OptionsFree Magazine Style Theme The Studio
Here’s another absolutely Free Magazine Style Theme! This theme is not only full functional, it’s also completely customizable, all without touching any code.
So what features come standard with this magazine WordPress theme
The theme includes all the cool functions we have come to expect from any paid premium theme, only now you can have it for free, here’s the short list:
Advance edit options allows users to edit the style without learning or knowing CSS. You can even change the header image without touching a line of code, all from the options page.
Featured-regular post option by simply creating/adding your post under a category called “Featured” and coded to be Search Engine Friendly (optimized).
Second level, conditional and dropdown menus! No set up required, just add categories and sub-categories and you are good to go.
Tabbed JavaScript interface, in its own file, so editing (if you have too) is a breeze.
Widget ready sidebars and is pre-styled for Google Adsense/affiliate ads.
All ads are in their own files, so editing a file to add advertisement codes is a no brainer, so even novice users can manage their sites (on their own) like pros.
Stylish comments area, encourages user to participate. Change the background colors if you like, all from the options page.
Demo and Download
So where can you grab your own copy? Right here, test run the theme and download magazine WordPress theme The Studio. 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 theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.3.3.
Authors, License and Credits
The theme was result of a collaborative effort by MandarinMusing WordPress Theme and Headsetoptions Web Design and based on a free template by Luka Cvrk. This effort was made possible with support from Atlanta New Homes + Wholesale Diabetic Socks.
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!
Thanks for the free theme! This is unique and easy to use.
I am always looking for themes to recommend to clients and I like the functionality of this theme.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:51 am
@ Website Design Linda,
I am glad you find this theme useful, our goal will be to make the themes as full function as possible such that customization is a breeze to any and all users!
February 24th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
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February 24th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Another excellent design. I like that you do not have to click on the tabs. Someone should add it to wpthemez.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:51 am
@ Skarld
I can’t seem to add the button that you sent me? Can you email be please! Thanks.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Oops I made the post the wrong place.
How do I ad adsense to widget one and how do I add the ads to the ad spots? I am a novices but all i tried didnt work.
Also can the header be changed?
February 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
@ Dezzy
The ads are all in separate files, look for ads.php to ad codes for the sidebar (125px). For widgets in sidbar, you can use the text widget from WP Admin > Presentation > Widgets.
Also, the header can be easily changed from WP Admin > Presentation > Current Theme Options, all you need is the header image URI on your or other server.
Hope it helps!
February 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am
This theme is very ads friendly, i like it, and i will try it by myself. One thing confusing me is i am not good at designing themes. I am afraid i have to learn something about it.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Very nice theme, maybe i gone use it on my blog.
March 1st, 2008 at 4:38 am
I will definitely use this one. A bit too gray but il fix that myself
March 1st, 2008 at 9:32 am
It looks very good. I’m going to use it. Thank you.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
How would i go around pulling out those 125 x 125 ad blocks to use on another theme?
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
@ SEO
What theme are you using?
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 am
hso,
No worries. I have managed to sort it out with a bit of CSS. Its just i assumed it was an ad plugin. Ta!
March 5th, 2008 at 7:52 am
The body text in posts seems to throw away font changes… e.g. I mark a block of text as red, heading 1 and it looks fine on the write and manage screens but goes back to regular style when displayed in the blog… any ideas?
March 7th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
@ Tex Long
How are you adding these styles?
March 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
? I’m not adding styles… I’m just formatting text in a post.
For example, I WRITE a new post. In the body, I type “Here it is”, I highlight the three words and click on Heading 1 and Red. In the editor, it shows in nice large Heading 1-size letters, red ones. I publish it and go to view, and… nothing… just plain ol’ text. Same thing happens with stuff like bold, italic, etc. If I go back to the default theme, it’s all there.
So… what am I doing wrong?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
@ Tex Long
The theme does not strip any style input from the WYSIWYG editor, I just tried it on the test site and it works. Check to see if there are any plugins that might interfere with your styling. BTW, what is the site URI you are testing the theme at?
March 9th, 2008 at 11:28 am
The test is on an internal (intranet) server, not accessible from outside.
Since the post shows up properly formatted in the Wordpress Default (and one or two others I’ve tried) the codes are obviously being stripped for display only.
There is just one activa plugin, Akismet.
In setting this up for testing, I haven’t installed anything other than what came with the SP 2.3.3 package other than your theme and one called TimeLine Digest, although there are a couple of other blogs on the server (older WP versions, 2.07 and 2.2.something), but they are in separate directories… albeit with data stored on the same MySQL server, but not in the same database.
I haven’t modified widgets or anything, although I did put in a different header image, but put the original back.
Here’s a possible clue: in admin, if I edit the post and click on “View”, it’s correct. But then when I click on “View Site”, the tags get stripped. Obviously, it’s going through some different code between those two places - I can compare what’s going on in them if you tell me what code to look at.
Thanks!
March 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
A quick followup to the last clue. If we go to the main site and click on the specific post to go to the screen showing just the post and associated comments, it displays properly… so it’s apparently only the “home” screen processing that shows this feature.
Does that help?
March 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
AWesome theme! Thanks for sharing
March 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Finally, a theme that I can work with and that I like the looks of! Thank you.
I do have a question however, I cannot find a way to feature a blog post so the box at the top is now blank. Am I missing something?
March 10th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I had the same problem so i just replaced it with one of the widgets.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:12 am
@ Tex Long
Check the demo here. I made the text red and blue within the first paragraph and it shows in all pages. If it displays correct when you preview it as a single post, it should on the home page too since they are using the same code and divs.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:54 am
@ Robb L
Create a category called “Featured” (with a capital F) and make a post. Instructions are included within the theme folder
March 11th, 2008 at 5:56 am
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March 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
You said: “Check the demo here. I made the text red and blue within the first paragraph and it shows in all pages. If it displays correct when you preview it as a single post, it should on the home page too since they are using the same code and divs.”
I appreciate the response, but… trying here very hard not to be an a55h0le… it isn’t really all that helpful. I was pretty sure it’s something you’ve not seen before, or else it would’ve been an easy fix.
Having been in the software development business (not with php, though!) for more years than I care to think about, I am intimately familiar with the support response “It works here”, which is basically what you’re telling me, along with “it SHOULD work”. It may be true - no, let me rephrase that - I’m quite CERTAIN it’s true, but it doesn’t do much good.
I’m not bullsh!tt!ng you here - it doesn’t effing work, it does exactly what I told you. So… I asked where the code is that displays the post. Obviously there is something different about the “Front page” and the single posting. I’m not implying that there’s anything wrong with your code, it’s just that because of some interaction with something currently unknown, it behaves as I’ve described… and it’s an unwanted behavior.
So… forget it, I’ll go find where it is - I know, I know, I’m a lazy wanker for asking you to tell me instead of digging it out for myself in the first place, but that’s just life its own self, innit? If and when I get it solved, I’ll let you know. It’s obviously something that only concerns me (so far) but it might be helpful in the future for someone else.
Thanks, again!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:38 am
@ Tex Long
The main featured post on the index page is within a div class called “featurepost” and the code to look for is:
The non-featured posts are within a div called “post” and look like this:
Individual posts are within single.php
All the CSS styles are within style.php in conjunctions with functions.php
Let us know if you find something!
March 12th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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March 13th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I love this stuff
March 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
The featured post works (which may be what your test showed). The rest of the posts (excerpted) do not.
As it turns out, in the “rest” of the posts, you call the_excerpt() in the (index.php) loop on main page(s) as you display a partial message for each of the current posts. Clicking on the title link takes you to another piece of code (which calls the_content()), and therein lies the difference.
It appears that the culprit is the WP excerpting, since replacing your call to the_excerpt() in the post-loop with a call to the_content() leaves the font tagging intact.
Since I require the font tagging to remain intact for all posts, I have the choice of dropping the call to the_excerpt() or finding and “fixing” the_excerpt’s behavior…
March 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Hi,great theme, I have removed the site name from my custom banner, how can I remove the // in the header?
thanks
March 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am
No need - I just altered the css to white
thanks again
March 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am
Hey which plugin did you use for the tag cloud? Let me know. Can’t get it to work.
Btw, nice theme man. Thanks.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
@ th13rteen
There is no plugin in play, WordPress 2.3.x has tags built in. You can add tags when creating/editing a post. If you are using an earlier version of WP, upgrade before you get hacked
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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March 24th, 2008 at 7:21 am
very nice, thanks!
March 28th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Hi,
Great theme. I’m having a problem though, how do I remove or edit the “About This Site” on the index page.
Thanks.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:14 am
@ Joe
If you don’t have a page called “about”, then the “About This Site” part will not show up. If you want to totally get rid of the code, open sidebar.php (Sidebar) and delete the lines:
March 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
how can i remove the “Uncategorized” of the blue bars at the header?
April 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
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April 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@Moratelli I have been wondering the same thing, can someone tell us?
BTW really like this theme!
April 9th, 2008 at 1:00 am
One more question, when posting videos from youtube they don’t appear on the front page, only after you click on the posts title, is there a way to fix this?
April 9th, 2008 at 1:02 am
@ Moratelli/Damian
Uncategorized is the default category WP creates, you can either rename it or exclude it from the list using this method from Codex.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
@ Damian
Refer to this comment. Only you edit the non-featured loop which starts below “Latest Posts”.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Thanks hso! Got it working =]
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April 19th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Hi!
Could you please help me out with those 125X125 ads?
I’ve read that I should look for a file called ads.php, but it wasn’t there. The closest I find is regularads.php and sponsors.php.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Hi!
Could someone please help me out with those 125X125 ads?
I’ve read that I should look for a file called ads.php, but it wasn’t there. The closest I find is regularads.php and sponsors.php.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
@ Stian
It is sponsors.php, some of the instructions got mixed up and I have not gotten around to fixing it.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Okay, that’s cool. Then I’ll mangage to figure it out. Thanks!!!
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May 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 am
thank you for this template..
i’m looking to use this template for my dating blog…
May 13th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Didn’t see it mentioned above - any problems with WP 2.5.1?
-g
May 13th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
@ Geoff
The demo site is running the latest version of WordPress, at this point it is 2.5.1 and the theme has had no problems with it.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pm