OptionsFree Advanced WordPress Theme Unbound
Unbound is an full-function advanced WordPress theme with touch free “CSS” customization functionality built in. The theme has practically no set up time and works straight out of the box.
Just like our other free premium advanced WordPress themes, “Unbound” comes packed with all the great functions and features we offer for free, such as…
- Theme edit options within WP Admin panel: Now you can edit like a pro without messing with codes.
- Change the header image from the WP Admin panel.
- Featured-regular posts highlights your important posts by placing it at the very top of the site.
- Second level conditional menus.
- Tabbed JavaScript sidebar widget saves web real estate.
- Widget ready side and bottom bars styled to easily add Google Adsense.
- Customizable comments block colors.
- Search engine optimized.
Demo and Download
Give the theme a test flight by running the demo, then grab a copy of the advanced free WordPress theme Unbound. This 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 2.5.
Authors, License and Credits
The theme is a collaborative work of MandarinMusing WordPress Theme and Headsetoptions Web Design and based on a free template by Erwin Aligam of Style Shout. This effort was made possible with support by the makers of Diaphragm Pumps and Air Tools.
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 the other 100 or so themes from our team, this theme too is supported for free. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for WordPress themes support and tips.
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.
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Nice theme, love the colour contras with header image.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
the style.css file included in the download is empty other than the copyright info, making the theme useless right now. please fix.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:36 am
@ jc
Check style.php, thats where the styles are, it is set such that you can edit the style without knowing or touching CSS via the WP Admin panel.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:44 am
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April 24th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Wow, thank you for such great theme!
April 24th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Your install document states that one should alter the ads.php file for the ad cluster at the top of the sidebar, but I don’t believe there is one included in the zip file.
I’m wondering if you could make that available.
***Nevermind –just found “regularad.php” but you might want to change your installation doc.
Also, FYI, the first zip of this theme I downloaded, named “Unbound1-0.zip” (I believe it came from one of the sites directly linked to you) was missing all the php and css files. If it’s in your control, you might want to check that.
Other than that, thanks for a spectacular theme!
April 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
@ daniel
Looks like you got the first copy of the theme from a spam site trying to screw you by providing a free theme and adding hidden advertisements, there are many of those out there.
Thanks for pointing out the err in the install instructions, I will change it shortly.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
hi,
I’ve a problem with you beautiful theme. In the post’s page this code appears over the comments form. Thank you for help.
Project-Id-Version: WordPress 2.5 Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: wp-polyglots@lists.automattic.com POT-Creation-Date: 2008-03-29 18:22+0200 PO-Revision-Date: 2008-04-02 08:23+0100 Last-Translator: Language-Team: Italian (www.wordpress-it.it) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1; X-Poedit-Language: Italian X-Poedit-Country: ITALY X-Poedit-SourceCharset: utf-8 X-Poedit-KeywordsList: __;_e X-Poedit-Basepath: . X-Poedit-SearchPath-0: .
April 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
@ giuseppe
The issue seem to step from a translation tag, I looked into the theme file and we have a tag that is set to change the text “Leave a Comment” when translated. For some reason it is not and changing it to Italian. teh simplest thing to do is open comments.php and look for this:
Remove these lines:
Leaving only these two:
Then change the text from “Leave a Comments” (which by the way is wrong even in English - it should say Leave a Comment (singular)) to its equivalent in Italian. Let me know if it helps.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
ok, now it’s correct, many many thanx!!!
April 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
We’re getting things up and running with Unbound (still have to set up a footer or content area graphic to endcap the content area), but I’ve run into a couple little things that I thought you might want to know about.
The biggest one: if you only have one post, the background color/image for “content” does not reach the bottom of the content area.
This wouldn’t be such an issue (once you create two blog posts the problem is solved) except that it does the same thing on static pages, and the lack of a background is extremely obvious there (see http://RenBoy.com, click “info”).
I’m wondering if it has something to do with the “paginate” div, as there is no “paginate” in the style sheet. That’s just a guess, and probably a pretty lame one, but it’s all I’ve got right now.
Thanks again for a great theme.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
@ daniel
I see what is happening, you are using a new content-bg image which in reality is small enough (only 10px high) that it can be repeated. However the style is set not to repeat. Here’s what you do, open style.php and look for this:
Change that to:
Let me know how it works. BTW, you site looks awesome.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
@ hso
Thanks for taking a look.
Actually, you can see that the 10px back ground image is in fact set to repeat on the y (continues on down the page on “blog post” pages), but for some reason it stops short (often waaaay short) of the bottom of the content area on the “pages.” For the life of me I can’t figure out why. Loops? Paginate class? Entry class? Clear class? Something’s getting in the way, and I assume it’s something in page.php (but obviously I could be wrong).
I thought maybe the Thickbox for the WPNG Calendar widget (great Google Calendar integration widget, btw) might be the culprit, but I removed it and there was no change, so it’s not that.
After taking another look, I do notice now (duh) that the repeat chases the length of the page content (”info” page is really stubby, “listening page” goes further as there is more text, etc…). So the solution would be an element that somehow makes sure the “content” is as long as the number of widgets, etc… installed in your sidebars… or maybe placing the background element in one of the other content wrappers (I haven’t looked at the sidebar to content structure yet after noticing this)?
The simple (but not quite so savvy) fix would be just loading the pages up with empty paragraphs to make sure they are as long as the sidebar.
Thanks for the complements on the design.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Sure enough…
Adding the
“background: #333 url(images/content-bg.gif) center repeat-y;”
to the “content-outer” (instead of or in addition to the “content”) class is the solution.
Now I’ve just got to get the bottom “end cap” on the content edge graphic and we’re good to go!
April 29th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
@ daniel
The simplest way would be to add a div at the very bottom of header.php and close it as the very top of the footer.php. The div can be a id, class or nothing, such as:
and end it with
April 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I’m trying to use unbound with a static home page and blog entries on a different page. The blog entry page works fine, but I wind up with two “home” pages in the menu. The pages themselves look okay, but can’t have two home pages.
Thanks for the great looking theme.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
@ jim
You can open header.php (or Header within WP Admin) and find and delete this piece of code:
May 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am