UltraMinima v2 Released

14.Jul.2006 at 4:53 pm | Sunny

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Thought Mechanics has chosen a new theme, which means, UltraMinima is now officially available for downloads.

I am pleased to announce the release of UltraMinima v2 WP theme. This theme is a highly customized version of the Hemingway and Hemingway Bright both of which are very popular among WP users.

This theme is a deviation from the original 2-column design used in the earlier versions. The newest/main article is full-content, while the older posts are shown as excerpts. The 2 column page can be used as in my blog site by creating a new page called blog and selecting “alt index” as the page theme.

The theme will be supported at http://www.headsetoptions.org

ultraminima

Grab the theme from my download site and give it a try. Comments and feedback are welcome.

Once you download the file:

Save to your hard drive
Open from your hard drive
Extract to a unique folder
Read installation instructions
Upload folders and files to WP

then proceed to playing around with customizing the theme.

Enjoy.

Tags: wordpress, new, theme, ultraminima, ultra minima, free, WP

Tagged: Design, Non-profit, Theme, UltraMinima, wordpress

2. hso | October 26, 2006 #

@ Paul

“Three Column UltraMinima” that could be a new project all together! Basically, you will have to hack the CSS to introduce another column.

Right now you have primary and secondary columns defined, copy paste the secondary part, change it to something like “Tertiary” and adjust all the values (including those in primary and secondary to accommodate for this new block), then go and add div’s with this new block in your index, page and single.php files. That might work if you get it all right!

3. Paul | October 27, 2006 #

thanks hso

I’m trying to decide between orange and this. I think I’ve decided on orange. Basically I’m trying to create a news portal and think 3 columns would be the best thing for ads, a lot of copy above the fold, etc. (something like http://www.venturebeat.com which is on the wordpress platform) Can I use the technique you left for creating a third column in ultra to create a third column in orange. I’ve been trying all day to figure out how to do it - without much luck.

I’ve created a sidebar2, have changed widths, have the three columns float right, have added a new .sd_right2 to css and am trying to call it from the index using:

…

I’m sure you can tell I’m brand new to php, wordpress, css. Kind of reaching around in the dark.

I know you do design work - could I pay you to create a third column for me?

Thanks.

5. Marcus O'Donnell | October 29, 2006 #

Hi,

Congratulations on a great site. Love the WP/design stuff and the political comment - that’s a great Mirror cover you featured recently.

This is not strictly a UltraMinima question and you might think its a bit cheeky but I got here from the Hemingway fourm after reading some of your replies. I was looking for an extended Recent comments solution - just like you have in the Minima sidebar.

I thought I could grab the code from the index.php and turn it into a “block” for my Hemingway site. And it works fine at grabbing the excerpts (I even manged to get it to start at post 3 not post 2) but it gives the same heading to all the posts - the heading of my current first post. And also the same date for all posts.

I dont really know much php (as you prob gathered) but just get by through delving under bonnets!

Hope you can help would love to implement the sidebar on my site.

thanks

marcus

7. Matt Keane | December 2, 2006 #

Hi. Love your themes. I echo all positive snetiments already shared. I am tinkering with the ultraminima theme and cannot get the advertisement to change. I want to put someo other graphic there, and am able to do that but when I do that, posts in the main page repeat themselves over and over again as opposed to the standard behavior of just the main post, with a few “also” posts and then the sidebar footer that shows announcements etc. Could you help?

Also, how do I get the “Also” section to not show the same posts that are showing on the Asides (right cloumn).

Thanks again.

Matt Keane

8. hso | December 2, 2006 #

@ Matt

From what I gather, you are somehow opening the WP loop while making this change. If you want to change the ad, simply change the img src and href to URL, if you do not want to show any ad, delete this line:

< a xhref="http://www.headsetoptions.org" >< img xsrc="http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/headsetop/advert-1.jpg" alt="advert"/ > < /a >

9. brenda | March 5, 2007 #

Hello,

thanks for making this lovely theme, I’ve just had it installed on my site, and the initial feedback is very good.

I haven’t been able to replace the text under ‘Announcements’ in the sidebar - I’m getting an error message and all the rest of the content disappears. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks very much, I have very limited experience with WP.

10. headsetop | March 7, 2007 #

@ Brenda

Open sidebar.php in notepad and delete this section (I have removed < and > from the beginning and end of each tag):

h2 Announcements /h2

p This is a Sideblog, here you can display a selected category posts, usually Category 1.
Replace this line with the script provided in the Installation Instructions. /p

12. hso | March 8, 2007 #

@ Brenda

Oh, you can add your code in place of the existing text and change the h2 header. Just as long as you know what you are copying and pasting, you should be good to go. If you use the sideblog code, make sure you have the Sideblog plugin active, else you will get an error!

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1. Paul | October 25, 2006 #

I really like this design and am thinking about using it for a new site. But I’d like to add a third column. I’m not having any luck trying to figure out how. I’m brand new to wordpress. Could you give me a few pointers?

2. hso | October 26, 2006 #

@ Paul

“Three Column UltraMinima” that could be a new project all together! Basically, you will have to hack the CSS to introduce another column.

Right now you have primary and secondary columns defined, copy paste the secondary part, change it to something like “Tertiary” and adjust all the values (including those in primary and secondary to accommodate for this new block), then go and add div’s with this new block in your index, page and single.php files. That might work if you get it all right!

3. Paul | October 27, 2006 #

thanks hso

I’m trying to decide between orange and this. I think I’ve decided on orange. Basically I’m trying to create a news portal and think 3 columns would be the best thing for ads, a lot of copy above the fold, etc. (something like http://www.venturebeat.com which is on the wordpress platform) Can I use the technique you left for creating a third column in ultra to create a third column in orange. I’ve been trying all day to figure out how to do it - without much luck.

I’ve created a sidebar2, have changed widths, have the three columns float right, have added a new .sd_right2 to css and am trying to call it from the index using:

…

I’m sure you can tell I’m brand new to php, wordpress, css. Kind of reaching around in the dark.

I know you do design work - could I pay you to create a third column for me?

Thanks.

4. hso | October 28, 2006 #

@ Paul

I am swaped this month, but send me an email with details, and I will tell you if it is possible, if all you want is the third column I might be able to do one for you.

my email: headsetop[at]yahoo[dot]come

5. Marcus O'Donnell | October 29, 2006 #

Hi,

Congratulations on a great site. Love the WP/design stuff and the political comment - that’s a great Mirror cover you featured recently.

This is not strictly a UltraMinima question and you might think its a bit cheeky but I got here from the Hemingway fourm after reading some of your replies. I was looking for an extended Recent comments solution - just like you have in the Minima sidebar.

I thought I could grab the code from the index.php and turn it into a “block” for my Hemingway site. And it works fine at grabbing the excerpts (I even manged to get it to start at post 3 not post 2) but it gives the same heading to all the posts - the heading of my current first post. And also the same date for all posts.

I dont really know much php (as you prob gathered) but just get by through delving under bonnets!

Hope you can help would love to implement the sidebar on my site.

thanks

marcus

6. hso | October 29, 2006 #

@ Marcus

The recent comments is a plugin and is available here:

http://blog.jodies.de/archiv/2004/11/13/recent-comments/

Hope it helps.

7. Matt Keane | December 2, 2006 #

Hi. Love your themes. I echo all positive snetiments already shared. I am tinkering with the ultraminima theme and cannot get the advertisement to change. I want to put someo other graphic there, and am able to do that but when I do that, posts in the main page repeat themselves over and over again as opposed to the standard behavior of just the main post, with a few “also” posts and then the sidebar footer that shows announcements etc. Could you help?

Also, how do I get the “Also” section to not show the same posts that are showing on the Asides (right cloumn).

Thanks again.

Matt Keane

8. hso | December 2, 2006 #

@ Matt

From what I gather, you are somehow opening the WP loop while making this change. If you want to change the ad, simply change the img src and href to URL, if you do not want to show any ad, delete this line:

< a xhref="http://www.headsetoptions.org" >< img xsrc="http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/headsetop/advert-1.jpg" alt="advert"/ > < /a >

9. brenda | March 5, 2007 #

Hello,

thanks for making this lovely theme, I’ve just had it installed on my site, and the initial feedback is very good.

I haven’t been able to replace the text under ‘Announcements’ in the sidebar - I’m getting an error message and all the rest of the content disappears. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks very much, I have very limited experience with WP.

10. headsetop | March 7, 2007 #

@ Brenda

Open sidebar.php in notepad and delete this section (I have removed < and > from the beginning and end of each tag):

h2 Announcements /h2

p This is a Sideblog, here you can display a selected category posts, usually Category 1.
Replace this line with the script provided in the Installation Instructions. /p

11. brenda | March 8, 2007 #

Hi, thanks very much for this, delete the ‘Announcements’ part, too, I see.

Would that mean I wouldn’t be able to make a sideblog? I like the miniblog funtions, but maybe I could just use delicio.us or something like furl instead, and copy the code through?

12. hso | March 8, 2007 #

@ Brenda

Oh, you can add your code in place of the existing text and change the h2 header. Just as long as you know what you are copying and pasting, you should be good to go. If you use the sideblog code, make sure you have the Sideblog plugin active, else you will get an error!

13. brenda | March 10, 2007 #

Ah, so that’s the problem. I am getting errors. I’ll look for the Sidebar plugin, but to be honest I’m not sure where to find it.

14. hso | March 11, 2007 #

@ Brenda

1) Log into WP Admin
2) Click on Plugins
3) Activate sldeblog if it exists

Else add the plugin that came with the theme into wp-content/plugins folder and repeat #3

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