Unfortunately I am thinking of changing my blog theme, while the current one will probably no longer serve my goals set for 2009.
The good news however is that the original author of the Unstandard theme has made his theme now WordPress 2.7 compatible: I suggest you check out the demo and get this new and approved version instead!

Should you not want to upgrade WordPress, than my ”pimped’ version will still be available for reference and download.

Have fun with this great theme.

Related post(s):

• The Unstandard theme: widgetized and gravatar-ized

To actually get nominated I need the help of other Unstandard theme lovers: I need a minimum of 5 comments, which is actually harder to achieve than it seems at first site.

So if you’re also using the Unstandard theme from 5thirtyone , please leave a comment on this post if you think this blog and the Unstandard theme should make a chance with this competition.

Off course any other and even sceptic comments are, like always, also welcome.

Related post(s):

• The Unstandard theme: widgetized and gravatar-ized

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!

Note: all copyrights, licence and credits concerning both versions are still a property of Derek Punsalan/5thirtyone.com.
The Unstandard v2.0 theme is distributed as is: You’re advised to install and test it locally (with XAMPP or WAMP) first and backup your originals.

It’ll probably work ‘out of the box’: I’m using it locally and live with WordPress version 2.6.2. Please leave a comment if you’re having troubles with it.

UPDATE: Manually upgrade

If you’re already using the original Unstandard theme and you’ve already hacked it a bit than you might consider following these steps to ‘upgrade’ it manually to version 2.0:

1.Gravatarize

Somewhere around line 32 in comments.php after

<div class="fix">
				<div class="author_meta">

add the following

<?php if(function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar($comment, '75','http://www.aytemir.com/wp-content/themes/unstandard/images/default_avatar.png'); } ?>
<br/>

BONUS: the last parameter is not required. It only replaces the default WordPress avatar (mystery man) with your own default avatar!
BONUS: you might also consider reversing the comment order by displaying the last post at the top. Just add the following

<?php foreach (array_reverse($comments) as $comment) : ?>

just after this line

<ol class="commentslist">

2a.Widgetize sidebar

First copy functions.php to your themes root: copy this file from the above zip-package!
And in your sidebar.php add the following code, where you want your sidebar widget to appear

<ul class="sidebar-ul">
  <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
  <?php endif; ?>
</ul>

2b.Widgetize footer

Edit your footer.php and add the following code, where you want your footer widgets to appear (in my case/Aytermir.com right at the top)

<ul class="sidebar-ul">
<div id="subfooter">

<div class="widget"><div class="inner">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("subfooterleft") ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div></div>

<div class="widget"><div class="inner">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("subfootercenter") ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div></div>

<div class="widget"><div class="inner">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("subfooterright") ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div></div>

</div>
</ul>

And adjust the CSS style.css by adding the following at the bottom

/* highlight author comments*/
.authcomment {
background-color: #B3FFCC !important;
}

/* widgetizing the footer */
#subfooter {
width:960px;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;
height:300px;
clear:both;
}

#subfooter .widget {
width:310px;
float:left;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:10px;
}

#subfooter .widget .inner {
padding:0px;
}

BONUS: the first part will highlight the author comments!

3.Logo instead of title text

While your busy why not replace the title of your blog with a cool logo Don’t forget to replace my URL’s with your own! Just edit your header.php

<a href="http://www.uppedd.com"><img src="http://uppedd.com/wp-content/themes/unstandard/images/logo.png"></a>

just after

<div id="leaderboard" class="fix">

BONUS: Why not add a favicon while your busy hacking? Just add the following in your header

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />

Add it just after the < head > tag and upload your favicon.ico in your theme root.

UPDATE 2: Fixing the Recent Comments

Get this widget: Widget for Simple Recent Comments, although the default one is fine too, this one can be tweaked more.
Alter line 100 according to the following.

$output .= "\n\t<li><a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID) . "#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID  . "\" title=\"on " . apply_filters('the_title_rss', $comment->post_title) . "\">" . $comment->comment_author . ": ''" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt) . $dots . "''</a></li>";

That should do the trick!

UPDATE 3: An Unstandard Pagination

Wanna add pagination in your Unstandard theme homepage? Just follow these installation tips at Adding Nice WordPress Pagination.
And find in your home.php

<?php query_posts('showposts=9'); ?>

and change it into

<?php query_posts(); ?>

And don’t forget to adjust in your Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most the desired number of posts to show. For example 9.