OptionsFree Magazine Style WordPress Theme: The Box
Why pay for a Magazine WordPress Theme when you can get one for free? Introducing The Box, the all-inclusive magazine style WordPress theme that has all the cool features of a premium theme straight out of “the box”. Best of all, it is absolutely Free!
Ola Hedin of Blyerts.com pointed out an IE 6 issue that was fixed on 05/06/2008 at 9:48 PM EST. Thanks Ola
The theme includes among other functions advance edit options, featured-regular post option, second level, conditional and dropdown menus, tabbed JavaScript interface, widget ready sidebars and is pre-styled for Google Adsense and coded to be search engine friendly (optimized).
Demo and Download
Click the image or the demo link below to test run the theme before downloading. The theme is free for personal use, we urge you refer to the license section below before downloading if you plan on using it commercially or otherwise.
The Box: Live Demo | Download Magazine WordPress Theme The Box
Features of Magazine WordPress Theme The Box
This lightweight (minimal image usage and no plugins!) magazine style WordPress theme includes numerous advance functions to edit the theme style without touching a line of CSS.
It theme relies on intelligent conditional statements to improve user experience, including a “Featured” post section and second level/dropdown menu.
The theme completely validates and has two right widget ready sidebars and a tabbed JavaScript interface to optimize sidebar real estate.
The theme uses location based output and navigation, intuitive SEO corrections, and comes styled for Google Adsense ads.
The theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.3.3.
Authors, Credits and License
The theme was result of a collaborative effort by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions and partly based on a free template by Igor Jovi. This effort was made possible with support from Complex Hosting and Custom Shipping Cases.
The theme is released under a combined CC and GPL license. The CSS (stylesheet) and images are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, while the rest of the theme files are released under a GNU GPL License. What this means is, if you are to use this CSS/images to redesign, you are required to link back to the theme authors in the footer. You can make any changes to the php files any way you like. However, we prefer you leave the credits for the theme intact to help users find this theme easily. You are not allowed to redistribute this theme in part or whole. Contact us if you plan on using it commercially or if you have any special needs.
Free Support and Paid Customization
Like all of our over 100 themes, this theme too is supported for free. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for WordPress themes support and queries.
For customization of themes or web design projects, visit Headsetoptions.org. You may view, download and test run more of our Free WordPress themes at MandarinMusing.com.
Please do spread the word if you like our themes, make a donation if you love it!
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February 15th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Sorry, I left these comments on the wrong post!
Is it easy to customize the header on this theme w/ an image? I love it, but would like to plug in a logo instead of the text. Great work!
Also - I notice that the posts are short and then say “Read More.” Does it only display a certain number of characters and then readers will need to click? Is that an option that can be turned off so that the entire post can be displayed?
February 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
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February 16th, 2008 at 6:48 am
@ Oz
You can substitute the tetx in div class=”logo” to an image. Currently it is set to 600px wide. The search bar is in the same header div, so if you have a logo greater than 600px, the search bar will drop. You can change both styles if needed in style.php
As for the post excerpts, you can change that to full post by editing index.php and look for
and change that to
February 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Thanks for the response. Much appreciated.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
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February 26th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I am unable ad adsense and ads in the ads spots.My skills are limited but i dont see how to add it, could you help please.
Thanks
February 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Hi - I love this theme! I’m having a hard time figuring out how to use the featured post section though. One site said I had to add “Featured” to my categories, but that didn’t seem to work when I tried a test post with it categorized as featured.
Can you help me figure this out - I’m sure it’s easy & right in front of my face, but hey it’s 7pm on a Friday! Thanks again!
February 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
@ Kate
The featured post will be under a category called “Featured” with a capital “F”, not “f”. So check if your category is set right, if not, change the way it is spelled. Hope it helps!
March 1st, 2008 at 4:19 am
hi can you help me,
my blog is using your theme at http://hanzahar.net
if i am to click to this link which is my post
http://hanzahar.net/islam/is-steady-economy-growth-possible-without-having-a-bear-market/
the error below comes out
Not Found
The requested URL /islam/is-steady-economy-growth-possible-without-having-a-bear-market/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at hanzahar.net Port 80
i have contacted my hosting and they i do no have a folder or someting but i dont know how to make it have it because i am not really web savvy
thank you
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 am
@ hanz
Looks like the issue is with your permalink structure (which appears to due to a missing or write-protected .htaccess file)
Here’s what you can do to check and possibly fix the issue on your server:
1. Disable clean permalink (structure) from WP Admin > Options > Permalinks by selecting the default structure
2. If then you are able to see your single posts, then go to 3, if not, got to 7
3. Access your .htaccess (which will be in the same location as your WP folders/files
4. Change the permission on that file to 777
5. Change Permalink back to how you have it set (looks like it is set based on URI/%category%/%postname%/)
6. Open the .htaccess and check if the changes are recorded, if so, change the permission back to 555
7. If the issue persists, update your WP version to 2.3.3 or check to ensure your database recognizes the categories featured, islam…etc
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
hey HSO
THANKS!
it works!
you rock!
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March 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I can’t believe iv missed this one. Still getting use to the navigation/layout.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:48 am
hi HSO
You can substitute the tetx in div class=”logo” to an image. Currently it is set to 600px wide. The search bar is in the same header div, so if you have a logo greater than 600px, the search bar will drop. You can change both styles if needed in style.php
can you detail out how to do it? another how to remove the rainbow like image at the top of this theme tq
March 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
@ hh
I did not try it, but this is what you need to do to add an image in place of the text, you can do it using CSS only.
Open style.php and look for this:
Make it
Note we added the background image called LOGONAME.jpg, change that to whatever your image name is.
Add another set of style to hide the text that is in place currently:
Note we added display “none”.
As for the search, it should float over the image we just added.
To remove the rainbow colored image, open style.php and look for this:
Remove
March 15th, 2008 at 11:13 am
hso,
thanks for your help
March 15th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Hi,
first i like to thank you for a great theme!
No i have a question about the Featured section.
It seems like posts in de featured section have no HTML applied to them. Links and images don’t come up and Header tag don’t work.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:07 am
@ Nelis
The featured post uses the_exceprt tag to show only an excerpt, if you want the full post, open index.php (Main Index File) and look for this:
Change the
to
March 16th, 2008 at 8:51 am
That did it!
Thank you!
March 16th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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April 8th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Congratulates for creating such a complex and well done theme. It is on my list to use in the future websites
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April 19th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Hi!
Thanks for a great theme. There is one problem though, IE6 makes it look different. I tried the browser on your demo and the problem is still there.
The navigation (with keywords, tags, comments and search) and the widgets is under the articles, not to the right.
What to do?
Best regards
/ ola
May 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
@ Ola Hedin
There was an issue indeed, thanks for pointing it out. You can either re-download the theme or use this simple IE hack.
Open style.php and look for this:
Make
to
Add one more line below that
Your final code should look like this:
What this essentially does is tells IE6 to not take the 100% width into consideration. That will keep the sidebar within the 360px it is supposed to. Hope this helps.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hi HSO
Magic! Tried your code at once and it works perfect. Thanks for an amazing support!
Best regards / ola
May 7th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Great theme. Thanks for it. Iw will try to run in my blog.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:58 pm