11/05/06: The Pink October theme has been updated. Please see the October Special download page for a widgetized version including miscellaneous HTML/CSS tweaks. Comments are now closed.
Seeing as though my initial motivation to go “pink” for the month of October was brought about by the announcement of the Pink for October initiative, I thought it best to assist others in spreading awareness during the month of October [and beyond].
At the end of the day, I decided that the good within each of us would do what felt right. Additionally, although the fight against Breast Cancer is a widely discussed topic, there are those that may not believe in supporting the cause.
For those that feel the urge to donate towards a worthy cause, check out the Susan G. Komen donation page. For those who would rather contribute towards further development of the theme, feel free to send donations securely via Paypal.
About & Legal
Although there are no monetary requirements in order to run the Pink October WordPress theme on your own hosted WordPress installation, I reserve the right to request that any credits concerning the originating source be retained and that any distributions of the theme be limited to 5thirtyone.com. I also request that for the month of October, the header introduction concerning Breast Cancer Awareness month and the Pink for October initiative remain intact through the end of the month.
Download
Pink October was created to be a lean, mean, database light WordPress theme with a considerable number of advertising placement opportunities. Consider reading through the included readme for any dependency issues or important notes concerning the use of the Pink October distribution.
5ThirtyOne Pink October
- 11/5/06: Updated theme release to October Special – available in multiple color schemes. Includes HTML/CSS tweaks. Visit the October Special download page.
- 10/9/06: Updated the download header.php to include wp_head(); which fixes certain plugin issues.
Questions & Bugs
- What about the included sponsor links, what am I to do with those? – The sponsor links are optional links included with the theme which serve as content placeholders. Feel free to remove links, the only link I ask users to retain is the footer link giving 5thirtyone.com credit for the theme.
- What’s the leaflet in the footer, can I use it? – The leaflet signifies that this blog is a member of the 9rules network. Do not lift the leaflet graphic for your own use.
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Indeed – it’s not hard to do. The most recent re-design I did was actually missing the wp_head() call for a while, had me hellishly confused.. so yes, I’ve done it too
Even with all the yardage of javascript and plugin calls, your theme is still hellishly quick..
Derek,
Did you add the missing
<?php wp_head(); ?>code by any chance?A large number of plugins (and indeed wordpress itself, to a lesser extent) require it in place as a hook. I was wondering why a bunch of my plugins weren’t working for a moment.
That I did, download updated. I’ll start making notes for changes below the download link. Thanks for that catch. I was a bit overzealous deleting personal changes from the public release and mistakenly deleted that important call.
Thanks for the cool theme, I am now running it over at my website.
Nice theme, I might just have to use it myself.
Hey Derek!
I just wanted to thank you for the theme, I’m currently using Pink October on the site that I JUST launched. Please check it out when you can.
Keep in touch, I might need blogging tips =D.
Oh, I almost forgot, I gave you proper credit and thanks on my first post. Check it out.
What a great way to spread the word! I am the graduate assistant at the Women’s Resource Center where I work, and we are holding several events of our own. One of them is to paint people’s nails pink! However, I think it would be good to have something for guys as well… like ribbons n’ stuff. Anyhow, great support! It’s wonderful to see so many male designers take the initiative to show support.
what a nice theme!
I love it!
Thanks fen. Out of curiosity, have you heard of the 9rules readers badges? Just thought you might want to check those out.
Thaks for your warning, I’v changed 9rules readers badges.
hi derek, this theme is great…i’m just checking some functions and missing this typically blogroll normally used within wordpress… in my wp-admin i can see my blogroll, but in online version not…at this point i’m using my local webserver…perhaps this might be the problem? i really don’t know. perhaps some of you can help me out?
thanks and have a good time
chris
Hi Derek,
Great theme.
Two questions:
1. Call me a bit thick but how does the ‘CURRENTLY POPULAR’ section work? Is it based on comment hits and how can I modify it?
2. Are we allowed to modify this theme taking out the pink october bit AFTER October?
thanks
My popular links are managed using WordPress’s links feature. I update the list manually based on current hits from my Mint database.
As far as removing the Pink for October, all I really ask is that the footer link allowing visitors to download the theme remain intact. There will be 3-4 new color stylesheets in the coming week for the theme for those that do not like the pink version.
The theme looks great! I’m currently trying to get it to work, but wordpress is telling me that the stylesheet is missing.
I’m somewhat new to wordpress, so any help would be great.
You’re receiving that error because you’re uploading the entire download. You’re only supposed to upload the directory within the zip file.
i am finding & seeing many design, but this is great for me. great great design. thankx.
[...] // Did you know breast cancer is the most common form of cancer affecting one out of every nine females up until the age of 90? Although rare, one in 1000 men are also diagnosed with breast cancer as well. Educate yourself and consider a small donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation If you feel inclined to enter your own website in celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness month, check out Pink for October or try out the Pink October theme or the Pinky and the Brain theme. Thanks go to Derek Punsalan for the info above. [...]
Excellent theme as always, Derek. I’m using it right now as well. I plan to keep it and thank you in advance for modifying it a bit allowing for different colors after Oct.
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