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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73 Comments
A very well thought out post and idea.
It’s all the more poignant here, as my partner’s father died of cancer just over a year ago now. The various cancer foundations really do need our help.
Excellent work as always Derek. This is a fast-loading, high quality theme, born out of good intentions, what more can the wordpress community ask for!
AndrewE: You need to manually change the link in the headers to go to your archives, about pages etc.
Very nice theme, I was very pleased you released as I love it so much, and great intentions, I will endeavour to donate something towards Breast Cancer.
Phil Bowell: Not sure why you are telling me about links in headers. Please clarify. Thanks.
I was going to use this theme, but I have no idea what plugins to use with it, so it’s too much of a hassle…
Too much of a hassle? There are no plugin requirements.
It’s another beautiful contribution to the WP community! Thanks, Derek.
Very generous of you Derek, much thanks. Just one question, I’ve left the footer link to the theme intact, but I’ve changed the sponsor links included with the theme. I assumed this was okay but maybe I shouldn’t have. If you’d prefer they stay say the word and I’ll make it so.
Yes, feel free to change the sponsor links. I left those in as examples.
I get an error on the individual post pages. It says
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: related_posts() in /home/electr/public_html/phil/wp-content/themes/pinkoctober/single.php on line 21″
and I don’t get any comments area on the single page. I presume these are related. Could you please help me correct the issue?
Thanks
I would double check your version (modified?). I just loaded the version that is available for download here on this site and no errors popped up. I’m not sure what changes you’ve made to the template but it definitely sounds like you’ve tweaked a few lines.Correction, loose string found in the template. Updated download. Sorry about the confusion. Re-download the distribution for the update.
Derek: As far as I am aware I was just trying to follow the readme and change the lines it tells me to in there. I will try again and re-upload it. I just tried to re-upload it and it says the same thing. I am not even opening single.php. Any ideaS?
Sorry just noticed this.
AndrewE: I said it because it looks to me like the links in your header are not directing to your pages. For example the link to your about page in your header does not point to your about page, however the link in your little about section does.
Ah ok, thanks Derek. It’s nearly working, thanks for all your help. I’m now getting this.
“Warning: main(/home/electr/public_html/phil/wp-content/themes/pinkoctober/adsense468.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/electr/public_html/phil/wp-content/themes/pinkoctober/comments.php on line 92
Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/home/electr/public_html/phil/wp-content/themes/pinkoctober/adsense468.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:.:.:.:.’) in /home/electr/public_html/phil/wp-content/themes/pinkoctober/comments.php on line 92″
Sheesh I seem to be breaking this beautiful design rather than using it! Doh!
Did you try clearing your cache? The issue(s) had to do with lines 18-23:
<div id="related_posts">
<h3>Possibly Related</h3>
<ul id="related">
<?php related_posts(); ?>
</ul>
</div>
Remove that from single.php if you’re having issues still.
Very nice theme and a nice way to support a worthy cause. I’ve implemented it on my site, looks great! Keep up the good work.
I have it working now, thanks very much for your help. It appears you have left a call to you adsense int he theme. Specifically line 92 of comments.php. I removed it and now it seems to be working!
Ergh. I completely forgot about that adsense call. Updated. Thanks.
Lol, I noticed a few of those glitches yesterday & stripped them out.
It’s a fast template though - I’ll give you that.
Hey, hey, I posted this theme around 2AM this morning. That’s why I missed the small details :p All fixed now. I’m pretty sure the ones noted above in the previous comments were all that needed addressing (I hope?).
Thanks for your sharing the great theme!
It’s nice theme as usually Derek!:) Your amazing works please each of us. Don’t stop and make your community glad with your irrepressible creativity!!!:)
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.
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..
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.
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.
Thank you very much for this theme. I love it.
I do wonder how can I add a ‘More…’ link to each post, since people might not realize that they need to click on the post’s title to view the rest of the entry -just like I did-
Again, thanks for the theme, and possible reply to this post.
Hi Derek,
I am always deeply impressed by your beautiful artwork! Thank you for your themes!
Just one question for your pink october theme: Is it widgetready?
Thanks in advance.
At this time, the Pink October theme is not widget ready.
Hi Derek,
okay, I think I don’t need it widget ready for it’s just an awsome theme nevertheless and offers all I need. As I am a very newbie in coding with php and not even better with my poor css-knowledge, I wanted to ask how exactly I could replace the pink october part with a header-image and if I had to consider a special size of the image, too.
Your help will be really appreciated,
thanx from Berlin!
Hi Derek,
me again.. if you are interested to visit my site, I would be very happy. As you could see I figured out somehow how to put in a headergraph. But whatever I try in my css, I can’t get the image to be centered (even not with this background-postion: center; thing. What I want to realize is a headergraph over the whole width of the page but I just don’t know how to do it.
Hope not to bother you with my asking for a little help. Thanx,
Lea
Try margin: 0 auto; or background: #5f5f5f url(images/unke.jpg) center;
Hope it helps.
No, I tried both but it didn’t work. I guess I din’t realize yet which part of the header was equivalent to its part in the css. Need to try a little more around. Thx anyway for the try
Hi Derek, how do I change the colour of the small arrow in the top of the design. I’ve found out how to change the colour of the larger space in the header, but not the smaller arrow.
Glenn
You’ll have to recolor (adjusting hues in Photoshop) the content-wrapper.gif or recreate one to match. Look in the images folder. The graphic dimensions are 920×25. Technically you could just create the arrow and position it with CSS rather than recreating the 920px image.
Cheers Derek. One more thing, in your Possibly Related posts plug-in under the posts, how are you making the links appear on separate lines? They are all appearing together for me.
Not sure how you have your related posts setup on your site, but here’s my PHP & CSS:
<div id="related_posts"><h3>Possibly Related</h3><ul id="related"><?php related_posts(); ?></ul></div>
#related_posts {margin: 2em 0 0 0;}
#related_posts h3 {border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 5px 0 4px 0; border-top: 1px solid #aaa; text-align: right;}
ul#related {margin: 0; list-style: none;}
#related li {margin: 0; line-height: 2em; border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;}
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