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I am very proud to announce that one of my original WordPress themes has been accepted into the WordPress theme repository. I have been designing custom WordPress themes for over three years now, and I have done a couple free ones along the way, but this is my first time to have one in the official repository.
Fifty Fifth Street is a simple, greyscale theme that follows a nice grid system, and keeps typography in top priority. It’s a great theme for the minimalist in you, or for those that like to start with a blank canvas when customizing a free theme for their own needs. Every last pixel was counted and perfected, and the grid is very strictly kept.
Get the theme
You can install the theme from your WordPress admin, or you can download it here. Demo the theme on my own testing site.
If you like the theme, please be kind and give it a star rating. Feel free to leave any support questions here at this blog post, and I will do my best to help you. Enjoy!
Great work Tammy. The black and white color scheme is bold and the layout really emphasizes the content.
Congrats Tammy. The minimalist in me is a size XXL so I love this theme. Really beautiful.
Thanks for the compliments, my friends. I have a ton of themes that would be great free themes, I just rarely make the time for them. This is kinda fun, though, so I might start working on them in my free time. It definitely helps to know they they are being received well!
Great theme. Just love the design. simple and minimalistic. currently using on my blog. =)
Hi Tammy,I love your theme!! I need some help. I am trying to add a logo at the top in the header instead of using the text. Could you point me in the right direction?Thank you!b
The easiest way is to find line 37 in the head.php template and replace the code within the anchor tag with your image. If you are using an image saved within the theme’s image directory, be sure to use the proper code to make it relative to the template folder. Your final code would look something like this:<a href="<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/" id="sitename"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/logo.jpg" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" /></a>
I love this theme! One question. How do you get the photos to show up on the main page? I don’t want excerpts or anything hidden. Thanks!
Hi Tammy – nice work! However, I noticed when I tried your theme with the SyntaxHighlighter plugin for WordPress, it only showed syntax highlighted for 1 post (and not all the other posts that included the syntax highlighter. Any idea on how what might be wrong?
@kristyk- in the index.php template, changes lines 22 and 23 from this:<?php if ($counter == 1 ) { the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); } else { the_excerpt(); } ?>to this: <?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>@Michael – Are they working correctly whenyou click into the single post? If so, it might just be that on the homepage, only excerpts are shown for the posts following the first one. The fix I posted for kristy will help you as well.
Tammy, could you check your comment to me and kristyk, because I’m not seeing the changes you recommend in your comment.
Sorry about that, WordPress didn’t like the way I pasted in my code. Fixed now!
Hi Tammy, thanks for the real fast awnser! Just changed line 22 and 23 like you suggested, but when I do my site goes blank?! any idea?Thanx in advance,Rik de Gooijer
sorry I made a mistake. The index.php in the theme map is altered now but still no visible changes?!
make sure you completely delete everything in those lines, and paste back in only the one new single line
problem solved:should be:Greetings Rik
Tammy, thanks for nice theme you made.Rik, Tammy > how did you solve the problem of photos showing up in the main page? I change the code which Tammy gave, but once I upload index.php and reload my WP, I get answer: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in …./public_html/wp-content/themes/fifty-fifth-street/index.php on line 22
the problem is cant see Rik’s code
I have just uploaded version 1.4 to the repository that fixes the problem people have been having with the full content showing on the index. You should get a notification in your admin panel when it is available.
Great theme! I am trying it out for my blog but I would like to make the sidebar a little narrower. how would I do that?thanks!michael
the width of the sidebar is set in the stylesheet on line 455
Great! so I moved the sidebar narrower, now I need to move the content/body closer to the sidebar. there is too much white space in the middle. How would I do that?Thanks again!michael
change the width of the content on line 323. this is going to change the grid of the design, so you might want to change the width of the site name on line 264 and the nav on line 300
Hi Tammy, Congratulations for the theme design. I spent a night searching the net for WordPress themes for my website and with this one I think I finally found what I’ve been looking for. Can I ask you a question. I want when I click on some of my Categories there to be displayed a list of my posts under this Category with photos and everything (without any excerpts). What should I do? Thank you!
Tammy, I started to blog only a month ago and choose your theme because of it’s cleaness. This is what I needed for my content. I publish a dairy of my grandfather during woldwar 2 and needed a clean space for this historic document. I use also images so a lack disturbing stylish things is very usefull. One thing I do not like and that’s the use of italics, can I change this?
Keez, I’m so glad you were able to find something that works for you. To remove the italics, edit your style.css and remove line 43:font-style:italic;
Hey, Tammy! I have a problem with this theme on WP 2.7.1 – it hangs whole website – it loads blank page. On 2.9.1 it works perfect and makes me totally happy, but fresh WP so memory eating.. Have You tested theme on 2.7?
I’ve fixed it. ) It was body_class(); in header.php – this function was implemented only in 2.8 WP.ahh.. also in functions.php commented off automatic_feed_links();tyvm for excellent clean theme )
Hi Tammy. Great Design. Minimalism is just what I need. Thank you for your great work.But after I changed the site logo, the navigation bar style goes vertical instead of horizontal. Would you give me a clue how to correct that?
I have no idea what happened to my blog, the navigation just stopped working although I didint change anything. Can you check my site? Thank you.
My nav bar just cured itself. It’s kinda weird. >,<I JUST LOVE THIS THEME. Thanks Tammy.
Tammy, I changed the css and no italics, thank you.Now I am looking for a way to remove the bullets, but i can not find them in like; list-style; none. Is it a .gif you use as a bullet?
Hi Tammy. I need some help here.According to ur testing site, the drop-down child pages only list on side bar of a parent page. But on my site, it shows everywhere. I’ve checked the codes in sidebar.php which seems exactly right. I never laid a finger on it before.So whatelse do you think will be tricking?
Hi Tammy,Love the theme! Using it for my site and it’s great! Only one issue– the speech bubble has a black line under it on certain posts of late. If you go to my site, you will see what I mean on my latest post. Can you help me figure out why this is and what I can do to fix it? Thanks!
I don’t see what it is you’re referring to, is there a certain page in particular you can link me to where this is happening?
Hi again,Here is one post– http://www.dandelionandburdockblog.com/?p=486 It’s the speech bubble you click on to comment. if you can’t see it there, perhaps I could send you a screen shot?
It must have something to do with the way your browser/OS renders the font size, and it’s probably stretching the space the image takes up by an extra pixel. Hard to fix a problem I can duplicate, unfortunately. What is your browser and OS?
Ah, thanks, Tammy. It might be because I’m using a Mac OS X 10.5.8 at work. It hasn’t always been the issue. Do you think this issue is only showing up on my computer? Thanks
yeah, that’s probably what it is. Very strange, I should borrow someone’s macbook to see if I can fix it. Thanks for letting me know.
Hello There! I have to say the 55th street theme really rocks! – i wanted to put my logo instead of the blog title and i guess i hit a brick wall.. in the home page the logo displays fine.. but in all other pages it doesnt display… http://www.designeternity.com shows the logo.. and about, contact or individual blog posts doesnt show… do u think you can help me out with this issue.. thanks!
Shafraz,You need to make sure that the path to the logo is absolute instead of relative. Use the entire url: “http://www.designeternity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/logo-340.jpg”
it works! thanks a lot you are the best!!!
Hi Tammy,I love your design.I am very new to blogging and wish to insert my own logo in the top left hand corner.I have been taking note of your great answers but I can’t seem to get the logo to replace the website text.I now have 2 problems.
I’ve been using this theme for a few months now on http://www.rockdancejump.com with some minor modificationsVery happy with it. Thanks
Your WordPress theme is as right as rain but I corrupted it! Thank you!
Hello Tammy,Thanks again for your theme, and for your quick answer. I
Hi Tammy,LOVE your template!! I was wondering if you could tell me how I might be able to add a header image instead of displaying the blog name? Thanks!!Trisha
Hi Tammy,LOVE the template!! I was wondering if you could tell me how to add a header image instead of displaying the blog name?Thanks!!Trisha
nice theme.. i want to use this theme to may blog, thanks
Very nice and clean theme, does it run with WP 3.0?ThanksJoachim
Dear Tammy,What a wonderful template, thank you so much for making this freely available to us all in the WP community. I’ve been using it for my site: http://www.toospoontosay.com/ with a few modifications.You’re a star!
Hi Tammy, have to agree with everyone here and say love the template. Really clean and classy, just what I needed.Just had to ask, I know you’ve mentioned it here, but really struggling with putting an image in the header. Been trying for ages and it keeps failing. Any pointers?http://www.mightygiant.co.uk/blog/Many thanks
Hello Tammy. First of all may I say a huge thank you for you delicious theme. It has been a delight to work with. One thing I am a little stuck on that I hoped you could help with.I was wanting to change the comment bubble so it was only a bubble with the comment count in it and did not have any roll over text or changing to ‘view’. Just the bubble and number that links to the comments. I couldn’t figure that out at all.Thanks in advance. Oh and one of the footer links take you to a 404 on your page. I fixed it on my install.All the best.Peter.
Hello again. I have just discovered that it is an issue with the comment service ‘disqus’ that I have installed. Sorry about that. I did wonder why you would leave something like that but of course you didn’t at all. Well, I’ll get into the plugin code and see whats needing done. Thanks again for a great theme.
Great clean theme. Well done.
Great theme , might try it out myself.
Hello! If I would like to change things such as “Leave a reply” into something in my own language, where should I make the changes? Are there any language files in the theme? Thanks for a lovely theme!
Thanks everyone that has said great things about my theme. I had no idea as I was getting so many great comments recently, as it seems I have barely been getting any emails at all about comments received. I think I’ve found and fixed the culprit, but in the meantime, It’s hard to tell who might still need help or not. So please feel free to contact me via my Contact form and choose “I have a support question.” I will try to help everyone as best as I can with my limited spare time.
So glad everyone is enjoying the theme! Hopefully after the busy Holiday season breezes over, I’ll start on a few version 2 ideas.
Hi Tammy,
I have tried what you suggested in:
Tammy Hart // December 31, 2009 at 12:04 pm
but the logo doesn not show, sorry I am a newbie and I do not understand where the problem is.
The only solution is to put a background image in the #header but I am not sure it is the right solution.
Any suggestion?
Piero,
Can you tell me more about what isn’t working? Perhaps you’ve not put your logo image in the correct directory.
Thanks for the theme, Tammy. I’ve been looking for a clean and minimal theme to use a base for my blog. I made some adjustments to customize it a bit and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks again!
So glad you’re enjoying it!
Hi Tammy, thank you so much for sharing this theme!
I was wondering, is there an easy way to move the sidebar to the right side of the?
Hi Tammy,
Great job and thank you for sharing a beautiful theme.
I was wondering, Is there is anyway to remove the bullet point for the sidebar?
iacopo and kevin,
This just takes a little tinkering in the css. look for #sidebar in the stylesheet.
Hello! I wanted to thank you for this them, simple and effective, and it saves me a lot of time when it comes to coding my own (I’m a pain in the ass , pure laisy) but enough about me, let’s talk about you.
a have some questions:
1. how can I add excerpts? ( it shows all the post, not just a piece, no possible way to add a read more?)
2. when I close the comments on a page, how do I make it to no post: “Comments are closed.” ?
3. how to I automaticly add the HOME button?
I can take on the javacscripting, html and css, but when it comes to php… somebody bring me a beer!
thanks again for this theme and home to hear from you!
PS: the cleaness of your css is awesome
Hi Tammy,
I am able to take out the bullet point. Thanks for your help.
I am trying to add the yearly achieves widget to the sidebar, so I went into the sidebar.php and change line
php wp_get_archives(‘show_post_count=1&type=monthly’
to
php wp_get_archives(‘show_post_count=1&type=yearly’
The achieves on the sidebar is still displaying in monthly. I wonder if that’s the solution for it.
Thanks again
Tammy, I saw your comment on how to get a header instead of the words but I just can’t seem to get that code to work. What exactly in that code you provided do I need to change?
To use an image instead of using a text sitename:
Upload your image to the theme’s images directory.
open header.php and find line 37
replace that line with this :
<a href="<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>/" id="sitename">
<img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/IMAGENAME.jpg" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" />
</a>
Everything fine now, thanks Tammy.
Hi Tammy, just a question.
Thumbnails on posts seem to be not supported by your theme. Is there anyway I can do it?
Thanks,
Piero
how do i expand the width of the content?
Hello,
This is just the theme I was looking for, with some modifications I have found it to be really great!
I have a question:
I want to get rid of the >> that appears by the title in the browser. How do I do that?
Thanks!
That is found in the
<title>tag which is in header.php. It looks like this:»Thanks so much!
Love the cleanliness of the blog, Tammy. I can’t wait to officially launch my site this thursday if all goes well.
However, I have a couple of problems and don’t know how to fix the issues. One, the search box isn’t aligned to the right top of the layout like I see in your Demo. Two, for some reason the date of the post is also overlapping itself and looks like the month and year are graphically on top of each other with the very first post that I did. And three, my heading for this post looks out of place and is also crowding this area.
Is there a way to fix the search box, scale the date just a tad from this size and align the post for headline so it goes underneath the date?
Oh, one more thing if you may, I will be uploading photos of course and was wondering if there is a way to control the width size and copyright protect them from uses pulling them off my blog and into their desktop.
Thank you so much for your time. I truly appreciate any help you could send my way.
Permalink: http://visionsoflightphotography.com/blog/?p=1
Hi Tammy! I have a question – how can I remove the comment count entirely? I’m not very skilled in that, but I (somehow) managed to remove the comment “bubble” – now there’s still the comment count without the bubble under the date (see: http://feedoncoffee.pixxie.cc/ ) Would you tell me how to remove this? Thank you very much!
you need to completely remove the comment code. That would be this line:
<?php comments_popup_link(’0′, ’1′, ‘%’, ‘bubble’, ‘Off’); ?>
Hey Tammy – we’ve been using the theme for a while over at songfail.com and it has been absolutely perfect! We would like to make a change but not sure how. We’d like the ‘archive’ view to show the full post rather than the summary. Because all of our post are videos, when someone clicks a category it just gives the title but a short summary. Can you help?
Thanks!
Dave
I’m glad you’re enjoying the theme!
To do this, open up archive.php and find the line that says
the_excerpt(). change that tothe_content().You rock!
Hi Tammy,
Thanks for the great theme. Do you know if it is possible to place a share plugin below the comment area of a post? I would want it below the ‘leave a reply’ box for each post. I am using your theme at http://qruopenschool.ca
Also, in case you know how…I’m also wanting to have my sharing features below the comment box on my mobile view too.
cheers,
Heidi
Heidi,
You should be able to use any of the sharing plugins or add on codes that are available. Most plugins will automatically add the share buttons at the end of the post. I don’t recommend solely putting them after the comment form since this would require a reader to scroll past all of the comments to find them.
Hi Tammy, Thanks for the awesome theme. I’m super new so bare with me.
I’m testing the comment area and when I submit a comment then go back to the site the name and email is showing from the submitted comment. And it says the mail won’t be published but it’s showing.
Also is there a way to modify the number of characters of the comment area? I tried “I love this” and when I hit submit it says sorry to short go back.
Thanks for your help.
Tracy
Tracy,
I’m not sure why it would be doing that unless you’ve installed a plugin that does that or if you modified the theme. The email address is viewable from the back end of WordPress to the admin of the site, but there is no code that outputs it to the live site. Can you give me a link to your site sot hat I can take a look?
Also, the word count on the comment form is a WordPress setting, not a setting from this theme.
Hey Tammy,
I’m sorry I meant to update this earlier today..I submitted a support ticket to word press and they fixed it and sent me a test today.
Thanks so much for your help..I really love the theme a lot.
Hey Tammy, me again…I was wondering if and how to add the featured image to the archive view. Thanks for your help!
Hey Tracy,
You can edit the archive.php template and right before it says the_excerpt(), add the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’);
Thank YOU! Not only is your template awesome..you really are great on the support side. I’m so new to this but you have really made it doable for me.
Thanks Tracy! I’ve also been having a really hard time with what should be quite simple, I would think. How do you change the font style and color of the page navigation in the header?
thanks in advance
Those settings are found in the stylesheet on lines 295 to 314.
Ah, I think I got it. Isn’t that always the way it works…when you finally ask for help you discover it on your own! thanks.
Hi Tammy,
I was wondering if it would be possible to add drop down menus to the page headers?
Thanks,
Linda
This theme is in bad need of an update and I don’t recall what the navigation code is like. I’m fairly certain it would require some css and some php to get those working. I’m going to work on updating the theme over the weekend and you should get a notification when the update is ready for installation. It will include the option to use the pages or a menu and it will include dropdowns.
Hi Tammy,
Just wondering if you were going to do the update anytime soon?
Thanks,
Linda
I was also wondering if there was a way to make the pages full width without the sidebars?
Hi Tammy,
I love this theme! So many minimalist themes look boringly generic, but this one is so stylish in its simplicity. There’s one thing I was wanting to modify, but am not sure how (my CSS knowledge is limited!). If you could help, I’d really appreciate it! Is there a way to make comments appear in a more obvious hierarchy? Perhaps with an indent for replies or something? Also, when the “reply” button is clicked on a comment, the text field for the reply appears at the very bottom of the page instead of just under the comment the person is replying to. Is there a way to make the reply text field appear just under the comment being responded to? I don’t know if it’s very complicated or not, but I would really appreciate your any help you can give on one or both of my questions! Other than my comment issues, the theme is perfect, and I know I’ll be using it for a very long time! Thanks in advance
I’m so glad you like the theme. It is in bad need of updating and at this time, it doesn’t support threaded commenting which is why it’s not working correctly for you. This is one of the things I plan on doing in the update, I just haven’t done it yet!
Hi Tammy,
I really like this theme. Just asking myself if youre still working on the Theme and if there will be a responsive version available.
Greetings from Hamburg/Germany,
Ralf
I am not actively working on this theme, but I do plan to return to it at sometime. Responsive may be one of the features I add, but I’m not sure.
I just installed your themed and I love how my new blog looks. I have not done much so it is a bit too early to comment about it, but so far so good
I love its simplicity and how elegant it looks. I can also display better the photos, so I better learn how to take good pics!
I am hoping than in a few months I can get a design done, like I have done in the past with my previous blog/shop, but for now I am very happy with it!
Thank you!
hey, i come here to thank you. i’m a graphic designer and i use the theme as my online portfolio, and have changed some versual detailes. would you come to see it? http://www.imseeing.com, it’s not ad.
Thank you so much for the theme! LOVE it! one quick question, how do you get the categories to display all the posts? right now when i click on categories, it only shows excerpts, how do you get the photos to show up when clicking on categories, so no excerpts, just the posts with all the photos. Thank you!! ademie.com
TAMMY I am new to blogging, am going with WordPress, and I am attracted to your Fifty Fifth Street theme. But waht I am looking for is the following: minimalist, customizable, 2-columns, sidebar on right, fixed width, serifed font, lotsa headers, widget-ready, image-friendly, with a rather large footer. How possible is that with your otherwise lovely theme? NEAL