Free Magazine WordPress Theme: Introducing OpenBook

Amazing for a free theme, or even a paid theme (if it was). Seems the bar for free WordPress themes is being set higher and higher. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Leland, and thanks for your compliments.
In my opinion, a “free” theme must not be a premium theme with less features. OpenBook is free and will stay free, but I really want it to be a quality theme, not a theme you choose because you don’t want to pay for a premium theme

A very nice theme ! I knew already but it is wonderful !

Thanks to all of you for your kind comments! I really, really appreciate it!

You have just raised the bar. Fantastic! Cheers.

When viewing a category page, the header seems to be off in IE7.

@Marc: That’s possible. I don’t use windows so testing in ie is always a pain for me.
I think that putting more negative margin-bottom to #shadow should fix the problem.

@All: Thanks – Or thanks again – for your compliments regarding my work. I really, really appreciate it

Loving the option to crash IE6

A fantastic theme, very well done!

I have applied it to my site, but the smoothgallery is placed in the center of the screen, not left-justified, and covers up part of the “recent stories” section. Is there any particular reason for this?

Thanks again for the free theme!

Hi, no worries. The smoothgallery is working now. Cheers.

Thanks for sharing this theme!

I love this theme. But I am having a hard time understanding how to configure it. What is the ID? In your example you use numbers to specify the categories for the home page as well as for the featured item. My categories are names like ‘Apple’, ‘iPhone’, and ‘Windows’. What should I be specifying to make these show up? All I see in the bottom section is one category called ‘Uncategorized’. I have tried using numbers and the names above, but this doesn’t seem to make any change.

Thanks in advance.
Mike

Sorry for another comment. This is my last! I was just writing wrong up there. This is correct!

If you go to ie.css, and change this:

#nav2{
margin-bottom:-10px !important; /*ie7*/
margin-bottom:1px; /*ie6*/
}

to this:

#nav2{
margin-bottom:0px !important; /*ie7*/
margin-bottom:1px; /*ie6*/
}

the header is just perfect also in IE

Hey guys,

Just FYI – JBJ is on vacation I believe, but I’m sure he’ll do his best to answer your questions upon his return.

Just wanted you guys to know there may be a small delay in his response.

Hi guys, as Kyle said, I was in vacation, so sorry for the delay in my response

@all: About the Internet Explorer problem with the menu: This will be corrected in the next version of OpenBook, which will be for 1 or 2 weeks. I suggest you to suscribe to this feed so you’ll know when it will be released.
For now, don’t hesitate to use Atle Grimseid solution which will works fine.

@zets: weird problem. I never heard about this one, and it’s not easy for me to correct it because I don’t have windows and ie7… I’ll look for it on Monday, when I’ll be able to have a windows machine.

@Atle Grimseid: Btw, can you provide me a copy of the OpenBook files that you translated in your language? That will be very appreciated.

@Mike: The ID is the category ID.Kyle wrote a cool post some days ago, and I think you’ll find what you’re looking for there.

hi! your job is incredible
i work in found a solution for a problem in ie6 and 7 with the position of the smoothgallery
my solution is, change this lines in the ie.css
#myGallery{
position:relative !important;
position:absolute; /* ie6 only */
left: auto !important;
left:30px;
}
the problem is over! i’m happy
greetings for all

for nothing! if you need help for the next version just tell me
greetings

Thanks a lot. I’ll check those lines.

if you need more help add me in msn messenger (info@emebe.com.ar)
cheers

very good theme, and free ! Fantastic !
I love it !!!!!!
A small question , How to put banners in the Sponsors section ?
Thank you !

Charles

Hi! It took me a while to figure this out but I think I know exactly why the smoothgallery would not show up. (But now it does!)

You may have a post marked in your “Featured” category but no featuredimg custom field defined. You MUST have URLs for the images or else the main page will show blank where the smoothgallery must go!

So you must have an image for each featured post!

Absolutely amazing theme! I would have paid for this one. ;-D My question is, when I insert my code for my ads in the side bar only THREE ads show up. If I attempt to place more than three ads, only three ads still show up. Any ideas?

@Trey: I have 6 ads on my French blog and no problem, so I don’t really know what happened. Give me your url so I can have a look at the problem.
Btw, OpenBook is 100% free but if you want to make a little Paypal donation, I’ll appreciate it

@CR: I guess you’re using Internet Explorer. There’s a known bug that make the grey line on the categories buttons on every page, exepted the homepage.
To fix it, open ie.css and paste:

#shadow{display:none;}

I’m pretty sure this will solve your problem

Hi!

I tried downloading it, but I kept on getting an error message saying that certain files had the same name when I tried to unzip. Please help!

Thanks

C

it’s not working fine on my site

Hi Folks,

Great theme. Just one question….I want to have (continue reading) or (Read full story) at the end of the posts on the main home page. Is it possible to do this or how would I go about it..

Any info appreciated. again great work on the theme.

@zj: Search on google and you’ll find out That’s very easy.

@Shanes: You have to edit the theme files. I can do it for you as paid support if you want.

@Aditya: Can you be more precise please?

@Da Lash: This is a well-known bug I should correct for the next version…You have to edit header.php and give the exclude parameter to the wp_list_categories() function.

Hey Jean Baptiste,

Sorted my first problem. Thanks.

Now I have a question that I can’t figure out. The formatting of my posts is a problem which only seems to happen with this theme. When I am writing a post, and use paragraphs or line breaks, they don’t show on the post. Everything runs continuosly with no line breaks or paragraphs. I have tried html tags for paragraph and for breaks but they wont show up…
See http://365support.com/postexample.jpg. This has been written with lines and paragraphs formatted but turns out like this. Any help would be very welcome.

hi, im from helmiasyraf.com….
iam really a blog and html code newbie….know almost nothing about it…

can anyone help me where should i put my header image code in the header.php and how to take out given sidebar stuff and put my own plugins?

i will really appreciate for those who willing to help me…u can contact me through email or mesengger

my email is hullabaloo_bard@yahoo.com

OMG 46 trackbacks and counting! Why am I not surprised?

I’m not quite sure if my problem has been answered yet, but I’ve installed this theme and edited the color scheme a bit. However, my SmoothGallery doesn’t operate correctly.

http://madbox.nationvoice.com/wordpress/

I’m operating under Windows XP using Firefox 3. Any ideas?

Now I am really confused. The SmoothGallery stopped working on three separate installations. Each install was on a different server, even. However, all three only have the same error in a debugging program.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘image’ of undefined jd.gallery.js (line 326)

Great theme! Its pretty much what I been looking for, for an upcoming site. Everything is working fine except for the smooth gallery. I assigned my category ID in the options, but when I look at my site, there is no post showing and if I scroll over the smooth gallery area, in my taskbar it just shows the “#” symbol but no category ID. Any ideas??

I can hardly believe it’s free, I will download oke.

i dont beleive, it should me of $$ theme. good work

Aloha,
this theme ROCKS! and it’s free? Awesome! Many Thanks!

I am also having problems with the gallery. Some of the images show, and some don’t. Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks again!

Amazing theme, we love it, but for the top page navigation it is only showing categories, not pages, help please?
TIA

JBJ First and foremost great Theme, thank you for sharing. For some reason I have not been able to get the smoothbox working… I have setup as per the instructions, tried using WordPress 2.5 and 2.5.1 and have not been able to get it to load the featured category..

Attached captures of the setting

http://img.skitch.com/20090317-bb2c9qq1pkmh4nes8xedehf4bj.jpg
http://img.skitch.com/20090317-ra41qcuhqri9uptwcib44nmias.jpg

Hi, this theme is great. This is what I am looking for. But I tried to download using the link above, but I think it’s broken. How can I get your theme. Thank you very much. I’ll be using this on our church website.

Can someone mirror this? The download link returns a parked domain?

I sorted them out =)
Including the changes I wanted that were under the sidebar.php codes. I translated also the header messages.

Once again, I thank you for the theme. I passed it ahead.

Best regards

the Download link is not working
plz check it out frd, i need this theme for my next new blog

Hi, I asked a question over three months ago that has yet to be responded to.

See comment above from Abe.

Hi,
I was adding a new post and I did the featuredimg thing as always but when I published my post, the pic did not show up in the smooth gallery. It has worked before, what is wrong? I have already tried it with al plugins deactivated. And yes I have setup the featured category.
any help would be great