem to figure out the right syntax.
So ideally, I’d fix it by either:
(1) Figuring out a way to add the background image to only the first of the line ?
(2) Changing or using another widget for recent comments which doesn’t use two links ?
I was wondering if you faced a similar issue or if you just bypassed it by using a different widget ?
Thanks in advance for your help, I tried to email info@ but it bounced.
Your conclusion is right Erik and your suggested solution also. I’ve updated this post with details how to achieve this easily.
What code I supposed to have inside functions.php file?
Boris, download the whole package above: within you’ll find the full functions.php
Thanks for the tip: I’ll update the post with a clear instruction for this.
Tschai,
I am having the same problem that Tim is. I will note, however, that I have only followed the “Widgetize sidebar” directions. Do I need to widgetize the footer as well?
Thanks!
Kerm
Only the instructions for ‘2a.Widgetize sidebar’ (editing your sidebar.php and uploading functions.php) should do the trick…normally.
After having applied the above instructions, you should see in your backend/dashboard menu ‘Design’ > ‘Widgets’ all available widgets and ‘Sidebar 1′ under ‘Current Widgets’.
So far, so good?
Your issue is that adding a widget does not show the content of your widgets? Any widget?
That’s it, my site which uses your mods of the Unstandard Theme is up !
Thanks for creating your version of the theme. It motivated me to finally convert my site over. Check it out at http://www.designbliss.com. I changed the color scheme and created my own custom header.
Hello there!
Great changes! But can you please update your theme by automatically adding alt text on images? We want the site to be accessible to blind users. Thanks.
Hey Tschai
Thank you for sharing your work with us. We will definitly incorporate a couple of your features ! It’ll take a while to have them up and running, but if you like visit our dutch site http://www.bokehs.be.
grts
just saw your post.
And your post about the unstandard theme we are using as well.
Luckaly I saw you were using a page navigation plugin. Just the type we are looking for as well. Could please explain how you got it to working?
Check our site http://www.bokehs.be and you’ll see that we have been using the same theme.
Thanks in advance
Grts
Wim (from Belgium) (not a code expert)
This post is updated with a lill’ pagination instruction; see Update 3 at the bottom of the post.
hey tschai
thanks for the quick reply. You certainly pointed me in the right direction. Although I was not able to get the link http://url/page/2/ to work. It just keeps displaying the original page (title says “url – part2″ however).
I have followed the instructions provided by you and the original author. The difference on your site is that you integrated the page-navi function on home.php, and not in the footer. Is there something I am overlooking?
I am not expecting you to troubleshoot my site. As you can see I’ve set the max number of posts to whatever I have in the wordpress setting. Now it shows every post made thus far. I think displaying 13 or 15 posts with this theme is not too much. This page-navi thing is driving me nuts though. (I’ve tried to email you personnaly, but got a reply the message was not delivered)
Thanks
wim
When i change the following lines
and change it into
I get the following error:
Warning: Missing argument 1 for query_posts(), called in /home/…/home.php on line 18 and defined in /home/…/wp-includes/query.php on line 59
and no nav bar is shown.
Any suggestion?
Please refer to this post for a better and fully improved version of this theme: Unstandard theme now Wordpress 2.7 compatible
argh , why can i not get page-navi working , I read your how-to but I don’t want to go that route , i would like to customize how it looks with css and all that.
@rohin
You can customize the accompanying CSS (/wp-content/plugins/pagenavi/pagenavi-css.css) of the plugin as you wish…
I meant to say that when I activate wp-pagenavi and place the php code under the content area of the home page, it just doesn’t show up.
I tried posting on lesterchan’s forum but he’s no longer helping anyone it seems unless you pay him. I don’t blame him since it’s very popular.
Forgot to mention when I do replace the standard code with in home.php i get an error saying the following Warning: Missing argument 1 for query_posts() in “/html/wp-includes/query.php on line 59″
any ideas ?
@rohin
I just checked out my code after your posts and it seems that I have placed the code in show_categories.php at the very top!
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Could you try the same code (< ?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?> ) in show_categories.php and let me know if it works now?
PS: Lester does not support it, because you’re having troubles with a modified theme…
Hey Tschai,
Thanks for making the 2.0 upgrade available for all! Love the additions. I was trying to download it from you link above:
Download: The Unstandard theme version 2.0!
-But it seems to lead to “sorry not available” type screen. Where can I download it from?
Thanks!
The downloadlink somehow stopped working, fixed it now…thanks for noticing.
PS: you should consider using the ‘official’ WP 2.7 compatible version of the Unstandard theme!
Thanks for fixing that link! Could you reply with the link for version 2.7, can’t seem to find it, thanks!
The link to the official site/post is within this post: http://aytemir.com/unstandard-theme-now-wordpress-27-compatible/
And it’s fully supported by the original author of the theme…!
hey chai !
Could you help me with the way categories are displayed vertically , I would like them to be displayed horizontally , could you take a look at my website. I would hate to break the parent/child category relationship
oliver and 22 others are discussing.
Vishesh 5:05 pm on July 12, 2009 Permalink |
Does the updated Unstandard theme cover all the useful edits you’d made to it, or would we have to do the manual edits ourselves?
Tschai 10:15 pm on July 12, 2009 Permalink |
I think everything is covered fully, although I have not installed/tested it myself…I think it’s save bet, since Derek is still fully supoorting it.
Joep Kalthoff 10:13 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink |
I’ve installed this theme, but I have problems with the pages. It keeps showing the default ‘home’, ‘about’ and ’subscribe’ pages. When I add a page in the back-end nothing changes.
Any hints where to alter this?
Tschai 11:34 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink |
Joep, these links are hardcoded in the header; you should manually edit them to your needs in the theme editor.
At last that was the case in the older versions, it sounds like it still is the case in the current version also.